Richard A. Lupoff

writer
Short Story

12:01 P.M.


Myron Castleman is reliving 59 minutes of one day over and over for eternity.
And Myron Castleman would be permitted to lie forever, piling up experiences and memories, but each of only an hour’s duration, each resumed at 12:01 PM on this balmy spring day in Manhattan, standing outside near the Grand Central Tower.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Nebogipfel at the End of Time


The end of time is as much of a magnet for time travelers as is Hitler’s birth, although for a different reason.
For what seemed like hour upon hour they arrived. Some by strange, grotesque vehicles. Some by spectacularly announced projection. Some by chronion gas, or drugs, or spiritual exercise, or by sheer mental power. Some involuntarily. Some unknowingly. At one point not far inland from the beach, across the first row of dim, ugly dunes, there suddenly appeared an entire city.
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  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

The Showtime 30-Minute Movie [s:1e1]

12:01 PM


Kurtwood Smith portrays Myron Castleman’s noon hour over and over in this first movie adaptation of Richard Lupoff’s short story. —Michael Main
You see, it’s like . . . it’s like we’re stuck. You know, like a . . . like a needle on a scratched record. It all starts at 12:01, and everything goes along fine until one o’clock and then Bam! the whole world snaps back to 12:01 again.
A white digital clock display on a black backgroiund shows twelve oh one P M.
  • Weird Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

12:01


Trapped in a one-day time loop, Barry Thomas tries to bring down the company that’s causing the loop, hopefully coming to a happy ending with the gorgeous scientist who runs the project. —Michael Main
Barry: Oh my God. It’s twelve o’clock.
Lisa: No! We’ve got to do something!
Barry: There’s no time. Quick, tell me what your favorite color is.
Jonathan Silverman (as Barry Thomas) and Helen Slater (as Lisa Fredericks) run
                down a dark highway with an analog clock showing 12:01 behind them.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

12:02 P.M.


Maybe eternity isn’t as long as Myron Kastleman had feared.
The same hour keeps happening over and over again. Only it isn’t an hour. Not really. It seems to be getting shorter.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

12:03 P.M.


After the events of “[Error: Missing ']]' tag for wikilink]
The man in the dark suit has become the most talked-about mystery man in the world. Who is he? Where did he come from? He appeared and unquestionably saved the life of one President but inadvertently—we presume inadvertently—caused the death of another.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel