Questions tagged [time-travel]
For use on questions regarding travel forwards or backwards (or both!) in time. This tag should be used in conjunction with the universe it is found in. Can also be used to signify that the question contains time travel when asking in relation to an identification question: [story-identification], [episode-identification], [character-identification] and [object-identification].
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Looking for anime series with life-action segments, timetravel and spaceships
I am looking for a series. I saw it somewhere online in recent years, but from the style I would guess it was made in the 90s.
I saw it in Japanese language, without subtitles, so my understanding of ...
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Manga where the female lead regresses and gets adopted again by a black-haired, red-eyed duke with three(?) sons
The female lead was adopted from an orphanage and treated poorly, then dies and regresses back in time to the day the duke comes to adopt her and gets adopted by him again.
The female lead has brown ...
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Fantasy novel main character Ghendt? finds tower, travels time, fights against dark force
I'm struggling to find the title of this book I read a few times growing up and really enjoyed. Main character, pretty sure is named Ghendt, is in the Stone age, hunting, and comes across a tower. ...
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Youth finds ring in a graveyard and uses it to travel back and forth between the past and present
edit - Thank you, community. Someone had the right book, I really cannot that you all enough!
This has been bothering me for years and I never finished reading the book. When I was younger (around ...
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Sci-fi novel about some teens travelling back to the time of Galileo
I'm looking for a sci-fi novel I read years ago, probably between 2007-2013
I think there was a 3D-like illustration of Galileo on the front cover and the novel was part of a series.
Some teens travel ...
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First story in which the time-traveling character explicitly wonders if his own time in the past exists? [closed]
I believe physicists or philosophers call the idea "Presentism" (irrespective of whether this term is used in the actual story) -- neither the past nor the future exists, only present time. ...
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YA/children's novel: school student who could either psychically summon images from WWII or project himself & friend back to that time
I read this novel in the early 1990s. It was English-language and set in a contemporary British town (possibly on the coast, but I'm not sure where). The viewpoint character (male -- don't recall his ...
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Need help identifying a sci-fi short story (shocked from a band saw, comes to in a slightly altered timeline)
I recall reading this fantastic sci-fi short story in a book of collected short stories, I just can't remember the name or author.
I read it maybe between 2010 and 2015, it was in a thick book of ...
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Short story told by a shop owner, involving different customers who find and go through a time-travelling mirror [duplicate]
The story involves a shop owner and a time-travel mirror. The shop owner tells stories of customers going through the mirror.
The shop owner playfully demonstrates the power of the mirror to customers ...
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Book about a man living in the '70s or '80s who falls asleep one night and wakes up in a utopian future
I am looking for a book about a man from the 1970s or '80s who falls asleep one night and wakes up in a utopian future. It was also written back then. This isn't a recent book.
In the future, he meets ...
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Children’s book about the child of a single parent who travels back in time and meets another child of a single parent
I’m looking for the name of a children’s book that would have been written before the 1970’s, 50’s or 60’s or possibly even earlier.
It’s about a child and a single parent who move into an old ...
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Young adult book series about kids who get different powers when they turn a certain age and their blood turns silver
These kids each get a different power when turning a certain age. An assassin is sent from some point in the future to kill them. I remember that their blood turns silver as well.
Book 1 is Ethan (?), ...
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Short story, possibly titled "Walk to the New Moon", about a time-travelling Neanderthal girl
A Neanderthal girl is separated from her tribe in a field hunting cattle. She returns to her tribe at full moon or new moon traveling through time.
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Collectable Card game about time travelling dinosaurs
I'm trying to track down a series of cards a friend of mine had back in the early 90's and I'm not sure if they were actually a game or just a collectable series.
The cards told the story that, for ...
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Who is responsible for making the time machine in the Terminator movies; humans or Skynet?
In the Terminator movies, Skynet is trying to kill Sarah and John Connor, sending various terminators from the future to hunt them down.
So my question is: who made the time machine to go back to past?...
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What short story has a gun-toting time traveler as the source for the legend of Thor? [duplicate]
Read a short story back in maybe the seventies or eighties where a time traveler served as inspiration for the legend of Thor. Seems that he shot someone with his gun and since it never left his hand ...
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Book in which a girl was transported back in time whenever she put on a red anorak
There was this book I read in the early 90's, but I don't know when the actual book was published.
The only thing I can remember plot-wise is that every time this girl put on a red anorak, she was ...
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Short story where man is sent to the past but he ends up thriving there and the government sends an agent to put him further back [duplicate]
The story is about a man who has a thriving business and a lovely wife. He receives a visitor to whom he decides to tell a supposedly made up tale of what is his actual life.
He was a criminal who got ...
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Story where a family travels back in time to escape some organisation
I read this book/story about 15 years ago so I don't remember many details. I believe it must have been a children's book or YA book.
From what I remember, a family is on the run for something that ...
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I seek a SF short story where the husband created a time machine which could only go back to one place & time but the wife was delighted
I seek a SF short story where the husband created a time machine which could only go back to one place & time but the wife was delighted, for she could go back to a real butcher shop with ...
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In Superman (1978), did two Supermen exist at one point in time?
In the movie Superman (1978), Superman flies around the world in one direction to make the Earth go back in time, and then he stops and then flies around the Earth in the opposite direction to restore ...
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Regression Webtoon where the female lead died due to the duke killing her. Time travel happens and she gets adopted by the same duke
The female lead was abandoned by the male protagonists in a fire, because they forgot about her since the OGFL (Original Female Lead) was there
She gets a burn scar on her face because of that
Later ...
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Short story about the best time to travel back to for each season, summer [duplicate]
I read this short story in the 70's I think. It was about time travel tourists that would go back in time to the best event of that season. I recall Charlemagne's crowning as Holy Roman Emperor at ...
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What was the first work where the main characters became the 'aliens' who crashed at Roswell?
In some science fiction works, such as Futurama's Roswell that Ends Well and DS9's Little Green Men, established characters somehow go back in time and crash-land near Roswell New Mexico, and ...
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Short story involving a future in which janitors run the world
I have been searching for a short story that I believe was from a paperback collection/anthology I read in the 60's-70's about a time traveler on his first trip, going forward to a futuristic city. ...
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Movie involving a spaceship with upright sleep pods; a female crew member gets trapped inside one and can’t wake up
These are vague childhood memories (I hope I’m not combining two films here), so I’ll describe it in bullet points:
• The film starts with a kid getting a report from his teacher and he hacks the ...
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What's the first time travel story which acknowledges trouble with tenses in time travel?
It's often said that travelling through time screws up the tense system. Sometimes the fact is lampshaded with something like this: "Then I will have seen my future self in the past... uh... what ...
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Looking for this short story where Egyptian pharaoh visits modern convenience store and punchline is it's more impressive than a pyramid
I remember reading this within the last two years or so but I cannot find it on google (it might have died since I read it). It was a short story of some kind written on maybe a blog? The author/...
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Manga about girl's love that trying to save the other girl with new ability acquired timeloop
There is old yuri manga about a female main character who tries to save another girl that loves robot from cruel experiment, but always fails because fate says so. So the FMC, using her time loop ...
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Story about an underground humanoid species that delivers the protagonist to the past, as punishment to try to escape
There is a story I've read floating around in my head, which had a few definite elements to it, about a discovery of a highly capable sci-fi-ish subterranean species, who were effectively immortal, by ...
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Manga about a girl who travels back to the time of her grandparents and finds her grandpa is a psycho who kills girls
A girl travels back in time and finds that her grandpa is a psycho and witnesses him murder another girl in his garden.
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Movie involving a teenage boy who goes back in time and saves a royal from drowning
In a movie I remember watching (but can’t remember the name of), a teenage boy went back in time too far (he wanted to go to his sports game he missed out on) and saves like a royal from drowning (I ...
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manhua (chinese) in which a guy travels back in time
The story starts with the first chapter being the mc exiting a bar in which he talked to some people and then left driving in a car in which he suddenly crashes with a truck and then wakes up sitting ...
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What happened to this character at the end of "Fringe" season 5?
So I've read many theories about all the time paradoxes of the Fringe season 5 ending. But what I can't seem to find an answer to is this:
Walter was supposed to take the last inoculation which ...
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Looking For This Historical Romance Fantasy Webtoon
I don't remember a lot about the Webtoon since it's been a while. The female lead has black hair and so does her older brother. I believe she went back in time to when she was younger. Her parents ...
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First movie in which the past prevents significant change?
In the Guy Pearce version of The Time Machine, he can frustratingly appear to have managed to change the past, but since he built the machine because his fiancé died, no matter what he does, she dies ...
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Trying to find a scifi book/short story I read about the furthest distant future ever
It may be written in 2000, and set in distant future. It could have been on Earth. The bit I read was about an elevator time machine doorway. This was used routinely to travel back and forth in daily ...
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Manwha about a mercenary who dies and returns to when he first isekai'd
C rank mercenary dies, activating artifact that returns him to when he first got isekai'd.
The world has people isekai from a magic world or murim martial art world.
The third isekai is a normal who ...
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What exactly is "Time steps aside" in A Sound of Thunder?
In Ray Bradbury's classic short story "A Sound of Thunder", a character named Lesperance explains why he wouldn't bump in to a time-traveling himself:
Time doesn't permit that sort of mess—...
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SF short story about a man who is able to travel back/forth in time by physically going down/up
This is a SF short story (from the period between 1950s and 1970s) about a man who is able to travel back/forth in time by physically going down/up, for instance by climbing down stairs or by stepping ...
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What was the first SF Story to feature Time Police?
It's no surprise that when time travel appears in a universe where going back in time can alter history, a group appears, (apparently) acting to preserve the continuum they know. But when did science ...
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What was the first time travel story in which someone interacts with their parents in the past?
Mostly meeting their own parents in a time travel sci-fi movie leads to awkward moments and a comedic effect in the film as used in the Back To the Future (1985), another example coming out of top of ...
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Movie about an older couple traveling in a Time Machine that is in a tomb—theirs, and the boy who follows them and gets lost
I saw this movie recently but I don’t know the name. It starts with an older couple interviewing a boy to work for them. They give him their house and money while they’re gone. They have experimented ...
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Short Story of time travelers to ancient Egypt
I am looking for help to identify a short story (maybe YA?) featuring time travelers to ancient Egypt. Here's the few details I can recall. (This search obviously did not cover it.)
The short story ...
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Futurama "Decision 3012" time paradox [duplicate]
I know this is old but I can't find anything that answers my question.
So at the end of the episode, Bender explains that the reason Travers disappeared is because if Nixon never got elected, then ...
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'80-'90s movie where the main character gets into different films
I watched this movie in early '90s. The main character gets into different films (but I'm not sure). There was definitely a scene where he drives a car with the Nazis and decides to play dice to ...
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What's the first time travel story in which someone meets themself?
I'm a little astonished that this question hasn't been asked before, as far as I can tell, but...
I was thinking about the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (as one does) and I came to wonder: ...
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Book about a one-way time portal into the age of dinosaurs [duplicate]
I remember once having seen a book about the discovery/invention of a time travel portal into the age of dinosaurs.
The caveat: it is a one-way portal. You cannot return. The portal attracts ...
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Short story about cheap devices for time travel
I am trying to track down a short story that I read during the COVID lockdown in 2020. Given the circumstances (all libraries and bookshops being closed) it must have been online.
It deals with a form ...
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Book where Earth is invaded by a future, parallel-universe Earth
I read this young-adult science-fiction book about 10 years ago, I believe I may have picked it up through an advance reader copy program. If it was an ARC, details may have been changed before ...
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