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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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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Which Sci-Fi work introduced the concept of speed-based time travel?
We see speed-based time travel all the time in science fiction. It’s possibly a result of crude interpretation of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity which makes time a speed-dependent quantity. ...
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Short story - conspiracy to stop authors who are too good
This one may be from F&SF or Asimovs. The story involves a writer who accidentally kills a bike-riding kid. Then someone comes to his house and offers to erase the accident from history (and ...
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Short story - Prophetic science fiction author reawakened on the moon
I suspect the story I'm learning for is from Analog in the 1980s or so.
A science fiction writer is woken up from cold sleep, and greeted by government officials who tell him that his stories are ...
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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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Mid 1970s YA SF book with a time-travelling boy who goes to the future and returns alone
Read in 1975 or so. Included a boy who ended up in the far future; he falls in love, and has adventures. The future is deadly for some reason and he has to return alone at the end, with a sad goodbye ...
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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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Manga where the protagonist fights the demon king and loses. He is then sent back in time at the request of god
In this manga the Main Character dies in the final battle and is sent back in time to redo the fight but with his consciousness intact. He works in a mine and spends all his money on health potions, ...
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Short story about time travel and refugees from the future
I'm trying to find a short story about a woman whose job is processing time travelling refugees from a future genocide/dystopia. The protagonist is in charge of settling them in refugee camps. She's ...
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Story with Iron Man jumping into a time portal to escape the Phoenix, before she destroyed the Earth
The Phoenix is brought back by a dying man wanting to destroy the Earth, while Tony Stark watches. Tony jumps into a time portal to escape at the last minute. He goes through different time frames of ...
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Series of books/novellas, involving a depopulated Earth, mass infertility, a religious cult, time travel, and Amazon warriors
There was a series of books/novellas in the '70s or so, involving a very depopulated Earth due to a chemical/drug error that made all females who lived in modern society infertile. A prophet had ...
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Has the Slingshot Effect ever failed?
It's mentioned that time travel using the gravitational slingshot effect is highly dangerous, but typically reckless Kirk uses it successfully at least four times (including twice with a captured non-...
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A movie about travelling to the future, where a man sees the earth "start" again? [duplicate]
I can't remember the name of this movie I saw when I was a kid. All I can remember was that the man travelled through time every few years ahead, never coming back, one of the years the moon is quite ...
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Did anybody in the Star Trek universe temporarily travel to the future?
A recurring theme in Star Trek is time travel. E.g. in Star Trek: Picard, Season 2, when traveling back to the 21st century, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Janeway returning in ...
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What's the earliest point in human civilisation that anyone has time-travelled back to, in Star Trek?
In Star Trek, time-travel is very common. But I’m only interested in travel to Earth’s past when it also hosted humans (Q transporting Picard to Earth when life was originating won’t be counted). Some ...
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First use of backwards time travel in fiction?
The First use of time travel in fiction question resulted in forwards time-travel as the accepted answer. So now I'm wondering about backwards time travel.
This answer from that question, which I ...
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Book about organization who can erase time [duplicate]
Has anyone heard about a book where there’s an organization that can erase people or time streams and one of the guys involved falls in love with someone he’s suppose to erase?
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How were the 2014 Gamora and OG Nebula able to travel to the present in Avengers: Endgame? [duplicate]
How were the 2014 Gamora and OG Nebula able to travel to the present? From the movie, we know that for you need two thing for time travel: Pym particles and Time-Space GPS or the Time Gateway (like ...
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A book series about an engineer sent back in time to medieval times
I am trying to remember a book series where the main character, a male engineer, is sent back in time to medieval Europe (it is a historical setting with no magic) and applies his knowledge, in the ...
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Short story with character living life in non-sequential segments
Years ago I read a story with a character who experiences their life in segments different than the normal time line, e.g. his first memories might be flailing around like a baby in an adult body and ...
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Comic book with time machine inventor murdered by his own assistant
This story was from a comic book I read somewhere around the mid-'60s. It was a normal-sized thin comic book, not one of the thicker "special issue" types. I believe it had several ...
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Movie about time traveler staying for a fixed time [duplicate]
Years ago I watched a movie about a time traveler arriving at Earth, picking someone, and bringing them back to his own time.
I have searched and searched for the movie, but can't find it.
What I ...
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Time travel short story about a man from a multi-racial future who is killed when he goes back to a racist past?
A friend of mine had an Amazing Tales-type anthology back in the mid-80's with this story. A traveller is sent back to an earlier time (early 20th century America?). He reveals innocently that he's &...
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A story where the female main character commits suicide in order to avoid torture but gets sent back in time
This is a novel that has a manga adaptation, and I read the first few chapters of the manga a few months ago, back in February. It was in full colour, I think.
The main character is accused of ...
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Isaac Newton is visited by a time traveller who tries to give him a calculator
This recent question about a time traveller who visits Newton reminded me of this short story, which I think I read in Omni in the early 1980's.
A man travels back in time, hoping to spare Isaac ...
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An older time traveling manga about a girl who becomes a warrior after she travels back in time?
The manga is about a girl who travels back in time, the first and like second chapter is when she is still in the modern world. She falls in love with her brother (I think it was because they didn't ...
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Manhwa with a pink-haired female wizard/mage and a blue-haired male lead, who fall in love and accidentally end up back in time
I need help finding a manhwa. I can’t remember much, but the main character (MC) is a wizard/mage who eventually somehow gets paired up with the blue-haired male lead, and they start working together.
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Continuity error in A Door into Summer - or very subtle clue
In Heinlein's The Door into Summer Dan is in 2000, trying to find someone he knew before he was involuntarily put into cold sleep in 1970, but he doesn't know what last name she would be using, and ...
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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 keeps meeting a version of himself from a different time, possibly by Isaac Asimov
I can't remember the details very clearly because I read it many years ago, but he needs to fix his stuff. He has a repeating day, I think, and keeps meeting a version of himself from a different time....
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What are the limits to meeting your self in the past?
In DC's Legends of Tomorrow, it was said in one of the episodes (I can't remember or find the correct episode) by Rip that making contact with your younger self can jeopardize your entire existence. ...
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Name of book about faxing people
I have been trying to identify a book that I read years ago. It is about time travel and involved “faxing” people. The Nazis were trying to perfect this in World War II. However, people were caught ...
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Science fiction short story about children on a beach stranded in time in perpetual twilight
I read this in a sci-fi magazine in the late 1970s/early 1980s, though it might have been published earlier. The protagonist is an artist who accidentally wanders onto a beach stranded in time that ...
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Where is the temporal zone located of DC's Legends of Tomorrow?
In DC's Legends of Tomorrow, the place which seems to be the 'neutral' place of time is where the legends tend to set the Waverider in when they are not somewhere on a mission. Where is this located ...
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Main character is killed and he awakens a system to kill [duplicate]
I am trying to remember a story the main character is a guy who thought he had a chance with a girl, until he was killed and sent a couple hours into the past where he awakens a system.
The images ...
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Steampunk-heavy TV series which had time travel. BBC, maybe?
Several years ago, which was 2012-2014, I got into steampunk. I got to looking for TV shows with that campy, pulp-adventuring feel. When I asked on Reddit, and also googled for some to watch.
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Where is Marty from the alternate timeline Where George McFly is an author that Marty makes at the end of Part 1?
Think about it: Marty goes back to 1955 in Part 1 and helps his parents fall in love again.
Well, when Marty went back to 1985 he created an alternate timeline where his parents are rich. There are ...
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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 about inept "scientists" building a time machine and real ones cleaning up after them [duplicate]
I read this about 30 years ago but I can't remember what it is named.
In the future, a few "real" scientists still exist in semi-secrecy. A lot of inept people believe that they are ...
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Why is this act supposed to be a final success for the future antagonists?
(All-spoiler question)
In the 2020 film Tenet, arms dealer Sator is instructed to bury the "algorithm" by means of a cave in at Stalsk 12, and his success in doing this somehow ensures ...
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Old TV series with a time-travelling boy and girl and a mechanical time guardian
There was a boy and a girl, and they were doing time traveling. Mechanic person guarding a big clock, his hands like clock hands. Like some time guardian.
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Short Movie: Time Travel In A Bathtub Or In Just Water
Within the last 4-5 years, I enjoyed a short movie, probably from SIFF because it was on an Alaska Airlines flight. It was about a man (Caucasian, probably in his 20's) who discovered or happened on ...
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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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Novel where the protagonist travels through time (and space?) to an environment he cannot escape from, and encounters his much older self
I am seeking the title (and author) of a novel whose chief character travels through time (and space?) to a place where he is alone in a large environment but cannot escape from it. At one stage he ...
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Manga where the last two floors of a skyscraper get teleported through time
I am looking for a manga where the last two floors of a skyscraper get teleported through time.
The heroes travel through time with the building trying to going back to their period.
There is a group ...
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Does Doc Brown sabotage himself in Back to the Future 2?
Back in 1955, Doc Emmet Brown is spotted by his past self as he is working on the cable in the park, at which point, the latter asks the unrecognizable white-haired man to "be a pal and hand my ...
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Help identifying movie where a virus sent from the future is encoded with a message
I have been struggling with trying to come up with this movie name for a while now, but being in the middle of a pandemic has made it next to impossible to google for "virus" related things ...
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Scifi novel about two high dimension beings trapped on earth by a "jailer"
Looking for a recent novel about a pair of aliens who fight amongst each other and trapped on Earth as a result.
They try to escape, by nudging humanity towards discovering specific tech, and are ...
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Short animated film or movie where a boy travels to the future multiple times, each time seeing the Earth in a different stage of its life [duplicate]
The animation style if I remember right is similar to early to mid 2000s.
This boy travels through time and makes these stops as if going to all the different stages in the Earth's life. I believe he ...
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Short story about a modern missile (drone?) traveling back in time to World War II, and their attempts to understand it
I was reading this Worldbuilding Stack Exchange question about reverse-engineering modern tech with WW2-level science and technology, and it made me remember having seen something very similar here, a ...
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