Humanities desk
< July 9	<< Jun \| July \| Aug >>	July 11 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Humanities Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

July 10

Help identifying Novel

I am trying to find a book which I think is part of a series & from what I can remember it's about a either WWI or WWII warship that passes through time portal into a alternate timeline/ universe where Humans don't exist but there are two native species, one I think descendant from a dinosaur species & the other is mammalian ( I am thinking Lemur descendant, but not sure).
Any ideas ? 80.195.85.92 (talk) 09:05, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Moore Williams wrote a story called The Lost Warship where the USS Idaho is cast back to the dinosaur age. DuncanHill (talk) 09:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think that in the novel, the alternate timeline/ universe that the ship travels to is still in present day & the other two species there have their own fleets of ships that are based on a ship(s) that travelled from the 17th or 18th century, through the same portal. 80.195.85.92 (talk) 09:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We have a List of fiction employing parallel universes but I couldn't see anything there that matched. DuncanHill (talk) 10:32, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm that the OP's description is entirely accurate, because I read this novel around a year ago (no publication date can be inferred from this as I buy many 2nd-hand books).

Unfortunately I can't recall the author (it wasn't Williams) or title, I'm at work, and my home PC died last week so I won't be able to post a further reply this evening (I'm collecting the replacement tomorrow :-) ).

However, I'm 95% certain that the dimensional transfer occurred during the Second Battle of the Java Sea, so I'll look at that and see if I can remember more details. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 12:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Got it! Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson, 1st of the Destroyermen series. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 13:43, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the one, thanks for that. I just couldn't remember the name of either the book or the series. 80.195.85.92 (talk) 14:06, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Odyssey of Flight 33 is very good and viewable here. Bus stop (talk) 14:32, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The OP might also like The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream (and its sequel) by G. C. Edmondson, which involves time- rather than dimensional-slippage but is otherwise quite similar to Anderson's series, and I suspect inspired it. (The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 16:40, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My first thought was the alleged Philadelphia Experiment, so I went to Philadelphia Experiment#In popular culture, but got side-tracked when I didn't find anything fitting ... --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]