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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Spanish-language comic book story about time-traveling Jewish kids becoming the legendary Adam and Eve?
Around 1992 or 1993, I borrowed a comic-book-format magazine from someone. It was a pretty thick publication (well over 100 pages, I'm thinking; maybe over 200?) and was printed in Spanish. I think I ...
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Astronauts on Europa (moon), time-shift future, gravity, intelligent computer, Aries, 1960s?
I'm looking for the title and artists of a comic about some astronauts (around five I think) doing research/archaeology on (I think) Europa (Jupiter's moon). They're working when one or more of them ...
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A small group of children accidentally time-traveling to the future and learning about everyday life in an utopistic future society
I'm trying to find a science fiction novel about a small group of children accidentally time-traveling to the future and learning about everyday life in an utopistic future society. This is long, so ...
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Sci fi short story: inept king, tiny kingdom, time traveler secretly thwarting him
I was searching for something other than this on the "Stable Time Loop/Literature" page of tvtropes.org, when I came across an entry with no title. I'm sure I've read the story, but there is ...
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Science fiction book involving AI augmented humans, a vampire, a colonised planet, a massive living blob, blind human pilots, and more
There's a series of books I read, probably 10 years or more ago, that I just can’t seem to pinpoint.
The timelines jump about a lot, so it’s hard to figure out the order, but here are some things I ...
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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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Looking for a time travel story: choosing between Nazis and Communists, ending with becoming a terrorist
I'm trying to identify an SF short story. I'm pretty sure it was in an anthology. I read it in English and almost certainly before 2000, I would guess that it's fairly old.
I only remember parts of ...
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Short story about a future archaeologist finding a gramophone record
Years ago I read a story about an archaeologist - either alien or one incredibly far away in earth's future - finding an old record of some description and speculating about it.
They thought it to ...
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Story in which time travel has similar effect on society as alternate histories have in Niven's "All the Myriad Ways"
I read this story in an anthology I think in the 1970s or 1980s - in it, the government has (and is known to have) the ability to use time travel to "undo" disasters. The protagonist is a ...
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Short story featuring ice and time distortion
Looking for a short story I read years ago where a man sets out into an icy wasteland, possibly the south pole. He gets turned around, and finds footprints and sees people who he assumes may be there ...
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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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Science fiction short story about an old man who builds a time machine to tell his deceased father goodbye before he himself dies
From a Reddit discussion several years ago concerning the most creative use of time travel, a user named punkwalrus posted the following:
A short story from a SF&F literary magazine long out of ...
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Short story about an astronaut who writes to his partner on Earth and tries to warn her of her demise
This was a short story published before 2010, in the magazine Analog I think.
The premise was that a male astronaut sends messages to his female partner back on Earth. She writes to him too. But ...
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Book in 90s/early 00s with time travel/world shifting with two tier society
I'm trying to remember a name of a book or the author that I read in the late 90s/early 00s. I read a lot by the same author, and she seemed to specialise in teen scifi/fantasy with romance. A lot of ...
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Identify story about time-travelling assassin that can kill by touching people
Please help me identify a short story about a time-travelling assassin. His
time machine is a car. He gets assignments over the car radio from "The
Oracle." His 2 henchmen are named Chubb and ...
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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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Novel about a dying man able to travel through time in his ancestors' bodies during his near-death experience
I'm looking for a novel read before 1992, so probably written in the 80s.
Here are the elements I remember :
the main character is dying, and the plot follows him nearing death. Overall it may have ...
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Time travel pursuit book from about 2005
This was a book I read approx 10 years ago, however it could have been a few years older (battered hard cover library book) but I’m no longer a member of that library.
I don’t remember the full story, ...
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short story about a railroad and a steam engine in medieval times
In the early 70's I read this short story in an anthology.
A time patrol team must inquire about a railroad in the medieval English countryside. It turns out that a local blacksmith did invent a ...
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60s (or earlier) short story about a time portal back to the Crusades
It was probably about 40 or 50 years ago when I read an absolutely riveting short story (possibly in a Gollancz sci-fi anthology) about a man who has a strange time portal open up near the ceiling in ...
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Protagonist used a time machine and was "punished" with physical deformities
I encountered this science fiction novel in the early 90s (1998 at the latest) but I only got to read the first few chapters of the novel and I have gone crazy looking for it ever since.
The story ...
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Book with time machine device size of a phone and limited number of operations
In 2002, I read a book about a preteen or teen who somehow found a kind of time machine device.
It was just kind of the size of a phone, and in the book I believe it was described as something like ...
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A Story about humanity in a deadlocked nuclear war
Can't remember all of the details, but it was a comic book story about Earth in a future war having reached a stalemate and there was a time machine involved. I vividly recall the ending, which had a ...
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Story about an increasingly shorter "Groundhog Day"
In an entry for the "A Fate Worse than Death" trope from TV Tropes is written:
There was a short story in one of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction anthologies of the 1980s about a ...
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Time-travel novel with a timeship and a character who fights himself
I have a strong memory of a scene in a time-travel book without remembering many other details.
The main character is trying to accomplish something (I don't recall what, but call it X). In a wooded ...
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Short story about time traveller who brings virus from future
A short story about a time traveller from the future who brings a virus to cull the human race in our present. He muses on previous unsuccessful attempts and why more direct action is needed. He tries ...
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Short story might be called "The Drifter" about a man who falls asleep on a bus in the 1940s and wakes up in the 1980s
I am a librarian hoping to help a patron. The patron believes this science fiction/fantasy story was written in the 1960s by a housewife with four kids. The story might possibly be titled "The Drifter....
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Story about war fought using time manipulation
I'm trying to identify a story about a conflict fought using time manipulation.
One detail I think I remember correctly is about trapping some kind of
a leader or general in a sphere altering time ...
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80s/90s children's sci-fi novel where children play a game where they are insects
It's a science fiction and maybe horror book for kids written in either the 80s or 90s. I'm fairly certain it's part of a series with different authours for each book. I’m also fairly certain that the ...
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Time travel story about a bullied girl who travels to dancehall/ballroom and meets her relative
I'm trying to find a story that was either a stand alone novel or a short story in a scary story anthology for young adults. What I remember from the story is that the girl came from a poor family ...
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Book about a time traveler called The Man
The book has about 10 years of research before being printed. It's by an American author. The book encapsulates some bible stories intertwined with fiction.
It starts with The Man being brought to a ...
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Book about Benjamin Franklin in the modern day
This relatively short book (novella, maybe) may more properly be considered a political essay. However, it does include bringing Benjamin Franklin forward in time to explain the reasons for why ...
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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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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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A book about a submarine crew getting lost, and emerging in an alien world with human-like beings
I recall reading this book, maybe ten years ago and LOVING it, but can't remember the name, the author, or even when I read it. I remember vague details — but the details are foggy — so I may have ...
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Looking for a short story my father read years ago-curved part of space and goes back in time
A lookout ship hits curved space and gets transported back in time. It flies back to Earth and tries to call in but no one answers. He lands out in western USA somewhere and finds work. The guy is ...
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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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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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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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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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What is the first sci-fi time travel movie where a person can travel back in time, not instantaneously, but at the rate of 1s per second?
In most movies that feature time travel, traveling back in time is instantaneous or takes just a few seconds, regardless of how long ago a person travels back. The exceptions I know of are two of my ...
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Short story where Hitler tries to escape via time travel, only to end up being becoming the man killed in his bunker days prior
I'm looking for a science fiction short story. I think I read it in the 90s — no idea whether it was a magazine or anthology.
In the last days of Hitler, his guards find a disheveled and incoherent ...
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Short story about a passenger and taxi driver who somehow travel through time to the late 1800s
I'm looking for a short story as part of a collection of short stories that was about a passenger and taxi driver who somehow travel through time to the late 1800s. They run into native Americans and ...
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Einstein "quantum leaps" into young Japanese girl
I recall a short story I read in the 80's or 90's (might be older than that). The premise is that Albert Einstein (pretty sure it was him, might've been another scientist associated with the ...
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Man falls through time in giant worms that connect past and future
Looking for a fiction story, probably YA, about a man who fell through time down the time worms in the story. It almost killed him, and he slowly kills himself with vicious alcohol of sorts that ...
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Short story about a scientist convinced aliens steal extra time from our days, develops a split personality after trying to check it
I once read a short story about some scientist who was convinced that there were aliens/creatures stealing time from the day (so basically there are actually 25 hours in a day but the aliens steal one ...
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Short story where man removes food from spaceship because of cheating wife
The plot is basically a short story where a maintenance guy figures out his wife is cheating on him and removes the food from a spaceship and it’s not realized until after launch.
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What was this story about an antagonist being trapped in a time loop, repeating his death endlessly?
Ok, so what I remember is a fight on a spaceship that results in the antagonist being trapped, onboard, in a time loop that endlessly repeats the ship exploding. He dies over and over again while the ...
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60s (or earlier) book with elevator-like time travel, a sentient planet in the future and a blockage of time by aliens from gas giants
I read this book in the 70s and was quite an old book then maybe 60s or earlier. I have read The End of Eternity but there were similarities but the male female main characters were more naive.
Time ...
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Looking for the title of about time/space and astrophysics
Looking for the title of a book for young kids (8-13). The premise of the books is: a "supreme" race that generates planets and is in charge of organizing the cosmos. The leader has several offsprings ...
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