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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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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Manwha where the female lead is returned to the past and the prince "died" in the first life
I believe that the female lead returns to the past when she was young. At some point she goes to some sort of park and runs into who I believe (based on context clues) is the prince. Pretty sure he ...
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Manhwa where the female lead gets cheated on by her fiance, so she goes back in time and has a contract relationship with his brother
The female lead goes back in time, and proposes a contract relationship with the older brother of her ex-fiance. The older brother is in a wheelchair, because his legs don't work. But he is pretending,...
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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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Short story where a boy is inspired to become a scientist and invent time travel due to death of his brother [duplicate]
The story would most likely have been in one of the magazines in thew 50s or 60s. It starts out with the boy's brother dying in a sledding accident, and that inspires the kid to grow up to be a ...
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Help with an old (80's or 90's) science fiction movie with 2 time travelling kids?
From what I remember of the movie, there were these two "villains" in red and yellow suits that looked like something from power rangers. The kids ended up in a place/dimension that looked ...
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What's the first instance in published fiction that shows an item from the future traveling back through time by itself?
When I say by itself I mean that it's not worn, carried or used to carry a time traveller. It also cannot be sentient, thinking or automated in anyway, no time traveling robots please!
I'm also only ...
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A "Great Classical Novel" by a "Great Classical Author" about sleeping frozen till revival [duplicate]
I read this novel several decades ago (3 ? 4 ? maybe even 5...) and it was already considered as a "Great Classical Novel" by a "Great Classical Author", but I forgot which "...
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Sci-Book from the 70's or 80's written from the point of view of Hitler's doctor
This was bugging me last night. I read this book probably 30+ years ago. It was a fictional account written from the point of view of Hitler's doctor, but this story was embedded in an outer story set ...
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Short story where traveller is sent to future into body of future self but turns out he died in the time before he jumps into
Read the story in grade school, possibly in a children’s magazine (1980-1992). All I remember is scientist invented a way to jump into your future self and sent someone ahead then brought them back. ...
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Manga where the female lead travels to different dimensions to fix the lives of different side characters [duplicate]
Does anyone know a manga where the female lead is in a system where she travels into different dimensions? She possesses the bodies of side characters who die and takes revenge using their bodies and ...
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Lovecraftian WW2 sci fi novel with three Nazi villains who had wires coming out of their heads, connected to batteries, that gave them their powers
I'm trying to remember a book I read. This would have been around 2017.
I believe it was part of a trilogy.
It had a Lovecraft vibe; the bad guys were at least 3 Nazis, 2 of whom were brother and ...
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Looking for sci-fi short story about a time loop
This is a short story, I think I read it in an anthology of the author's work, possibly.
I don't remember too many details, unfortunately. It had a male character who has the choice to break out of a ...
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Children's book about a girl in a wheelchair who time travels into the past, where she's from
The main character is a girl in a wheelchair who can't remember her past or walk. Her name is Anna or Hanna, I think. She is adopted by new parents and visits an old boarding house and remembers her ...
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Manhwa with time travel and poisoned chocolates
I remember the story but not the title. The female lead and male lead were married. The female character was blond and the man had black/blue hair.
One day the woman gave the man some foreign ...
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In Star Trek: First Contact, why didn't the Borg go back in time before they entered into Federation space? [duplicate]
In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), during the battle with Starfleet which takes place very near to Earth, a Borg Sphere comes out of the damaged Borg Cube and then it uses time travel to go back in ...
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Asian time travel movie about kids who go into a cave and stop ageing
Last year, I saw an Asian movie on Tubi about three kids who go into a cave (actually, a large hole in the ground). When an earthquake-like event happens, one of the boys stays behind after the other ...
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Book where a woman has seizures and is given a device like a garage door opener that sends her back in time
Not sure who the author is. The device is like the remote control. I can't remember the time period she goes back to but she goes several times.
At one point she is in jail. A doctor gives her the ...
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Book series about a boy who slips through time while buying milk for his mother, ending up in a variety of time periods
I read this series book as a kid about 7-8 years ago and I think back then it was very recently published, but I could be wrong. I remember some of the plot line and stories, but I can't remember the ...
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Time travel novel or series involving a professor at the Citadel who identifies the point of deviation
There were two apparent timelines - the 1st was thought to be unchangeable until the plot happened; a key person in identifying the point of deviation between the two timelines was a professor at the ...
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Manga with a pink-haired witch who is the daughter of a noble family in a historical setting
I'm trying to find a manga that I once read. The main character is a female lead (FL) with pink hair. She is also a witch in a kingdom/empire (I don't remember which one it was) where witches were ...
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Manga where the main character can travel to a post-apocalyptic future filled with monsters when he sleeps and has a cultivation technique
The main character falls asleep in the middle of class and finds himself as a skeleton with only his head normal in a post-apocalypse. There he first fights against limping skeleton with brain and ...
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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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Time travel short story where a few people travel in a house and experience a large subjective duration
As the title says, I am looking for a short story I read probably one to two years ago. It's about three people volunteering for a scientific experiment concerning time travel. In it, they travel ...
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Looking for time dilation spaceship "restart the Earth's rotation" sci-fi short story, please
The plot is something happens to the ship, time dilation millions of years, the ship's AI is damaged but before it goes offline it relieves the Captain and puts the science officer in charge. They ...
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Short story from a '70s/'80s Playboy anthology, involving a boy/man who finds himself in a time loop
Maybe 40-50 years ago, there was a story in a Playboy anthology, with a white cover, of a man who awoke and found he was 12 years old (?) again, but had all his memories. He almost immediately used ...
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Modern researcher communicates ideas to Elizabethan inventor resulting in accelerating technology feedback loop
I'll trying to find the name and author of a short story where a junior faculty or grad student develops a crush on an Elizabethan era inventor she is studying and somehow communicates with him ...
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Manhwa where female protagonist tries to escape death after reincarnating several times in a fantasy/historical novel
I am looking for a full color manhwa.
A girl reincarnates into a novel(?) and realizes that she dies after some number of years. She tries to avoid that and takes a different route but dies anyways. ...
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A military guy, named Troy travels back in time with no going back in some lightbulb factory. He went back in time to prevent someone from buying gold
I read this book in the 2010s and I don’t remember much about it. All I remember is that there was a guy named Troy who had experience in the military. He was then asked to go on a mission to this ...
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manga where female lead died in her world and got reincarnated into a girl who got poisoned by her stepmother and stepsister and has bad body odour [duplicate]
female lead died in her world and was reincarnated into the body of a girl whose stepmother and stepsister poisoned her, and as a result, her body has a bad odour. She was also engaged to the emperor'...
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Short story about psychic time travel to time of Neanderthal
I remember reading a short story in a sci-fi magazine at least 30 years ago about a couple on vacation and meeting a strange looking, hairy person who claims to be largely of Neanderthal stock and ...
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Manwha about a female knight and princess regressing
i can't remember the name of this manwha where a female knight regressed back and then also find outs the princess regressed aswell in the first couple chapters. i think there was a plot to do with ...
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Fantasy manga where female MC is looking for savior and mistakes man for him
I’ve been looking all over but can’t find the name I’m looking for the name of a manga, it’s about a powerful female lead magician/wizard looking for her savior that saved her when she was young( she ...
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Manga time travel
Anyone know the manga where this female time travels wakes up in a coffin with family around,she finds out she doesn't have this bracelet but later on sees it on this prince or someone related to that ...
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Book about clones using time travel to prevent cloning technology
This would have been around the mid-2000s, with the book having been published fairly recently at the time I read it. It was in a school library, so probably leaning towards YA.
The plot, as I recall, ...
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Time travellers to the future sentenced to "death" by being sent back to their time
I am trying to recall a book I read in the 1960s, probably published by Badger or Digit, about a group who travel into the future (accidentally?) and find that in the future age this is a capital ...
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'90s-2000s TV series about two teenagers who find an old book and end up inhabiting the bodies of famous figures from history/mythology [duplicate]
I remember watching this as a child and can not for the life of me remember the name and it’s driving me crazy.
The show consisted of a teenage boy in a wheelchair and his neighbor, a teenage girl, ...
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Time-travel series where the Time Patrol are the bad guys and the protagonist falls in love with their leader's daughter
Some years ago I read a time-travel series that I'd like to find again, but I can't recall the name of it.
Here's what I recall:
It was about some kind of time-travel-related authority figures: Time ...
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'80s/'90s movie with a spaceship and onboard computer
I am trying to remember a sci-fi film I saw briefly as a child. It was probably in the '80s/'90s.
I have hardly any memories, other than a man who was piloting a spaceship with an onboard computer.
I ...
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Book about kids sent back in time on a plane
I was reading a book, it may or may not have been part of a series. It was about a group of friends who later discover that they are adopted. Through some other adventures, they also discover that ...
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Movie where kids walk back in time ending at the primordial sea
I remember seeing a movie, probably in the 1980's, or even '70's. There were some kids, at least 2, but I think a small group, say 4-5. Somehow, as they kept walking, they kept going further and ...
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Manhwa/webcomic about a noble lady reincarnated after dying from an unidentifiable disease
From what I remember, the plot revolves a noble lady who was reincarnated after dying from an identifiable disease (resulting from magic?). The female lead married a noble man, due to loving him at ...
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Book about an industrialist in a world where technology is used to remote view in time and space [duplicate]
A book published in the late '90s or 2000s, I think. The world was built around a technology that exploits relativistic effects to remote view in time and space. The narrator is an industrialist who ...
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Please identify this 90's TV show, set in medieval times, with maybe time-travel
We used to watch a show in school in the UK in the late 90s, set in medieval times with kings and castles... also something I remember was a device they had that created a small projection of another ...
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Manga/Manhwa about a female magician who gives up her magic to birth a child with the emperor
I forgot the title of this manhwa. It's about a female lead who gives up her magic so she can have a child. She is married to the emperor, but he only married her because she was powerful. After she ...
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Book where two people travel to the past. One becomes a member of the rich/elite, while the other was poor
Maybe five years ago, I heard of a book that sounded really interesting.
I don't remember the specifics exactly, but from what I remember, two people travel to the past. Somehow they get separated, I ...
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Before and After,” what would the crew(s) have experienced?
In the episode “Before and After (Season 3, Episode 21),” Kes experienced occasional jumps backward in time.
What would the crew have experienced when Kes jumped back again in time?
For example:
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Manhwa about a boy who knows martial arts, but goes to the past and applies to be a magician
The manhwa is new but is about a boy who knows martial arts, but in the time period he lives in, magicians are better. He went to a dungeon and found like a eye, and then he fought a person in a ...
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Could Buzz Lightyear's crew ever have returned to the world before their accident?
In Lightyear, Buzz's primary motivation is to help the crew of the Turnip return to their lives before the crash. However, it's unclear if the crew ever could have gone back to "life as normal&...
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SF short story from the 1970s, maybe earlier where two men start a movie company showing real footage of historical events [duplicate]
I THINK this was by Robert Heinlein. In the story two men have/develop a device that can show video of the past. They start a movie company and hire a young woman who I THINK develops a romance with ...
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