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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Late 1980s series of "choose your own adventure" books about a time traveller
I've checked some of the other questions about similar books involving time travel, but this series is different from those.
In the late 1980s I read a series of Choose Your Own Adventure-style books ...
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In The Librarians why didn't this event in season 4 change the present?
In season 2 episode 10 when they're in the time machine room, Flynn says:
All their owners tried to change history and got caught in temporal loops because you can never ever ever violate causality....
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What did David's words mean at the end of Project Almanac?
What did David mean when he walked up to Jessie and said
We're about to change the world?
Why would David say this? Was this hinting at him being able to rebuild it? If so, that seems a little ...
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Story about a spacecraft that crash-lands on a planet with a civilization resembling Pre-Columbian era
I have read this book around 20 years ago, and the book was already quite old at that time so was likely written before 1990. Highly likely I have read it in Hungarian, but I'm unsure if the novel was ...
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Dark manhwa/webtoon about a girl who meets her alleged future husband, who has actually time traveled to find his twin's killer
I'd like to ask for help finding a webtoon/manhwa.
The story might be a bit all over the place, but I remember all of it quite well.
It is set in high school, the main character is a female (I shall ...
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First instance of a universe being "close enough"
My favorite Simpsons episode is the 1994 Halloween episode in which Homer Simpson repeatedly travels back in time and makes changes in the past, resulting in bizarre alterations to the present. ...
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Looking for a book featuring a soldier/marine travelling to a different time/universe
I picked up a book a year ago and read the summary at the back(part of a series maybe?) at a airport bookshop but had to stop because of my flight was about to depart. I can't remember the author or ...
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Why did the Doc decide to use a train?
In Back to the Future III, Marty gets back to 1985 by putting the DeLorean in front of a train, then using special fuel to increase the speed of the train. If this failed, the DeLorean - with Marty ...
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Book where the protagonists are transported from the past into a futuristic spaceship
I am looking for a book I read on kindle a number of years ago (not an account I have access to now).
The concept was that 2 midshipmen (I think that was their rank) are transported forwards in time ...
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Sci-fi book series in which time travellers from the future salvage valuable equipment from moments in time that won't impact the future
I’m trying to recall a book about time travel that I read maybe 5-10 years ago. Some of the details I remember include:
The setting is futuristic, where humanity has spread across the solar system (...
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Story with joke-telling time traveller
I can't remember where I read this prose story, but in it there are superheroes. One of the superheroes can travel backward in time, but experiences all of the time that he travels through (so ...
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Time travel to a reptilian civilisation at the time of the dinosaurs
I read this story about 20 years ago, but it could be older. It was in a small book by itself, not a collection, probably a paperback. But it was rather short for a novel, maybe a novella.
I am ...
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Short story in Analog about Israeli scientists time-travelling to the time of dinosaurs and then can’t return
My husband wants to find a short story he read in Analog magazine about Israeli scientists using a time-travelling device to go to the time of dinosaurs. (The device is not precisely accurate as to ...
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In the NumberBlock's time-travel episode "Double Back", what are all of the references to other time-travel movies (or other media)?
I was watching the (children's show) NumberBlock's episode "Double Back" with my two kids (5M and 2F), and I noticed several references to Back to the Future as well as a recurring reference ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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Manhua/manga/manhwa where the female lead is given a second chance at her life and gets revenge on her ex-husband and his mistress
I am looking for a historical/ancient Chinese manga where the female lead lost her child because of her husband and his mistress. The female lead dies while her new-born child is pushed back into her ...
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Novel or novella involving a protagonist who travels forward in time and encounters a strange war where the weapons were all color-coded
The main protagonist travels forward in time and encounters a strange war where the weapons were all color-coded. Like, fire weapons were red, etc. The time traveller might have eventually "...
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Short story: Man reaches into the future and kills himself
I'm trying to identify a story I read ages ago in a science fiction anthology.
A man possesses a "box" that appears to transport objects to another dimension. He steals some object of value ...
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Book about a boy and a finger monkey
I had borrowed a book about a boy and a finger monkey.
The boy had got the finger monkey from a create-anything box or something like that and found out a dispute over time travel machine which led to ...
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A girl who transcends time
I remember quite a bit, but can't seem to find the title or (female) author.
A girl accompanies her father as he captains a mission to travel at near-light speed in order to experience the effects of ...
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Time travel back to the 1970s, body merging stops it
This is very vague, a short book or a long novelette that I read in the 1990s in the UK.
There was a small group of people who find themselves (I can't remember why) materialising on the outskirts of ...
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Movie: Scientists travel to the future to avoid nuclear war, last surviving one is used as fuel by future humans
My family used to rent a lot of VHS tapes over the school holidays when I was young, and this movie was amongst them, which would make it pre-mid 90's, (possibly 70's or 80's from what I remember of ...
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Who was the first to make use of the joke "You mean, when are we?"
There is a very common joke in time-travelling stories. One person asks "Where are we?" and the other responds, "You mean, when are we?".
What is the earliest instance of this joke ...
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Was Lister's origin decided at the beginning?
In some of the earlier seasons of Red Dwarf, David Lister tells of how, as a baby, he was found in a cardboard box under a pool table.
Then at some point in the seventh season, it was revealed that ...
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Twilight Zone (?) episode with female college student discovering time travelers who predict her future
Setup: Two female college students in dorm room. One leaves. Other hears noise in closet. Discovers time travelers. They disappear, only to return to retrieve some sort of device. End up ...
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When Time Travel Machine in Doraemon Doesn't Solve Their Problem
I am trying to locate the scene in a Doraemon show where Nobita, Doraemon and the gang has to use time travel machine again and again, their face starts from being excited to normal to frustration at ...
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TV show about someone who could control time with a belt
I can't remember the title but it was a television show, late 60s early 70s about someone, a male character, who could control time with a belt. It wasn't Dr. Who. And it was on CBS, I believe.
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Manhwa where the female lead is (fake) poisoned by family and wakes up at her own funeral
I read a manhwa where the the female lead dies because her family poisons her. She goes back in time and in her new life she willingly gets “poisoned” and wakes up at her funeral to point out who did ...
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Film where a boy from the present goes back in time to the Victorian era and sees a library on fire
I can't remember the name, only a few details.
I believe it was a Christmas film (I could be wrong) where a boy went to visit his grandparents in a big house, in like the English countryside. One ...
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Time travel, monastery, viking raid, YA
I'm trying to track down a book I read sometime during the 80s. It would have been a library book, so might predate the 80s. It could have been grade school or public library. I read it in the US ...
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Looking for a book about Atlantis, time travelling from present day with children and an evil sorceress/witch
I read this book about 20 odd years ago as a 14 year old. The novel was about two or three children/siblings who move into a big fancy house with their father who I believe is in the art world.
He ...
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Anime series with live-action segments, time travel, dinosaurs 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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Post-apocalyptic story published in Asimov's in the 1980s; main character named Georges - travels in time on highways (on foot)
I'm looking for a story published in the 1980s, in Asimov's magazine. The story featured a character named "Georges" (last name starting with "M" - possibly Mordreaux - though that ...
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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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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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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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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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Was the backward-running time stream of the cacogens intended as an allusion to T. H. White's Merlyn?
The climax of The Sword of the Lictor (and, in many ways, the climax of the entire Book of the New Sun) comes in two parts. There is the battle at Baldanders castle, then the meeting with the ...
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SF Lost Short Story. Time Travel, Anti-Specialisation
This was a very short story, involving a Scientist who invents a Time Machine.
He invites his friend/colleague and family on a trip through time.
They both wish to leave their present due to due to ...
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Short story about an inventor who invents time travel but dies whilst waiting to show someone
An inventor dies while waiting to see someone at the company that used to employ him. Apparently he has invented a new technique for time travel and wanted to show that his ideas, that the company had ...
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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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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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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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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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TV identification: Short-lived TV show about a time traveller with a super-computer disguised as a credit-card
It might have only been a pilot or a made for TV movie, but I remember a male time traveller who was for some reason in 90s US from a semi-distant future. He had in his possession a super-computer ...
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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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Why do time-travel stories often have the characters "returning" to the future? [closed]
In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, the duo travel all through time. After they accidentally travel to 1,000,000 BC, they repair their booth and attempt to return to their "present" but arrive "the ...
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Book where boy teleports to another world/dimension but doesn’t know how; fights a wild boar
Orange/yellow book cover.
Boy somehow teleports to a different world or dimension but doesn’t remember how he got there, just wakes up to find himself somewhere else. Fights a wild boar or hog. It ...
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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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