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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Sci-fi novel where a man has an accident and keeps traveling ten years ahead into the future
I'm trying to recall a book I read ages ago. It was probably a British novel, about a man who had an accident (perhaps car accident) and woke up ten year ahead in the future. In the novel, he stayed ...
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Book series about an evil king who eventually turns into a dragon that turns into a boat that goes back in time
I'm looking for a book series with a time-traveling story about an evil king who eventually turns into a dragon that turns into a boat that goes back in time to be the dark ship that the heroes used ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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