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 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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Historical fantasy manhwa where the female lead dies after execution for a crime she didn't commit to protect her friend
The female lead is transported into a noble's body and becomes friends with a boy (bastard prince). She dies for him after he executed his father for the crown and then wakes up again as a young girl ...
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Book about a man that travels back 2 hours for every hour that passes
Trying to identify a book about a man that travels back 2 hours for every hour that passes. It is a thriller about a plane crash that his wife was on.
It starts off with him in jail and he is visited ...
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Time loop text-based adventure game about preventing a car crash
I'm trying to see if I can find an elusive game I've long wanted to play. It's a text-based adventure game, but not one from their commercial heyday back in the eighties or so. It was described to me ...
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Time travel book where the protagonist travels by gazing into a ring
I was hoping to get help to identify a time travel story. In school, in the 1980s I read a novel where the protagonist gazes into a shiny ring she is wearing and she time travels. It starts with her ...
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Novel dealing with short distance time travel and micro-black holes
Years ago, perhaps 20 or more, I read a novel dealing with short distance time travel and micro-black holes. My memory seems to say it was written by James P. Hogan. But I've searched all his novels ...
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Movie where a man is abducted by beings believed to be aliens and finds out they were from the future
What's the title of movie where a man was abducted by beings believed to be aliens and finds out they were from the future. They came back in time because the genetic manipulation in the future ...
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60s–70s SF novel with time-traveling monsters/demons
I'm thinking I read this at about age 10, which was in 1970. There was some kind of war being fought across time between humans and ferocious monsters (or demons?). They were colorful (red-skinned) ...
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70s? Two or three short stories involving the discovery of a time sensitive molecule/compound/substance [duplicate]
The first story was written almost as a scientific paper reporting the discovery of a time sensitive substance. It described the theory, and process that led to its discovery and include charts and ...
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Story/webnovel where the main character is neglected by her family and time travels to save her sister and mother
I read a story a year or two ago (pretty sure it was a web or light novel) that I haven't been able to find since. It starts off similarly to 'My Fiancée Is In Love With My Little Sister.'
The main ...
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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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Short story in which shapeshifting woman scares man by shaping herself like a bustle [duplicate]
Probably aliens, or unusually advanced mutated humans, living normal lives among people in nineteenth or twentieth century America or Europe, could mold their body shapes to fit the prevailing ...
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Story about time traveling to the dinosaurs where travelers have an option to stay in the past
I'm looking for a short story I read in a magazine like OMNI, probably in the late 80s or early 90s. It was set in the near future where time travel was possible. People were using it to visit the ...
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Regression Manhwa/Webtoon where the main female lead died due to illness
I read this manhwa a year ago but I forgot the title. I changed phones so most of the titles are lost and since the site where i use to read was brought down.
So I vaguely remember about the story is ...
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Mid-90s sci-fi book about a boy who somehow gets transported to another world
It's about a boy who somehow gets transported to another world by a beam out of the sky. There were multiple beams, if I recall correctly.
I think I remember the beams being a timed occurrence, like ...
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Murim manga about an arrogant main character who is killed by the protagonist and then travels back in time
The main character lives his life arrogantly, only to meet the protagonist, who just came out of seclusion to be killed. He then travels back in time and makes different choices, living his life in a ...
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Science fiction webcomic (I think set in space?) where time cops attack the protagonists. Their main tactic is retconned parentage
I was recently reading something, and suddenly had a page from a webcomic pop into my head. I remember that it was earlier (maybe when the time travelers were more friendly to the protagonists?) that ...
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In About Time can Uncle Desmond travel through time?
In the time travel film About Time, Tim's father James tells him that all the men in the family can travel backwards in time to any point they have experienced.
James lives with Uncle Desmond, who isn'...
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Book about a woman who travels 100 years back in time when she looks in the mirror
I read this book in high school, and I thought it was called Kate's Story, but there's another book called that here in recent years. I could be wrong.
This woman is with a man and another couple. ...
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Time machine takes him several years into the future to collect news that can be used to avoid disasters. Subsequent trips show things getting worse
Read the story sometime between 10 and 30 years ago. In the style of Analog or Asimov magazine. Machine can travel only as far into the future as the operators of the project have control of the house ...
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If you exit a timeline, are there some remnants left in your memory? [closed]
If you exit a timeline, is it as if nothing happened, or are there some remnants left in your memory, etc.?
As in ST:TNG S3 E15, "Yesterday's Enterprise," Cpt. Picard would not let another ...
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Kids used for time heist
Book I read a few years ago.
Main plot points:
Time travel had been attempted by a research group, but was unsuccessful. They threw out the device and the janitor, who "just happened to be a ...
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Book where a professor of language dying of cancer is reincarnated in to the body of a cat/man hybrid
I am looking for the title of a book in which the main character is a professor who dying of cancer. He is on a cruise and traveling when killed by a meteor. He is then reincarnated into the body of ...
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Book series about a group of teens with powers (telepathy, shape-shifting into a dragon, weapon creation, etc)
I read this book when I was around 13 or 14. It was between 2015 and 2016. I remember it was the last book in the series and the back cover had an illustration of an (old) man wearing a green bowler ...
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Looking for a time travel story in which Mozart is brought to the future
This is the plot from a short story as I remember it. It was not a video or movie.
People in the future figure out how to bring people from the past to the future. They grab Mozart from his deathbed ...
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Short story about a man in a spacesuit tumbling through slowed down time in a failed experiment, while Earth lives through centuries of history [duplicate]
He appears periodically to people on Earth in normal time. Earth is ravaged by war and culture is reset. People forget about the true nature of his origin, see him as a manifestation of a god at first,...
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A shoujo manga about 32 year old makeup artist who travels back in time to her younger high school life
I have been searching for this manga I read a while ago about a middle-aged make-up artist who reverts to her old high school self while remembering her first love that didn't work out for whatever ...
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Looking for a story about a paleontologist uncovering fossilised dinosaur tracks who finds that it is chasing a jeep
Looking for a short story from probably 70s or 80s.
I can't remember most details but I think it involves a paleontologist and another scientist chatting. The paleontologist is in a desert and ...
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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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Book series about teens who work for a time travel agency and meet a Roman soldier
I read this book series about 8 years ago now; it was kinda your usual young adult fare, as far as I can remember. I think there were two teens (maybe more?) that somehow became a part of this time ...
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Logic of time travel in William Gibson's "The Peripheral"
I'm currently watching the TV adaptation of The Peripheral. I haven't read the book. I've watched the first ~4 episodes.
The time travel technology seems to run both forward and backward in time, and ...
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Movie involving two children who find an old Victorian-era photograph in their house and are transported back in time
I'm looking for a movie from either the late '80s or '90s that I saw as a child.
I don’t recall the name, but it's about two children (a brother and sister I believe) in the modern day, who find a ...
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Isekai where the main character is poisoned by her sister and is sent back in time without knowing that the male lead loves her [duplicate]
I remember the main character was at one point talking to her sister who was going to marry the male lead but the sister convinced her that the male lead hates her and wants to kill her.
So the sister ...
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Seeking old story about invention/"repair" of a time machine
I recall (from 40-50 years ago) a story (no source, but probably not online or movie) about a scientist/technician that is asked to "repair" a time machine that s/he is told did work, but is ...
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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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