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Memoirs of the Twentieth Century

by Samuel Madden
A group of letters from the late 20th century found their way to Samuel Madden, who rushed to publish them in this volume, but then destroyed most of the copies.

I found this account of Madden’s book in Googlebooks scanned copy of the work. The note is attributed to Anecdotes of the Life of Mr. Wm. Bowyer:

There is something mysterious in the History of this Work; it was written by Dr. Samuel Madden, Patriot of Ireland; & addressed in an Ironical Dedication, [to] Frederick Prince of Wales. One Volume only of these Memoirs appeared, and whether any more were really intended is uncertain. A Thousand Copies were printed, with such very great dispatch that three Printers were employed on it (Bowyer, Woodfall, & Roberts,) but the whole of the Business was transacted by Bowyer, without either of the other Printers ever seeing the Author: and the Names of an uncommon number of reputable Booksellers appeared in the Title Page. The Book was finished at the Press on March 24th 17323 and 100 Copies were that day delivered to the Author: on the 29th a number of them was delivered to the several Booksellers mentioned in the Title Page: and in four days after, all that were unsold, amounting to 890 of these Copies, were recalled, and were delivered to Dr. Madden, to be destroyed. The current report is, that the Edition was suppressed on the day of publication: and that it is now exceeding scarce is certain. The reasons for the extraordinary circumstances attending the printing and suppressing These Memoirs, are not very evident, and still remain a Mystery.

In her Ph.D. dissertation, Dierdre Ní Chuanacháin suggests that the reason for the suppression was the “ politicaland literary milieu” of the times. Nevertheless, at least one copy of the work survived and is hailed as the first literary work to actually write of the future (albeit as a satire and criticism of 18th century Great Britain) and possibly the first to contain time travel (via an unexplained method). Those two aspects led us to classify the work as a forerunner of science fiction.
— Michael Main
But as I am determined to give ſuch Readers and all Men, ſo full, and fair, and convincing an Account of my ſelf and that celeſtial Spirit I receiv’d theſe Papers from, and to anſwer all Objections ſo entirely, as to put Ignorance, and even Malice it ſelf to Silence: I am confident, the ingenuous and candid part of the World, will ſoon throw off ſuch mean narrow ſpirited Suſpicions, as unjuſt and ungenerous.
Memoirs of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Madden (Osborn and Longman, March 1733).

A Dialogue for the Year 2130: Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl

by Thomas Henry Lister
John Clute at the SF Encyclopedia describes the short play as “almost predictive of H. G. Wells’s 1053 } The Time Machine,” with Eloi-like upper classes and Morlock-like lower classes—but apart from having such future beings, there are no actual time phenomena in the play. However, the play does mention mechanical horses, steam porters, and automata secretaries who, among other things, write notes of condelences and/or congratulations (sometimes mixing them up).
— Michael Main
It is amusing to look at the descriptions of manners as they existed in those times.
“A Dialogue for the Year 2130: Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl” by Thomas Henry Lister, in The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX, edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds (Hurst, Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings, late 1829).

Paris avant les hommes

English release: Paris before Humankind Literal: Paris before Man

by Pierre Boitard
Everyone from Jules Verne to John Connor seems to know of Pierre Boitard’s edition of Paris avant les hommes published in 1861, two years after Boitard’s death. The 500-page tome tells the tale of a limping devil named Asmodeus who takes Boitard himself on a journey through Earth’s natural history.

What’s less well known is that 25 years earlier, Boitard’s initial version—yes, including the time-traveling Asmodeus—appeared as a 44-page, two-part article in the family magazine Musée des Familles—Lecture pour Tous. I stumbled upon this in Jean Le Loeuff’s November 2012 blog, Le Dinoblog.

— Michael Main
To this question, the devil burst into laughter, waking them. The female ran about on all fours, carrying under her belly the little ones, clinging with all their might; but the male uttered a fierce gutteral roar, fixed his eyes upon me, stood upright on his hind legs, and raising high his flint ax, rushed toward me with a furious leap, swinging the deadly weapon at my head.

At that moment, I uttered a cry of terror because I had no choice but to recognize exactly what kind of monster he was. . . He was a man.

[ex=bare]“Paris avant les hommes” | Paris before man[/ex] by Pierre Boitard, in Musée des Familles—Lectures du Soir, June 1836 and November 1837.

Le monde tel qu’il sera

English release: The World as It Shall Be Literal: The World as it shall be

by Émile Souvestre
Mssr. John Progrès, a diminutive god, whisks a young romantic couple to a satirical anti-utopia in the year 3000.

— Michael Main
He was comfortably seated on a machine of English Make, the smoke of which enveloped him in clouds of fantastic shape, and on the instrument panel there was a daguerreotype from the workshops of M. le Chevalier. Maurice, a little alarmed at first at this sudden apparition, was reassured by his mild appearance. He looked boldly at the little visitor and asked him who he was.
[ex=bare]Le monde tel qu’il sera | The world as it shall be[/ex] by Émile Souvestre (W. Coquebert, 1846).

Mellonta Tauta

Literal: Things of the future

by Edgar Allan Poe
So just how did those letters from the year 2848 make their way back to Poe if not for time travel?
— Michael Main
To the Editors of the Lady’s Book:—

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the “Toughkeepsie Seer,”) of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except for the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.

“Mellonta Tauta” by Edgar Allan Poe, in Godey’s Lady’s Book, February 1849.

January First, A.D. 3000

by A. Guernsey
“January First, A.D. 3000” by A. Guernsey, in Harper’s Magazine, January 1856.

Paris avant les hommes

Literal: Paris before Man

by Pierre Boitard
Two years after Boitard’s death, a vastly expanded, 500-page version of his 1836/1838 pair of articles was published using the same title, Paris avant les hommes, and with the same time-traveling devil companion who takes Boitard back to prehistory.
— Michael Main
If only we were still in the time of fairies and genies, maybe I could find one good enough to tell me what the world, or only France, or Paris, or even just the Tuileries Gardens was like, ten or twelve thousand years ago, more or less.
[ex=bare]Paris avant les hommes | Paris before Man[/ex] by Pierre Boitard (Passard, Libraire-Editeur, 1861).

The Tachypomp: A Mathematical Demonstration

by Edward Page Mitchell
This was Mitchell’s first of many anonymous stories for the New York Sun, and although it contained a clever method of achieving unlimited speed, it had no time travel. But not to worry! Two of [Error: Missing '[/exn]' tag for wikilink]
— Michael Main
Just whisper to him that when he has an infinite number of cars with an infinitesimal difference in their lengths, he will have obtained that infinite speed for which he seems to yearn.
“The Tachypomp: A Mathematical Demonstration” by Edward Page Mitchell, New York Sun, January 1874..

The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century

by Frances Power Cobbe
Published as a 50-page book, the story tells of the invention of the Prospective Telegraph and provides excerpts from a newspaper that it retrieves from a 1977 future dominated by scientific and medical super-nannies.
— Michael Main
By this truly wonderful invention (exquisitely simple in its machinery, yet of surpassing power) the obstacle of Time is as effectually conquered as that of Space has been for the last generation by the Electric Telegraph; and future years—even, it is anticipated, future centuries—will be made to respond to our call as promptly and completely as do now the uttermost parts of the earth wherewith the magic wire has placed us in communication.
The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century by Frances Power Cobbe (Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1877).

The Great Romance

as by The Inhabitant
The book‘s opening scene portrays the protagonist, John Hope, awakening from a sleep of 193 years. Hope had been a prominent mid-twentieth-century scientist, who had developed new power sources that enabled air travel and, eventually, space exploration. In the year 1950, Hope had taken a “sleeping draught” that put him into a long suspended animation, as part of a planned experiment. When he wakes in the year 2143, he is met by Alfred and Edith Weir, descendants of John Malcolm Weir, the chemist who had prepared the sleeping draft Hope had taken in 1950.

The original edition of The Great Romance is one of the rarest books extant, with single copies of Parts 1 and 2 existing in New Zealand libraries. After a century of neglect, the book has been reprinted by editor Dominic Alessio, first in Science Fiction Studies in 1993 (Part 1) and then in a separate volume in 2008 (Parts 1 and 2).[9] (A third part of the story is thought to have existed, but no copy has yet been found.) The two extant volumes were reprinted in 2008, along with commentary by Dominic Alessio on the influence the writing likely had on Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward.

Considerable detective work has been applied to the question of the identity of the pseudonymous Inhabitant, although with no definite result.
Nevertheless, we lean toward the theory of one “Honnor of Ashburton,” because of an annotation to this effect in the only known original copies of the first two volumes of the work. Additionally, of the two title leafs found with Volume 1, the Ashburton page was printed on paper that matches that of the volume itself, and the volume contained advertisements for Ashburton businesses. This explains the photo we’ve attached to the story, which depicts the Ashburton Borough Council and Public Library, circa 1881. So far as we know, the clock tower has no connection to the lightning storm of 12 October 1955

— based on Wikipedia
In the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty my dearest friend, John Malcolm Weir, the greatest chemist of his day, had given me the sleeping draught: it should tie up the senses—life itself—for an indefinite period; and when the appointed years were over life might again be awakened.
The Great Romance as by The Inhabitant, published in two volumes (with a possible third lost volume), the Ashburton Guardian and Dunedin Daily Times [publishers] 1881.

The Clock That Went Backward

by Edward Page Mitchell
A young man and his cousin inherit a clock that takes them back to the siege of Leyden at the start of October 1574, where they affect that time as much as it has affected them. This is travel in a machine (or at least an artifact), but they have no control over the destination.
— Michael Main
The hands were whirling around the dial from right to left with inconceivable rapidity. In this whirl we ourselves seemed to be borne along. Eternities seemed to contract into minutes while lifetimes were thrown off at every tick.
“The Clock That Went Backward” by Edward Page Mitchell, New York Sun, 18 September 1881.

The Diothas, or A Far Look Ahead

by John Macnie
A jilted Ismar Thiusen visits his friend Utis Estai who, through mesmerism, takes the two of them to a 96th century puritanical utopian society where he is viewed by the locals as a mentally ill man who believes he is from the 19th century.
— Michael Main
According to the view of things above adverted to, the different stages in the history of our race are not successive only, but are also co-existent and co-extensive with each other. Just as in a block of marble, there is contained, not one only, but every possible statue, though, of the whole number, only one at a time can be made evident to our senses; so, in a given region of space, any number of worlds can co-exist, each with its own population conscious of only that world, or set of phenomena, to which their ego is attuned.
The Diothas, or A Far Look Ahead by John Macnie (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883).

El Anacronópete

English release: The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey Literal: He who flies backwards in time

by Enrique Gaspar
Mad scientist Don Sindulfo and his best friend Benjamin take off in Sindulfo’s flying time machine along with Sindulfo’s niece, her maid, a troop of Spanish soldiers, and a bordelloful of French strumpets for madcap adventures at the 1860 Battle of Téouan, Queen Isabella’s Spain, nondescript locales in the eleventh and seventh centuries, 3rd-century China, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and a biblical time shortly after the flood.

After taking a year of Spanish at the University of Colorado, I undertook a three-year project of translating Gaspar’s novel to English, which is available in a pdf file for your reading pleasure. Even with the unpleasant twist at the end, it was still a fine, farcical romp through history.

— Michael Main
—Poco á poco—argumentaba un sensato.—Si el Anacronópete conduce á deshacer lo hecho, á mi me pasrece que debemos felicitarnos porque eso no permite reparar nuestras faltas.

—Tiene usted razón—clamaba empotrado en un testero del coche un marido cansado de su mujer.—En cuanto se abra la línea al público, tomo yo un billete para la vispera de mi boda.

“One step at a time,” argued a sensible voice. “If el Anacronópete aims to undo history, it seems to me that we must be congratulated as it allows us to amend our failures.”

“Quite right,” called a married man jammed into the front of the bus, thinking of his tiresome wife. “As soon as the ticket office opens to the public, I’m booking passage to the eve of my wedding.”

English
[ex=bare]El Anacronópete | He who flies backwards in time[/ex] by Enrique Gaspar, in Novelas [Stories] (Daniel Cortezo, 1887).

Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887

by Edward Bellamy
As with The Diothas from earlier in the same decade, our hero tells the story of a man (Julian West) who undergoes hypnotically induced time travel, this time to the year 2000 and a socialist utopian society.
— Michael Main
It would have been reason enough, had there been no other, for abolishing money, that its possession was no indication of rightful title to it. In the hands of the man who had stolen it or murdered for it, it was as good as in those which had earned it by industry. People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence and disinterestedness which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization.
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy (Ticknor, 1888).

The Chronic Argonauts

by H. G. Wells
Wells abandoned this early version of the story after three installments. He may not have liked it, but it’s a fun historical read—and the first mention that I’ve seen of time as the fourth dimension.
— Michael Main
Those who were there say that they saw Dr. Nebogipfel, standing in the toneless electric glare, on a peculiar erection of brass and ebony and ivory; and that he seemed to be smiling at them, half pityingly and half scornfully, as it is said martyrs are wont to smile.
“The Chronic Argonauts” by H. G. Wells, serialized in The Science School Journal, three parts [or possibly only two (with none in May], April to June 1888).

Mysterious Disappearances

by Ambrose Bierce
“Mysterious Disappearances” by Ambrose Bierce, in The San Francisco Examiner, 14 October 1888.

A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Mark Twain
A clonk on the head transports Hank Morgan from the 19th century back to the time of Camelot. We classify Yankee as science fiction not because of its clonk-on-the-head method of time travel, but rather for Hank’s dogged desire to bring modern technology to the Middle Ages.
— Michael Main
You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transportation of epochs—and bodies?
A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Charles L. Webster, 1889).

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, or The Witch’s Cavern

by Henry Crocker Marriott Watson
William Furley, an Australian in 2992, describes the fallen state of the British Empire and then travels to England where he meets a version of Alice’s White Rabbit and falls down a hole to 1890 London where he tries to warn people about the coming collapse.
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, or The Witch’s Cavern by Henry Crocker Marriott Watson (Trischler, 1890).

The National Observer Essays

by H. G. Wells
After his first fictional foray into time travel (“The Chronic Argonauts”), Wells anonymously published a series of seven fictionalized essays in The National Observer that contained the genesis of what was to come.
— Michael Main
‘Possibly not,’ said the Philosophical Inventor. ‘But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of four dimensions. I have a vague inkling of a machine—’
The National Observer Essays by H. G. Wells, 7-part serial, National Observer, 17 March 1894 to 23 June 1894 [nonconsecutive issues].

The British Barbarians—A Hill-Top Novel

by Grant Allen
Bertram Ingledow, anthropologist from the future, comes to 19th century England to study the ways and rituals of the Englishman and at least one Englishwoman, the desirable Freda Monteith.
— Michael Main
As once the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and straightaway coveted them, even so Bertram Ingledew looked on Freda Monteith and saw at the first glance she was a woman to be desired, a soul high throned, very calm and beautiful.
The British Barbarians—A Hill-Top Novel by Grant Allen (John Lane, 1895).

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells
In which H. G. Wells’s third foray into time travel finalizes the story of our favorite unnamed Traveller and his machine, all in the form that we know and love.

The two earlier forays were The Chronic Argonaut (which was abandoned after three installments in his school magazine) and seven fictionalized National Observer essays (which sketched out the Traveller and his machine, including a glimpse of the future and proto-Morlocks). The story of The Time Machine itself had three 1895 iterations:

[list][*]A five-part serial in the January through May issues of New Review, The serial contains mostly the story as we know it, but with an alternate chunk in the introduction where the Traveller discusses free will, predestination, and a Laplacian determinism of the universe.

In addition, material from Chapter XIII of the serial (just over a thousand words beginning partway through the first paragraph of page 577 and continuing to page 579, line 29) were omitted from later editions. This section was written for the serial after a back-and-forth written struggle between Wells and New Review editor William Henley. The material had a separate mimeographed publication by fan and Futurian Robert W. Lowndes in 1940 as “The Final Men” and has since had multiple publications elsewhere with varying titles such as “The Gray Man.”[/*]

[*]The US edition: The Time Machine: An Invention, by H. G. Wells (erroneously credited as H. S. Wells in the first release), Henry Holt [publisher], May 1895. This edition may have been completed before the serial, as it varies from the serial more so than the UK edition. It does not contain the extra material in the first chapter or “The Final Men” (although it does have a few additional sentences at that point of Chapter XIII).[/*]

[*]The UK edition: The Time Machine: An Invention,by H. G. Wells, William Heinemann [publisher], May 1895. This edition is a close match to the serial, with the exception of chapter breaks, the extra material in the first chapter, and “The Final Men” (omitted from what is now Chapter XIV).[/*]
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— Michael Main
I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, serialized in New Review, (five parts, January to May 1895).

The Barbarous Britishers—A Tip-Top Novel

by H. D. Traill
Henry Duff Traill, biographer and satirist of Grant Allen’s The British Barbarians, was a worthy forebear of Monty Python.
— Michael Main
It was a case of the angels tumbling to the daughters of men. He saw at the first sight that she was a woman to be desired, a soul high-throned, very calm and dignified, yet scrumptious withal. Like the angels, he tumbled to her, and, falling from so great a height, was instantly mashed.
The Barbarous Britishers—A Tip-Top Novel by H. D. Traill (John Lane, Bodley Head, 1896).

Commentaire pour servir à la construction pratique de la machine à explorer le temps

English release: How to Construct a Time Machine Literal: Commentary for use in the practical construction of a time machine

by Alfred Jarry
Inspired by Wells, Jarry’s fictional Dr. Faustroll tells exactly what’s needed to build your very own time machine.
— Michael Main
Space and Time are commensurable. To explore the universe by seeking knowledge of points in Space can be accomplished only through Time; and in order to measure Time quantitatively, we refer to Space intervals on the dial of a chronometer. Space and Time, being of the same nature, may be conceived of as different physical states of the same substance, or as differ ent modes of motion.
[ex=bare]“Commentaire pour servir à la construction pratique de la machine à explorer le temps” | Commentary for use in the practical construction of a time machine[/ex] by Alfred Jarry, in Mercure de France, February 1899.

The Queen of the World, or Under the Tyranny

by Standish O’Grady
Young Irishman Gerard Pierce de Lacy is sent to the year 2179 A.D. by a mysterious figure named the Bohemian, where he falls in love, fights with the underground using fantastic weapons against the Chinese overlords, defeats the overlords, and puts his love on the throne of the world.
Know then that it is within my power to transfer you from the age in which we live, of which all the interest has for you been exhausted, to any other age that you may select, past or future.
The Queen of the World, or Under the Tyranny by Standish O’Grady (Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1900).

When Time Turned

by Ethel Watts Mumford
In this earliest story we’ve seen of a man living his life backward in time, the narrator, Robertson, talks with Mr. Gage who has been reliving his life in reverse, moment by moment, ever since the death of his wife. We classify it as science fiction because of the methodical approach taken by the narrator and Dr. Lamison in examining Mr. Gage.
— Michael Main
Yes, I spent some little time in the islands. In fact, I am just on the point of going there now, and am very sorry I shall not see them again.
“When Time Turned” by Ethel Watts Mumford, in The Black Cat, January 1901.

The New Accelerator

by H. G. Wells
The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more.
— Michael Main
I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”
“The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, Strand Magazine, December 1901.

Wireless

by Rudyard Kipling
Were it not Kipling, I wouldn’t include this story in the list, since its time-travel content is questionable: Are those Marconi experiments of young Mr. Cashell really bringing John Keats’s thoughts from a century in the past to the drug-tranced Mr. Shaynor?
— Michael Main
“He told me that the last time they experimented they put the pole on the roof of one of the big hotels here, and the batteries electrified all the water-supply, and”—he giggled—“the ladies got shocks when they took their baths.”
“Wireless” by Rudyard Kipling, in Scribner’s Magazine, August 1902.

A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight through Time

by W. W. Cook
Pursued by Detective Klinch, Everson Lumley takes up Dr. Alonzo Kelpie’s offer to whisk him off to the year 2000 (in his time-coupé) where Lumley first observes various scientific marvels and then realizes that Klinch is still chasing him through time and into more adventures. All that, and there’s also a 1913 sequel!

William Wallace Cook’s larger claim to fame might be his 1928 aid to writers of all ilk: Plotto: The Master Book of All (1,462) Plots.

— Michael Main
Although your enemy is within a dozen feet of you, Lumley, he will soon be a whole century behind, and you will be safe.
A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight through Time by W. W. Cook, serialized in Argosy, July to October 1903.

The Panchronicon

by Harold Steele MacKaye
In 1898, Copernicus Droop has a flying time machine drop into his lap from the year 2582, whereupon he hatches a plan to take Rebecca Wise and her sister, Phœbe, back to 1876 where he can invent all kinds of modern things and Rebecca might convince her younger self to marry that fine young Joe Chandler—but instead they go rather further back to Elizabethan times where capricious capers (but no time paradoxes) ensue.
— Michael Main
It does sound outlandish, when you think how big the world is. But what if ye go to the North Pole? Ain’t all the twenty-four meridians jammed up close together around that part of the globe? Ain’t it clear that if a feller’ll jest take a grip on the North Pole and go whirlin’ around it, he’ll be cutting meridians as fast as a hay-chopper? Won’t he see the sun getting left behind and whirlin’ the other way from what it does in nature? If the sun goes the other way round, ain’t it sure to unwind all the time that it’s been a-rollin’ up?
The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye (Charles Scribner’s Sons, April 1904).

Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro

by Robert Gilbert Wells
I met the amiable and widely read John Clute in New Hampshire in the summer of 2014. He introduced me to this work, which he describes in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a satire of race relations in post-Reconstruction America. For the most part, the story takes place as a conversation between a black man, Sam Brown, and his white brother, Boss Jones. As such, it’s a subtle satire, using the “science of Anthropology” to warn us of the laziness of the Negro, the greed of the white man, and the evils of incompatible matings, among other things.

Clute classifies the work as having numerous fantastic elements such as when Sam and the author Bob Wells leave their bodies to invisibly view other happenings, at least one small bit of time travel, and the one item that’s of most interest: a potion that changes Mr. Jones into a Negro for the span of a train journey.

Whatever time travel does exist, such as a possible visit by Mr. Jones to 16th century Greece, is subtle compared to the other aspects of the satire.

— Michael Main
The doors and windows were opened, Sam and Mr. Jones walked out of the room, then to the depot purchased tickets and started for Chicago, but when the two men arrived at the depot, to Mr. Jones surprise, the ticket agent told him to get out of that waiting room or he would take a club to his head, and that pretty quick.
Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro by Robert Gilbert Wells (Wells, Book Concern, April 1905).

Marooned in 1492, or Under Fortune’s Flag

by W. W. Cook
Two adventurers, Trenwyck and Blinkers, answer a strange ad and eventually find themselves stranded in 1492 without enough of the time-travel corn for the entire party to return, so they send Columbus into the future to procure more of the precious kernels.

Fantasy or science fiction? Nothing particularly scientific about the time travel method, but the presentation of the want ad for a party of courageous men convinced us to tag Cook’s yarn as both sf and fantasy.

— Michael Main
Wanted—A party of courageous men, experts in the various trades, to accompany a philanthropic gentleman on a mission of enlightenment to the Middle Ages. Single men only. References exchanged. An opportunity offers to construct anew the history of several benighted nations. If interested, call or write. Percival Tapscott, No. 198 Forty-Third Street.
Marooned in 1492, or Under Fortune’s Flag by W. W. Cook, serialized in Argosy, August to December 1905.

The Last Generation: A Story of the Future

by J. E. Flecker
The Wind of Time takes our narrator on a depressing tour of the future where everyone becomes suicidal, childbirth is outlawed, and mankind eventually becomes extinct.
— Michael Main
I am not in the compass. I am a little unknown Wind, and I cross not Space but Time. If you will come with me I will take you not over countries but over centuries, not directly, but waywardly, and you may travel where you will.
The Last Generation: A Story of the Future by J. E. Flecker (The New Age Press, 1908).

My Time Annihilator

by George Allan England
The narrator tells of a machine he built that will fly faster than the rotation of the earth and thus, by flying against the earth’s rotation, will travel backward in time.
— Michael Main
The next of a series, interspersed of course with many “normal” stories, so to speak, was “My Time Annihilator,” something along the lines of H.G. Wells’ “Time-Machine,”—which, by the way, I had not at that time read. Wells is, of course, one of the most successful modern “science-fakers.” The skill wherewith he makes the impossible seem possible may well serve as a model for any aspirants in this line of endeavor.
“My Time Annihilator” by George Allan England, in All-Story, June 1909.

The Connecticut Yankee

[writer and director unknown]
We have not found any definitive information about a possible 1910 version of Twain’s classic, although we presume (based on the year) that it was a short film. The earliest mention we’ve seen was in William V. Mong’s 1940 obituary in the New York Times, which ran under the headline “William V. Mong; Ex-Actor Made Screen Debut in ‘Connecticut Yankee’ in 1910.” The text stated that Mong entered the movies in 1910 in “The Connecticut Yankee.” Coincidentally, Mong played Merlin in Emmett J. Flynn’s 1921 version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

In any case, we don’t know whether the 1910 film used the just-a-dream ending—or perhaps the film itself was just a dream of a 1940 obituary writer.

— Michael Main
The Connecticut Yankee [writer and director unknown] (at movie theaters, USA, 1910).

Barsoom 1

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
When I joined the Science Fiction Book Club in 1970, the Barsoom books were the first series I bought. I’d already read them at an earlier age, but how could I pass up the Frazetta covers? Now I admit there’s not much time travelin’ on Barsoom, so I won’t list all the books separately, but it seems to me that Captain John Carter traveled to a different Mars, either by traveling through time or traveling to a parallel universe.
— Michael Main
Yes, Dejah Thoris, I too am a prisoner; my name is John Carter, and I claim Virginia, one of the United States of America, Earth, as my home; but why I am permitted to wear arms I do not know, nor was I aware that my regalia was that of a chieftain.
Barsoom by Edgar Rice Burroughs, serialized in All-Story, February to July 1912.

Castaways of the Year 2000

by W. W. Cook
In this sequel to 1903’s A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight Through Time, Lumley has returned to his own time and is held responsible for Kelpie’s disappearance at which point he returns to the future and adventures ensue.

I wish that today’s story magazines sported such alluring artwork. Not only that, but in October of 1912, for just 30¢ you could have bought this issue of The Argosy as well as the first-ever story of Tarzan of the Apes in Argosy’s sister magazine, The All-Story. And today, instead, we get endless reality TV, including Castaway 2000.

Put me out of my misery if I ever start sounding curmudgeonly.

— Michael Main
Dr. Alonzo Kelpie, author of “Time and Space and Their Limitations,” was a hunchback. Although a small man physically, intellectually he was a giant. To have him emerge thus unexpectedly through the dissolving mists of their environment was a seven-day wonder to Lumley, Kinch, McWilliams, Mortimer, and Ripley.
Castaways of the Year 2000 by W. W. Cook, serialized in Argosy, October 1912 to February 1913.

Accessory Before the Fact

by Algernon Blackwood
An English man on a walking holiday experiences a short time in another man’s future and struggles with the ethics of whether and how to deliver a warning to that other man.

Although the method of time travel is fantasy, the man’s struggles with the ethics of time travel put the story soundly in the realm of foundational science fiction.

— Michael Main
He had been an eavesdropper, and had come upon private information of a secret kind that he had no right to make use of, even that good might come—even to save life.
“Accessory Before the Fact” by Algernon Blackwood, in The Westminster Gazette, 23 February 1914.

Draft of Eternity

by Victor Rousseau
After taking cannabis, Dr. Clifford Pal awakens thousands of years in the future when America has been conquered by the Yuki, whereupon he falls in love with a princess, starts a revolution, and drinks more cannabis to return to the twentieth century.
— Michael Main
Draft of Eternity by Victor Rousseau, serialized in All-Story Weekly, 1 June to 22 June 1918.

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

written and directed by Willis H. O’Brien
Unk tells a story to his two nephews about the time when he and Joe visited the stone-covered grave and haunted cabin of Mad Dick where they (and their dog, Soxie) were able to view the prehistoric past through a queer looking instrument that accidentally allowed T. Rex onto Slumber Mountain. Sadly, at the end, Unk suggests that it was all a dream, but what does he know?!

The IMDb lists Herbert M. Dawley as a co-writer, but Wikipedia lists him as only the producer. The initial three-reel film premiered at the Strand Theater, but an unhappy Dawley cut it from over 40 minutes to about 12. Around six extra minutes were later restored by the Dinosaur Museum of Blanding, Utah, in 2016, but the full version no longer exists.

— Michael Main
Far, far away, at the foot of a cliff, a Thunder Lizard—which must have been at least one hundred feet long—appeared out of the mists of forty million years.
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain written and directed by Willis H. O’Brien (premiered at the Strand Theater, Dorcester, Massachusetts, 17 November 1918).

A Romance of Two Centuries: A Tale of the Year 2025

by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
After being given sleeping sickness by the Germans in The Great War, our hero is taken back to America by a kindly nurse and put into a deeper sleep, only to awoken in the year 2025 where he is renamed Oleander Parentive Neurodundeeian, falls in love, and experiences the generally amazing future. But that’s not where the time travel comes into play (that’s merely falling into a long sleep). The backward time travel occurs when he wants to relate all this back to his wife and companions in the early 20th century. As for the mechanism for achieving this, only Guthrie’s original words in the following quote can do it justice:
— Michael Main
Jules Verne, in his Tour Around the World in Eighty Days, had made the plot hinge on the fact that by circling the entire globe Mr. Fogg had gained one day. I also called to mind how, when European newspaper correspondents telegraphed to America, the message reached there five hours before it was sent. A childishly simple calculation showed that if a telegraph message was made to circle the whole globe, it would arrive twenty-four hours, or one calendar day, before it was sent. If then it were possible to telegraph twice around the globe, it would arrive two days before it was sent, and so on in proportion. If a message circled the globe 365 times, it would arrive one full year before it was despatched. 3650 times would anticipate 10 years, and 36,500 times would gain 100 years; and as to reach my wife of long ago I needed to go back 110 years, the problem would be solved if I could send a message around the globe 40,150 times without stopping. Of course, there would be a rectification to be made for the 27 leap years, so that the needed circlings would be 40,177.
A Romance of Two Centuries: A Tale of the Year 2025 by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (The Platonist Press, 1919).

The Runaway Skyscraper

by Murray Leinster
A New York skyscraper is so heavy that it settles into the fourth dimension, taking engineer Arthur Chamberlain and his lovely, but stereotypical, secretary, Miss Woodward, (not to mention the rest of the building’s occupants) back to pre-Columbus Manhattan.
— Michael Main
Well, then, have you ever read anything by Wells? The ‘Time Machine,’ for instance?
“The Runaway Skyscraper” by Murray Leinster, in Argosy, 22 February 1919.

The Man Who Met Himself

by Donovan Bayley
“The Man Who Met Himself” by Donovan Bayley, in The Thrill Book, March 1919.

Claimed

by Francis Stevens
Claimed by Francis Stevens, 3-part serial, Argosy, 6 March to 20 March 1920.

The Ape-Woman

by John Charles Beecham
Given the intriguing title, we hoped the title character of this early novelette would be a time traveling ape from from future, but alas, such was not meant to be. Instead, the narrator’s partner on a rubber plantation adopts an orphaned Bornean ape and brings her up as human.
— Michael Main
In pursuance of this theory he strove sedulously to teach the ape to distinguish colors, to recognize and fashion geometrical patterns, and to do many of the clever things with blocks and tinted paper that four and five year olds do in the kindergartens. Each new accomplishment he claimed as a triumph and a further vidication of his theory. I had my doubts, although I was willing to concede that Claybourne was a good animal-trainer.
“The Ape-Woman” by John Charles Beecham, in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 30 October 1920.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Bernard McConville, directed by Emmett J. Flynn
We may never see this first movie adaptation of Twain’s story, since only three of the eight silent reels are known to still exist. The Yankee in this version is Martin Cavendish, who after reading Twain’s book, is knocked on the head by a burglar and slips into the time of Camelot. The result is high comedy coupled with a romantic interest and replete with motorcycles, explosions, Model T Fords, telephones, indoor plumbing, and lassos at a jousting tournament. As we did for Twain’s original, we classify the story as science fiction for the Yankee’s attempts at bringing modern technology to the distant past. And yes, the hero predicts a solar eclipse to save his life.

One review at Silent Hollywood indicates that the ending has Martin awakening from a dream and there is no explicit mention of actual time travel. With this in mind, we’re marking the time travel as debatable. Oh, and Mark Twain himself appears in the film, played by Karl Formes.

— Michael Main
All this nobility stuff is bunk.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Bernard McConville, directed by Emmett J. Flynn (at movie theaters, USA, 14 March 1921).

The Devil of the Western Sea

by Philip M. Fisher
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— Michael Main
But the main point I desire to make is that this neutralization was to be effected by a combination of the ordinary wave impluse with the Callieri Cool Wave. The combination, you understand. It had never been tried on a large scale—it was a virgin experiment.

So the professor was given a free hand, and went below. It was past nine o’clock.

I remained on the bridge enjoying a cigar with the officer of the deck, and chatting over a coming boar hunt we were to have south of the canal during the coming weekend. we had been talking for perhaps ten minutes in the darkness of the bridge, with the black satin of the Caribbean spreading out ahead and about the ship, and the diamond stars projecting just above our heads as though ready for any plucking hand, when suddenly we found ourselves half blinded by a dazzling light in the west.

“The Devil of the Western Sea” by Philip M. Fisher, in Argosy, 5 August 1922.

The Clockwork Man

by E. V. Odle
A peculiar man with mechanical mannerisms appears at a cricket match spouting nonsense and later causing headaches throughout the village until Dr. Allingham finally talks to him and discovers that the origin of the man with clockwork devices implanted in his head is some 8000 years in the future.
“Perhaps I ought to explain,” he continued. “You see, I’m a clockwork man.”
The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle (William Heinemann, 1923).

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens

by P. Anderson Graham
The narrator longs to see history develop over centuries, so when an immensely evolved Being offers to take him into the future, he agrees and is taken to a dystopian world of 2120 A.D. when mankind is on the verge of extinction.
— Michael Main
After wading through years of fruitless research and encountering failures enough to make the heart sick, I accidentally got into communication with an intelligence whose home was no single sphere but the universe, one to whom human time was nought, as were also human fears, joys, sorrows and emotions. The fortunes of mankind meant no more to him that thosee of a tribe of insects, one year swarming over the earth, the next swept out of existence.

He would not let me address him in the language intercession. “I am like you,” he said, “but of a different sphere and a different power. I am not immortal; nothing is immortal. Neither the Earth, the Sun, nor the God who made them. Everything is passing away, or rather, dissolving, to be re-fashioned into other forms.”

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens by P. Anderson Graham (G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1923).

The Dream

by H. G. Wells
The Dream by H. G. Wells, serialized in The Pall Mall Magazine, October to December 1923.

Torpeda czasu

Literal: Time torpedo

by Antoni Słonimski
Torpeda czasu is important enough to list even though I’ve read only summaries, I’ve never found a translation, and I’m uncertain about the date. The notes accompanying this particular cover indicate a 1923 publication date, but elsewhere the date of 1924 is common, and Wikipedia has 1926. Never mind!

The short novel’s heroes—Professor Pankton and his beautiful daughter Haydnee, historian Tolna, and journalist Hersey—set out from the year 2123 to change the Napoleonic Wars, starting with the French Revolution and aiming to fix matters so that mankind can advance intellectually without the hindrance of war. But the outcome is even more miserable than the original bloody history.

Should I ever track down a copy, I shall need help from my Polish colleagues in computer science to translate the story to English.

Nie zapominajcie, że to Francuzi, najwaleczniejszy naród europejski, że to są ludzie, których brawura i dzielność oślepia.
Do not forget that the French, bravest among all the European nationalities, are a people blinded by their very own braggadocio and past prowess.
English
[ex=bare]Torpeda czasu | Time torpedo[/ex] by Antoni Słonimski, serialized in Kurjer Polski Nr. 281-352 (Rok. XXVI, circa October to mid-December 1923).

The Pikestaffe Case

by Algernon Blackwood
“The Pikestaffe Case” by Algernon Blackwood, in Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (Herbert Jenkins, 1924).

Time [Cummings] 1

The Man Who Mastered Time

by Ray Cummings
At a meeting of the Scientific Club, a chemist and his son, Loto, describe how they were able to view a captive woman in the future, so now Loto is going to use his time machine to rescue her.
“Time,” said George, “why I can give you a definition of time. It’s what keeps everything from happening at once.”
The Man Who Mastered Time by Ray Cummings, in Argosy, 12 July to 9 August 1924.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Charles Scribner’s Sons, April 1925).

Amphibians 1

The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence

by S. Fowler Wright
After two time travelers head to the far future and never return, the story’s narrator pursues them and encounters one monstrous being after another, including, of course, the Amphibian himself, all as a setting to write about morality.

The work was reprinted in 1930 as the first part of The World Below along with a second part (later called The Dwellers.

It’s true enough, what they’ve told you, as far as we can tell it. As to theories of time and space, I know no more than you do. I used to think they were obvious. I’ve heard the Professor talk two nights a week for three years, and I’ve realised that it isn’t all quite as simple as it seemed, though I don’t get much further. But the next room’s a fact. We lay things down on the central slab, and the room goes dark, and we go back in two minutes, and it gets light again, and they’re still there. And the Professor says he’s projected them 500,000 years ahead in the interval, and they don’t look any the worse for the journey.
The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence by S. Fowler Wright (Merton Press, September 1925).

The Lost Continent

by Cecil B. White
Mad scientist Joseph Lamont builds a time machine to prove his brother’s theories about Atlantis, and then he takes a passenger ship back 12,000 years.
“The Lost Continent” by Cecil B. White, in Amazing, July 1927.

The Time-Raider

by Edmond Hamilton
Our narrator, Wheeler, and a great scientist, Landin, listen to Cannell’s story of being abducted and rapidly taken forward three years in time by a shapeless form, and when Cannell is again taken, they build a time machine to follow him.
Held in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.
The Time-Raider by Edmond Hamilton, in Weird Tales, October 1927 to Jan 1928.

The Astounding Discoveries of Doctor Mentiroso

by A. Hyatt Verrill
Professor Feromeno Mentiroso of the Universidad Santo Tomas argues with his friend about the time-traveling effects of rapidly traveling through many time zones.
Don Feromeno nodded and smiled. “Then let us assume that your purely imaginary aircraft is capable of traveling at the rate of 24,000 miles per hour or that, in an hour's time, you can circumnavigate the earth. In that case, starting from Lima at noon on Monday, and rushing eastward, you would arrive in Barcelona at 6.30 P. M. on Monday, though your watch would show it to be 12.15 P. M. You would reach Calcutta at 1 A. M. Tuesday, although still only 12.20 on Monday by your watch. At Hawaii you would find time had leaped back to 7.30 A. M. Monday, despite the fact that your watch showed 12.45 of the same day, and at 1 P. M. on Monday by your watch you would be back in Lima where the clocks would prove to that it was 2 P. M. despite the fact that you had been absent only one hour.
“The Astounding Discoveries of Doctor Mentiroso” by A. Hyatt Verrill, in Amazing, November 1927.

The Isle of Lost Souls

by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.
In search of a lost Russian treasure, Dr. Trask sends himself and his compatriots back and forth between the 1920s and the present day, 2014 A.D.
“The Isle of Lost Souls” by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., in Weird Tales, December 1928 to February 1929.

Amphibians #2

The World Below

by S. Fowler Wright
After the monster-fest of The Amphibians, the narrator is captured by the rulers of the far-flung future: super-intelligent beings who dwell underground.

This second part of the story was combined with The Amphibians in 1929 and published as a single volume called The World Below. In 1954, it was published on it’s own as The Dwellers.

I know from what you have shown me already, that you come of a race which has lived only on the earth’s surface, and any cave or tunnel by which you enter it implies the approach to a confined and narrow space, so that when you attempt to visualise the condition of a race which lives under the surface, your imagination is of a cave, and not of a country.
The World Below by S. Fowler Wright (W. Collins Sons, 1929).

The Seventh Generation

by Harl Vincent
“The Seventh Generation” by Harl Vincent, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1929 [January].

Paradox

by Charles Cloukey
In the first story, Hawkinson receives a manuscript written in the hand of his friend Cannes and detailing how to build a time machine, which he does in order to send Cannes into the future to learn how to build a time machine and, thus, send the manuscript back to Hawkinson. More paradoxes (not to mention Martian plans to blow up the Earth) abound in the two sequels.
Cannes told of his life in that far future year, of his mystification at the circumstances surrounding the origin of that manuscript, which was used before it was made and could not hae been made if it hadn’t been previously used. He told us of the grandfather argument, and also of the time when he was actually and physically in two different places at one and the same time.
“Paradox” by Charles Cloukey, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1929.

Rays and Men

by Miles J. Breuer
Our narrator, Dr. Atwood, goes into a long sleep (because of an experimental anesthetic) and wakes in 2180 where everyone is peaceful living under an autocratic government that forbids strong emotion and says no to the doctor marrying the nurse he falls in love with, at which point he is disintegrated and reawakens in his own time.
“Rays and Men” by Miles J. Breuer, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1929.

The Hounds of Tindalos

by Frank Belknap Long
Chalmers, a man of mysticism but also of science, sends his mind back to the origin of the Earth and beyond where beings he calls the Hounds detect him and pursue him back to the present.
“Then you do not entirely despise science.”

“Of course not,” he affirmed. “I merely distrust the scientific positivism of the past fifty years, the positivism of Haeckel and Darwin and of Mr. Bertrand Russell. I believe that biology has failed pitifully to explain the mystery of man’s origin and destiny.

“The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long, in Weird Tales, March 1929.

The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Prestne Possibilities

by John Lawrence Hodgson
Dr. Barton travels to the year 3927 where the world’s population has grown to an unimaginable eight billion, but fear not! The utopian society has eliminated waste from poor economic systems of the past, and all inhabitants now work (by choice) for but one month per year.
“The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Prestne Possibilities” by John Lawrence Hodgson, serialized in The Star Review, April to December 1929.

Time [Cummings] 2

The Shadow Girl

by Ray Cummings
In the year 7012 A.D., scientist Poul and his beautiful (shadowy) granddaughter Lea construct a tall tower that can travel throughout time in the area that is presently Central Park in New York City, but an evil mimic creates his own tower from which he conducts time raids (most often involving Lea), and counter-raids ensue.

Lea is but one of the prolific Cummings’s many girls! You can also have the Girl in the Golden Atom, the Sea Girl, the Snow Girl, the Gadget Girl, the Thought Girl, the Girl from Infinite Smallness, and the Onslaught of the Druid Girls.

No vision this! Reality! Empty space, two moments ago. Then a phantom, a moment ago. But a real tower, now! Solid. As real, as existent—now—as these rocks, these trees!
“The Shadow Girl” by Ray Cummings, in Argosy, 22 June to 13 July 1929.

Addison, Time Traveler

by Henrik Dahl Juve
After wandering around the fourth and fifth dimensions for some time, 20th century scientist Theodore A. Addison rematerializes himself in a 28th century filled with many amazing inventions and a war between the west and the Occidentals. In his review of the story, Robert Jennings notes that “Every few paragraphs in the story everything stops as the protagonist inquires about the science behind some future marvel.” In all, three stories were set in this world, although only the first two (“The Silent Destroyer” and “The Sky Maniac”) featured Addison; the third (“The Vanishing Fleet”), according to Everett F. Bleiler, was an adventure set against the same background.

Apparently, Juve and his wife lived just down the road from me (in Moscow, ID) while I was bean’ edicated in Pullman, but I didn’t know of him then.

As they watched, paralyzed, the building and air barge fell apart and hurtled toward the earth. The entire train had been split from end to end. The attacker now swung back and the then darted away.
“Addison, Time Traveler” by Henrik Dahl Juve, in Air Wonder Stories, August 1929.

The Time Deflector

by Edward L. Rementer
When Professor Melville’s theories on time travel are generally ridiculed, he reacts by sending his daughter’s suitor to the year 6925, where he finds a culture that has taken all the worst features of the 1920s to extremes.
The reader will have come to the conclusion the world of 6925 was inhabited by fools, or madmen.
“The Time Deflector” by Edward L. Rementer, in Amazing, December 1929.

Last and First Men

by Olaf Stapledon
Time travel plays only a tiny role in this classic story of the history of men over the coming two billion years—in that the story itself is transmitted through time into the brain of a 20th century writer.
This book has two authors, one contemporary with its readers, the other an inhabitant of an age which they would call the distant future. The brain that conceives and writes these sentences lives in the time of Einstein. Yet I, the true inspirer of this book, I who have begotten it upon that brain, I who influence that primitive being's conception, inhabit an age which, for Einstein, lies in the very remote future.
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (Methuen, 1930).

The FitzGerald Contraction

by Miles J. Breuer
“The FitzGerald Contraction” by Miles J. Breuer, Science Wonder Stories, January 1930.

Phantoms of Reality

by Ray Cummings
The blurb for the story sets it in “the fourth dimension,” but alas, this refers to a parallel universe, not time travel for Charlie Wilson and his English friend, Captain Derek Mason.
— Michael Main
I have for years been working on the theory that there is another world, existing here in this same space with us. The Fourth Dimension!
“Phantoms of Reality” by Ray Cummings, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930.

Creatures of the Light

by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
A Teutonic scientist attempts to create a race of artificially created superman who, among other things, can jump a few seconds through time, but only as invisible witnesses to the future goings-on. The story is disturbingly prescient of Nazi ideas of an Aryan Herrenvolk.
— Michael Main
Before Northwood’s horrified sight, he vanished; vanished as though he had turned suddenly to air and floated away.
“Creatures of the Light” by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.

The Thief of Time

by Captain S. P. Meek
The brilliant Dr. Bird might well give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money when solving cases that involved modern science as does the case of the money that disappeared from a teller’s cage right before his eyes. Alas, the solution involved no time travel, but it did involve a time-related phenomenon made famous in a story by an author whose notoriety in sf circles exceeds even that of Holmes’s creator.
— Michael Main
“But someone must have taken it,” said the bewildered cashier. “Money doesn’t just walk off of its own accord or vanish into thin air—"
“The Thief of Time” by Captain S. P. Meek, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.

Into the 28th Century

by Lilith Lorraine
A man is pulled into the future year of 2730 where Iris, a beautiful young woman, takes him on a tour of their utopia.
“Into the 28th Century” by Lilith Lorraine, in Science Wonder Quarterly, Winter 1930.

An Adventure in Time

by Francis Flagg
When a small time machine appears in Professor Bayers’ lab, he builds a larger copy and travels to the future, which is ruled by Amazon women.
“An Adventure in Time” by Francis Flagg, in Science Wonder Stories, April 1930.

Monsters of Moyen

by Arthur J. Burks
When the U.S. is attacked with monsterous submarine/aeroplanes by the demagogue Moyen, it's up to Professor Mariel to find a way to save the country, possibly even through the manipulation of time itself!
— Michael Main
In this, I have even been compelled to manipulate in the matter of time! I must not only defeat and annihilate the minions of Moyen, but must work from a mathematical absurdity, so that at the moment of impact that moment itself must become part of the past, sufficiently remote to remove the monsters at such distance from the earth that not even the mighty genius of Moyen can return them!
“Monsters of Moyen” by Arthur J. Burks, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, April 1930.

The Atom-Smasher

by Victor Rousseau
We've got the evil Professor Tode (who modifies an atom-smasher into a time machine that travels to the Palaeolithic and to Atlantis), a fatherly older professor, his beautiful young daughter (menaced by evil Tode), casually written racist pronouncements (by Rousseau), and our hero scientist, the dashing Jim Dent. But my favorite sentence was the brief description of quantum mechanics, which I didn’t expect in a 1930 science fiction tale.
— Michael Main
The Planck-Bohr quantum theory that the energy of a body cannot vary continuously, but only by a certain finite amount, or exact multiples of this amount, had been the key that unlocked the door.
“The Atom-Smasher” by Victor Rousseau, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930.

The Time Ray of Jandra

by Raymond A. Palmer
Sylvester Gale, shipwrecked on the west coast of Africa, discovers a long lost civilization and finds himself back there, but unable to interact; when the civilization’s scientists manage to set off a lava explosion, Gale is thrown forward, but overshoots his original time of 1944 by 13 years.

This is the first published story of fan, writer and long-time editor Raymond A. Palmer.

“The Time Ray of Jandra” by Raymond A. Palmer, in Wonder Stories, June 1930.

The Time Valve

by Miles J. Breuer
In an earlier story (“The Fitzgerald Contraction”), survivors of the sinking of Mu (or Mo, as they called it) travel into space at relativistic speeds only to return to Earth some 200,000 years later. That, of course, is mere time dilation rather than time travel; but in this sequel, the Moans along with present-day beauty Vayill continue even further into the Earth’s future where trouble ensues until Vayill’s aged father comes to the rescue with a real time machine in an airplane.
“The Time Valve” by Miles J. Breuer, in Wonder Stories, July 1930.

Silver Dome

by Harl Vincent
In an underground city, Queen Phaestra uses a past-viewing machine of vague nature to show the destruction of Atlantis to two good-hearted men. But Atlantis itself is not visited, and there are no time phenomena apart from the viewing.
— Michael Main
This is accomplished by means of extremely complex vibrations penetrating earth, metals, buildings, space itself, and returning to our viewing and sound reproducing spheres to reveal the desired past or present occurrences at the point at which the rays of vibrations are directed.
“Silver Dome” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930.

20,000 A.D.

by Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat
Tom Jenkins heads into the “Vanishing Woods” to prove that there’s nothing dangerous about them, but he doesn’t return until six months later, and he refuses to talk about where he’s been and what he’ seen—but fortunately for us, the titles of the two Wonder Story stories (“In 20,000 A.D.” in Sep 1930 and “Back to 20,000 A.D.” in Mar 1931) give us a big clue, although it doesn’t tell us that the world he visits is divided into cold-hearted Masters and their four-armed, giant human Robots.

The use of the word “robot” had not yet evolved from Čapek’s meaning of a humanoid laborer to the modern usage as a purely mechanical being.

True, he says, the Masters are far advanced, an’ able to do lots o’ thingsas a result. They’ve learnt everything there was to be learnt, they can live on the earth, in the air, in the water, or underground; they can travel to the other stars; they know how the world come about an’ when it’s ending, they think great thoughts an’things I couldn’t even understand, but, he says, what about the Robots?
“20,000 A.D.” by Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat, in Wonder Stories, September 1930.

The Man Who Saw the Future

by Edmond Hamilton
Henri Lothiere, an apothecary’s assistant in 1444 Paris, must face charges of sorcery at an inquisition into his supposed disappearance and subsequent return from 1944 Paris.
Then the car rolled swiFTLy forward, bumping on the ground, and then ceased to bump. I looked down, then shuddered. The ground was already far beneath! I too, was flying in the air!
“The Man Who Saw the Future” by Edmond Hamilton, in Amazing, October 1930.

The Pineal Stimulator

by Inga Stephens Pratt and Fletcher Pratt
Maddish scientist Jimmy Casmey first gets his college buddy to experience ancestral memories of a Civil War soldier and then a Paleolithic man, at which point Casmey realizes that his device can also allow experiences of future descendants.
“The Pineal Stimulator” by Inga Stephens Pratt and Fletcher Pratt, in Amazing, November 1930.

The Time Annihilator

by Edgar A. Manley and Walter Thode
When genius Larry Stenson disappears into the future, his two friends follow him to the year 2418 where the world is ruled by cruel, giant superhumans—a fate for Earth that the trio discovers cannot be changed, even with a time machine.
We have purposely allowed our time travellers to become known to the people of the eras that they visit, for in this way the great drama of the story becomes apparent.
“The Time Annihilator” by Edgar A. Manley and Walter Thode, in Wonder Stories, November 1930.

Just Imagine

by B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, directed by David Butler
Long before there was R2D2, there were RT-42, J-21, and other humans zipping around in their 1980s-era flying cars, racing off to Mars in their personal rockets, and waking a man named Peterson (or, as they say, “Single O”) who was struck down by lightning fifty years earlier. Alas, this is just a long-sleep story, but still worth listing for its historical value.
— Michael Main
Well, her boss, Dr. X-10, is trying to bring a man to life who’s been dead fifty years!
Just Imagine by B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, directed by David Butler (at movie theaters, USA, 23 November 1930).

The Man Who Lived Backwards

by Algernon Blackwood
Professor Zeitt posits that all of time always exists and he should be able to break the usual serial traversal of time in order to influence his earlier self to not get into a bad marriage.
“The Man Who Lived Backwards” by Algernon Blackwood, in World Radio, 12 December 1930.

No Traveller Returns

by John Collier
No Traveller Returns by John Collier (White Owl Press, 1931).

2 stories (1931–1931)

Tommy Reames in the Fifth-Dimension

by Murray Leinster
In the first novella (“The Fifth-Dimension Catapult”), physicist Tommy Reames and mechanic Smithers must rebuild the broken machinery that’s catapulted Professor Denham and his beautiful daughter into a parallel dimension of vicious jungle people, strange life forms, and a beautiful golden city. And gadzooks! In the second novella (“The Fifth-Dimension Tube”), the vicious fifth-dimensioners invade Earth! But despite the suggestive titles and citations of both stories in Nahin’s Time Machine, the stories involve only handwaving about time and space dimensions, minor enough that we don’t even count it as a time phenomenon.
— based on Frank J. Bleiler
Because the article on dominant coordinates had appeared in the Journal of Physics and had dealt with a state of things in which the normal coordinates of everyday existence were assumed to have changed their functions; when the coordinates of time, the vertical, the horizontal and the lateral changed places and a man went east to go up and west to go “down” and ran his streat-numbers in a fourth dimension.
Tommy Reames in the Fifth Dimension, 2 stories by Murray Leinster, 2 stories, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1931 and January 1933.

Via the Time Accelerator

by Francis J. Brueckel, Jr.
Mathematician and physicist Anton Brookhurst takes a trip 1,000,000 years into the future in a machine that was inspired by H. G. Wells and explained (in this story) by a series of official-looking equations, but, unlike in The Time Machine, Brookhurst’s machine resides in an airplane, and Brookhurst himself examines various paradoxes, such as: Would he have been brave enough to embark on the journey had he not first seen himself safely return?
T =
t
√ℓ - v²/c²
“Via the Time Accelerator” by Francis J. Brueckel, Jr., in Wonder Stories, January 1931.

A Flight into Time

by Robert H. Wilson
Ted Storrs is inexplicably transported from 1933 to 2189 (I almost thought, Hooray! Not a round number of years!—but it turns out to be 28 years into the future) where he is amazed by the air traffic congestion, beamed atomic power, casual nudity, interplanetary travel, and more.
“A Flight into Time” by Robert H. Wilson, in Wonder Stories, February 1931.

The Meteor Girl

by Jack Williamson
When a meteor lands on the beachfront airfield of our narrator and his partner Charlie King, Charlie realizes that it provides a space-time portal through which they view the death-at-sea of Charlie’s ex-fiancée.
— Michael Main
A terrestrial astronomer may reckon that the outburst on Nova Persei occurred a century before the great fire of London, but an astronomer on the Nova may reckon with equal accuracy that the great fire occurred a century before the outburst on the Nova.
“The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, March 1931.

The Empire of Glass

by Frank Miloche
A present-day man puts on a helmet that lets him view the future where a scientist named Nebor outlines his plans to save mankind from giant insects by transporting all men to either the distant past or the far future.
“The Empire of Glass” by Frank Miloche, in Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931.

An Adventure in Futurity

by Clark Ashton Smith
Conrad Elkins, a scientist from AD 15,000 who hopes to find a solution to the problem of too many male babies in his time, strikes up a friendship with Hugh in present-day New York City, eventually inviting Hugh to return with him to a future of infinite leisure where Venusian slaves with Martian overseers outnumber humans five-to-one.
And do you ever think that present-day New York will some time be as fragmentary and fabulous as Troy or Zimbabwe? That archaeologists may delve in its ruins, beneath the sevenfold increment of later cities, and find a few rusting mechanisms of disputed use, and potteries of doubtful date, and inscriptions which no one can decipher?
“An Adventure in Futurity” by Clark Ashton Smith, in Wonder Stories, April 1931.

The Exile of Time

by Ray Cummings
George Rankin and his best friend Larry rescue a hysterical Mistress Mary Atwood from a locked New York City basement only to find that she believes she’s come from more than 150 years in the past, chased by a crazy man named Tugh and his mad robot, Migul.
Let’s try and reduce it to rationality. The cage was—is, I should say, since of course it still exists—that cage is a Time-traveling vehicle. It is traveling back and forth through Time, operated by a Robot.
The Exile of Time by Ray Cummings, 4-pt serial, Astounding Stories, April to July 1931.

Hell’s Dimension

by Tom Curry
“Hell’s Dimension” by Tom Curry, Astounding, April 1931.

The Man Who Evolved

by Edmond Hamilton
“The Man Who Evolved” by Edmond Hamilton, in Wonder Stories, April 1931.

A Connecticut Yankee

by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt, directed by David Butler
This version of Twain’s story borrows some sf tropes from Shelley’s Frankenstein (a mad scientist) and Kipling’s “Wireless” (recovering sound from the past), although all that is small potatoes next to Will Rogers’ folksy wit. His character—Hank “Martin—is tossed back to Camelot when a bolt of lightning and a suit of armor knock him over at the mad scientist’s lab, and at the end, he returns via a similar timeslip. In between, we get one-liners, tommy guns, tanks, cars, characters that are eerily familiar from Martin’s present-day life—and a lot of time to debate whether this version has a real timeslip or is just a dream.
— Michael Main
Think! Think of hearing Lincoln’s own voice delivering the Gettysburg address!
A Connecticut Yankee by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt, directed by David Butler (at movie theaters, USA, 6 April 1931).

Worlds to Barter

by John Wyndham
In Wyndham’s first published story, Jon Lestrange (the distant descendant of the world’s foremost inventor) comes back to the moment of his ancestor’s greatest invention with a story of how his own time was invaded by the people of the 5022nd century, demanding to change temporal places with the people of Lestrange’s time.
It is a difficult situation, but I hope I shall convince you. Very few men can have had the chance of convincing their great-great-great grandfathers of anything. I am now an anachronism. You see, I was born in the year A.D. 2108,—or should it be, I shall be born in 2108?—and I am—or will be—a refugee from the twenty-second century. I assure you that you will be married shortly, but I can’t remember when—I think I told you I was bad at dates.
“Worlds to Barter” by John Wyndham, in Wonder Stories, May 1931.

The Man from 2071

by Sewell Peaslee Wright
Special Patrol Service officer John Hanson (hero of ten Wright stories) stumbles upon a mad inventor who has traveled many centuries to Hanson’s beachfront Denver in order to obtain knowledge that will let him become the absolute, unquestioned, supreme master back in the 21st century.
I could not help wondering, as we settle swiFTLy over the city, whether our historians and geologists and other scientists were really right in saying that Denver had at one period been far from the Pacific.
“The Man from 2071” by Sewell Peaslee Wright, Astounding, June 1931.

The Man Who Changed the Future

by R. F. Starzl
When Park Helm laments about the state of gangster-overrun Lakopolis, his friend, Professor Nicholson, sends him into the future to observe whether things will get better, but somehow Helm manages to do a lot more than just observe, eventually becoming the future boss man, gaining a lovely wife, and generally righting wrongs.
“The Man Who Changed the Future” by R. F. Starzl, in Wonder Stories, June 1931.

The Time Flight

by Miles J. Breuer
Widower Ezra Hubble hatches a scheme to deprive his stepson of an inheritance by taking the money with him to the future.
“The Time Flight” by Miles J. Breuer, in Amazing, June 1931.

The Raid of the Mercury

by A. H. Johnson
A seer projects our narrator into the world of AD 22,000 where a pirate airship fuels a revolution against the wealthy.
“The Raid of the Mercury” by A. H. Johnson, in Amazing, July 1931.

Rebellion—5000 A.D.!

by Garth Bentley
During an experiment with a new radio technology, Professor Crewe’s assistant is flung to a post-apocalyptic AD 5000 where an authoritarian, largely urban civilization has arisen and a group of rebels are expecting a man from the past to lead them.
“Rebellion—5000 A.D.!” by Garth Bentley, in Wonder Stories, July 1931.

The Port of Missing Planes

by Capt. S. P. Meek
Capt. Meek’s hero, Dr. Bird (an agent of the Bureau of Standards), had at least one minor run-in with time travel in this story of underground molemen (who excavate their tunnels by time travel) who have been duped by the evil Saranoff into serving as a base for Saranoff’s attacks on the southwestern United States (as well as an attack on Dr. Bird’s brain, which is in peril of being sent back in time).
“I wish I could remember how that time machine was built and operated,” said Dr. Bird reflectively, as he sat in his private laboratory in the Bureau of Standards some time later, “but Jumor did his work well. I can’t even remember what the thing looked like.”
“The Port of Missing Planes” by Capt. S. P. Meek, Astounding, August 1931.

The Time Hoaxers

by Paul Bolton
Four men and a woman travel from 2030 to 1930, hoping to advance civilization, but everyone believes that the resulting newspaper stories of their arrival are all fakes.
They said we could hope to be received only as impostors and fakirs.
“The Time Hoaxers” by Paul Bolton (in Amazing, August 1931).

The Time-Traveler

by Ralph Milne Farley
If I could go back into the past, there is one event which I should most certainly change: my rescue of Paul Arkwright!
“The Time-Traveler” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Weird Tales, August 1931.

After 1,000,000 Years

by J. M. Walsh
Beautiful time traveler Leela Zenken, searching for atomic power to save her people of the future, is aiming for 1985, but hits 1935 instead where hiker John Harling tries to help her.
“After 1,000,000 Years” by J. M. Walsh, in Wonder Stories, October 1931.

The Stone from the Green Star

by Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson’s college buddy Dick Smith is transported a couple million years into the future where he meets a blind scientist, falls in love with the scientist’s beautiful daughter, fights the evil lord of the Dark Star, seeks the fountain of youth, wanders through the galaxy, and eventually transmits a manuscript of his adventures back in time to Williamson.
“That is a space-port where the ships come in from the stars,” the girl said. (Of course, all conversations recorded in Smith’s notes have been translated into our English—if they were not, no one would be able to read them.)

“Ships from the stars!” Dick ejaculated.

The Stone from the Green Star by Jack Williamson, in Amazing, Oct to Nov 1931.

Emperors of Space

by Jerome Gross and Richard Penny
Being chased by the Chinese, Luke Raliegh (scientist extraordinaire) and his pal Harry build a giant gyroscope that spins so fast it takes them into the future where they cure the yellow rot and save the world.
Emperors of Space by Jerome Gross and Richard Penny, in Wonder Stories, November 1931.

The Time Stream

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In this dated sf classic, four like-minded men from 1906 are swept into the time stream via a mental exercise, taken to the land of Eos in a far-off time (possibly in the past, possibly in the future) where they encounter Cheryl (who may or may not be the Cheryl that they know in their own time) and consider how personal freedom may or may not be abrogated.
No man or woman of Eos has the authority to direct, check, or in any way influence the free decision and impulses of another without that other’s full and intelligent consent. We demand the right to follow the natural inclinations of our characters. We demand the right to marry.
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The World of the Red Sun

by Clifford D. Simak
Harl Swanson and Bill Kressman leave Denver in their flying time machine, aiming to travel five millennia, but they end up some five million years later in a desolate world ruled by the evil and cruel brain Golan-Kirt.

I read this in Asimov’s anthology Before the Golden Age, which was the first SFBC book to arrive in my mailbox after going to college in Pullman in the fall of ’74.

The twentieth century. It had a remote sound, an unreal significance. In this age, with the sun a brick red ball and the city of Denver a mass of ruins, the twentieth century was a forgotten second in the great march of time, it was as remote as the age when man emerged from the beast.
“The World of the Red Sun” by Clifford D. Simak, in Wonder Stories, December 1931.

The Gap in the Curtain

by John Buchan
The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan (Houghton Mifflin, 1932).

The Moon Era

by Jack Williamson
Stephen’s rich inventor uncle sends him on a trip to the moon in an antigravity capsule without realizing that a side-effect also sends the capsule back to when the moon was young, green, and populated by the evil Eternal Ones and the last of the Mothers.
Time was a fourth dimension, he had said. An extension as real as the three of what we call space, and not completely distinguishable from them. A direction in which motion would carry one into the past, or into the future.
“The Moon Era” by Jack Williamson, in Wonder Stories, February 1932.

The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper

by H. G. Wells
A copy of the Evening Standard newspaper makes its way from 1971 back to one Mr. Brownlow in 1931, and the narrator relates to us the queer happenings from forty years in the future. Would that the political aspects of his world would have materialized!
It means, I take it, that in only forty years from now the great game of sovereign states will be over. It looks also as if the parliamentary game will be over, and as if some quite new method of handling human affairs will have been adopted. Not a word of patriotism or nationalism; not a word of party, not an allusion. But in only forty years! While half the human beings already alive in the world will still be living! You cannot believe it for a moment. Nor could I, if it wasn't for two little torn scraps of paper.
“The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper” by H. G. Wells, in Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1932.

Beyond the Veil of Time

by B. H. Barney
Mathematician Richard Nelson, Andean Indian Huayan, and engineer Dan Bradford try to capture images from a pre-Incan city in the Andes, but instead are blown back in time and have a series of high adventures.

The story—Barney’s only publication—was a plagiaristic hodgepodge of elements from the work of A. Merritt, although Everett Bleiler’s review notes that there were imaginative and ingenious original elements.

A. MERRITT, WHO IS WELL KNOWN TO MANY OF THE READERS OF AMAZING STORIES, HAS CALLED OUR ATTENTION TO MANY SIMILARITIES IN DESCRIPTIONS, CHARACTERIZATIONS AND SITUATIONS IN THE STORY "BEYOND THE VEIL OF TIME" BY B.H. BARNEY, PUBLISHED IN THE FALL-WINTER ISSUE OF AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, AND DESCRIPTIONS, CHARACTERIZATIONS AND SITUATIONS IN HIS TWO BOOKS "THE MOON POOL" AND "THE FACE IN THE ABYSS". MR. MERRITT OBJECTS PARTICULARLY TO THE UTILIZATION OF THE CONCEPTION AND THE NAME OF "THE DREAM-MAKERS", WHICH FORMED AN ESSENTIAL PART OF HIS "FACE IN THE ABYSS".
“Beyond the Veil of Time” by B. H. Barney, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall/Winter 1932.

The Einstein See-Saw

by Miles J. Breuer
“The Einstein See-Saw” by Miles J. Breuer, Astounding Stories, April 1932.

When the Earth Tilted

by J. M. Walsh
After a passing comet throws the earth’s axis out of kilter, the survivors, searching for a habitable spot to live on the planet’s surface, stumble upon a colony from the lost continent of Mu, whereupon war breaks out (after all, there’s limited land available now) and the Muians have a time-travel trick up their sleeves.
“When the Earth Tilted” by J. M. Walsh, in Wonder Stories, May 1932.

Dangerous Corner

by J. B. Priestley
I need you to tell me whether the conclusion of this play involves time travel or not. I claim it does. But regardless of that, it’s worth reading Priestley’s first play, which follows the dire consequences of a chance remark at the start of Act I. The play was also filmed as a 1934 screenplay and later as a Yorkshire Television Production.
For the last few seconds the light has been fading, now it is completely dark. There is a revolver shot, a woman’s scream, a moment’s silence, then the sound of a woman sobbing, exactly as at the beginning of Act I.
Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestley, at the Lyric Theatre (London, 17 May 1932).

Omega

by Amelia Reynolds Long
Via hypnosis, a professor sends a convicted murderer throughout the circle of time until he eventually visits the very omega of the universe.
I, Doctor Michael Claybridge, living in the year 1926, have listened to a description of the end of the world from the lips of the man who witnessed it; the last man of the human race. That this is possible, or that I am not insane, I cannot ask you to believe: I can only offer you the facts.
“Omega” by Amelia Reynolds Long, in Amazing, July 1932.

The Time Conqueror

by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Evil scientist Koszarek kills Ovington and uses his brain to view the future, which is dominated by the Brain who ruthlessly kills each of his servants that Koszarak inhabits.
Beyond the fourth there is a fifth dimension.. . . Eternity, I think you would call it. It is the line, the direction perpendicular to time.
“The Time Conqueror” by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, in Wonder Stories, July 1932.

Flight into Super-Time

by Clark Ashton Smith
Eccentric millionaire Domitian Malgraff and his Chinese servant Li Wong head off in a time machine, first to adventure into the future, but if that fails to hold there interest—says Malgraff in a letter to his ex-fiancée—there is always the past.
You have always considered me a hopeless dreamer; and I am the last person who would endeavor or even wish to dispute your summary. It might be added that I am one of those dreamers who have not been able to content themselves with dreams. Such persons, as a rule, are unfortunate and unhappy, since few of them are capable of realizing, or even approximating, their visionary conceptions.
“Flight into Super-Time” by Clark Ashton Smith, in Wonder Stories, August 1932.

Chicago, 2042 A.D.

by Paul Bolton
The U.S. in the 1950s is ruled by the Jerry Ratoni of the Chicago mob, which Wakefield plans to infiltrate, but things go wrong when Ratoni, Wakefield and Ratoni’s secretary are transported to 2042, where the mob still rules.
“Chicago, 2042 A.D.” by Paul Bolton, in Wonder Stories, October 1932.

The Finger of the Past

by Miles J. Breuer
“The Finger of the Past” by Miles J. Breuer, in Amazing, November 1932.

The Man Who Lived Twice

by William Kober
In a dire time of war, a man from the Bureau of Standards, searching for new weapons, visits Professor Dane who claims he can travel to the future, which our man from the Bureau does, but he finds an alien invasion instead of great new weapons.
“The Man Who Lived Twice” by William Kober, in Amazing, November 1932.

The Time Express

by Nat Schachner
Under strict rules against smuggling technology, time-travel tourism is permitted to the residents of 2124 A.D., but, of course, when a tour guide tries to take modern technology to the nontechnical time of 4600 A.D., our man Denton Kels must bring the dastard to justice.
“The Time Express” by Nat Schachner, in Wonder Stories, December 1932.

The Fifth-Dimension Tube

by Murray Leinster
“The Fifth-Dimension Tube” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1933.

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The Man Who Awoke

by Laurence Manning
Upon waking from a long sleep of three millennia, Norman Winters finds himself in the world of AD 5000 (more or less). Humanity staggers to save itself amid the world's littered, stagnant wreckage after what has become known as the great Age of Waste. There is a political rivalry between the younger generation opposing the older generation's proposed waste of resources that they (the younger generation) assert that they are entitled to.
— based on Wikipedia
Down in my lead-walled room I shall drink my special drug and fall into a coma which would on the surface of the earth last (at most) a few hours. But down there, shielded from all change, I shall never wake until I am again subjected to radiation.
“The Man Who Awoke” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] March 1933.

Wanderer of Infinity

by Harl Vincent
When Joan Carmody sends a plea to her ex-boyfriend Bert Redmond, he barrels from Indiana to upstate New York in a trice, only to see Joan and her borderline-mad brother Tom kidnapped by metal monsters from another dimension. Fortunately, a mourning, immortal wanderer through time and space also sees the abduction and fills in Bert with all the salient details and some unsalient ones, too.
— Michael Main
“We are here only as onlookers,” the Wanderer explained sadly, “and can have no material existence here. We can not enter this plane, for there is no gateway. Would that there were.”
“Wanderer of Infinity” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.

The Man from Tomorrow

by Stanton A. Coblentz
When an apparent madman, James Richard Cloud, pops in on Professor Ellery Howard of Gotham University with claims of building a machine that can see all of time and retrieve objects from time, it seems normal that the professor is about to boot him out. But the professor’s assistant arrives and recognizes a certain sensibility in the madman’s mathematical notes, all of which leads to a personal viewing of the machine that quickly hiccups and delivers a man from the 23rd century who insists on being shown around nighttime New York City.
You know some of the modern theories about the fourth dimension. How Einstein and others suppose that the fourth dimension of space is time. Well, I don’t want to claim any one else’s laurels, but that was my view even before the name of Einstein was heard of. I’ve been working at it for thirty-five years. It’s my belief too that the fourth side of space is time, and that, in a sense, all time exists simultaneously and eternally—although on some other plane than ours—just as all space exists simultaneously and eternally.
“The Man from Tomorrow” by Stanton A. Coblentz, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1933.

Ancients of Easter Island

by F. Stanley Renshaw
Archeologist Harvey Manly and crew visit Easter Island where they participate in a sacred ritual with the indigenous people, and the ritual seems to take Harvey back to a time when he, as leader of the ancient Lemurians, lived the legend that gave birth to the ritual.
“Ancients of Easter Island” by F. Stanley Renshaw, in Amazing, April 1933.

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Master of the Brain

by Laurence Manning
After a second long sleep, Norman Winters wakes around AD 10,000. The world is dominated by the Brain, an inexorable super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing. Thanks to its cradle-to-grave supervision, human life is easy and comfortable, but what will happen when the Brain realizes people are superfluous?
— based on Wikipedia
Certainly. . . . the Great Brain is infallible. Who would want to act contrary to reason?
“Master of the Brain” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933.

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The City of Sleep

by Laurence Manning
Another long sleep for Norman Winters and another world, this time circa AD 15,000. People can now program their choice of dreams and sleep their lives away, so much so that the sleeping outnumber the living, and Winters needs help to stop the implosion of civilization.
— based on Wikipedia
Take our own single city, for the rest of the world is about the same, if not worse, how many people are alive . . . er . . . really alive and awake? Just four hundred and thirty by the last count. And these few people must feed themselves andprovide electrical energy and control the dream records for more than one million sleepers!
“The City of Sleep” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] May 1933.

The Third Vibrator

by John Wyndham
Hixton tells his fiancé the reason why he destroyed his death ray: He’s been back to ancient Lemuria and Atlantis and seen with his own eyes the effect it had.

Although the mechanism of the weapon differed from the atom bomb, it still feels as though Wyndham anticipated the capability for world destruction that would soon be upon us.

Furthermore, this young man can’t possibly be Adams Mayhew! Why Mayhew would be nearly eighty, if he were alive today, and this man is still in his twenties.
“The Third Vibrator” by John Wyndham, in Wonder Stories, May 1933.

The Golden City

by Ralph Milner Farley
The Golden City by Ralph Milner Farley, serialized in Argosy, 13 May to 17 June 1933.

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The Individualists

by Laurence Manning
Another long sleep brings Norman Winters to sometime around AD 20,000 where each individual has his own mobile city that provided for all his needs.
— based on Wikipedia
“Yes. You called them cities,” she explained, “and that is essentially what this is. You had many thousands of people in each city, it is true—I suppose you could not afford many cities?—while we have a city for every inhabitant. But otherwise they are, I should imagine, much the same.”
“The Individualists” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1933.

The Intelligence Gigantic

by John Russell Fearn
There’s just a smidgen of time travel in this story—possibly so that every known science fiction trope is covered. The jump through time occurs when an artificially created human who uses all of his brain (instead of the tiny amount that we use) jumps forward in time to start his world domination.
“The Intelligence Gigantic” by John Russell Fearn, serialized in Amazing, June to July 1933.

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The Elixir

by Laurence Manning
One last sleep takes Norman Winters to about AD 25,000 where scientists have discovered to secret of immortality. But is Mankind ready for it? Immortality is frightfully boring without a purpose. Humanity scatters to the far corners of the cosmos seeking knowledge and experience, leading to a quest toward the meaning of it all.
— based on Wikipedia
We must make him young again—what a chance to try out the full cell-cycle!
“The Elixir” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] August 1933.

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A Race through Time

by Donald Wandrei
Evil Daniel kidnaps Ellen and takes her to the year 1,000,000 A.D. via metabolic speed-up! Not to worry. Good and compassionate Webster follows via relativistic time dilation!
— Michael Main
What I’ve done is to build a time-space traveler, working by atomic energy. Even as long ago as 1913, you know, Rutherford succeeded in partly breaking down the hydrogen atom. By 1933, others succeeded in partially breaking down atoms with high voltages of electricity. But they used up far more energy than they got back, or released. I’ve simply perfected the method to a point where, with an initial bombardment of fifty volts, I can break down one atom and get back thousands of times the energy I put in. There’s nothing strange or wonderful or miraculous about it. I don’t create energy of power from nothing. I simply liberate energy that already exists. Part of the power I use to break down another atom, and so on, while the rest is diverted to propel the torpedo by discharging through tubes—like a rocket. I’ve made one short experimental trip.
“A Race through Time” by Donald Wandrei, Astounding Stories, October 1933.

Theft of the Washington Monument

by Robert Arthur, Jr.
In order to exact revenge for the ridicule that his theories on time have endured, Professor Green decide to transport the Washington Monument to the future for a few days, and in the process, they see the eventual fate of our planet.
“Theft of the Washington Monument” by Robert Arthur, Jr., in Amazing, October 1933.

The Beetle in the Amber

by Joseph W. Skidmore
Using hypnosis and a dark liquid, the mystic and scientist Oliver Kent sends the superconscious minds of his life-long friends Donald and Joane Cromwell back to the Pleistocene where they inhabit prehuman existences of themselves and discover the origin of Joane’s present-day unease. The Brontosaurus who makes an appearance is out of place in the Pleistocene, but never mind.

Joane Cromwell was the maiden name of Skidmore’s wife, and her name shows up as a character in several of Skidmore’s stories, although not as the same character. However, Oliver Kent does show up in a later story, “The First Flight,” where he once again sends a friend into a previous incarnation.

From the looks of the Brontosaurus . . . we are in the Pleistocene period.
“The Beetle in the Amber” by Joseph W. Skidmore, in Amazing, November 1933.

The End of Tyme

by A. Fedor and Henry Hasse
Tyme (our man from AD 2232) visits editor-in-chief B. Lue Pencill of Future Fiction, who responds to Tyme’s outlandish claims by having him thrown into an asylum. Not to worry, though: Tyme shall have the last word in the following year’s sequel, [Error: Missing '[/ex]' tag for wikilink]
So it was with such thoughts that Pencill turned to the first page. “The End of Time by Hamil Edmondton,” he read aloud, as was his habit when alone. With but a causual interest he began the story; but as the clock ticked and he read on, this interest became more than a casual one, and soon he was reading carefully, keenly, and with much enjoyment. On and on he read, and inexorable Fate slowly marshalled her forces in favor of the heroes case into time, and Pencill became aware that soon the story must end. End it did, in a very logical and pleasing way, and Pencill reluctantly placed the manuscript on his desk.
“The End of Tyme” by A. Fedor and Henry Hasse, in Wonder Stories, November 1933.

Ancestral Voices

by Nat Schachner
Time traveler Emmet Pennypacker kills one ancient Hun without realizing who will disappear from the racist world of 1935.
— Michael Main
The year of grace 1935! A dull year, a comfortable year! Nothing much happened. The depression was over; people worked steadily at their jobs and forgot that they had every starved; Roosevelt was still President of the United States; Hitler was firmly ensconced in Germany; France talked of security; Japan continued to defend itself against China by swallowing a few more provinces; Russia was about to commence on the third Five Year Plan, to be completed in two years; and, oh, yes—Cuba was still in revolution.
“Ancestral Voices” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, December 1933.

A Race Through Time 2

Farewell to Earth

by Donald Wandrei
Perhaps you recall that in Wandrei’s first story, “A Race through Time,” good and compassionate Webster was trapped in the year AD 1,001950, exactly 1,950 years after the time when his true love, Ellen, was taken by that cad Daniel. So what is left for him on this barren Earth?
I am the daughter of Ellayn, who was the daughter of Ellayn, until far back there was the first Ellayn. She and Worin were the first two.
“Farewell to Earth” by Donald Wandrei, in Astounding Stories, December 1933.

Island of Science

by B. S. Keirstead
An Englishman is shipwrecked on an island of brilliant Italian scientists who, among other things, take him back to ninth century England and the time of King Alfred.
“Island of Science” by B. S. Keirstead, in Amazing, December 1933.

Taa the Terrible

by Malcolm Jameson
After a run-in with an oppressive governor on the planet Arania, tourist Larry Frazer and a helpful human Nelda must decide what they’ll do with their knowledge that all the planet’s natives are entering a long sleep to protect them from Taa the Terrible.
— Michael Main
My people now go into the long sleep. We do that out of terror of Taa, for when he roams the land in wrath no thing that can feel, see or hear can survive.Only in these catacombs is it possible to bear his thunders and live. We call it the Sleep of Ten Thousand Years, though no one knows how long the time really is.
“Taa the Terrible” by Malcolm Jameson, in Astonishing Stories, December 1933.

Terror Out of Time

by Jack Williamson
Until I started reading 1930s pulps, I didn’t realize how ubiquitous were the scientist with a beautiful daughter and her adventurous fiancé. This story has Dr. Audrin, his machine (to project the brain of a present-day man forty million years into the future and possibly bring another mind back), his beautiful daughter Eve, and her manly fiancé, Terry Webb. Manly Webb agrees to be the test subject for the machine, much to the dismay of beautiful Eve.
— Michael Main
I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—
“Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.

Proud Man

by Katharine Burdekin
An androgynous traveler—initially known as the Person, then as Verona, and finally as Gifford Verona— communicates with the subhumans called Englishmen about a time thousands of years in their future.
To return to my dream, this person thought that either you or I should go among these subhumans, and yoiu, though willing to go, were a shade less willing than I. So it was decided that I was to go, and when I asked this person, who had been thinking to us about these creatures, how I should come to them, seeing that they were either on another planet or in another time, the way thither was made clear to me, for all I had to do was to wish to be there with them, and there, wherever or whenever it was, I should be.

I am much inclined to think it was not on another planet, but on the same planet in another time.

Proud Man by Katharine Burdekin (Boriswood, 1934).

To-Day’s Yesterday

by Russell Blaiklock
Cavanaugh, a movie’s sound engineer, realizes that the complex wiring on the movie set has transported a microphone to another time, and Cavanaugh’s assistant, Wilson, then transports himself to that time, too.
“To-Day’s Yesterday” by Russell Blaiklock, in Wonder Stories, January 1934.

The First Chapter of the Radio War

by Ralph Milne Farley
As we all know, the 1932 story, The Radio War, of how John Farley Pease fought the Siberians in the year 2000, involved no time travel. But wait! Just how did Ralph Milne Farley get ahold of the story of the future Pease’s war exploits? That story was told in the 1934 fanzine, Fantasy Magazine (published by megafans Julius Schwartz, Ray Palmer, Mortimer Weisinger, and Forry Ackerman) as a missing part of the first chapter of The Radio War.
In addition to his various tricks of magic, this young Chinaman had another typically Oriental trait, namely that of being able to commune with his ancestors.
“The First Chapter of the Radio War” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Fantasy Magazine, February 1934.

Scandal in the 4th Dimension

by Amelia Reynolds Long
Scandal in the 4th Dimension by Amelia Reynolds Long, Astounding Stories, February 1934.

The Time Jumpers

by Philip Francis Nowlan
Ted Manley and girlfriend Cynthia hop back to AD 993 (attacked by Vikings) and then to 1753 (where they are sightseers at the French and Indian Wars and say hi to George Washington).
Our first experience with the time-car was harrowing.
“The Time Jumpers” by Philip Francis Nowlan, in Amazing, February 1934.

The Man Who Never Lived

by Donald Wandrei
“The Man Who Never Lived” by Donald Wandrei, Astounding Stories, March 1934.

The Retreat from Utopia

by Wallace West
A newspaper reporter from 2175 describes his strict, puritan world where nobody is happy because nothing ever happens, and even the criminals off in Borneo refuse to rejoin that society, so the story’s 1934 narrator visits the future to set things right.
“The Retreat from Utopia” by Wallace West, Astounding, March 1934.

The Time Impostor

by Nat Schachner
Newspaper reporter Derek leaps into a time machine that has come back from the 9th millennium to rescue the condemned murderer Mike Spinnot because he’s worshiped as a hero in that future time.
“The Time Impostor” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, March 1934.

The Time Traveller

by A. M. Low
When newspaper reporter Brant Emerson saves the life of the reclusive Professor Lestrange, the scientist offers to let Brant use a time machine—an offer which Brant accepts (hoping to get a scoop), and Brant soon finds himself in 2034 London where newspapers have been totally replaced by TV and radio (quite a good prognosis, even if Low didn’t think of the role the internet would play).
“The Time Traveller” by A. M. Low, in Scoops, 3 March 1934.

The Mentanicals

by Francis Flagg
On a whim, the handsome Captain Bronson, adventurer and yacht captain for the multimillionaire Olson Smith, steps into the time machine of the quirky Professor Stringer and presses the Wellsian lever forward, whereupon he finds himself in a future world populated by stupid beastly men and smooth, cylindrical robots.
Professor Stringer threw open the laboratory door and turned on the lights. We saw it then, an odd machine, shiny and rounded, occupying the center of the workshop floor. I had been drinking, you will recollect, and my powers of observation were not at their best. It was the same with the others. When I questioned them later, they could give no adequate description of it. “So this,” said Olson Smith rather flatly, “is a time machine.” The doctor walked about—a little unsteadily I noticed—and viewed it from all angles. “The passenger,” said the Professor, “sits here. Notice this lever on the graduated face of the dial; it controls the machine. Turn it this way from Zero and one travels into the past; throw it ahead and one travels into the future. The return of the lever to Zero will return the machine to the point of departure in time. The electronic flow.. . .” he went into obscure details. “Will it work?” demanded the Doctor.
“The Mentanicals” by Francis Flagg, in Amazing, April 1934.

The Long Night

by Charles Willard Diffin
Garry Coyne devises a way to move into the future via suspended animation, which (as we all know) is not time travel, but once he arrives in the future to fight throwback hominids and take shelter with the small band of normal men, he does have a moment where he slides back to the present for a brief communication with his trusted friend and a realization about the nature of time.
Past, present, future—all one. And we, moving along the dimension called time, intersect them. I can’t grasp it. But I can’t deny it. If only there were proof—
“The Long Night” by Charles Willard Diffin, Astounding, May 1934.

Invaders from Time

by John Russell Fearn
In retrieving objects from the future, Tom Lawton and Bill Richard manage to grab four brothers from 2534, and the brothers promptly take over London, announcing that they intend to make a utopia, but first they must kill half the population.

Scoops was a weekly British publication that lasted about half of 1934. This particular Fearn story was reprinted in the 1997 Fantasy Annual.

It’s a paradox.
“Invaders from Time” by John Russell Fearn, in Scoops, 12 May 1934.

Before the Dawn

by John Taine
Before the Dawn by John Taine (Williams Wilkins, June 1934).

Voice of Atlantis

by Laurence Manning
Volking, a scientist, accidentally sends himself back to Atlantis where he reveals the eventual diluvian fate of the island and converses with an old man about the ills of our society and the closed nature of theirs.
“Voice of Atlantis” by Laurence Manning, in Wonder Stories, July 1934.

The Return of Tyme

by A. Fedor and Henry Hasse
Did you ever see a man suddenly materilize out of thin air directly in front of you, directly on the spot where you had been looking at nothing the instant before? If not, you must try it some time. It must be a very astonishing spectacle. That’s what happened to B. Lue Pencill . . .
“The Return of Tyme” by A. Fedor and Henry Hasse, in Wonder Stories, August 1934.

Time Haven

by Howard Wandrei
Vincent Merryfield, the “alien” of his family for the sin of being a scientist, builds a time machine that takes him to the year 2443 where the rest of his family has died out and he is the sole owner of everything within sight of his seven-mile-high tower in Manhattan—but how did everyone know he was coming? Sadly, it may be that he never really traveled through time, but I had to put artist and writer Howard Wandrei into my list nonetheless. A later story, “The Missing Ocean” (May 1939), follows much the same time-travelless plot.
Of course! It has always been known that you would ‘appear’ sooner or later.
“Time Haven” by Howard Wandrei, Astounding, September 1934.

Inflexure

by H. L. Gold
Some rogue object passing through the solar system manages to merge together all people from all times of Earth.
I’m over the Caroline Islands, longitude 158° 23´ west, latitude 8° 30´ north. There’re millions of people drowning all around me. What shall I do?
“Inflexure” by H. L. Gold, Astounding, October 1934.

The First Flight

by Joseph W. Skidmore
Mystical Professor Oliver Kent, who first appeared in “The Beetle in the Amber,” is at it again. This time he gives pilot Donald Calvert a globule of concentrated liquid with the advice that drinking it may be a life-saver if he runs into inexplicable physiological changes during his high-speed round-the-world flight. Indeed, the changes happen, Donald swallows the globule, and he finds himself in the body of his prehistoric ancestor, Dowb, who undertakes a similarly difficult flight of his own on the back of a Pterodactyl.
It struck Dowb high in the thigh, hurling him skyward like a stone from a catapult. With an inherited instinct from ancestors who had clutched at tree-tops, Dowb sailed through the air, hands outstretched, claw-like, ready to grasp.

For a moment the slow brain of Dowb fancied he had been hurled into a tree, as his sinewy arms and legs grasped an obstruction that had brought him up abruptly in mid-flight. But the object moved and swooped crazily, and Dowb realized that he had grasped the neck of the beast directly below its repulsive head.

“The First Flight” by Joseph W. Skidmore, in Amazing, November 1934.

Twilight

by John W. Campbell, Jr.
In 1932, James Waters Bendell picks up a magnificently sculpted hitchhiker named Ares Sen Kenlin (the Sen means he’s a scientist, but Waters is just a name) who says that he’s trying to get back to his home time (3059) from seven million years in the future—a time when mankind has atrophied because of their reliance on machines.
They stand about, little misshapen men with huge heads. But their heads contain only brains. They had machines that could think—but somebody turned them off a long time ago, and no one knew how to start them again. That was the trouble with them. They had wonderful brains. Far better than yours or mine. But it must have been millions of years ago when they were turned off, too, and they just hadn’t thought since then. Kindly little people.
“Twilight” by John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding, November 1934.

The Time Tragedy

by Raymond A. Palmer
A judge who sentenced a man named William Gregory to death thirty years ago explains his theory on what has happened to his own son, an inventor also named William Gregory.
Into the future she had gone, William said, and I had no reason to doubt him. The cat took the matter in a calm way and seemed in no wise injured by its uncanny transit.
“The Time Tragedy” by Raymond A. Palmer, in Wonder Stories, December 1934.

Traveller in Time

by Mairin Mitchell
In 1942, the brilliant Colm MacColgan has perfected his Tempevision, allowing us all to view the past ten years via time wave-lengths.
Traveller in Time by Mairin Mitchell (Sheed and Ward, 1935).

The Prenatal Plagiarism

by Mort Weisinger
After the publication of Daniel Cartwright’s wildly successful novel, charges of exact plagiarism from a 50-year-old novel arise, even though he insists that he was the only author.
“The Prenatal Plagiarism” by Mort Weisinger, in Wonder Stories, January 1935.

Time Control

by Philip Jacques Bartel
Two Russians (Khalin and Mikhailloff) and an American engineer (Earl Lyons) find a way to step outside of time, view the future, then step back into time at the very point that they left, thereby preventing bad things such as Mikhailloff’s murder (in “When Time Stood Still,” Amazing, Feb 1935) and an insult that’s intended to start a war (“The Time Control,” Amazing, Dec 1936).
“Time Control” by Philip Jacques Bartel, in Amazing, February 1935.

Valley of the Rukh

by Harl Vincent
Pilot Stanley Kent and his client, spoiled authoress Ruth Owens, find themselves in a piece of Venus that’s been transported from the past, whereupon they have exciting adventures.
“Valley of the Rukh” by Harl Vincent, in Amazing, February 1935.

The 32nd of May

by Paul Ernst
“The 32nd of May” by Paul Ernst, Astounding, April 1935.

The Prophetic Voice

by Laurence Manning
A voice, purporting to be from the future, warns mankind that they must all go into suspended animation or face extinction; mankind obeys, but when they wake up, the people at the other end of the future phone don’t know anything about the earlier message.
“The Prophetic Voice” by Laurence Manning, in Wonder Stories, April 1935.

Relativity to the Rescue

by J. Harvey Haggard
“Relativity to the Rescue” by J. Harvey Haggard, in Amazing, April 1935.

Brick Bradford

by William Ritt and Clarence Gray
Ritt and Gray introduced The Time Top as a short-lived separate topper strip on April 20/21, 1935, and it first appeared in Brick’s Sunday strip on Oct 17, 1937; thereafter, it frequently took the comic strip adventurer into the future (and occasionally the past).

Brick’s strips were reprinted as early as 1934 with two hardcover issues of Saalfield Comics (#1059 and #1309). He was reprinted in King Comics starting with the first April 1936 issue, and he headlined one 1938 hardcover Big Little Book (#1468, combining text with line illustrations). Some Ace Comics had reprints (1947-49), and he appeared in four issues of his own comic book: #5 (Jul 1948) to #8 (Jul 1949) that were possibly strip reprints. In the 60s, new Brick backup features appeared in some issues of The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician (at least #5, #6 and #10) and Flash Gordon (at least #14, #16, #17). They probably all used the top, but I don’t know for sure. All that was just in the U.S.: He was vastly more popular in Australia and New Zealand.

Into the past . . . into the future . . . read on for another exciting adventure in time with Brick Bradford
“Brick Bradford” by William Ritt and Clarence Gray (20 April 1935).

Alas, All Thinking

by Harry Bates
Charles Wayland is tasked with discovering why his cold-hearted college buddy and all-around genius (I.Q. 248) physicist Harlan T. Frick has abandoned everything technical for mundane pursuits such as golfing, clothes, travel, fishing, night clubs, and so on—and the explanation may have to do with either Humpty Dumpty or Frick’s trip to the future with an average (but meditative) young woman named Pearl who is most curious about love.
I showed her New York. She’d say, “But why do the people hurry so? Is it really necessary for all those automobiles to keep going and coming? Do the people like to live in layers? If the United States is as big as you say it is, why do you build such high buildings? What is your reason for having so few people rich, so many people poor?” It was like that. And endless.
“Alas, All Thinking” by Harry Bates, Astounding, June 1935.

A Thief in Time

by Vernon H. Jones
A scientist sends gangster Tony Carponi to steal some radium, and only years later does Carponi realized that the caper involved time travel.
“A Thief in Time” by Vernon H. Jones, in Wonder Stories, July 1935.

The Branches of Time

by David R. Daniels
James Bell invents a time machine, sees the end of mankind in the near future, travels further to see man’s successor, returns to mankind’s end to save the species, and visits the Mesozoic, anticipating Bradbury’s Butterfly Effect.
“The Branches of Time” by David R. Daniels, in Wonder Stories, August 1935.

The Kingdom of Thought

by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Donald Stile is transported to the future by a Time Sphere where he finds two groups of giant brains (the good white brains and the evil black brains) battling—but what of the grey brain?
“The Kingdom of Thought” by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, in Amazing, August 1935.

The Man Who Met Himself

by Ralph Milne Farley
Among physicists, the most favored resolution to time-travel paradoxes is a world of one fixed landscape of time and its events. Time travel may be possible, but if so, the Karma will conspire to have only those events that have been written into the landscape to occur. Heinlein’s “—All You Zombies—” may be the pinnacle of such stories, but Farley’s is the earliest case that I’ve read to present a clear deterministic time loop along these lines. In the story, Boston stock broker Dick Withrick is on a 1935 tiger hunt in Cambodia when he runs into a strangely familiar (and slightly older) man who warns him, “As you value your freedom, do not touch the machine—” And yet, he does touch the machine, taking him back to 1925 so he (in the company of his Buddhist Abbot host) can relive the decade of financial turmoil.
“It cannot be,” the Abbot asserted suavely. “The years from 1925 to 1935 happen only once in the whole course of eternity. You are not now living through a repetition of those ten years. Rather it is those same ten years. The events which you remember as having happened back in Boston, and the events which are happening here today, are happening simultaneously. Your ten years in Boston from 1925 to 1935, are one and the same ten years. It is only an illusion of your mind that they seem to be successive, rather than concurrent. And this illusion is not so different from the illusion of all mankind with respect to the flow of timel for Brahm, the Creator, sees all time and all space as once complete instantaneous event.”
“The Man Who Met Himself” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Top-Notch, August 1935.

The Reign of the Reptiles

by Alan Connell
Sanders is kidnapped and sent to a laboratory in the far past from which he escapes to find a civilization of intelligent, winged reptiles—possibly the first story of intelligent dinosaurs in our past.
“The Reign of the Reptiles” by Alan Connell, in Wonder Stories, August 1935.

The Upper Level Road

by F. Orlin Tremaine
“The Upper Level Road” by F. Orlin Tremaine, Astounding Stories, August 1935.

The Worlds of If

by Stanley G. Weinbaum
“The Worlds of If” by Stanley G. Weinbaum, in Wonder Stories, August 1935.

Night

by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Bob Carter takes a plane up to 45,000 feet to test an anti-gravity device, but instead it hurls him into the same future as the story “Twilight”—but whereas the earlier story had mankind who were dying out in 7,000,000 A.D. because of the ubiquity of machines, Carter finds himself billions of years beyond that, with both man and (most) machines long gone.
Ah, yes, you have a mathematical means of expression, but no understanding of that time, so it is useless. But the last of humanity was allowed to end before the Sun changed from the original G-O stage—a very, very long time ago.
“Night” by John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding, October 1935.

The Fall of Mercury

by Leslie F. Stone
Mort Forrest and his fellow explorer Bruce are headed for supposedly uninhabited Mercury when they are captured by Mercurians intent on taking over the solar system, but fortunately, a friendly Saturnian named Chen-Chak (with a ray gun that can momentarily transfer bad guys into the future) rescues them, tells them of the history of species from all the planets, and saves the solar system.
“The Fall of Mercury” by Leslie F. Stone, in Amazing, December 1935.

The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator

by Murray Leinster
Pete Davidson has inherited all the properties of an uncle who had been an authority on the fourth dimension, including the Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator that can pull copies of matches, coins, dollar bills, fiancées, and kangaroos out of the past.
— Michael Main
“These,” said Pete calmly, “are my fiancée.”
“The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator” by Murray Leinster, Astounding, December 1935.

Human Machines

by J. Harvey Haggard
When the megalomaniac and utopia-builder Lan Darth is opposed by Therm Sutner, Darth throws Sutner into a horrid future world that is populated by strange creatures that arose out of Darth’s eugenic and policies that banned sexual reproduction.
“Human Machines” by J. Harvey Haggard, Astounding, December 1935.

In the World’s Dusk

by Edmond Hamilton
Galos Gann, the greatest scientist whom Earth had ever seen and last man on Earth, vows than mankind will not perish.
There are no living men and women in the world today. But what of the trillions of men and women who have existed on Earth in the past? Those trillions are separated from me by the abyss of time. Yet. . .
“In the World’s Dusk” by Edmond Hamilton, in Weird Tales, March 1936.

Pre-Vision

by John R. Pierce
“Pre-Vision” by John R. Pierce, Astounding, March 1936.

Elimination

by John W. Campbell, Jr.
“Elimination” by John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding Stories, May 1936.

The Shadow Out of Time

by H. P. Lovecraft
During an economics lecture, Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee’s body and mind are taken over by a being who can travel to any time and place of his choice, and during the next five years the being studies us, all of which Peaslee pieces together after his return.

Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi says that Lovecraft saw the movie Berkeley Square four times in 1933, and “its portrayal of a man of the 20th century who somehow merges his personality with that of his 18th-century ancestor” served as Lovecraft’s inspiration for this story.

The projected mind, in the body of the organism of the future, would then pose as a member of the race whose outward form it wore, learning as quickly as possible all that could be learned of the chosen age and its massed information and techniques.
“The Shadow Out of Time” by H. P. Lovecraft, Astounding, June 1936.

The Land Where Time Stood Still

by Arthur Leo Zagat
Twentieth-century American Ronald Stratton and Arthurian damsel Elaise find themselves in a land with people from all ages as well as predators from the 400th century.

This may be the earliest use of something akin to a “wheel of time.”

Time’s all mixed up. It’s as if the universe were the rim of a great wheel, whirling through Time. As if, somehow, we have left that rim, shot inward along different spokes whose outer ends are different years, far apart, and reached the wheel’s axis where all the year-spokes join. The center point of the hub, that doesn’t move at all through Time, because it is the center. Where there is no Time. Where the past and the present and the future are all one. A land, in some weird other dimension, where Time stands still.
“The Land Where Time Stood Still” by Arthur Leo Zagat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1936.

Infinity Zero

by Donald Wandrei
“Infinity Zero” by Donald Wandrei, Astounding Stories, October 1936.

The Time Entity

by Otto Binder
John Dakin considers paradoxes as he communicates by radio with his future descendant.
“The Time Entity” by Otto Binder, Astounding, October 1936.

Hairbreadth Harry

by F. O. Alexander
About midway (29 Nov 1936) through Franklin Osborne Alexander’s run with Charles Kahles’s character Hairbreadth Harry, the adventurer and his lady friend Belinda found themselves taken to the year 4936 by a magic hourglass where they are up against their arch-nemesis Relentless Rudolph Ruddigore Rassendale. I don’t know whether the characters and their hour glass had any other adventures in time.
Harry! A mouse is in the trap and I haven’t the nerve to—OH!—you’ve knocked over the magic hour glass. . .!
“Hairbreadth Harry” by F. O. Alexander (29 November 1936).

Trapped in Eternity

by Ray Cummings
Alan Blair and his beautiful fiancée Dora are brought to the future by the lecherous Groat who cures her blindness and then proposes to start a new race with Dora.
“Trapped in Eternity” by Ray Cummings, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1936.

Tryst in Time

by C. L. Moore
Bold and bored soldier-of-fortune Eric Rosner meets a scientist who sends him skipping through time, always meeting the same beguiling girl with the smoke-blue eyes.
I can transport you into the past, and you can create events there which never took place in the past we know—but the events are not new. They were ordained from the beginning, if you took that particular path. You are simply embarking upon a different path into a different future, a fixed and preordained future, yet one which will be strange to you because it lies outside your own layer of experience. So you have infinite freedom in all your actions, yet everything you can possibly do is already fixed in time.
“Tryst in Time” by C. L. Moore, Astounding, December 1936.

Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (Methuen, 1937).

He Who Mastered Time

by J. Harvey Haggard
After testing his time machine on mice, Richard Sauger himself travels to the far end of time with no plot other than that.
He stood on a flat plain that undulated gently. That much was understandable. The surface of the earth, if it really was changing rapidly, had become a mere blur to his senses. The solid ring of substance across the sky was the sun, traveling at a prodigious rate that kept pase with his transit through Time. The retina of the eye caught its image as a solid ring, so swift was the earth’s rotation. As the seasons altered the ring shifted lower or higher across the horizon, that was all.
“He Who Mastered Time” by J. Harvey Haggard, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1937.

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The Sands of Time

by P. Schuyler Miller
Terry Donovan realizes that it’s possible to travel through time in 60,000,000-year increments, so naturally he travels back to the Cretaceous where he meets dinosaurs and aliens.

This story was under Tremaine’s Astounding editorship, but the sequel, “Coils of Time,” (May 1939) appeared after Campbell became editor.

— Michael Main
Incidentally, I have forgotten the most important thing of all. Remember that Donovan’s dominating idea was to prove to me, and to the world, that he had been in the Cretaceous and hobnobbed with its flora and fauna. He was a physicist by inclination, and had the physicist’s flair for ingenious proofs. Before leaving, he loaded a lead cube with three quartz quills of pure radium chloride that he had been using in a previous experiment, and locked the whole thing up in a steel box.
“Sands of Time” by P. Schuyler Miller, in Astounding Stories, April 1937.

Forgetfulness

by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Millions of years after mankind raised various species and sent them to the stars, one of the species returns and believes that humans have fallen into a primitive existence. And the time travel? Partway through the story, there’s a power source that goes to the end of time and cycles back to the beginning of time. In addition, Fred Galvin pointed out to me that even though it takes the aliens six years to travel to Earth, when they return to their home planet, only one year has passed, apparently a complete undoing by Seun of Rhth of the alien invasion.

The story also appeared in Healy and McComas’s seminal anthology, Adventures in Time and Space, and it was made into a one-act play in 1943 by Wayne Gordon.

In the first revolution it made, the first day it was built, it circled to the ultimate end of time and the universe, and back to the day it was built.
“Forgetfulness” by John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding, June 1937.

Lost in Time

by Arthur Leo Zagat
While crossing the Pacific alone in a small boat, Jim Dunning runs into a storm that capsizes his boat. When he comes to, the only thing in sight is a spherical ship with one passenger: the beautiful (but unconscious) Thalma of the house of Adams, who’s been thrown into the past by her evil Uncle Marnota. When Thalma recovers, she pushes random levers which result in both her and Jim returning to her time and the clutches of Marnota.
You just trust your Uncle Jim! Everything’s going to be all right, sure as God made little apples. Just sit down over here, and powder your nose, or whatever they do in your time. Then you can tell me all about it.
“Lost in Time” by Arthur Leo Zagat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1937.

Reverse Phylogeny

by Amelia Reynolds Long
Eric Dale once again tells of an escapade of his friend, Professor Aloysius O’Flannigan—this time it’s about his quest to prove or disprove the existence of Atlantis via hypnosis and the recovery of ancestral memories. You’ll need to wait until the end for the tiny bit of time travel to be cast out.
There are times, I reflected, when nothing else in the English language is so expressive as the single word, “Nuts.” But I said nothing, hoping that he would work off his enthusiasm by writing a letter to the magazine. I should have known better.
“Reverse Phylogeny” by Amelia Reynolds Long, Astounding, June 1937.

Seeker of To-Morrow

by Eric Frank Russell and Leslie J. Johnson
Explorer Urnas Karin and his crew of twenty return to Venus from abandoned Earth along with the body of a man who appears to have traveled from the ancient past—and then they revive him, whereupon he tells of his invention of time travel (to the future only) and subsequent journey from 1998 to the present day.
I had set up my laboratory in the wilds of the Peak District in Derbyshire, in England, where work could be carried on with the minimum of interference. From this laboratory I had dispatched into the unknown, presumably the future, a multitude of objects, including several live creatures such as rats, mice, pigeons and domestic fowl. In no case could I bring back anything I had made to vanish. Once gone, the subject was gone forever. There was no way of discovering exactly where it had gone. There was nothing but to take a risk and go myself.
“Seeker of To-Morrow” by Eric Frank Russell and Leslie J. Johnson, Astounding, July 1937.

Temporary Warp

by Frank Belknap Long
“Temporary Warp” by Frank Belknap Long, Astounding Stories, August 1937.

Time and the Conways

by J. B. Priestley
Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley, at the Dutchess Theatre (London, 26 August 1937).

The Isolinguals

by L. Sprague de Camp
“The Isolinguals” by L. Sprague de Camp, Astounding, September 1937.

Past, Present and Future

by Nat Schachner
“Past, Present and Future” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, September 1937.

I Have Been Here Before

by J. B. Priestley
I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley, at the Royalty Theatre (London, 22 September 1937).

City of the Rocket Horde

by Nat Schachner
“City of the Rocket Horde” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, December 1937.

Cosmic Corkscrew

by Isaac Asimov
“Cosmic Corkscrew” was the first story that Asimov ever wrote for submission to the pulp magazines of the day. In the first part of his autobiography, he describes starting the story, setting it aside, and returning to it some thirteen months later. It was the story that he took with him on his first visit to John Campbell, inquiring about why the July 1938 Astounding was late arriving. Alas, the story was rejected and then lost, but it did have time travel!
In it, I viewed time as a helix (this is, as something like a bedspring). Someone could cut across from one turn directly to the next, thus moving into the future by some exact interval, but being incapable of traveling one day less into the future. (I didn’t know the term at the time, but what I had done was to “quantize” time travel.)
“Cosmic Corkscrew” by Isaac Asimov (Unpublished manuscript, 1938).

For Us, the Living

by Robert A. Heinlein
I’m sad that I’ve now read all the extant Heinlein fiction, this posthumous (and first) novel being the last piece for me. It certainly held 3.5 stars worth of enjoyment for a Heinlein fan, but much of that was in seeing the nascent ideas of the writer that I would devour in my childhood. In the story, a military pilot from 1939 dies, and his consciousness is thrown forward to 2086 where social and economic aspects of society are hugely altered, though technological advances are more conservative (but, dammit, I want my flying car).
“Let me get out of these furs.” She walked away while fumbling with a zipper at her throat. The furs were all one garment which slipped off her shoulders and fell to the floor. Perry felt a shock like an icy shower and then a warm tingle.
For Us, the Living by Robert A. Heinlein, initial unpublished manuscript, 1938.

Lords of 9016

by John Russell Fearn
Dick and his scientist friend Ladbrook take a helicopter into the giant hole that has opened in the ground near two cities where all people and animals have disappeared, only to find giant ants from the future.
Not ants of your time, however, but the rulers of the year ninety-sixteen, seven thousand of so years ahead of you—time enough for the busy creatures of your present day to have evolved into the significant might you see we have.
“Lords of 9016” by John Russell Fearn, Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1938.

Matter Is Conserved

by Raymond A. Palmer
“Matter Is Conserved” by Raymond A. Palmer, Astounding Science Fiction, April 1938.

Island of the Individualists

by Nat Schachner
“Island of the Individualists” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, May 1938.

The Legion of Time

by Jack Williamson
After two beautiful women of two different possible futures appear to physicist Denny Lanning, he finds himself swept up by a time-traveling ship, the Chronion, along with a band of fighting men who swear their allegiance to The Legion of Time and its mission to ensure that the eviler of the two beautiful women never comes to pass.
But Max Planck with the quantum theory, de Broglie and Schroedinger with the wave mechanics, Heisenberg with matrix mechanics, enormously complicated the structure of the universe—and with it the problem of Time.

With the substitution of waves of probability for concrete particles, the world lines of objects are no longer the fixed and simple paths they once were. Geodesics have an infinite proliferation of possible branches, at the whim of sub-atomic indeterminism.

Still, of course, in large masses the statistical results of the new physics are not much different from those given by the classical laws. But there is a fundamental difference. The apparent reality of the universe is the same—but it rests upon a quicksand of possible change.

The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson, serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, May to July 1938.

The Invisible Bomber

by Ralph Milne Farley
Here’s a new rule about what constitutes a time-travel story: If the author claims that there’s time travel in the story, then it’s a time-travel story. That’s the case for this story, which doesn’t feel like time travel to me, but in the afterward of The Omnibus of Time Farley says that the airplane bomber in this story becomes soundless and invisible via a “laminated” model of space-time in which a series of different worlds are stacked one on top of another, each just a short time in front of its predecessor. According to Farley, “time-traveling will carry the traveler, not into the future, but rather into an entirely different space-time continuum than our own.” The plane becomes invisible by traveling just a short distance toward the next world without reaching anywhere near it.

My thought on this is that the notion of time as a dimension does not have anything to do with the stacking dimension. In fact, I don’t think they can be the same dimension because that would imply that there is nothing to distinguish a point in our space-time continuum from a point with the same space-time coordinates in some other continuum.

P.S. I also didn’t care for the president’s solution to the story’s problem.

We human beings live in a three dimensional space, or which time has sometimes been called the fourth dimension. But did it ever occur to you, Mr. President, that we do not extend in time. We never experience any other time than the present. Our so-called space-time existence is thus seen to be a mere three-dimensional layer, or lamina, infinitely thin in the time direction. There could exist another three-dimensional space just a second or two away from ours, and we would never know it.
“The Invisible Bomber” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, June 1938.

The Dangerous Dimension

by L. Ron Hubbard
“The Dangerous Dimension” by L. Ron Hubbard, Astounding, July 1938.

Through the Time-Radio

by Stanton A. Coblentz
“Through the Time-Radio” by Stanton A. Coblentz, in Marvel Science Stories, August 1938.

Time for Sale

by Ralph Milne Farley
“Time for Sale” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, August 1938.

The Einstein Inshoot

by Nelson S. Bond
“The Einstein Inshoot” by Nelson S. Bond, Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1938.

DC Comics

by multiple writers and artists
Like all the other publishers, DC also published anthologies of weird stories (as opposed to continuing characters) in the 50s, but even before that, they had anthologies of adventure stories. The earliest time travel that I’ve found so far are from 1939: a two-part story of Slam Bradley and his sidekick traveling to the year two billion, A.D., in Detective Comics 23 and 24; and a five-part story, “A Playboy in King Arthur’s Court,” starting in in Adventure Comics 37. As for the 50s weird stories, the first one I found there was an H.L. Gold tale, “The Endless War,” in Strange Adventures 2. As I find others, I’ll list them in my time-travel comic books page.
History runs wild when Columbus, Napoléon, and Cleopatra journey through time from the past to the present!
“DC Comics” by multiple writers and artists (1939).

Faster Than Light

by D. D. Sharp
“Faster Than Light” by D. D. Sharp, Marvel Science Stories, February 1939.

Sands of Time 2

Coils of Time

by P. Schuyler Miller
You’ll need some patience with “Coils of Time," seeing as how it takes the hero, Rutherford Bohr Adams, twenty-some pages before you’ll realize that the story is a sequel to “The Sands of Time,” and it’s going to fall to space pilot Adams to travel through the 60-million-year coils of times into the future and the past, saving Earth from the evil Martians and their zombies, while also saving his own boss’s beautiful daughter from a fate worth than death.
— Michael Main
It’s another form of the space-time field that I use in the Egg to bridge the gap between the coils of time.
“Coils of Time” by P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1939.

Fox Features Syndicate Comics

by Victor S. Fox
Fox Comics had one of the earliest lineups of anthology comic books with continuing characters. Their earliest time travel that I found was by the recurring character Don Quixote, who appeared in the second issue of Wonder Comics. (The first issue starred Will Eisner’s superhero, Wonder Man, but he was quashed by a DC lawsuit.)

My favorite Fox time traveler was the Sorceress of Zoom. She was a female anti-hero along the lines of the Submariner, but her realm was not in the sea, it was the cloud city of Zoom. She had at least one time travel adventure in Weird Comics 7 (Oct 1940) when she gets the best of Morgan Le Fay in Camelot.

As I find more, I’ll list each character’s first time travel here and the details will be on my time-travel comics page. (Sadly, I never spotted any time travel by Marga the Panther Woman, who appeared alongside Cosmic Carson in Science Comics.)

I’ll project the City of Zoom into the past where it will be safe for the time being!
“Fox Features Syndicate Comics” by Victor S. Fox, in Wonder Comics 2, June 1939.

The Gnarly Man

by L. Sprague de Camp
“The Gnarly Man” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Unknown, June 1939.

Stolen Centuries

by Otis Adelbert Kline
“Stolen Centuries” by Otis Adelbert Kline, Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1939.

City of the Cosmic Rays

by Nat Schachner
“City of the Cosmic Rays” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, July 1939.

Greater Than Gods

by C. L. Moore
“Greater Than Gods” by C. L. Moore, Astounding, July 1939.

Lightship, Ho!

by Nelson S. Bond
“Lightship, Ho!” by Nelson S. Bond, Astounding, July 1939.

Pete Manx and the Time Chair 1

Roman Holiday

by Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes
Captain Marvel’s time chair got scooped by Dr. Horation Mayhem who sent Pete Manx into dangerous hijinks in the past in the pages of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
“Yes, my boy. I understand your aversion to making any more trips into the historical Past. You have been a—um—lodestone for violent trouble . . .”

“Something always happens to me!” exclaimed Pete. “What if I she’d get bumped off in the Past? Nix. No more o’ that stuff for me.”

“Quite right, my son. And yet—” Mayhem’s benign tone and dreamy stare at the ceiling were pure ham. “I would never have invited you here again, Pete, knowing it to be a place of strange memories, except that occasionally in our lives there arise demands that transcend all selfish personal considerations. Do you follow me?”

“Roman Holiday” by Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1939.

History in Reverse

by Lee Laurence
“History in Reverse” by Lee Laurence, Amazing Stories, October 1939.

All-American Comics

by Carl H. Claudy
Before being bought by DC, All-American Publications had a 102-issue run with All-American Comics, which among other things introduced the Green Lantern and had an adaptation of Carl H. Claudy’s A Thousand Years a Minute in issues 7 through 12. However, the episode in #7 was actually more the wrapping up of an earlier serial (also by Claudy and under the umbrella of Adventures in the Unknown) called “The Mystery Men of Mars,” and the actual time-traveling began until issue 8.
If you stepped off this platform you’d be cut in two just as if you stepped off a fast moving train! You can’t be in two different “times” any more than you can be in two difference places at the same moment!
“All-American Comics” by Carl H. Claudy, in All-American Comics 8, November 1939.

The Hidden Universe

by Ralph Milne Farley
The Hidden Universe by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, November to December 1939.

Into Another Dimension

by Maurice Duclos
“Into Another Dimension” by Maurice Duclos, in Fantastic Adventures, November 1939.

City of the Corporate Mind

by Nat Schachner
“City of the Corporate Mind” by Nat Schachner, Astounding, December 1939.

Lest Darkness Fall

by L. Sprague de Camp
During a thunderstorm, archaeologist Martin Padway is thrown back to Rome of 535 A.D., whereupon he sets out to stop the coming Dark Ages.
Padway feared a mob of religious enthusiasts more than anything on earth, no doubt because their mental processes were so utterly alien to his own.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp, in Unknown, December 1939.

Top-Notch Comics

by Otto Binder and Jack Binder
The first two issues of Top-Notch Comics had a feature called “Scott Rand in the Worlds of Time” written by science fiction staple Otto Binder and drawn by his older brother, Jack (rather than Earl). Rand first drove his time car back to Rome in 200 A.D. where he picked up Thor. In the second episode, they went to New York in 2000 A.D. Jack Binder continued the episodes of Rand and Thor in Top-Notch 3, heading to Mars of the future, but I don’t yet know whether there were any other stories.

This title morphed into Top-Notch Laugh Comics, and was then acquired by Archie Comics. I don’t know whether there were any further adventures in time by Rand or others during the Top-Notch run.

The time car is working perfectly! We can go anywhere. . . the past or the future!
Top-Notch Comics by Otto Binder and Jack Binder (December 1939).

An Old Captivity

by Nevil Shute
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute (William Morrow, 1940).

Bombardment in Reverse

by Norman L. Knight
Jamie Todd Rubin wrote about this story as part of his Vacation in the Golden Age, and I got a pdf copy on Thanksgiving Day in 2012. The story tells of two alien nations at war—a somewhat amateurish was by Martian or Terrestrial standards, but one in which time-traveling weapons target where the enemy was in the past.
The Nyandrians are attacking Strofander with shells which traverse not only space, but time as well.
“Bombardment in Reverse” by Norman L. Knight, Astounding, February 1940.

Fawcett Comics

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Apart from Captain Marvel Fawcett also had other comics, some with time travel, such as Atom Blake who met himself in time in Wow Comics 2 and Nyoka, the Jungle Girl who traveled to prehistoric times in issue 10.

The earliest that I know of (courtesy of Buddy Lortie) is the continuing story of Mark Swift, his teacher Mr. Kent, and the Time Retarder, which ran in all seven issues of Slam-Bang Comics and finished its run in Master Comics 7. Another continuing character was Dr. Voodoo who began life in the comics as a jungle doctor, but had an adventure in the past in Whiz Comics 18 through 34.

As I find more of those, I’ll list them on my time-travel comics page.

Where are we going first, Mr. Kent?
“Fawcett Comics” |pending byline|, in Slam-Bang Comics 1, March 1940.

The Final Men

by H. G. Wells
The first complete, published version of The Time Machine appeared as a five-part serial in the January through May 1895 issues of New Review, edited by William Ernest Henley. In the introduction to the 1924 edition, Wells wrote about the back-and-forth between himself and Henley, saying that “There was a slight struggle between the writer and W.E. Henley who wanted, he said, to put a little ‘writing’ into the tale.”

One piece of that writing was a short episode after the Traveller leaves the Eloi and the Morlocks, just before visiting the red sun and the end of the world. This episode was deleted from both the American (Holt text) and the British (Heinemann text) published book editions of the novel, but it did appear as a 7-page mimeographed and stapled publication from American fan and Futurian Robert W. Lowndes in 1940, and it appeared in a number of other places, sometimes called “The Grey Man” and once called “The Missing Pages.”

No doubt, too, the rain and snow had long since washed out the Morlock tunnels. A nipping breeze stung my hands and face. So far as I could see there were neither hills, nor trees, nor rivers: only an uneven stretch of cheerless plateau.
“The Final Men” by H. G. Wells (Robert W. Lowndes, March 1940).

Silver Streak Comics

by Jack Cole et al.
Jack Cole, the Playboy cartoonist, must have been a little boy when he wrote the adventures of Boy Inventor Dickie Dean. Dickie’s inventions included a machine to capture conversations from the past (Silver Streak Comics 3), a time camera (probably in issue 10). You could argue that neither of these is real time travel, but never mind.

I’ll bet there was more time travel in various of the comics published by Lev Gleason, but I haven’t yet tracked them down.

Without getting technical, this is a “time camera”! It is possible to reconstruct and photogaph scenes of the past with this machine!
“Silver Streak Comics” by Jack Cole et al. (Dickie Dean in Silver Streak 3, March 1940).

Exiles of Time

by Nelson S. Bond
Exiles of Time by Nelson S. Bond, in Blue Book, May 1940.

The Ghost

by August Froehlich and Richard Hughes
The Ghost, aka George Chance, was a magician trained in India who used his legerdemain and mystic knowledge to enhance his detective work, convincing his nemeses that he was an actual ghost. He first appeared in Jan 1940 in the pulp fiction magazines as the title character of The Ghost Super-Detective, a series that lasted for seven issues with two renamings (The Ghost Detective with the fourth issue in Fall 1940, followed by Green Ghost Detective for the fifth issue in early 1941). Later, he had additional stories in Thrilling Mystery, but no time travel. But when George Chance made the leap to comic books, his second story (“The Ghost Strikes Again” in Thrilling Comics 4, May 1940) introduced the evil Professor Fenton and his time machine. From then until Thrilling Comics 52 (Feb 1946) had regular adventures, mostly with Fenton:
This machine can send you back in time to any age since the world began! Thus I have disposed of America’s Greatest men! Later I shall take over control of the entire nation and bring them back through time to serve as my slaves!
“The Ghost” by August Froehlich and Richard Hughes, in Thrilling Comics 4, May 1940.

Hindsight

by Jack Williamson
Years ago, engineer Bill Webster abandoned Earth for the employ of the piratical Astrarch far beyond the orbit of Mars; now the Astrarch is aiming the final blow at a defeated Earth, and Bill wonders whether the gun sights he invented can spot—and change!—events in the past.
— Michael Main
The tracer fields are following all the world lines that intersected at the battle, back across the months and years. The analyzers will isolate the smallest—hence most easily altered—essential factor.
“Hindsight” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, May 1940.

The Time-Wise Guy

by Ralph Milne Farley
The kindly Professor Tyrrell invites his most worthy student, football player George Worthey, to his house after class to debate over the feasibility of time travel, all the time knowing that he can prove that time travel is possible (modulo certain forbidden treks) by sending George far into the future and instructing him to return a short time later.

The story ends with a challenge to the reader with a total of $50 in cash prizes for the best answers! The answer to the challenge was given in the June issue. Somehow in the answer, George Worthey’s name changed to Sherwin, but I think that was just an editorial mistake. I didn’t much care for Farley’s “correct” answer, although I did spot Isaac Asimov’s name listed among the 112 correct respondents in the July issue. The contest winner was Albert F. Lopez from East Boston, Mass.

This contest is one any of our readers can win. It’s extremely simple. You don’t need to know anything about writing. You don’t have to write a story. You aren’t expected to know a great deal of science. All you must do is read the entertaining story “The Time-Wise Guy,” on page 6, and then, in your own words, in a short letter, tell the editors what you think happened to the hero of the story. In other words, how does the story end?

Your answer should be based on the facts of time travel and its rules, as stated in the story by Professor Tyrrell. Your editors suspect that the correct answer would also shed light on the fate of the Professor’s friend in Holland—rather FROM Holland. But of course, there is a little of George Worthey in all of us, and you may not believe this. Editors don’t know it all, either—

Except that Ralph Milne Farley has kindly supplied us with the answer, and we know it and believe it. We’ll give it to you in the next issue, what’s more, and they you’ll believe it too.

“The Time-Wise Guy” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, May 1940.

Twice in Time

by Manly Wade Wellman
Inventor Leo Thrasher, perhaps the last modern-day Renaissance man, builds a machine to throw him back to Renaissance Italy, where he plans to leave his mark as a painter. Once there, he’s taken under the wing of Guaracco who views him as a potential rival, but still sees a use for the time traveler. When Leo’s memory of future wonders begins to fade, Guaracco pulls 20th-century memories from Leo’s subconscious via hypnotic interviews, somehow even managing to pull out (among other more mundane things) a working pair of wings for Leo to fly over 15th-century Florence.
But suppose this me is taken completely out of Twentieth Century existence—dematerialized, recreated in another epoch. That makes twice in time, doesn’t it?
Twice in Time by Manly Wade Wellman, Startling Stories, May 1940.

The Mosaic

by J. B. Ryan
Emir Ismail (a soldier and scientist in a Muslim-led 20th century) travels back to the crucial Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.

This is the first story sent to us up in the ITTDB Citadel via our special arrangement with the librarians down at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

History is built event by incident—and each is a brick in its structure. If one small piece should slip—
“The Mosaic” by J. B. Ryan, Astounding, July 1940.

Murder in the Time World

by Malcolm Jameson
Karl Tarig plans to murder his kindly cousin, Dr. Claude Morrison, who took Karl in when nobody else would. Then he'll toss cousin Claude’s body into the time machine that Claude built. Lastly, he’ll sell all of Claude’s valuables and run away in time with the indomitable Ellen Warren. The perfect crime!
— Michael Main
To hell with the law! For he had thought out the perfect crime. There could be no dangerous consequences. You can’t hang a man for murder with a body—a corpus delicti. For the first time in the history of crime, a murderer had at his disposal the sure means of ridding himself of his corpse.
“Murder in the Time World” by Malcolm Jameson, Amazing Stories, August 1940.

Mystery of the Mind Machine

by Don Wilcox
The mind machine converts past memories to projected images, and the story’s tagline suggests that it can also see the future, but that is just misdirection. No actual time travel, no reading the future.
— Michael Main
Not only could this machine read minds—it could read the future!
“Mystery of the Mind Machine” by Don Wilcox, Amazing Stories, August 1940.

The Ultimate Salient

by Nelson S. Bond
“The Ultimate Salient” by Nelson S. Bond, in Planet Stories, Fall 1940.

Rescue into the Past

by Ralph Milne Farley
Physicist Barney Baker, now a lawyer, uses his time machine to go back to the sacking of Fort Randolph in 1776 where he hopes to find evidence for an important legal case. He does find that along with attacking Redcoats and Indians and a beautiful young woman who instantly captures his heart, but alas, he can save nothing and no one—or can he?
Go back there again to 1776, and this time do things right. Go back to just before Caroline’s death, and this time rescue her. Why not!
“Rescue into the Past” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, October 1940.

Startling Comics

by Max Plaisted
For eight issues of Startling Stories, Ace Buckley and his sidekick Toni Stark (no, not that Tony Stark) plied centuries past in Ace’s rocket-shaped time machine.
The machine vibrated dizzily. In just a few seconds we found ourselves back in time, a thousand years ago, half buried in sand.
“Startling Comics” by Max Plaisted, in Startling Comics 3, October 1940.

The Wheels of If

by L. Sprague de Camp
“The Wheels of If” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Unknown, October 1940.

Sunspot Purge

by Clifford D. Simak
“Read the News Before It Happens!” That’s the slogan that reporter Mike Hamilton proposes when the Globe buys a time machine. But when Mike goes onto the future beat, it’s more than just the stock market and the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game that he runs into—it’s the world of 2450 with only scattered population.
Think of the opportunities a time machine offers a newspaper. The other papers can tell them what has happened and what is happening, but, by Godrey, they’ll have to read the Globe to know what is going to happen.
“Sunspot Purge” by Clifford D. Simak, Astounding, November 1940.

The Blonde, the Time Machine and Johnny Bell

by Kenneth L. Harrison
Johnny Bell, a reporter for the Clarion, expected to get a story out of Pop Keller’s Curiosity Shop. What he didn’t expect to find were a blonde who looks like Betty Grable who cons him into buying a used time machine.

This was a $25 contest winner story, but Harrison, 23 at the time and living in Portland, Oregon, never published another story.

But the strangest thing he had ever seen was the queer-looking mechanical apparatus in the center of the window. Johnny Bell’s gray eyes narrowed in perplexity as he read the advertising card atop it:
TIME MACHINE
FOR SALE—CHEAP
“The Blonde, the Time Machine and Johnny Bell” by Kenneth L. Harrison, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940.

Trouble in Time

by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
I enjoyed this early effort from the two young Futurians, especially the beginning where chemical engineer Mabel Evans of Colchester, Vermont, goes to visit the newly arrived mad scientist who offers her ethyl alcohol and a trip to the future.
That was approximately what Stephen had said, so I supposed that he was. “Right as rarebits,” I said.
“Trouble in Time” by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, in Astonishing Stories, December 1940.

Power Nelson, Futureman

by Dick Sprang and Paul Norris
From the first issue of Prize Comics, Power Nelson, aka Futureman, used his superpowers to fight the evil Mongol horde that conquered all of civilization in the far-future year 1982. I’ve read many of the escapades of the red-and-yellow champion of democracy (through Prize Comics 23), but I haven’t yet found issue #7 and the story “Journey to 1940.” (The issue is highly prized, being identified as the first horror comic because of its modern Frankenstein story; it also has the first Simon and Kirby Black Owl story.) Later issues do have Power Nelson fighting Nazis and fifth columnists who are attempting to undermine America, but I’m unclear on whether they are World War II Nazis or 1982 cohorts of the horde.

Wikipedia cites Paul Norris (the Brick Bradford strip artist) as the creator of Power Nelson, but the Grand Comics Database gives a tentative identification of Dick Sprang as the artist for the first six stories, with Norris’s first works being the cover of Prize Comics 6 and the “Journey to 1940” story in issue 7. His first signed work, as by Roy Paul, is the Power Nelson story in issue 13.

I’ll do something about this!
“Power Nelson, Futureman” by Dick Sprang and Paul Norris, in Prize Comics 7, 12 December 1940.

El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan

English release: The Garden of Forking Paths Literal: The garden of forking paths

by Jorge Luís Borges
[ex=bare]“El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan” | The garden of forking paths[/ex] by Jorge Luís Borges, in El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan, (Sur, 1941).

The Mechanical Mice

by Eric Frank Russell
Slightly mad scientist Burman invents a time machine that lets him see the future, from whence he brings back other inventions including a swarm of reproducing mechanical beasties.
I pinched the idea. What makes it madder is that I wasn’t quite sure of what I was stealing, and, crazier still, I don’t know from whence I stole it.
“The Mechanical Mice” by Eric Frank Russell, Astounding, January 1941.

—And He Built a Crooked House

by Robert A. Heinlein
“—And He Built a Crooked House” by Robert A. Heinlein, Astounding, February 1941.

The Best-Laid Scheme

by L. Sprague de Camp
I like the verb that de Camp coined for forward time travel—vanwinkling—but when the hero, De Witt, chases Hedges back in time, they start changing things and everyone (including them) remembers both the old time and the new. It’s beyond me to grok that form of time travel, but I give credit for creativity.
The problem of backward-jumping has not hitherto been solved. It involves an obvious paradox. If I go back and slay my own grandfather, what becomes of me?
“The Best-Laid Scheme” by L. Sprague de Camp, Astounding, February 1941.

Dead End

by Malcolm Jameson
“Dead End” by Malcolm Jameson, Thrilling Wonder Stories, March 1941.

Poker Face

by Theodore Sturgeon
The accountant, Mr. Face, joins the poker game and, among other things, has the remarkable ability to rig any deal without even touching the cards—what else would you expect for a man who’s traveled some 30,000 years from the future?
“Now spill it. Just where did you come from?”

“Geographically,” said Face, “not very far from here. Chronologically, a hell of a long way.”

“Poker Face” by Theodore Sturgeon, Astounding, March 1941.

Weapon Out of Time

by James Blish
“Weapon Out of Time” by James Blish, Science Fiction Quarterly, Spring 1941.

The Brontosaurus

by Robert G. Thompson
“The Brontosaurus” by Robert G. Thompson, Stirring Science Stories, April 1941.

Not the First

by A. E. van Vogt
As Earth’s first starship passes the light-speed barrier, strange things happen to its acceleration—and to the passage of time.
Still, it was odd that the lighting system should have gone on the blink on this first ‘night’ of this first trip of the first spaceship powered by the new, stupendous atomic drive.
“Not the First” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, April 1941.

The Fountain

by Nelson S. Bond
“The Fountain” by Nelson S. Bond, in Unknown, June 1941.

Time Wants a Skeleton

by Ross Rocklynne
After seeing a skeleton with a well-known ring on its finger, a spaceship is thrown back in time and the crew believes that one of them is fated to become that skeleton. This is an early story that addresses the question of whether something known about the future must become true.
He could feel the supple firmness of her body even through the folds of her undistended pressure suit.
“Time Wants a Skeleton” by Ross Rocklynne, Astounding, June 1941.

Yesterday Was Monday

by Theodore Sturgeon
Harry Wright goes to bed on Monday night, skips over Tuesday, and wakes up in a Wednesday that’s not quite been built yet.
The weather makers put .006 of one percent too little moisture in the air on this set. There’s three-sevenths of an ounce too little gasoline in the storage tanks under here.
“Yesterday Was Monday” by Theodore Sturgeon, in Unknown, June 1941.

Doorway of Vanishing Men

by William P. McGivern
“Doorway of Vanishing Men” by William P. McGivern, in Fantastic Adventures, July 1941.

The Geometrics of Johnny Day

by Nelson S. Bond
“The Geometrics of Johnny Day” by Nelson S. Bond, Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1941.

I Killed Hitler

by Ralph Milne Farley
This story does get bonus points for being the earliest kill-Hitler time-travel story that I know of (and for predicting Pearl Harbor), but I didn’t fully follow the ending (after the killing) of this story where a distant cousin to the great dictator goes back to 1899 to gain the trust of the boy he knows will grow up to cruelly rule Europe.
“You think so?” The Swami shook his head. “Ah, no. For it is written that there must be a Dictator—not only a Dictator, but this particular Dictator” to rule over docile Europe, and plunge the world in war.”
“I Killed Hitler” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Weird Tales, July 1941.

The Probable Man

by Alfred Bester
Years before The Demolished Man, there was Bester’s probable man. I looked forward to reading it as the first story of my retirement, and I enjoyed the time-travel model that Bester set up: David Conn travels backward from 2941 to World War II, but then returns to a vastly changed future. For me, though, I found the naÏve attitude toward war unappealing.
She’d be Hilda Pietjen, daughter of the prime minister, just another chip in the Nazi poker game. And he’d be dead in a bunker, a thousand years before he’d been born.
“The Probable Man” by Alfred Bester, Astounding, July 1941.

Sidetrack in Time

by William P. McGivern
Philip Kingley has a plan to get rid of his time-traveling professor some 5000 years in the future. Unfortunately, the ending to Philip’s professor also got rid of any chance more than half a star in my rating.
He scrambled out of the machine, the delirious feeling of success and power coursing through his veins like strong drink. His eyes traveled about the laboratory, slowly, gloatingly. All of it his. The equipment, the formulas, and most of all—the time machine.
“Sidetrack in Time” by William P. McGivern, in Amazing, July 1941.

Weapon Shop

by A. E. van Vogt
Time travel plays only a small role in Van Vogt’s three stories and a serial. The stories follow the immortal founder of The Weapon Shops, an organization that puts science to work to ensure that the common man is never dominated by government or corporations. Along the way, a 20th century man becomes a time-travel pawn, a young man seven millennia in the future takes advantage of a much shorter time-travel escapade, and you’ll spot at least one other time-travel moment.

All the stories were fixed up into two books, The Weapon Shops of Isher and The Weapon Makers, and the SFBC gathered both those into The Empire of Isher.

What did happen to McAllister from the instant that he found the door of the gunshop unlocked?
“Weapon Shop” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, July 1941.

Backlash

by Jack Williamson
Although it doesn’t involve Hitler by name, this story certainly contributed to the Kill-Hitler subgenre of time travel stories.
With the new tri-polar units I can deflect the projection field back through time. That’s where I’m going to attack Levin—in his vulnerable past.
“Backlash” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, August 1941.

Elsewhere

by Robert A. Heinlein
Professor Arthur Frost has a small but willing class of students who explore elsewhere and elsewhen.
Most people think of time as a track that they run on from birth to death as inexorably as a train follows its rails—they feel instinctively that time follows a straight line, the past lying behind, the future lying in front. Now I have reason to believe—to know—that time is analogous to a surface rather than a line, and a rolling hilly surface at that. Think of this track we follow over the surface of time as a winding road cut through hills. Every little way the road branches and the branches follow side canyons. At these branches the crucial decisions of your life take place. You can turn right or left into entirely different futures. Occasionally there is a switchback where one can scramble up or down a bank and skip over a few thousand or million years—if you don’t have your eyes so fixed on the road that you miss the short cut.
“Elsewhere” by Robert A. Heinlein, Astounding, September 1941.

The Man Who Saw Through Time

by Leonard Raphael
Walter Yale and his best friend Gary Fraxer build a time machine in the desert. Fraxer wins the right to use it first, but when he returns from the future, he’s intent on killing Yale.
They had wanted a place where no one would disturb them. So they had come out here and pretended to be doing astronomical observations. Actually, they were perfecting a time machine.
“The Man Who Saw Through Time” by Leonard Raphael, in Fantastic Adventures, September 1941.

Short-Circuited Probability

by Norman L. Knight
Our hero, Mark Livingston, finds a dead human body that is older than the human race—but still quite clearly his own body along with a highly evolved traveling companion.
This is a story of something that did—or didn’t—happen. Question is, can it be properly said that it did or did not?
“Short-Circuited Probability” by Norman L. Knight, Astounding, September 1941.

Borrowed Glory

by L. Ron Hubbard
“Borrowed Glory” by L. Ron Hubbard, in Unknown, October 1941.

By His Bootstraps

by Robert A. Heinlein
Bob Wilson, Ph.D. student, throws himself 30,000 years into the future, where he tries to figure out what began this whole adventure.

Evan Zweifel gave me a copy of this magazine as a present!

Wait a minute now—he was under no compulsion. He was sure of that. Everything he did and said was the result of his own free will. Even if he didn’t remember the script, there were some things that he knew “Joe” hadn’t said. “Mary had a little lamb,” for example. He would recite a nursery rhyme and get off this damned repetitive treadmill. He opened his mouth—
“By His Bootstraps” by Robert A. Heinlein, Astounding, October 1941.

Flame for the Future

by William P. McGivern
In 1990 with worldwide war still underway, a Hitleresque Leader sends two lieutenants into the future to recruit soldiers from the super race that he is creating, but the lieutenants seem to find only a barren Earth where they discuss the situation and smoke their cigarettes.
“The object before you is a Time Machine,” he said with repressed pride. “The result of our Ingenuity and skill. With it we will draw new support to our Cause. Two of my most trusted Lieutenants are to travel into the future to enlist the aid of the races which will be created by us.”
“Flame for the Future” by William P. McGivern, in Amazing, October 1941.

Bandits of Time

by Ray Cummings
Bob Manse and his fiancée Doris are invited by a peculiar man calling himself Tork to a cult-like meeting at 3 A.M. where, says Tork, they will be taken to a New Era in the future with no troubles, no worries, no problems giving eyesight to the blind-from-birth Doris—and no problems kidnapping Doris whether she wants to go or not.
Three A.M. A distant church spire in the city behind us boomed the hour, floating here on the heavy night-air. Abruptly figures were around us in the woods; arriving me. A man carrying the limp form of a girl. From the ship a tiny beam of white light struck on them. Tork! I recognized him. But more than that Blake and I both recognized the unconscious, inert girl. So great a horror swept me that for a second the weird scene blurred before me.
“Bandits of Time” by Ray Cummings, in Amazing, December 1941.

DC Comics

|pending byline|
As a kid, I never read DC (Why would I? Excelsior!), but I’ve read some DC time-travel comics since then (don’t tell Stan). The earliest DC time travel that I’ve found was in 1942, but as for the big boys, the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder got the jump on the Man of Steel by a few months: Batman’s first travel was back to ancient Rome in Batman 24 via hypnosis by Professor Carter Nichols. Here’s a table of notable DC first time-travel experiences that I’ve found through 1969 (after that, everything became time-travel chaos):
OMIGOSH! Now I remember everything! I went to the past in order to prevent Captain Marvel from ever existing! But when I got to the past, all I did was re-live the same events as before! Curses!
“DC Comics” |pending byline|, in Whiz Comics 26, 23 January 1942.

The Immortality of Alan Whidden

by Ralph Milne Farley
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction characterizes Farley as “a rough-hewn, traditional sense-of-wonder writer,” who “as a consequence became relatively inactive with the greater sophistication of the genre after WWII.” But by the time of this story, Farley’s rough-hewn edges of his 1920s Radio Man stories had been smoothed out, and I find his writing to be engaging. I’ll grant that he never stepped away from the view of women as mere objects of beauty, and his characters have too much purity or evil with no examination of the morality of murdering a greedy man. Also, I have seen only stereotyped presentations of other cultures, but his time-travel plots are still fun and worthy of study. In this story, an immortal man serendipitously invents time travel which takes him from 1949 back to the time of his dastardly grandfather and a consistent resolution of the grandfather paradox.
Framed in the front doorway stood a gloriously radiant girl of under twenty. Her flaunting reddish-brown hair was the first feature that caught Whidden’s admiring gaze. Then her eyes, yellow-green and feral, set wide and at just the least little slant, beneath definitely slanted furry brows of the same tawny color as the hair. Lips, full and inviting. Complexion, pink and cream. And a gingham clad figure, virginally volupuous. A sunbonnet hung down her back from strings tied in a little bow beneath her piquant chin.
“The Immortality of Alan Whidden” by Ralph Milne Farley, in Amazing, February 1942.

The Man Who Changed History

by David Wright O’Brien
Reggie Vliet and Sandra Vanderveer want to marry, but Colonel Vanderveer refuses his permission on the basis that Reggie’s family is not of the same standing as the long-established Vanderveers. So Reggie sets out to take down the Vanderveers in the times of Waterloo and the Civil War.

O’Brien was a prolific author who died in action during World War II at age 26.

“Supposing,” he wondered, “that those two old ducks in the pictures on the walls hadn’t been famous?”
“The Man Who Changed History” by David Wright O’Brien, in Amazing, February 1942.

Recruiting Station

by A. E. van Vogt
When the Glorious begin shanghaiing military recruits throughout time, Miss Norma Matheson and her once-and-future boyfriend Jack Garson are caught up in 18 versions of our solar system and a Glorious-vs-Planetarians war.
We are masters of time. We live at the farthest frontier of time itself, and all the ages belong to us. No words could begin to describe the vastness of our empire or the futility of opposing us.
“Recruiting Station” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, March 1942.

Bull Moose of Babylon

by Don Wilcox
A somewhat mad scientist tricks Hal Norton into traveling to ancient Babylon to record ancient animal sounds (I think), but the scientist never told Norton that the kinks in the return mechanism were still being worked out. Trapped in ancient times, Hal meets the also-trapped (and beautiful) niece of the scientist, and together they endure life as slaves while plotting a possible escape.
Where does this slave, Betty, live?
“Bull Moose of Babylon” by Don Wilcox, in Fantastic Adventures, April 1942.

Some Curious Effects of Time Travel

by L. Sprague de Camp
The very first Probability Zero story in Astounding took us on a romp back in time by the members of the Drinkwhiskey Institute to obtain saleable specimens of Pleistocene fauna, where we learn that time travel has an effect on aging (coincidentally, the same effect described by Gaspar in Chapter 9 of El Anacronópete).
A curious feature of time travel back from the present is that one gets younger and younger, becoming successively a youth, a child, an embryo and finally nothing at all.
“Some Curious Effects of Time Travel” by L. Sprague de Camp, Astounding, April 1942.

Yankee Longago

by Dick Briefer
The Boy of To-day had 26 amusing adventures in the Land of Yesterday, which appeared in the pages of Boy Comics 3 (apparently there was no #1 or #2) through 28.
George “Yankee” Longago is an ordinary boy like any of you. He isn’t a superboy or a smarty—(he flunked arithmetic twice)(and drawing)—just ordinary . . except he knows history . . oh boy does he know history—better than the teacher—because he gets his facts by going back in time!
“Yankee Longago” by Dick Briefer, in Boy Comics 3, April 1942.

Croisières sidérales

English release: Sideral Cruises Literal: Sideral cruises

by Pierre Bost, directed by André Zwoboda
Croisières sidérales by Pierre Bost, directed by André Zwoboda (at movie theaters, France, 29 April 1942).

Forever Is Not So Long

by F. Anton Reeds
The professor’s handsome assistant, Stephen Darville, is in love with the professor’s beautiful daughter and wants to spend every waking moment with her, but duty calls—duty to build a time machine, of course, in which the youthful assistant can go ten years into the future to return with the more polished time machines that will be produced by the professor’s very own technicians over the next ten years.
The technicians would “save” themselves ten years of labor and the new sweeping highway in the future and the past would be open to mankind within the life of its discoverer.
“Forever Is Not So Long” by F. Anton Reeds, Astounding, May 1942.

The Push of a Finger

by Alfred Bester
“The Push of a Finger” by Alfred Bester, Astounding, May 1942.

Heritage

by Robert Abernathy
Nick Doody, inventor of the time machine and sole explorer through time, ventures some nine millennia beyond what he reckons was the fall of mankind.
Are you not a Man, and do not Men know everything? But I am only a. . .
“Heritage” by Robert Abernathy, Astounding, June 1942.

My Name Is Legion

by Lester del Rey
At the end of World War II, as the Allies occupation army closes in on Hitler, a man offers him a way to bring back thousands of copies of himself from the future.
Years ago in one of those American magazines, there was a story of a man who saw himself. He came through a woods somewhere and stumbled on a machine, got in, and it took him three days back in time. Then, he lived forward again, saw himself get in the machine and go back.
“My Name Is Legion” by Lester del Rey, Astounding, June 1942.

Time Dredge

by Robert Arthur, Jr.
I haven’t yet read this story which appeared only in Astounding, but Jamie Todd Rubin writes that the story is of two men who seek a German professor who plans to pull things out of ancient South America to help the Germany win World War II.
The German professor had a nice idea for making archeology a branch of Blitzkrieg technique—with the aid of a little tinkering with Time.
“Time Dredge” by Robert Arthur, Jr., Astounding, June 1942.

About Quarrels, about the Past

by John R. Pierce
In addition to A.E. van Vogt’s “Secret Unattainable,” the July 1942 Astounding also had three short, short time travel stories as part of the magazine’s Probability Zero series. In this story, our narrator tells of the quirky Quarrels who took his time machine into the past—or we should say some past—to woo the winsome Nephertiti.
Well, didn’t you realize that this uncertainty holds for the past, too? I hadn’t until Quarrels pointed it out. All we have is a lot of incomplete data. Is it just because we’re stupid? Not at all. We can’t find a unique wave function.
“About Quarrels, about the Past” by John R. Pierce, Astounding, July 1942.

Secret Unattainable

by A. E. van Vogt
After his brother is killed by the Nazis, Herr Professor Johann Kenrube invents a machine that promises a little of everything to Hitler—unlimited energy and natural resources, instant transportation behind enemy lines, even a smidgen of time travel—but only after the Germans have over-committed themselves, does the truth about the machine emerge.
Kenrube was at Gribe Schloss before two P.M., March 21st. This completely nullifies the six P.M. story. Place these scoundrels under arrest, and bring them before me at eight o’clock tonight.
“Secret Unattainable” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, July 1942.

The Strange Case of the Missing Hero

by Frank Holby
Many magazines across the U.S. featured a flag on the cover in this patriotic month. In this second Probability Zero story of the issue, Elliot Gallant, hero to the people and beacon light of courage, was the first man to travel through time; Sebastian Lelong, editor of the Encyclopedia Galactica, aims to find out why he never returned.

This is the earliest story that I’ve spotted anywhere with the time traveler coming to know his own mother.

Elliot Gallant went back into time thirty years. He liked the peaceful days of yesteryear. He married, had a son.
“The Strange Case of the Missing Hero” by Frank Holby, Astounding, July 1942.

That Mysterious Bomb Raid

by Bob Tucker
Sitting around Hinkle’s, the narrator tells the story of how he, along with Hinkle and the local university scientist, took a bomb back in time in an attempt to nip World War II in the bud.
Well, sir, that little machine traveled so fast that before we could stop it we found ourselves in the last century. Somewhere in the 1890s. We were going to drop our oil drip there but I happened to remember that my grandfather was spending his honeymoon in Tokyo sometime during that decade—
“That Mysterious Bomb Raid” by Bob Tucker, Astounding, July 1942.

Time Marches On

by Ted Carnell
Also appearing in the first ever Probability Zero column (along with de Camp’s story, listed above, and a story by Malcolm Jameson) is Carnell’s tale of a group of science fiction authors who explore the consequences of a simple time machine that can be built from radio parts, but can take the traveler only into the future.
Yes, they were practically all here, thought Doc Smith, as his gaze moved from one to another of the circle. Williamson, Miller, Hubbard, Bond, McClary, Rocklynne, Heinlein and MacDonald, and many others who had once written about the mysteries of time travel—so many hundreds of years ago now.
“Time Marches On” by Ted Carnell, Astounding, August 1942.

The Twonky

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
A man, dazed from running into a temporal snag, appears in a radio factory, whereupon (before returning to his own time) he makes a radio that’s actually a Twonky, which promptly gets shipped to a Mr. Kerry Westerfield, who is initially quite confounded and amazed at everything it does.

Because of the story’s opening, I’m convinced the Twonky is from the future. The “temporal snag” that brought it to 1942 feels like an unexpected time rift to me, although the route back to the future is an intentional journey via an unexplained method.

— Michael Main
“Great Snell!” he gasped. “So that was it! I ran into a temporal snag!”
“The Twonky” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1942.

The Barrier

by Anthony Boucher
A man, apparently dazed from running into a temporal snag, appears in a radio factory, whereupon (before returning to his own time) he makes a radio that’s actually a Twonky which gets shipped to a Mr. Kerry Westerfield, who is initially quite confounded and amazed at all it can do.

Because of the opening, I’m convinced that this Twonky is from the future. The “temporal snag” that brought him there feels like an unexpected time rift to me, although the route back to the future is an intentional journey via an unexplained method.

— Michael Main
“Great Snell!” he gasped. “So that was it! I ran into a temporal snag!”
“The Barrier” by Anthony Boucher, Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1942.

Anachron

by Malcolm Jameson
Golden-age favorite Malcolm Jameson wrote three stories of Anachron, Inc., a company that recruits ex-commandos for their “foreign” department—a euphemism for intertemporal commerce.
We can use a limited number of agents for our “foreign” department, but they must be wiry, active, of unusually sound constitution, and familiar with the use of all types of weapons. They MUST be resourceful, of quick decision, tact and of proven courage, as they may be called upon to work in difficult and dangerous situations without guidance or supervision. Previous experience in purchasing or sales work desirable but not necessary. EX-COMMANDO MEN usually do well with us.
“Anachron” by Malcolm Jameson, Astounding, October 1942.

The Case of the Baby Dinosaur

by Walter Kubilius
Futurian Walter Kubilius wrote this story about Wilbur and Stevenson, two members of the Society for the Investigation of Unusual Phenomena, who must track down a time-machinist jokester who, among other things, drops a baby dinosaur in Times Square, plops Cleopatra into a modern beauty contest, and brings Shakespeare to a modern-day theater.
A time-machinist with a sense of humor!
“The Case of the Baby Dinosaur” by Walter Kubilius, in Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1942.

Dinosaur Goes Hollywood

by Emil Petaja
While waiting at a bar for Susie May, a man hears Jock Wemple’s story of how a big-shot scientist brought a brontosaurus to Hollywood just in time for the opening of Back to the Dawn.
I heard a shrill feminine shriek. It was Dorothy LaMarr. Her dress was gold, and shone fit to knock your eyes right through the back of your head.
“Dinosaur Goes Hollywood” by Emil Petaja, in Amazing, November 1942.

The Eternal Wall

by Raymond Z. Gallun
“The Eternal Wall” by Raymond Z. Gallun, in Amazing, November 1942.

The Thunderbolt

by Rafael Astarita
According to the Michigan State University Comic Art Collection index, Doc Savage #10 included a 7-page origin of a superhero called The Thunderbolt (aka Dr. Adams). The story involved a scientific princess and time travel, but the hero was never heard from again. (Maybe he/she is lost in time.)
With the aid of the mystic powers of Princess Ione, mistress of scientific wonders. . .
“The Thunderbolt” by Rafael Astarita, in Doc Savage Comics 10, November 1942.

Kid Eternity

by Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff
Kid Eternity, a lead character in Quality Comics title Hit Comics from #25 to #60 and in eighteen issues of his own title, died before his time, and when he returned to Earth he was able to call real and fictional heroes out of the past to help him fight Nazis and other bad guys.
Come, we must make our way through the corridor of time!
“Kid Eternity” by Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff, in Hit Comics 25, December 1942.

Elsewhen

by Anthony Boucher
Private detective Fergus O’Breen investigates Harrison Patrigde, inventor and ne’er-do-well, who accidentally invents a short-range time machine, causing him to envision how the world (and the lovely Faith Preston) will admire him if only he can get enough money to build a bigger version (perhaps via a murder with the time machine providing an alibi).
Time can pass quickly when you are absorbed in your work, but not so quickly as all that. Mr. Partridge looked at his pocket watch. It said nine thirty-one. Suddely, in the space of seconds, the best chronometer available had gained forty-two minutes.
“Elsewhen” by Anthony Boucher, Astounding, January 1943.

The Search

by A. E. van Vogt
When salesman Ralph Carson Drake tries to recover his missing memory of the past two weeks, he discovers he had interactions with three people: a woman named Selanie Johns who sold remarkable futuristic devices for one dollar, her father, and an old gray-eyed man who is feared by Selanie and her father.

Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and a little fix-up material for his 1970 publication of Quest for the Future.

— Michael Main
The Palace of Immortality was built in an eddy of time, the only known Reverse, or Immortality, Drift in the Earth Time Stream
“The Search” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, January 1943.

Time Locker

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Once again, drunken genius Gallegher invents something without knowing that he has done so. This time around, it’s a box that swallows things up until they reappear at now + x.
He was, Vanning reflected, an odd duck. Galloway was essentially amoral, thoroughly out of place in this too-complicated world. He seemed to watch, with a certain wry amusement, from a vantage point of his own, rather disinterested for the most part. And he made things—
“Time Locker” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding, January 1943.

El milagro secreto

English release: The Secret Miracle Literal: The secret miracle

by Jorge Luís Borges
[ex=bare]“El milagro secreto” | The secret miracle[/ex] by Jorge Luís Borges, in Sur, February 1943.

Mimsy Were the Borogoves

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
A scientist in the far future sends back two boxes of educational toys to test his time machine. One is discovered by Charles Dodgson’s niece in the 19th century, and the other by two children in 1942.

This story was in the first book that I got from the SF Book Club in the summer of 1970, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 (edited by Robert Silverberg). I read and reread those stories until the book fell apart.

Neither Paradine nor Jane guessed how much of an effect the contents of the time machine were having on the kids.
“Mimsy Were the Borogoves” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding, February 1943.

Shock

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
“Shock” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1943.

Sanctuary

by Anthony Boucher
Mr. Holding, an American poet in Vichy France before the U.S. came into the war, visits an American scientist who is trying to stay neutral as he builds his time machine.
I am, sir, a citizen of the world of science.
“Sanctuary” by Anthony Boucher, Astounding, June 1943.

Caverns of Time

by Carlos M. McCune
The Four Musketeers are transported from 1628 to a current-day Utah desert where they meet medical student and sometimes truck driver Clive, who kindly equips them with motorcycles and weapons more powerful than muskets for an impending battle with the cardinal’s men.
Following d’Artagnon, they rode their motorcycles right into the main dining hall of the inn.
“Caverns of Time” by Carlos M. McCune, in Fantastic Adventures, July 1943.

Unthinking Cap

by John R. Pierce
“Unthinking Cap” by John R. Pierce, Astounding Science-Fiction / Science Fact, July 1943.

Endowment Policy

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
A futuristic old man asks the taxi dispatcher specifically for Denny Holt’s cab. When the man gets in the cab, he offers Denny $1000 to protect him from pursuit for just one night and to steal a brown notebook with a secret formula from the War Department.
Now, shielding the bills with his body, he took them out for a closer examination. They looked all right. They weren’t counterfeit; the serial numbers were O.K.; and they had the same odd musty smell Holt had noticed before.

“You must have been hoarding these,” he hazarded.

Smith said absently, “They’ve been on exhibit for sixty years—” He caught himself and drank rye.

“Endowment Policy” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding, August 1943.

Doorway into Time

by C. L. Moore
Treasures and beings from across time and space populate the halls of an age-old collector whose tiredness of life can be renewed only by the danger of the next hunt, which in this case means going naked and weaponless against Paul, defender of the lovely Alanna.
On the wall before him, in the dimness of the room, a great circular screen looked out opaquely, waiting his touch. A doorway into time and space. A doorway to beauty and deadly peril and everything that made livable for him a life which had perhaps gone on too long already.
“Doorway into Time” by C. L. Moore, in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1943.

Paradox Lost

by Fredric Brown
During a philosophy lecture, the left hand of bored college student Shorty McCabe disappears, at which point Shorty figures he may as well follow wherever the hand went, which turns out to be into a time machine invented by the only kind of person who could invent such a thing—a crazy man.
But a time machine is impossible. It is a paradox. Your professors will explain that a time machine cannot be, because it would mean that two things could occupy the same space at the same time. And a man could go back and kill himself when he was younger, and—oh, all sorts of stuff like that. It’s completely impossible. Only a crazy man could—
“Paradox Lost” by Fredric Brown, Astounding, October 1943.

Dick Devins, King of Futuria

|pending byline|
Dick Devins was a 20th century time traveler who protected the 30th century from all that was evil. He appeared in the four 1944 issues of Mystery Comics (#-4) and in at least four 1947 issues of Wonder Comics (11-14).
Twenty-four hours in the 30th century, eh? Sounds interesting—if your time machine works! I’ll take your offer, professor!
“Dick Devins, King of Futuria” |pending byline|, in Mystery Comics 1, 1944.

Ravage Universe 2

Le voyageur imprudent

English release: Future Times Three Literal: The imprudent traveler

by René Barjavel
[ex=bare]Le voyageur imprudent | Future times three[/ex] by René Barjavel (Denoël, 1944).

As Never Was

by P. Schuyler Miller
One of the first inexplicable finds by archaeologists traveling to the future is the blue knife made of no known material brought back by Walter Toynbee who promptly dies, leaving it to his grandson to explain the origin of the knife.
I knew grandfather. He would go as far as his machine could take him. I had duplicated that. He would look around him for a promising site, get out his tools, and pitch in. Well, I could do that, too.
“As Never Was” by P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding, January 1944.

Far Centaurus

by A. E. van Vogt
Four men set out for Alpha Centauri on a 500-year journey where each will awaken only a handful of times. That’s not time travel, of course, but be patient and you will run into real time travel.

Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and some fix-up material (especially for “Far Centaurus”) for his 1970 publication of Quest for the Future.

We’re here! It’s over, the long night, the incredible journey. We’ll all be waking, seeing each other, as well as the civilization out there. Seeing, too, the great Centauri suns.
“Far Centaurus” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, January 1944.

Archie Comics

by John L. Goldwater et al.
I’d like to know more about time travel by Riverdale’s upstanding citizens. The earliest I found was in “Time Trouble” from Archie 7 (Mar 1944), which did get the jump on Batman by five months. Later episodes were in Pep 131 (Feb 1959) and at least a handful of 1960s stories.
“Archie Comics” by John L. Goldwater et al., in Archie 7, March 1944.

Time on Your Hands

by David Wright O’Brien
Although I enjoyed the first Reggie Vliet story (“The Man Who Changed History’), this second story didn’t grab me, even though Reggie does inherit the time-travel watch and travels to see Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar, the sacking of Rome, and Columbus.

It does make me reflective to know that this story was written shortly before O’Brien’s death in a World War II bomber over Europe.

He, Reggie Vliet, was again actually living in the past. He could enjoy it, relish it, admire it, and—change it. That was why he was here. To scramble the past, knock it off its customary track, blast it out of its timeworn groove.
“Time on Your Hands” by David Wright O’Brien, in Fantasic Adventures, April 1944.

The Lake

by Ray Bradbury
In this tragic tale, Doug returns to the lakeshore where a decade before, at age twelve, he built sandcastles with Tally, his first love.
— Michael Main
Tally, if you hear me, come in and build the rest.
“The Lake” by Ray Bradbury, in Weird Tales, May 1944.

The Yehudi Principle

by Fredric Brown
“The Yehudi Principle” by Fredric Brown, in Astounding Science Fiction, May 1944.

Time Flies

by J. O. C. Orton, Ted Kavanagh, and Howard Irving Young, directed by Walter Forde
After Susie Barton’s husband invested their nest egg in Time Ferry Services, Ltd., it appears that the only way she’ll ever get anything out of it is by giving a performance in Elizabethan times.

This is the earliest appearance of a time machine—the “Time Ball”—in film that we know of. And based on the name Time Ferry Services, Ltd, it may also be the earliest film mention of a time travel agency.

— Michael Main
Normally, we drift with the current and travel downstream and into what we call the future. Now, if we equip our little boat with a motor, we can speed our passage downstream into the future or, breasting the current, travel upstream to view again those selfsame scenes that were passed by humanity ages ago.
Time Flies by J. O. C. Orton, Ted Kavanagh, and Howard Irving Young, directed by Walter Forde (at movie theaters, UK, 8 May 1944).

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

by Mel Blanc
I hope I’ll find more time travel in the Warner Brothers cartoons, but for starters, there’s “The Old Grey Hare” where Elmer Fudd is taken far into the future—past 1990!—where he chases bugs with the Buck Rogers Lightning Quick Rabbit Killer, and Daffy Duck with Speedy Gonzalez in “See Ya Later, Gladiator” (1968).
When you hear the sound of the gong, it will be exactly twoooooo thowwwwwsand Ayyyyy Deee!
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies by Mel Blanc (28 October 1944).

The Mysterious Traveler

by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan
I believe all episodes of The Mysterious Traveler were written by the prolific pair of Arthur and Kogan. The episodes stretched the sf field from thrillers to hard science fiction, but always with a creepy atmosphere. There were at least three time travel episodes and several more that I’ll mark as probably time travel based on their titles.
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little, and chill you a little. So, settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable if you can, and hear the strange story that I call “The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln.”
The Mysterious Traveler by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan (13 January 1945).

The Pink Caterpillar

by Anthony Boucher
After Norm Harker tells of a magic man who can bring you back a single item from the future (for the right price), Anthony Boucher’s detective Fergus O’Breen tops the story with the tale of how he figured out why a dead American living in Mexico liked to call himself a doctor.
At least that’s the firm belief everywhere on the island: a tualala can go forward in time and bring you back any single item you specify, for a price. We used to spend the night watches speculating on what would be the one best thing to order.
“The Pink Caterpillar” by Anthony Boucher, in Adventure, February 1945.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Jack Hearne
Jack Hearne’s illustrations provided an abbreviated but accurate adaptation of Hank Morgan’s medieval travails.
Ah! I’ve got it! On June 21st, 528, there was a total eclipse of the sun, but in 1879 there was none. . . now to wait. . . that will prove everything!
“ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Jack Hearne, in Classic Comics 24, September 1945.

Interference

by Murray Leinster
“Interference” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Science Fiction, October 1945.

What You Need

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Reporter Tim Carmichael visits Peter Talley, a shopkeeper on Park Avenue who provides things that his select clientele will need in the future.

I don’t always include prescience stories in my list, but like Heinlein’s “Life-Line,” this one is an exception, both because of the origin of Peter Talley’s prescience and because it was made into episodes of Tales of Tomorrow (the TV show) and [work-142 | The Twilight Zone[/ex].

— Michael Main
By turning a calibrated dial, I check the possible futures
“What You Need” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1945.

Line to Tomorrow

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
“Line to Tomorrow” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1945.

Dead City

by Murray Leinster
“Dead City” by Murray Leinster, Thrilling Wonder Stories,[/em] Summer 1946.

Special Knowledge

by A. Bertram Chandler
A man in WW2 Britain trades minds with his descendant, an officer on a spaceship. They are shipwrecked on Venus, where his 20th century seaman’s experience saves the day.
— Dave Hook
“Special Knowledge” by A. Bertram Chandler, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1946.

A Guest in the House

by Frank Belknap Long
“A Guest in the House” by Frank Belknap Long, Astounding Science Fiction, March 1946.

Rescue Party

by Arthur C. Clarke
Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first contact story.
— Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.
“Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946.

The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull

by Anthony Boucher
Private Eye Fergus O’Breen is back for his third and final encounter with time travel, this time with a time traveler who shows up dead in his room one day and is alive and walking in a stilted manner the next. In the process of explaining himself, the traveler also displays knowledge of Boucher’s traveler in “Barrier” and also of Breen’s other time travel encounters.
And now, I realize, Mr. O’Breen, why I was inclined to trust you the moment I saw yoiur card. It was through a fortunately preserved letter of your sister’s, which found its way into our archives, that we knew of the early fiasco of Harrison Partridge and your part therein. We knew, too, of the researches of Dr. Derringer, and how he gave up in despair after his time traveler failed to return, having encountered who knows what unimaginable future barrier.
“The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull” by Anthony Boucher, Astounding, June 1946.

Favorite Story

by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Each week, a different personality would choose a favorite story to be dramatized on radio station KFI’s, Los Angeles, Favorite Story program hosted and narrated by actor True Boardman. They broadcast at least three time-travel tales, all adapted by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. In fact, the first time travel was also KFI’s first episode, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, selected by actor Ed Gardner. Another episode was bandleader Kay Kyser’s favorite, The Time Machine, which was the second radio script for the Wells classic, significantly abridged but more faithful than the 1948 Escape radio production.

More or less concurrently, the broadcasts were repackaged nationally for NBC radio by Ziv Syndication with Ronald Colman as host; there were also some new NBC episodes (not adapted by Lawrence and Lee) including A Christmas Carol, which as everyone knows has no real time travel. The KFI dates below are taken from ocrsite.com; the NBC dates (which were aired differently across the country) are from audio-classics.com. The selector for each story is also given in the list below.

I ask you to imagine, gentlemen, a cube—a square box, let us say—which has only those three dimensions: length, breadth, and thickness.. . . Would not such a cube also require another dimension?
Favorite Story by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (26 June 1946).

Film Library

by A. E. van Vogt
Each time a film goes through Peter Caxton’s projector at Tichenor Collegiate, it gets replaced with a different film from the future.

Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and a little fix-up material for his 1970 publication of Quest for the Future.

Not that he would necessarily have suspected anyway that he had come into possession of films that had been made more than fifty years in the future.
“Film Library” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, July 1946.

Frankenstein

by Dirk Briefer
I’m always on the lookout for early depictions outside of sf with a climb-in-able time machine where you set the dials and go. Briefer’s humorous Frankenstein had just a such a machine in a 9-page story in issue 3 (Jul 1946). Frankenstein runs into Professor Goniph, and they travel in his machine to 2046 and 1646, although there is a twist at the end.
It works!! It works!!! I am a genius!! We are in 2046!!!
“Frankenstein” by Dirk Briefer (July 1946).

Blind Time

by George O. Smith
Oak Tool Works has developed a handy time treatment whereby a portion of any tool can be sent into the future for a limited time, but its movements during that time must exactly mirror the movements of the rest of the tool during the current time. Peter Wright is the insurance adjuster who must examine an accident that the treatment is going to cause at 8pm.
There is that element of wonder, too, you know. Every man in the place knows that someone is going to get clipped with that crane.
“Blind Time” by George O. Smith, Astounding, September 1946.

Vintage Season

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
More and more strange people are appearing each day in and around Oliver Wilson’s home; the explanation from the euphoric redhead leads him to believe they are time travelers gathering for an important event.
— Michael Main
Looking backward later, Oliver thought that in that moment, for the first time clearly, he began to suspect the truth. But he had no time to ponder it, for after the brief instant of enmity the three people from—elsewhere—began to speak all at once, as if in a belated attempt to cover something they did not want noticed.
“Vintage Season” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding, September 1946.

Technical Error

by Arthur C. Clarke
When Dick Nelson is accidentally exposed to a tremendous electromagnetic field, he comes out with his body reversed left-to-right, essentially a death sentence since certain necessary stereoisomers will be unavailable in the reverse form in his diet. The solution is to flip Dick over once again, requiring a trip through the fourth dimension (spatial) and a bit of time travel to boot. The head physicist assures Nelson that this is purely a spatial fourth dimension that he’ll be flipped over in.
“You say that Nelson has been rotated in the Fourth Dimension; but I thought Einstein had shown that the Fourth Dimension was time.”

Hughes groaned inwardly.

“I was referring to an additional dimension of space,” he explained patiently.

“Technical Error” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Fantasy, December 1946.

Me, Myself and I

by William Tenn
As an experiment, a scientist sends unemployed strongman Cartney back 110 million years to make a small change. He makes this first change, which changes things in the present, and then he must go back again and again, whereupon he meets himself and him.

I keep finding earlier and earlier stories with the idea of destroying mankind by squishing a bug, and I am wondering whether this is the earliest linchpin bug (although that doesn’t actually happen here).

Maybe tomorrow you’ll be visiting your great, great grandmother.
“Me, Myself and I” by William Tenn, in Planet Stories, Winter 1947.

Housing Shortage

by Harry Walton
“Housing Shortage” by Harry Walton, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1947.

No-Sided Professor

by Martin Gardner
“No-Sided Professor” by Martin Gardner, in Esquire, January 1947.

Time to Die

by Murray Leinster
“Time to Die” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1947.

Child’s Play

by William Tenn
Sam Weber, an underemployed lawyer, receives a Bild-a-Man kit as a Christmas gift from 400 years in the future—and it’s a timely gift, too, seeing as how he could use a replacement girlfriend.
Bild-a-Man Set #3. This set is intended solely for the use of children, between the ages of eleven and thirteen. The equipment, much more advanced that Bild-a-Man Sets 1 and 2, will enable the child of this age-group to build and assemble complete adult humans in perfect working order.
“Child’s Play” by William Tenn, Astounding, March 1947.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by Ray Bradbury
When a typewriter appears on the floor of his boarding room and begins typing messages from the future, down-on-his-luck Steve Temple thinks it must be his old jokester friend Harry—but he’s wrong about that, and the fate of the world 500 years down the line now depends on what Steve does about a recently elected man. “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” doesn’t have the notoriety of that other Bradbury story about time travel and an elected official, but even though this one’s riddled with ridiculous ideas on time, it does accurately predict text messaging!
— Michael Main
Sorry. Not Harry. Name is Ellen Abbot. Female. 26 years old. Year 2442. Five feet ten inches tall. Blonde hair, blue eyes—semantician and dimensional research expert. Sorry. Not Harry.
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Ray Bradbury, in Fantastic Adventures, May 1947.

Errand Boy

by William Tenn
When invention mogul Malcolm Blyn spots an unusual can of paint that a young boy brings to his factory, he begins to wonder whether it came from the future and what else the future may hold.
I hand him an empty can and say I want it filled with green paint—it should have orange polka dots.
“Errand Boy” by William Tenn, Astounding, June 1947.

A Hitch in Time

by Frederik Pohl
“A Hitch in Time” by Frederik Pohl, Thrilling Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1947.

The Figure

by Edward Grendon
The narrator, along with his pals Dettner and Lasker, are frantically working on a machine that can bring something back from the future before they’re all called away by the army to work on some cockroach problem.

I enjoy stories with some personal connection to myself (and generally award an extra half star). In this case, the connection is Alfred Tarski, the Polish logician who was the advisor of the advisor of my own academic advisor, David B. Benson.

Lasker is a mathematician. He specializes in symbolic logic and is the only man I know who can really understand Tarski.
“The Figure” by Edward Grendon, Astounding, July 1947.

The Children’s Room

by Raymond F. Jones
Bill Starbrook, an engineer and a devoted family man, discovers a hidden Children’s Room in the university library where his genius son Walt has been checking out books which nobody except himself and Walt can read. In some way that’s hard to explain, that leads to mutants on Earth, an alien invasion, a worry that the mutants are going to take away Walt to save mankind, and (in passing) a requirement that the Children’s Room be moved to a different time.

It’s fair to say that this story’s not about the time travel.

Some emergency has come up. I don’t know what, exactly. They’ve got to move the Children’s Room to some other age right away—something about picking up an important mutant who is about to be destroyed in some future time.
“The Children’s Room” by Raymond F. Jones, in Fantastic Adventures, September 1947.

DC Comics

by George O. Smith
It seems that everyone in the DC stable wanted to get in on the road to time travel including the humor line-up. The earliest that I’ve found so far in the Nov 1947 issue of All Funny Comics. Later, there were Bob Hope (in Bob Hope 43) and Jerry Lewis (in Jerry Lewis 43 and 54). In Bob’s story, he gets sent into the future by Carolyn Spooner. It also had a cover with Bob as a caveman. As I find others, I’ll list them in my time-travel comic books page.
This can’t be the stone age!—I’m just putty in the hands of a girl like you!
“DC Comics” by George O. Smith, Astounding, September 1947.

Meddler’s Moon

by George O. Smith
“Meddler’s Moon” by George O. Smith, in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1947.

Collector’s Item

by Frank Belknap Long
“Collector’s Item” by Frank Belknap Long, Astounding Science Fiction, October 1947.

Brick Bradford

by George Plympton, Arthur Hoerl, and Lewis Clay, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett and Thomas Carr
In fifteen episodes, Brick travels to the moon to protect a rocket interceptor while his pals take the time top to the 18th century to find a critical hidden formula.
— Michael Main
Maybe tomorrow you’ll be visiting your great, great grandmother. 
Brick Bradford by George Plympton, Arthur Hoerl, and Lewis Clay, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett and Thomas Carr (at movie theaters, USA, 18 December 1947).

Timely Comics

by Martin Goodman
Timely was the predecessor to Atlas which became Marvel Comics in the ’60s. Some of their superheroes survived that transition (Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, and an android Human Torch, among others). I’ve only begun to dig up their time travel, finding one issue of All Winners Comics where Captain America and the All Winners Squad do battle with a man from 1,000,000 A.D. Also, in 1948, the Timely superhuman, comical boxer, Powerhouse Pepper, visited the pilgrims via time machine (Powerhouse Pepper 4, Sep 1948).
Project yourselves far into the fture. . . to the year one million A.D. The Earth is almost unfit for human life!
“Timely Comics” by Martin Goodman, in All Winners Comics 21, Winter 1946/1947.

Double Cross in Double Time

by William P. McGivern
I like stories that begin with a want ad, including Heinlein’s Glory Road and the recent movie Safety Not Guaranteed. This is the earliest such story that I’ve seen, in which Paddy Donovan answers the ad (just off Fourth Avenue) to find Professor O’Neill, the professor’s angelic daughter, and a machine that stimulates a man’s dormant ability to travel through time. So, after a quick jaunt to ancient Egypt, Paddy offers to bankroll the development of the time machine’s business potential.
Opening for young man of adventurous nature. Opportunity for travel, excitement, glory.
“Double Cross in Double Time” by William P. McGivern, in Fantastic Adventures, February 1948.

The Shape of Things

by Ray Bradbury
“The Shape of Things” by Ray Bradbury, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1948.

Thiotimoline

by Isaac Asimov
I don’t know if this is time travel or not, but it certainly violates causality when the time for thiotimoline to dissolve in water is minus 1.12 seconds.
Mr. Asimov, tell us something about the thermodynamic properties of the compound thiotimoline.
“Thiotimoline” by Isaac Asimov, Astounding, March 1948.

Brooklyn Project

by William Tenn
So far, this is the earliest story I’ve read with the thought that a minuscule change in the past can cause major changes to our time. The setting is a press conference where the Secretary of Security presents the time-travel device to twelve reporters.
The traitorous Shayson and his illegal federation extended this hypothesis to include much more detailed and minor acts such as shifting a molecule of hydrogen that in our past really was never shifted.
“Brooklyn Project” by William Tenn, in Planet Stories, Fall 1948.

He Walked Around the Horses

by H. Beam Piper
“He Walked Around the Horses” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, April 1948.

The Time Machine

by Irving Ravetch
In the first of many audio adaptations of Wells’s classic story, with Dudley (the inventor) takes his friend Fowler along for the ride so that he’ll have someone to talk with about the Eloi and the Morlocks. The script has been restaged multiple times.
On this machine, a man can go wherever he likes in time. By working these levers, a man can choose his century, his year, his very day.
The Time Machine by Irving Ravetch, in Escape radio program on CBS, 9 May 1948.

The Tides of Time

by A. Bertram Chandler
Upon his 21st birthday, the twentieth in the line of descendants of Aubrey St. John Sheraton is to be taken into confidence about the secret of his family’s centuries-long financial success.
I’d wait five hundred years for you, my darling.
“The Tides of Time” by A. Bertram Chandler, in Fantastic Adventures, June 1948.

Police Operation

by H. Beam Piper
“Police Operation” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, July 1948.

Time Trap

by Charles L. Harness
The story presents a fixed series of events, which includes a man disappearing at one point in the future and (from his point of view) reappearing at the start of the story to then interact with himself, his own wife, and the evil alien.

It’s nice that there’s no talk of the universe exploding when he meets himself, but even so, the story suffers from a murkiness that is often part of time-travel stories that are otherwise enjoyable. The murkiness stems from two points: (1) That somehow the events are repeating over and over again—but from whose viewpoint? (2) The events are deterministic and must be acted out exactly the same each time. I enjoy clever stories that espouse the viewpoint of the second item (“By His Bootstraps”). But this does not play well with the first item, and (as with many stories), Harness did not address that conflict nor the consequent issue of free will. Still, I enjoyed the story and wish I’d met Harness when I traveled to Penn State University in the spring of 1982.

But searching down time, Troy-Poole now found only the old combination of Troy and Poole he knew so well. Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, each preceding the other. As far back as he could sense, there was always a Poole hovering over a Troy. Now he would become the next Poole, enmesh the next Troy in the web of time, and go his own way to bloody death.
“Time Trap” by Charles L. Harness, Astounding, August 1948.

The Cube Root of Conquest

by Rog Phillips
Hute Hitle, a dictator on the war-torn planet of Amba, plans to bring down an apocalypse and then travel to the future where he can fulfil his insatiable ambitions to be accepted as the one Leader.

The story is a crudely written Hitler fantasy, but it does have the interesting idea that travel through time can best be accomplished by stepping sideways into a parallel universe, traveling through time in that other universe, and then stepping back. Fortunately Amba, the scientist who discovered this version of time travel, knows more about the workings of the mechanism than Hitle ever will.

A time machine in one of these other universes could carry me to any point in the future without danger it might have encountered in this one, such as an atom bomb dropped on the space it would have been in here?
“The Cube Root of Conquest” by Rog Phillips, in Amazing, October 1948.

No Winter, No Summer

by James Blish and Damon Knight
“No Winter, No Summer” by James Blish and Damon Knight, Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948.

Time Trap

by Rog Phillips
Time Trap by Rog Phillips (Century Publications, 1949).

Let the Ants Try

by Frederik Pohl
After a nuclear war, Dr. Salva Gordy and John de Terry decide to use their time machine to see whether a recently mutated form of ant might do a better job than mankind if the ants were given a 40-million-year head start.
And I doubt that you speak mathematics. The closest I can come is to say that it displaces temporal coordinates. Is that gibberish?
“Let the Ants Try” by Frederik Pohl, in Planet Stories, Winter 1949.

Stalemate in Space

by Charles L. Harness
Even though this story was reprinted as “Stalemate in Time” in the 1960s, it still was just a battle between two death stars. No time travel.
— Michael Main
For twenty years, in company with her great father, she had watched The Defender grow from a vast metal skeleton into a planet-sized battle globe.
“Stalemate in Space” by Charles L. Harness, Planet Stories, Summer 1949.

Private Eye

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
A jilted man plans murderous revenge while trying to avoid any behavior that would reveal his plans to the government’s all-seeing technology that can reconstruct the past from electromagnetic and sound waves.
— Michael Main
It was sensitive enough to pick up the “fingerprints” of light and sound waves imprinted on matter, descramble and screen them, and reproduce the image of what had happened.
“Private Eye” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1949.

The Red Queen’s Race

by Isaac Asimov
By my count, this was Asimov’s fourth foray into time travel, but his first as Dr. Asimov. In the story, the dead Elmer Tywood also had a Ph.D. and a plan to translate a modern chemistry textbook into Greek before sending it back in time to inaugurate a Golden Age of science long before it actually occurred.
There was a short silence, then he said: “I’ll tell you. Why don’t you check with his students?”

I lifted my eyebrows: “You mean in his classes?”

He seemed annoyed: “No, for Heaven’s sake. His research students! His doctoral candidates!”

“The Red Queen’s Race” by Isaac Asimov, in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1949.

The Red Queen’s Race

by Isaac Asimov
“The Red Queen’s Race” by Isaac Asimov, in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1949.

The Time Machine

by Robert Barr, [director unknown]
The first TV broadcast of The Time Machine, a little less than an hour, came live from the BBC’s Studio A at Alexandra Palace on 25 Jan 1949 with a second revised broadcast on 21 Feb 1949.

Seeing as how there are no recordings of the broadcast, I wish I had my own time machine so I could send my Betamax® back to 1949.

— Michael Main
Thomas Sheridan in Fantasy Review: In the first showing, after a brief interval in which the hands of the wall-clock recorded the passing of many hours, the lights began to dip and rise to indicate the passage of the days, and as this effect speeded up the walls of the room gradually dissolved. In the second performance this was cut out, killing the impression of fast-moving time. But, outside, the sun moves ever more swiFTLy across the sky until it is a continuous band of light, rising and falling to indicate the equinoxes, and throwing into vivid relief the changing shapes of successions of buildings which become more startlingly futuristic as the Traveller flashes through the ages.
The Time Machine by Robert Barr, [director unknown] (BBC Television, UK, 25 January 1949).

Manna

by Peter Phillips
After the Miracle Meal food company builds a canning plant on the site of a 12th century haunted priory, cans of the Manna start disappearing.
Miracle Meal. Press here.
“Manna” by Peter Phillips, Astounding, February 1949.

Next Friday Morning

by D. W. Barefoot
“Next Friday Morning” by D. W. Barefoot, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1949.

Studio One

created by Fletcher Markle
Almost every week for a period of nearly eleven years (7 Nov 1948 to 29 Sep 1958), Studio One presented a black-and-white drama to CBS’s television audience. We can claim some of the TV plays as our own in the sf genre, and at least two included time travel (a “Berkeley Square” remake on 20 March 1949, and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” on 19 May 1952). One other sf connection comes from Studio One clips of William Shatner (in “The Defender,” 1957) which were used to portray a young Denny Crane in an episode of Boston Legal (“Son of the Defender,” 2007).
You’ve heard of the transmigration of soul; have you ever heard of the transposition of a man’s body in time and place?
Studio One created by Fletcher Markle.

ACG Comics

by Benjamin W. Sangory
ACG had a handful of weird story comic books including Adventures into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds and Forbidden Worlds. I picked up a few of these at garage sales as a kid, but never really got into them. The earliest time travel that I’ve found so far was a story called “Back to Yesterday” in Adventures into the Unknown 4. Some of the issues are now available on google books.
It’s supposed to work by producing a displacement in the hyper-temporal field by means of a powerful mesotronic stasis of the continuum—and anyone near the machine’s field will immediately be projected into the future!
“ACG Comics” by Benjamin W. Sangory, in Adventures into the Unknown 4, April 1949.

I, Mars

by Ray Bradbury
“I, Mars” by Ray Bradbury, in Super Wonder Stories, April 1949.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Edmund Beloin, directed by Tay Garnett
Bing Cosby’s delightful portrayal of the Yankee Hank Martin (why not Morgan?!) begins in 1912 after he’s already returned from Camelot. He’s just traveled to England and sought out the very castle of his 6th-century musical adventures, where he proceeds to tell his story to the master of the castle.

Based on Hank’s knowledge of the castle and its displays, the time travel definitely occurred in this version, with both the travel back and travel forward caused by clonks on the head. And based on the ending, Hank might not have been the only traveler through time.

— Michael Main
Docent: Kindly notice the round hole in the breastplate, undoubtedly caused by an iron-tipped arrow of the period.
Hank Martin: [shakes head and grunts] . . . I mean, well, that happens to be a bullet hole.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Edmund Beloin, directed by Tay Garnett (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 7 April 1949).

Flight into Yesterday

by Charles L. Harness
With a scope to rival A.E. Van Vogt, Harness tells the tale of Alar (aka The Thief), a swashbuckling amnesiac with amazing mental powers who’s bent on overthrowing the evil solar system empire while being pursued from the Earth to the Moon to the Sun and beyond by the Imperial Police. Oh yes, there’s also this mutant mind who claims he’s the only survivor of an accidental time-traveling space ship.
Do I understand that you want me to believe that someone will leave in the T-Twenty-Two tonight, jet backward in time, crash into the Ohio River five years ago and swim ashore as Alar?
Flight into Yesterday by Charles L. Harness, Startling Stories, May 1949.

The Life-Work of Professor Muntz

by Murray Leinster
“The Life-Work of Professor Muntz” by Murray Leinster, Thrilling Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1949.

Mighty Mouse Comics

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Surely Mighty Mouse time traveled in his comics many times, but the one that I ran across in the MichiganState University library records is a 2-page text piece called “The Time Machine” in issue 11. I haven’t read it, so I can’t say whether it’s fiction or perhaps something on H.G. Wells’s story.

The mouse did save the day himself via time travel in 1961 (Mighty Mouse 152). As I find other instances, I’ll add them to my time-travel comics page.

“Mighty Mouse Comics” |pending byline|, in Mighty Mouse 11, June 1949.

The Wall of Darkness

by Arthur C. Clarke
“The Wall of Darkness” by Arthur C. Clarke, Super Science Stories, July 1949.

Time Heals

by Poul Anderson
“Time Heals” by Poul Anderson, Astounding, October 1949.

Reversion

by M. C. Pease
“Reversion” by M. C. Pease, Astounding Science Fiction, December 1949.

The Man Who Lived Backward

by Ralph Milne Farley
Although this story shared a title with Malcolm Ross’s 1950 book of the same name, Farley’s story has but a small scope and a technical bent, explaining the natural mechanism that has taken the psychiatric patient known as Sixtythree and turned him into someone who (among other backward things) calls his beloved Margaret “Gnillrahd Tellagrahm!”
For example, I well remember the night when he woke up the entire Asylym by yelling “Fire!,” just before the boiler explosion which nearly caused a holocaust.
“The Man Who Lived Backward” by Ralph Milne Farley, in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).

The Revenge of the Great White Lodge

by Ralph Milne Farley
Farley published the first 5500 words of this unfinished novel in his 1950 collection, The Omnibus of Time, but he never finished the partly autobiographical book about a New Hampshire lawyer, Lincoln Houghton, who follows an apparent time traveler to a cult compound before being transported to an alternate reality.
As to the advice which I promised you. Watch your cousin warren, so far as Katherine is concerned!—Now you have a real reason to dislike your cousin.
“The Revenge of the Great White Lodge” by Ralph Milne Farley, in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).

Stranded in Time

by Ralph Milne Farley
Only Farley himself knows his intent with this story, but to me it seems as if he were trying to make amends for his sexist tales of bygone pulp days by writing a story of football player cum physics student Milton Collett and his beautiful—but not airheaded—gal, Carolyn Van Horn, who together take a one-way trip to a future in which roles of men and women have been reversed. For me, Farley didn’t quite pull it off.
His intern stared at him with awed respect. A man—able to read!
“Stranded in Time” by Ralph Milne Farley, in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).

An Ounce of Prevention

by Paul A. Carter
By virtue of being on Mars, John Stilson is the last survivor of the human race after the ultimate war, but the Martians have a plan to change all that by sending Stilson back to alter the amount of fissionable material in Earth’s crust.
Wherever in history a decision involving alternatives has to be made, separate and distinct futures branch off, rooted in that choice. There is a world in which the American colonies became a nation, and a world in which they remained under British rule. There is a world in which Franklin Roosevelt was four times elected President, and a world in which the assassination attempt against him in Miami was successful. There is no “might have been,” for the events that “might have been” have actually taken place, somewhere in time—not before, not after, but beside their alternatives.. . .
“An Ounce of Prevention” by Paul A. Carter, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950.

Time’s Arrow

by Arthur C. Clarke
Barton and Davis, assistants to Professor Fowler, are on an archaeological dig when a physicist sets up camp next door and speculations abound about viewing into the past—or is it only viewing?
— Michael Main
The discovery of negative entropy introduces quite new and revolutionary conceptions into our picture of the physical world.
“Time’s Arrow” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Science-Fantasy, Summer 1950.

The Long Dawn

by Noel Loomis
“The Long Dawn” by Noel Loomis, Super Science Stories, January 1950.

Outside of Time

by Carroll John Daly
“Outside of Time” by Carroll John Daly, in Weird Tales, January 1950.

Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov
Joseph Schwartz takes one step from 1949 to the year 847 of the Galactic Era, where he meets archaeologist Bel Arvardan, Earth scientist Dr. Shekt, the doctor’s beautiful daughter Pola, and a plot to destroy all non-Earth life in the galaxy.
He lifted his foot to step over a Raggedy Ann doll smiling through its neglect as it lay there in the middle of the walk, a foundling not yet missed. He had not quite put his foot down again. . .
Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, January 1950).

Spectator Sport

by John D. MacDonald
Dr. Rufus Maddon is the first man to travel 400 years into the future, but those he meets think he’s in need of treatment.
Every man can have Temp and if you save your money you can have Permanent, which they say, is as close to heaven as man can get.
“Spectator Sport” by John D. MacDonald, Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950.

To the Stars

by L. Ron Hubbard
To the Stars by L. Ron Hubbard, serialized Astounding, February to March 1950.

The Wheel of Time

by Robert Arthur, Jr.
Decades before that other Robert wrote of his Wheel of Time, Robert Arthur gave us this story of his recurring mad scientist Jeremiah Jupiter and his long-suffering assistant Lucius. This time, Jupiter plans to create a time machine from oranges, The Encyclopedia Britannica, bass drums, tiny motorcycles, and three trained chimps.
I am going to set up an interference in the time rhythm at this particular spot. Then the chimpanzies will enter it with my time capsules—since I know you won’t—and they will deposit the capules here a million years ago!
“The Wheel of Time” by Robert Arthur, Jr., Super Science Stories, March 1950.

Forever and the Earth

by Ray Bradbury
At age 70, Mr. Henry William Field feels that he’s wasted his life trying to capture the world of the 23rd century in prose, but he also feels there’s one last hope: Use Professor Bolton’s time machine to bring a great writer of the 20th century forward to today.
I’ve called you because I feel Tom Wolfe’s the man, the necessary man, to write of space, of time, huge things like nebulae and galactic war, meteors and planets, all the dark things he loved and put on paper were like this. He was born out of his time. He needed really big things to play with and never found them on Earth. He should have been born this afternoon instead of one hundred thousand mornings ago.
“Forever and the Earth” by Ray Bradbury, in Planet Stories, Spring 1950.

2000 Plus

by Sherman H. Dreyer and Robert Weenolsen
After World War II, the American public became fascinated with science, scientists and the future, one result of which were the national science fiction anthology radio shows starting with 2000 Plus. There was no limit to the scientific wonders that we would have by the year 2000! The series had at least two time-travel episodes in its two-year run or original scripts (and possibly a third, “Time Out of Hand”).
The sky, the sky is wrong, Sebastian! The constellations are all twisted up. Halley’s comet is back where it must have been a few thousand years ago! Sebastion, I’ve got it! That sky! That sky is the sky of about 5000 years ago!
2000 Plus by Sherman H. Dreyer and Robert Weenolsen.

EC Comics

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The prototypical comic book weird story anthologies were EC’s titles that began in April 1950 with Crypt of Terror. I don’t know whether that title and EC’s other horror comics had any time travel (because I was forbidden from reading those!), but Harry Harrison, Wally Wood and their fellow artists managed some in the titles that were more geared to sf.

I’m aiming for a complete list of EC’s time-travel vignettes, but the list as of now is only partial. The first one I found was in Weird Fantasy 13 (May/Jun 1950), which was actually its first issue. That was part of a ruse to take over a second-class postage permit from A Moon, a Girl . . . Romance (which ended with issue 12). They stuck with that numbering through the fifth issue (number 17) when the postmaster general took note, and the next one was number 6. I did kinda wonder how many of those romance readers were surprised when Weird Fantasy 13 showed up in their mailboxes.

There was a sister title, Weird Science, which began in May/Jun 1952 with issue 12 (taking over the postage permit after the 11th issue of Saddle Romance). It had many time travel stories, starting with “Machine from Nowhere” in issue 14 (the 3rd issue).

Weird Science and Weird Fantasy were not selling that well, so EC combined them into a single title—Weird Science-Fantasy—with issue 23 in March 1954. Alas, there was but one time-travel story, “The Pioneer” in number 25 (Sep 1954), about which EC’s site says A man attempts to be the first to successfully time travel, but there are some casualties on the way.. . .. weird-science-fantasy-025-p4.jpg By the way, the whole run of EC comics would be 4 stars, but it gets an extra ½ star because of Al Williamson’s adaptation of “The Sound of Thunder” in Weird Science-Fantasy 24 and the beautiful Frank Frazetta cover on the final issue (number 29) of Weird Science-Fantasy. The third image to the left is one Frazetta did of that cover in 1972, with a bonus vamp in the bottom right corner. The cover had a gladiator fighting cave men, but it was not a time-travel story.

In 1955, the Comics Code Authority banned the word “Weird,” so the title became Incredible Science Fiction with number 30 (Jul/Aug 1955). The four-issue run had only one time-travel tale (“Time to Leave” by Roy G. Krenkel in number 31).

I just stepped off the path, that’s all. Got a little mud on my shoes! What do you want me to do, get down and pray?
“EC Comics” |pending byline| (May 1950).

Night Meeting

by Ray Bradbury
On his own in the Martian night, Tómas Gomez meets an ancient Martian whom he can talk with but not touch.
How can you prove who is from the Past, who from the Future?
“Night Meeting” by Ray Bradbury, in The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, May 1950).

The Remarkable Flirgleflip

by William Tenn
It’s difficult living in the intermediate era—the first to have an official Temporal Embassy from the future—because the embassy is always bossing people around and canceling promising research, but Thomas Alva Banderling won’ be stopped from sending his Martian archaeologist flirglefliper friend Terton to the past so that Banderling himself can get credit for inventing the time machine.
Exactly. The Temporal Embassy. How can science live and breathe with such a modifier? It’s a thousand times worse than any of these ancient repressions like the Inquisition, military control, or university trusteeship. You can’t do this—it will be done first a century later; you can’t do that—the sociological impact of such an invention upon your period will be too great for its present capacity; you should do this—nothing may come of it now, but somebody in an allied field a flock of years from now will be able to integrate your errors into a useful theory.
“The Remarkable Flirgleflip” by William Tenn, in [Error: Missing '[/ex]' tag for wikilink]

Weird Fantasy #13 (1950)

Only Time Will Tell

by Al Feldstein et al.
Start by reading Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941), and then read this one. You’ll enjoy both and stretch your mind around the first ex nihilo idea that we’ve spotted in comic books. Note that the half blueprint itself does have an origin, and you can trace it’s timeline from that origin to the past and back again. It’s only the concept expressed in the blueprint that has no origin.
— Michael Main
—are the same piece!
“Only Time Will Tell” by Al Feldstein et al., Weird Fantasy #13 (EC Comics, May/June 1950).

The Fox and the Forest

by Ray Bradbury
Roger Kristen and his wife decide to take a time-travel vacation and then run so they’ll never have to return to the war torn world of 2155 AD.
The inhabitants of the future resent you two hiding on a tropical isle, as it were, while they drop off the cliff into hell. Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them. It is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave. I am the guardian of their collective resentment against you two.
“The Fox and the Forest” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 13 May 1950.

Dimension X

by Fred Wiehe and Edward King
In the month that Collier’s ran its first time-travel story, Dimension X broadcast the same story with an original adaptation. I found just one later story of time-travel in their 46-episode run. (They also did an abbreviated Pebble in the Sky, but without Joseph Schwartz’s time travel.)
We have Time Machines for sale: simple little machines of paper and ink, tubes and wires that, coupled with your own mind can soar down the years of . . . Eternity.
Dimension X by Fred Wiehe and Edward King.

Time in Thy Flight

by Ray Bradbury
Mr. Fields takes Janet, Robert and William back to 1928 to study their strange ways.
And those older people seated with the children. Mothers, fathers, they called them. Oh, that was strange.
“Time in Thy Flight” by Ray Bradbury, Fantastic Universe, June/July 1950.

Half-Past Eternity

by John D. MacDonald
“Half-Past Eternity” by John D. MacDonald, Super Science Stories, July 1950.

The Little Black Bag

by C. M. Kornbluth
In a 25th century where the vast majority of people have stunted intelligence (or at least talk with poor grammar), a physicist accidentally sends a medical bag back through time to Dr. Bayard Full, a down-on-his-luck, generally drunk, always callously self-absorbed, dog-kicking shyster. Despite falling in with a guttersnipe of a girl, Annie Aquella, he tries to make good use of the gift.
Switch is right. It was about time travel. What we call travel through time. So I took the tube numbers he gave me and I put them into the circuit-builder; I set it for ‘series’ and there it is-my time-traveling machine. It travels things through time real good.
“The Little Black Bag” by C. M. Kornbluth, Astounding, July 1950.

Vengeance, Unlimited

by Fredric Brown
After Venus is destroyed by an invading fleet, Earth and Mars end their dispute in order to put together a fleet that can travel back in time to extract vengeance on the invaders. I like Brown’s work a lot, but not this story which had gaping holes, not the least of which was a problem with the units of c raised to the c power (one of my pet peeves).
In ten years, traveling forward in space and backward in time, the fleet would have traversed just that distance—186,334186,334 miles.
“Vengeance, Unlimited” by Fredric Brown, Super Science Stories, July 1950.

Weird Fantasy #14 (1950)

The Trap of Time!

by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen
Physicist Don Hartley has a plan to save his beloved Adele, who died in a car crash on a hot July night.
— Michael Main
You will be tampering with tremendous natural forces, Don! It is dangerous! You may unleash some awful catastrophe!
“The Trap of Time!” by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen, Weird Fantasy #14 (EC Comics, July/August 1950).

Last Enemy

by H. Beam Piper
“Last Enemy” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, August 1950.

Time Is a Coffin

by Gilbert Mead
“Time Is a Coffin” by Gilbert Mead, Amazing Stories, September 1950.

Flight from Tomorrow

by H. Beam Piper
When the revolution finally comes, the dictatorial leader Hradzka escapes to the past in a time machine, but he overshoots his target and ends up in the first decade after the discovery of atomic power.
“The ‘time-machine’,” Zarvas Pol replied. “If he’s managed to get it finished, the Great Mind only knows where he may be, now. Or when.”
“Flight from Tomorrow” by H. Beam Piper, in Future Science Fiction, September/October 1950.

Weird Fantasy #15 (1950)

I Died Tomorrow!

by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen
When a mad scientist with a time machine gets together with a power-crazed university president, the result is deadly (and time travel aspects of the plot makes little sense).
— Michael Main
I licked my lips greedily! I had to have that time-machine!
“I Died Tomorrow!” by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen, Weird Fantasy #15 (EC Comics, September/October 1950).

S.O.S. . . . in Time

by D. K. Garton
“S.O.S. . . . in Time” by D. K. Garton, in Thrills Incorporated, October 1950.

Operation Peril’s

by Richard Hughes
Before it became a war comic, the first twelve issues of ACG’s Operation Peril included a regular series about Dr. Tom Redfield and his rich fiancé, Peggy, who buy some of Nostradamus’s papers and discover that he’d designed a time machine.

I haven’t found definitive information on the creators of this series. Several sites name ACG editor Richard E. Hughes as the writer; some places speculate that it was drawn by Ken Bald, but Pappy’s Golden Age Blog indicates that a reader names Lin Streeter as the actual artist, and Pappy agrees.

Why, what an odd-looking blueprint! Tempus Machina—why, Tom! That’s Latin for Time Machine!
“Operation Peril’s” by Richard Hughes, in Operation Peril 1, October/November 1950.

Time and Again

by Clifford D. Simak
After twenty years, Ash Sutton returns in a cracked-up ship without food, air or water—only to report that the mysterious planet that nobody can visit is no threat to Earth. But a man from the future insists that Sutton must be killed to stop a war in time; while Sutton himself, who has developed metaphysical, religious leanings, finds a copy of This Is Destiny, the very book that he is planning to write.
It would reach back to win its battles. It would strike at points in time and space which would not even know that thre was a war. It could, logically, go back to the silver mines of Athens, to the horse and chariot of Thutmosis III, to the sailing of Columbus.
Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak, in Galaxy, October to December 1950 [3-part serial].

Day of the Hunters

by Isaac Asimov
A midwestern professor tells a half-drunken story of time travel and the real cause of the dinosaur extinction.
— Michael Main
Because I built a time machine for myself a couple of years ago and went back to the Mesozoic Era and found out what happened to the dinosaurs.
“Day of the Hunters” by Isaac Asimov, in Future Science Fiction, November 1950.

Transfer Point

by Anthony Boucher
Vyrko, the Last Man on Earth, is confined to a shelter with the beautiful but unalluring scientist’s daughter Lavra, until he starts reading a stash of old pulp magazines with stories that exactly describe himself and Lavra.
Good old endless-cycle gimmick. Lot of fun to kick around but Bob Heinlein did it once and for all in ‘By His Bootstraps.’ Damnedest tour de force I ever read; there just aren’t any switcheroos left after that.
“Transfer Point” by Anthony Boucher, in Galaxy, November 1950.

Ziff-Davis Comics

by William B. Ziff, Sr. et al.
Ziff-Davis published dozens of comic book titles in the first half of the 1950s including some anthologies of weird stories. The first issue of their Amazing Adventures included a time-travel tale called “Trespasser in Time” in which the hero and the professor go through a strange fourth dimension full of inverted coneheads.
We’re obviously stranded in the fourth dimension. . . We’ve both escaped that monster by plunging into the color-stream. . . which must be the stream of time!
“Ziff-Davis Comics” by William B. Ziff, Sr. et al., in Amazing Adventures 1, November 1950.

A Stone and a Spear

by Raymond F. Jones
In a post-Hiroshima world, Dr. Dell resigns from a weapons lab to farm, and when Dr. Curtis Johnson visits to persuade him to come back, he finds that Dell’s reasons are linked to time travel.
Here within this brain of mine has been conceived a thing which will probably destroy a billion human lives in the coming years. D. triconus toxin in a suitable aerosol requires only a countable number of molecules in the lungs of a man to kill him. My brain and mine alone is responsible for that vicious, murderous discovery.
“A Stone and a Spear” by Raymond F. Jones, in Galaxy, December 1950.

A Subway Named Mobius

by A. J. Deutsch
“A Subway Named Mobius” by A. J. Deutsch, Astounding, December 1950.

Pawley’s Peepholes

by John Wyndham
Jerry, his girl Sally, and everyone else in the quiet town of Westwich are forced to put up with gawking but immaterial tourists from the future who glide by on sight-seeing platforms.
Was Great Grandma as Good as She Made Out? See the Things Your Family History Never Told You
“Pawley’s Peepholes” by John Wyndham, in Science-Fantasy, Winter 1951-52.

Reaping Time

by A. Bertram Chandler
“Reaping Time” by A. Bertram Chandler, in Slant, Winter 1951.

Weird Fantasy #17 (1951)

The Time Machine and the Shmoe!

by Harvey Kurtzman
Cleaning man Donald Yubyutch is fed up with everyone at the time travel lab thinking he’s nothing but a shmoe.
— Michael Main
Please sir, professor, sir! Can I go along with you on the time machine?
“The Time Machine and the Shmoe!” by Harvey Kurtzman, Weird Fantasy #157 (EC Comics, January/February 1951).

Such Interesting Neighbors

by Jack Finney
Al Lewis and his wife Nell have new neighbors, an inventor who talks of time travel from the future and his wife Ann.

The story was the basis for the second episode of Science Fiction Theater and also Spielberg’s Amazing Stories.

But Ann walked straight into that door and fell. I couldn’t figure out how she came to do it; it was as though she expected the door to open by itself or something. That’s what Ted said, too, going over to help her up. “Be careful, honey,” he said, and laughed a little, making a joke of it. “You’ll have to learn, you know, that doors won’t open themselves.”
“Such Interesting Neighbors” by Jack Finney, in Collier’s, 6 January 1951.

. . . and It Comes Out Here

by Lester del Rey
Old Jerome Boell, inventor of the household atomic power unit, visits his young self to make sure that the household atomic power unit gets invented, so to speak.
But it’s a longish story, and you might as well let me in. You will, you know, so why quibble about it? At least, you always have—or do—or will. I don’t know, verbs get all mixed up. We don’t have the right attitude toward tenses for a situation like this.
“. . . and It Comes Out Here” by Lester del Rey, in Galaxy, February 1951.

Like a Bird, Like a Fish

by H. B. Hickey
When a strange ship crashes in Guadalajara, the villagers call Father Vincent. When the priest realizes that the visitors are lost and their ship is broken, he calls Pablo, who can fix anything (although generally mañana). And when everyone realizes that the visitors, who have already conquered their own realm where time-is-space and vice versa, mean to conquer Earth next (after all, Earthlings make good food), it seems too late to call anyone.
Father Vincent was sorry that the villagers had called him. They should have set the fire. But it was too late.

“You will come in peace?” he asked, his voice beginning to tremble. “You will do no harm?”

“Like a Bird, Like a Fish” by H. B. Hickey, in Worlds Beyond, February 1951.

Atlas Comics

|pending byline|
Before they started slinging superheroes, Stan Lee and the bullpen were working at Marvel’s predecessor, Atlas Comics, putting out comics that mimicked EC’s anthologies. The first one I found was in Astonishing 6 (Apr 1951). As I find others, I’ll list them on my time-travel comics page.
Of course! that’s it! I forgot to connect the plug to the electric outlet!
“Atlas Comics” |pending byline|, in Astonishing 6, April 1951.

Nice Girl with 5 Husbands

by Fritz Leiber
On an artist retreat, a man gets blown 100 years into the future where, among other things, group marriage and group parenting are the norm.
— Michael Main
“Who are you talking about?”

“My husbands.” She shook her head dolefully. “To find five more difficult men would be positively Martian.”

“Nice Girl with 5 Husbands” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1951.

Temple Trouble

by H. Beam Piper
“Temple Trouble” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, April 1951.

Absolutely No Paradox

by Lester del Rey
Old Ned recalls the time fifty years ago when his young friend Pete LeFranc set off for the future despite Ned’s warning that time travel can lead to nothing but paradoxes. And, asks Ned (anticipating Hawking), if time travel were so easy, then where are all the time travelers from the future?
If yours works, there’ll be more time machines built. With more built, they’ll be improved. They’ll get to be commonplace. People’d use them—and someone would turn up here with one. Or in the past. Why haven’t we met time travelers, Pete?
“Absolutely No Paradox” by Lester del Rey, in Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1951.

Don’t Live in the Past

by Damon Knight
A future transportation system goes awry, which results in flangs, tweedledums, collapsed flooring, argo paste, and mangels (yes, especially mangels) being delivered to the homes and business places of persons in a past century. Moreover, it’s quite possible that civilization down the line (including Bloggett’s own time!) will be altered. When the buck finally stops, the buck-kickers have decided that it’s up to Ronald Mao Jean-Jacques von Hochbein Mazurin to travel back and set things right.
The mathematicians are still working on that, Your Honor, and the best they can say now is that it was probably somewhere between the mid-Twentieth Century and the last Twenty-First. However there is a strong possibility that none of the material reached any enclosed space which would attract it, and that it may all have been dissipated harmlessly in the form of incongruent molecules.
“Don’t Live in the Past” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy, June 1951.

Excalibur and the Atom

by Theodore Sturgeon
“Excalibur and the Atom” by Theodore Sturgeon, in [Error: Missing '[/ex]' tag for wikilink]

Youthful Magazines

by Bill Friedman and Sophie Friedman
From 1949 through 1954, the Friedman’s Youthful Magazines published ten distinct comic book titles. The first time travel I spotted was in Captain Science 5, where the brainy captain takes youthful teen Rip and redheaded bombshell Luana to Pluto at 40 times the speed of light to fight villains from the future. As I find other Youthful time travel, I’ll add it to my time-travel comics page.
Yes. Let’s see. Infinity over pi minus the two quadrants cubed. . .
“Youthful Magazines” by Bill Friedman and Sophie Friedman, in Captain Science 5, August 1951.

The Biography Project

by H. L. Gold
Many sf stories are called upon to provide one-way viewing of the past with no two-way interference, but few (not this one) will answer.
There were 1,000 teams of biographers, military analysts, historians, etc., to begin recording history as it actually happened—with special attention, according to Maxwell’s grant, to past leaders of industry, politics, science, and the arts, in the order named.
“The Biography Project” by H. L. Gold, in Galaxy, September 1951.

Genesis

by H. Beam Piper
“Genesis” by H. Beam Piper, in Future/Science Fiction Stories, September 1951.

Ambition

by William L. Bade
Bob Maitland, a 1950s rocket scientist who dreams of going to the moon and the planets, is kidnapped in the middle of the night by an intelligent, athletic man named Swarts who speaks with an unusual accent. After the first interrogation by Swarts, Maitland realizes that Venus’s position in the sky means that he’s not only been taken to a different place, but to a different time as well—but he still doesn’t know why.
When Swarts started saying a list of words—doubtlessly some sort of semantic reaction test—Maitland began the job of integrating “csc³x dx” in his head. It was a calculation which required great concentration and frequent tracing back of steps. After several minutes, he noticed that Swarts had stopped calling words. He opened his eyes to find the other man standing over him, looking somewhat exasperated and a little baffled.
“Ambition” by William L. Bade, in Galaxy, October 1951.

Of Time and Third Avenue

by Alfred Bester
Apparently, time travel has rules. For example, you cannot go back and simply take something from the past—it must be given to you. Thus, our man from the future must talk young Oliver Wilson Knight and his girlfriend into giving up the 1990 almanac that they bought in 1950.
If there was such a thing as a 1990 almanac, and if it was in that package, wild horses couldn’t get it away from me.
“Of Time and Third Avenue” by Alfred Bester, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1951.

The Shape of Things That Came

by Richard Deming
George Blades takes a trip from 1900 to 1950 (wearing his uncle’s time-nightshirt, of course), and upon his return, he chronicles the journey in fictional form, which he submits to his unbelieving editor.
I am concerned solely with potential reader reaction. The average reader simply won’t believe in your year 1950.
“The Shape of Things That Came” by Richard Deming, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1951.

Walt Disney’s Comics

|pending byline|
The first mention of time travel that I’ve found for Disney characters in the comics was the story of Uncle Wombat’s Tock Tock Time Machine which ran in Mickey’s daily strip from 22 Oct 1951 through 19 Jan 1952. As for comic books, the first one that I ever read in the comic books was when Mickey and Goofy traveled back to Blackbeard in August, 1968. I’ve since found travel in the comic books as early as 1964 (Gyro Gearloose travels in Uncle Scrooge 50) and 1962 (Chip ’n’ Dale 30). I’ll keep looking and add any new finds to my time-travel comic book page.
A fantastic time machine enables Mickey and Goofy to live in different periods of history. Right now they are aboard Mickey’s unarmed merchant vessel off the Carolinas in the early 1700’s—and off to starboard is a treacherous pirate ship. . .
“Walt Disney’s Comics” |pending byline|, in Mickey Mouse daily strips, 22 October 1951.

Fool’s Errand

by Lester del Rey
Roger Sidney, a 23rd-century professor of paraphysics, travels back to ask an aging Nostradamus whether he truly wrote those uncannily accurate predictions that were not found until 1989, but Sidney overshoots his target and ends up searching for a young Nostradamus in a tavern in southern France.

“Fool’s Errand” was the second story del Rey wrote after moving to New York in 1944 where he rented a $3/week room near Ninth Avenue and Fifty-Seventh Street, but Campbell rejected the story for Astounding as being too obvious. It was another seven years before Roger Sidney would find his way into the pages of Science Fiction Quarterly, one of the new spate of 1950s sf magazines.

If Nostradamus would accept the manuscript as being his, the controversy would be ended, and the paraphysicists could extend their mathematics with sureness that led on toward glorious, breathtaking possibilities. Somewhere, perhaps within a few feet, was the man who could settle the question conclusively, and somehow Sidney must find him—and soon!
“Fool’s Errand” by Lester del Rey, in Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1951.

The Hunting Season

by Frank M. Robinson
For the crime of questioning the State’s hunts in public, huntman David Black is sentenced to become the quarry in a three-day hunt in the past—the 20th century in this case.

My own student, David Black, who died unexpectedly in the summer of 2006, would always talk with me about anything and everything. So if he were still alive as I read this (in 2015), we would have a happy afternoon reading it and talking about the social situation the story brings up, or maybe we’d figure out why I’m so attracted to one-against-the-system stories.

You’re much better off than if we had held the hunt in Sixteenth Century Spain during the inquisition or perhaps ancient Rome during the reign of Caligula. You may even like it here during the brief period of the hunt. It’s a fairly civilized culture, at least in a material sense.
“The Hunting Season” by Frank M. Robinson, Astounding, November 1951.

Pillar to Post

by John Wyndham
Terence Molton, a double amputee, falls into a dope trance and wakens in the body of a Hymorell, a man in a flawed utopian future that to Molton’s mind is immoral in many ways. As for his part, Hymorell is back in Terence’s body, building a machine to reverse the swap. Quite naturally, Terence feels some resistance to swapping back, a resistance that’s driving enough to give him some questionable morals himself.

One of the pleasures of reading old magazines is seeing the innocence of the ads, such as a 1.5-inch ad for Frank A. Schmid’s bookstore on Columbus Circle in New York. i’ve got them all! every one!, proclaims the ad, referring to sf books of the day. And perhaps they did!

I sat up suddenly, feeling my legs, both of them. There wasn’t any pain. But there were two legs and two feet!

Then I did something I hadn’t let myself do in years—I burst into tears.

“Pillar to Post” by John Wyndham, in Galaxy, December 1951.

Mighty Mouse

by Izzy Klein and Paul Terry
Mighty Mouse saved the day many a time, so doubtlessly he has saved the day in many other times, too, but so far I’ve seen only one such episode (“Prehistoric Perils,” 1952) in which our mouse goes in our villain’s machine back to the dinosaurs to save Pearl Pureheart.
And now, my little papoose, I shall take you off in my time machine.
Mighty Mouse by Izzy Klein and Paul Terry (28 December 1951).

Croisière dans le temps

Literal: Cruise back in time

by F. Richard-Bessière
Croisière dans le temps by F. Richard-Bessière (Fleuve Noir, 1952).

The Island of Five Colors

by Martin Gardner
“The Island of Five Colors” by Martin Gardner, in Future Tense, edited by Kendell Foster Crossen (Greenberg, 1952).

What If—

by Isaac Asimov
“What If—” by Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Summer 1952.

Tales of Tomorrow

by Theodore Sturgeon and Mort Abrahamson
When Sturgeon and Abrahamson sold the idea of this anthology show to ABC, they had the backing of the Science Fiction League of America, giving ABC first shot at any stories written by league members. They took good advantage of the deal, including stories by Fredric Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, C.M. Kornbluth, and others including Henry Kuttner and C.M. Moore’s “What You Need.” That excellent 1945 story involves future prediction without time travel, but I included it in my time-travel list just because I liked it so much (and it was later made into a Twilight Zone episode, too). Hence, I’ll count the Feb 1952 airing of the story as the first time travel in Tales of Tomorrow. There were at least four other see-into-the-future-or-past episodes, but I won’t include them in the list below. After all, one must have standards!

In general, I’d place the stories on the more horrific end of the science fiction scale, but certainly worth watching.

After my treatment, you’l awake. You’ll find yourself in a room a thousand miles from here and back seven years in time. You’ll have absolutely no remembrance of these past seven years. The slate will be clean.
Tales of Tomorrow by Theodore Sturgeon and Mort Abrahamson.

The Choice

by Wayland Hilton-Young
In about 200 words, Williams goes to the future and returns with the memory of only one small thing.
— Michael Main
How did it happen? Can you remember nothing at all?
“The Choice” by Wayland Hilton-Young, in Punch, 19 March 1952.

The Business, as Usual

by Mack Reynolds
A time traveler from the 20th century has only 15 minutes to negotiate a trade for an artifact to prove that he’s been to the 30th century.
“Look, don’t you get it? I’m a time traveler. They picked me to send to the future. I’m important.”

“Ummm. But you must realize that we have time travelers turning up continuously these days.”

“The Business, As Usual” by Mack Reynolds, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1952.

Factor, Unknown

by Sam Merwin, Jr.
In order to save the world, wealthy young Houghton travels back fifty years to set straight his great-uncle’s world-threatening mistakes, but it’s Alison—Houghton’s fiery tempered cousin-once-removed—who has a more genuine interest in saving the future than her father does.
— Michael Main
“This is most extraordinary,” he said in an unexpectedly high-pitched voice, regarding Houghton benignly from the tall white fortress of his collar. “You say that you have come back through time to instruct me how to arrange my affairs so that they will not be instrumental in destroying the world some fifty years hence.”
“Factor, Unknown” by Sam Merwin, Jr., Other Worlds Science Stories, June 1952.

The Gadget Had a Ghost

by Murray Leinster
“The Gadget Had a Ghost” by Murray Leinster, Thrilling Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1952.

Tales of Tomorrow (s01e37)

All the Time in the World

by unknown writers and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Don Medford
The skilled robber is now Henry Judson and his target is now the New York Metropolitan Museum, but the plot essentials remain largely the same as in Clarke’s earlier story: Use the time traveler’s foolproof plan to rob the museum.
— Michael Main
Within this five-foot circle, time is speeded up to an almost unbelievable pace. But the world outside the circle remains unchanged.
“All the Time in the World” by unknown writers and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Don Medford (ABC-TV, USA,13 June 1952).

A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury
Eckels, a wealthy hunter, is one of three hunters on a prehistoric hunt for T. Rex conducted by Time Safari, Inc.

This was not the first speculation on small changes in the past causing big changes now (for example, Tenn’s “Me, Myself, and I”), but I wonder whether this was the first time that sensitive dependence on initial conditions was expressed in terms of a single butterfly.

Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 28 June 1952.

All the Time in the World

by Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Ashton is offered a huge amount of money to carry out a foolproof plan of robbing the British Museum of its most valuable holdings.
— Michael Main
Your time scale has been altered. A minute in the outer world would be a year in this room.
“All the Time in the World” by Arthur C. Clarke, Startling Stories, July 1952.

Star, Bright

by Mark Clifton
Pete Holmes knows that Star, his three-year-old girl, is bright, and he worries that being so intelligent will make life difficult for her (as it has for himself); and then when an equally bright boy moves in next door and Pete observes them playing together and dropping an impossibly ancient Egyptian coin, he’s not sure whether that makes the situation better or worse.
And those were the children who were too little to cross the street!
“Star, Bright” by Mark Clifton, in Galaxy, July 1952.

Space Adventures #1

Time Skipper Visits the City of Brass

[writer unknown] and Art Cappello (art)
Charlton’s first issue of Space Adventures introduced Hap Holliday, the Time Skipper, who travels with Professor Eon Tempus to the far future to rescue Ula, queen of Futuropolis, from reptile people. The end of this installment assures us that we’ll learn more of Ula in the next issue, but alas, the second and final adventure of the Time Skipper was delayed until Space Adventures #3.
— Michael Main
Just skip along with Hap Holliday, the time skipper, in his “Year an Instant” yacht and learn what the world can be like in somebody else’s lifetime!!!
“Time Skipper Visits the City of Brass” [writer unknown] and Art Cappello (art), in Space Adventures 1, July 1952.

Across the Ages

by John Russell Fearn
Across the Ages by John Russell Fearn (Scion, August 1952).

Hobson’s Choice

by Alfred Bester
By night, Addyer dreams of traveling to different times; by day, he is a statistician investigating an anomalous increase in the country’s population centered right in the part of the country that took the heaviest radiation damage in the war.
Either he imagined himself moved backward in time with a double armful of Encyclopedia Britannica, best-sellers, hit plays and gambling records; or else he imagined himself transported forward in time a thousand years to the Golden Age of perfection.
“Hobson’s Choice” by Alfred Bester, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952.

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Comics

|pending byline|
No doubt that the bunny and his friends have often traveled through time in the pages of four colors with many titles published by Dell/Gold Key/Whitman. The first such possible escapade that I’ve seen was a story called “Fiddling with the Future” in Bugs Bunny 50 in which some gypsy friends of Bugs can read the future.
We saw you reading the future with it over at the carnival!
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Comics |pending byline|, in Bugs Bunny 50, August 1952.

Demotion

by Robert Donald Locke
“Demotion” by Robert Donald Locke, Astounding Science Fiction, September 1952.

The Entrepreneur

by Thomas Wilson
Ivan Smithov, an upstanding U.S. Communist from the year 2125, is charged with making arrangements for a team of three entrepreneurs to visit the U.S. in 1953 to make preparations for a time tourist enterprise—but Ivan runs into problems procuring local currency for the expedition from the Soviet embassy of the time until his companions’ behavior draws enough attention that the ambassador begins to believe him. But what other consequences might their goings-on have?
Mrat-See turned quickly, wincing at the protest of his aching muscles. The creature standing before him might have issued from a nightmare. Its heavy, barrellike body was slung like a hammock on four bowed legs. The enormous head, with undershot jaw, protruding fangs, and pendulous lips, was turned toward him unswervingly, and the continuing growl was a deep rumble of menace from the massive chest. Mrat-See’s heart leaped with fear. He had seen such creatures before in the Yorkgrad zoo. Dogs they were called.
“The Entrepreneur” by Thomas Wilson, Astounding, September 1952.

The Fence

by Clifford D. Simak
This is a nice short story that touches briefly on one of my personal pet tropes, the time viewer, but which is really once again a paranoid sort of piece—it seems that people in the future live lives of complete leisure, so who is providing for us?
“The Fence” by Clifford D. Simak, Space Science Fiction, September 1952.

Game for Blondes

by John D. MacDonald
“Game for Blondes” by John D. MacDonald, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952.

Bring the Jubilee

by Ward Moore
In a world where the South won the “War for Southern Independence,” Hodge Backmaker, a northern country bumpkin with academic leanings, makes his way to New York City where he becomes disillusioned, ponders the notions of time and free will, and eventually goes to a communal think-tank where time travel offers him the chance to visit the key Gettysburg battle of the war.
I could say that time is an illusion and that all events occur simultaneously.
“Bring the Jubilee” by Ward Moore, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1952.

Space Adventures #3

The Time Skipper Travels to Ancient Rome

[writer unknown] and artist
At the end of the Time Skipper’s first adventure, Hap Holliday and the professor were hoping to convince Queen Ula to accompany them back to the past, and it seems they succeeded, since Ula is with them on the splash page. But in their return trip (via the ever-staunch Timejumper), they overshoot their mark and end up in ancient Rome where the trio meets Cleopatra and tries to save Caesar.
— Michael Main
Write Caesar a letter in your own hand, inviting him here tomorrow and we’ll have Ula deliver it. That will keep him from going to the Senate chamber!
“The Time Skipper Travels to Ancient Rome” [writer unknown] and artist, in Space Adventures 3, November 1952.

Unto Him That Hath

by Lester del Rey
After losing a leg fighting the Pan-Asians, Captain Michael Dane returns home to his brilliant physicist girlfriend, his father, and a college professor/general who wants his help in swiping technology from the future. But when they grab a future fighter plane, his father is seemingly sucked into the future and his girlfriend may be a spy.
The government was convinced enough to finance Project Swipe, so it can’t be too crazy. We’re actually reaching into the future. Look, we’re losing the war—we know that. Pan-Asia is matching our technology and beating our manpower. But somewhere ahead, they’ve got things that Pan-Asia can’t have—and we're going to get some of that.
“Unto Him That Hath” by Lester del Rey, in Space Science Fiction, November 1952.

Sail On! Sail On!

by Philip José Farmer
“Sail On! Sail On!” by Philip José Farmer, Startling Stories, December 1952.

Bring the Jubilee

by Ward Moore
The novella version of this story appeared first, but I don’t know which was written first. Both are well worth reading, but my preference is for the novella which tells the same story in a more direct fashion.
I could say that time is a convention and that all events occur simultaneously.
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953).

The Time Masters

by Wilson Tucker
The Time Masters by Wilson Tucker (Rinehart, 1953).

The Victorian Chaise Longue

by Marghanita Laski
The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski (Cresset, 1953).

Button, Button

by Isaac Asimov
Harry Smith has an eccentric scientist uncle who needs to make some money from his astonishing invention that can bring one gram of material from the past.
Do you remember the time a few weeks back when all of upper Manhattan and the Bronx were without electricity for twelve hours because of the damndest overload cut-off in the main power board? I won’t say we did that, because I am in no mood to be sued for damages. But I will say this: The electricity went off when my uncle Otton turned the third knob.
“Button, Button” by Isaac Asimov, Startling Stories, January 1953.

Teething Ring

by James Causey
“Teething Ring” by James Causey, Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953.

Time Bum

by C. M. Kornbluth
After a con man reads a lurid science fiction magazine, a man who’s quite apparently out-of-time shows up to rent a furnished bungalow from Walter Lacblan.
Esperanto isn’t anywhere. It’s an artificial language. I played around with it a little once. It was supposed to end war and all sorts of things. Some people called it the language of the future.
“Time Bum” by C. M. Kornbluth, Fantastic January/February 1953.

The Chronoclasm

by John Wyndham
An elderly gentleman implores Gerald Lattery to allow Tavia to return, but the only problem is that Gerald has never (yet) heard of Tavia. Oh, and the gentleman insists on addressing Lattery as Sir Gerald.
It is concerning Tavia, Sir Gerald—er, Mr. Lattery. I think perhaps you don’t understand the degree to which the whole situation is fraught with unpredictable consequences. It is not just my own responsibility, you understand, though that troubles me greatly—it is the results that cannot be forseen. She really must come back before very great harm is done. She must, Mr. Lattery.
“The Chronoclasm” by John Wyndham, in Star Science Fiction Stories, February 1953.

Dominoes

by C. M. Kornbluth
Stock broker W.J. Born jumps two years into the future to find out when the big crash is coming.
A two-year forecast on the market was worth a billion!
“Dominoes” by C. M. Kornbluth, in Star Science Fiction Stories, February 1953.

The Old Die Rich

by H. L. Gold
Dang those drop-dead beautiful, naked redheads with a gun and a time machine! How did actor Mark Weldon start out investigating the starvation deaths of rich, old vagrants and end up at the wrong end of a derringer being forced into a time machine invented by Miss Robert’s mad scientist father?
She had the gun in her hand. I went into the mesh cage, not knowing what to expect and yet too afraid of her to refuse. I didn’t want to wind up dead of starvation, no matter how much money she gave me—but I didn”t want to get shot, either.
“The Old Die Rich” by H. L. Gold, in Galaxy, March 1953.

The Other Inauguration

by Anthony Boucher
Usually, when I start a story, I already know whether it has time travel in the plot, but occasionally I’m surprised when the temporal antics arise, as in this story of Peter Lanroyd’s attempt to change the outcome of a presidential election that’s stolen by an ideologue. (No, no—not the year 2000. This is a fictional tale.)

I first read this one on an overnight ice-climbing trek not far from the ITTDB Citadel, hosted by fellow indexer Tim.

To any man even remotely interested in politics, let alone one as involved as I am, every 1st Tue of every 4th Nov must seem like one of the crucial if-points of history.
“The Other Inauguration” by Anthony Boucher, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1953.

The Time Capsule

by Otto Binder
I was surprised when I ran across the first issue of Science Fiction Plus (Mar 1953) and saw Hugo Gernsback, Editor, staring back at me from the top-right corner of the cover. Somehow I assumed that Wonder Stories was his last foray into what he called scientifiction, or even that he’d died when that magazine became Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1936. But, no, here he was again, albeit for only seven issues (Mar-Dec 1953) and with Sam Moskowitz behind the scenes.

That first issue had this Otto Binder story in which a farmer takes two archaeologists, Stoddard and Jackson, to a time capsule that’s so unusual it couldn’t possibly have been buried by any known civilization. They take it to the Archeological Institute where their boss instructs them to clean up the outside apparently believing that they’ll stop once it’s clean.

That thing has been buried for untold centuries perhaps. Millions of days. What would one more day matter? All right, go ahead, you two eager-beavers. But you’re getting the dirty work, scraping off that mold.
“The Time Capsule” by Otto Binder, in Science Fiction Plus, March 1953.

A Traveler in Time

by August Derleth
Derleth’s newspaper reporter Tex Harrigan had at least one time-travel encounter: a man named Vanderkamp who saw an atomic war thirty years in the future and then considered escaping back to 1650 New Amsterdam. But 1650 has a shrewish woman who reminds him a bit too much of his own shrewish sister, so that’s obviously not an ideal destination. The machine also has a curious effect on aging that Tex never did figure out (and neither did this reader).
It looked like a top. The first thing I thought of was Brick Bradford, and before I could catch myself, I’d asked, “Is that pure Brick Bradford?”
He didn’t turn a hair. “Not by a long shot,” he answered. “H. G. Wells was there first. I owe it to Wells.”
“A Traveler in Time” by August Derleth, in Orbit, March 1953.

Tales of Tomorrow

hosted by Raymond E. Johnson
The radio program spun off from the TV show of the day, but instead of having a deal for stories with the entire SFLA, it exclusively aired stories from Galaxy, including at least one time travel story, H.L. Gold’s “The Old Die Rich” on 26 Mar 1953.
This is your host, Omentor, saying, “Hello.” I’d like to take a little trip to another century, just name your choice: You can go back through the years as far as you’d like or forward to the future and visit civilizations as yet unknown. Fantastic? Not if you use the proper vehicle, which in this case is a time machine. What’s that? Where do you find a time machine? Well, I found one in a remarkable story from Galaxy magazine.
Tales of Tomorrow hosted by Raymond E. Johnson.

Throwback in Time

by Frank Belknap Long
“Throwback in Time” by Frank Belknap Long, Science-Fiction Plus, April 1953.

The Maladjusted Classroom

by H. Nearing, Jr.
A Klein bottle and temporal displacement.
— Dave Hook
“The Maladjusted Classroom” by H. Nearing, Jr., Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1953.

Paycheck

by Philip K. Dick
Apparently, Jennings agreed to work as a specialized mechanic for two years at Rethrick Construction, having his memory wiped at the end in return for 50,000 credits—except instead of a bag full of credits, the memory-wiped Jennings is left holding a bag of seven trinkets and no idea why he would have agreed to such a thing.
— Michael Main
But the big puzzle: how had he—his earlier self—known that a piece of wire and a bus token would save his life? He had known, all right. Known in advance. But how? And the other five. Probably they were just as precious, or would be.
“Paycheck” by Philip K. Dick, Imagination, June 1953.

Yesterday’s Paper

by Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd
Pete Harrison worries that the planned first trip to the moon might not go well, so to ease his mind, he sneaks into the Temporal Research lab for an unauthorized trip to the middle of next month to discern the trip’s outcome. But when he arrives, the only way to safely find out the outcome is to track down yesterday’s newspaper, which proves exceedingly hard.
After much careful calculation, Peter decided to set the machine to project him to that important Friday at around eleven o’clock in the morning.
“Yesterday’s Paper” by Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd, in Other Worlds Science Fiction, June 1953.

Journey into Mystery #9–10

Zadixx from Dimension X!

by an unknown writer and Jerry Robinson
Professor Wilbur Thompson is the only human still outside of frozen time[/d]. Oh, yes: He’s also the only human who can save humanity from the Zadixx.
— Michael Main
But I’ll restore mankind somehow! I’ll find a way! I swear it!
“Zadixx from Dimension X!” [unofficial] by an unknown writer and Jerry Robinson, in Journey into Mystery #9–10 (Atlas Comics, June to July 1953).

The Twonky

written and directed by Arch Oboler
Unlike in the original short story of “The Twonky,” the movie’s mad machine is a TV rather than a radio. Also, we never explicitly see the machine’s construction by a time traveler, but the professor’s discussions with the coach make it clear that they believe the machine is from the future, and that’s good enough for us. And finally, when you watch the wacky film, you’ll see that Arch Oboler devised a different fate for the Twonky than that of Kuttner and Moore’s original story.
— Michael Main
Kerry: Then it is from another world?
Coach Trout: No, from our world, centuries in the future.
The Twonky written and directed by Arch Oboler (at movie theaters, USA, 10 June 1953).

a Haertel Complex story

Common Time

by James Blish
Spaceman Garrard is the third pilot to attempt the trip to the binary star system of Alpha Centauri using the FTL drive invented by Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein!) The Haertel Complex stories provide little in the way of actual time travel, but this one does have minor relativistic time dilation and more significant differing time rates.
— Michael Main
Figuring backward brought him quickly to the equivalence he wanted: one second in ship time was two hours in Garrard time.
“Common Time” by James Blish, in Shadow of Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, July 1953).

Infinite Intruder

by Alan E. Nourse
Since the 4-day atomic war of 2078, Roger Strang has been working on the Barrier Project to build an electronic barrier against missiles, but now someone is trying to kill his 12-year-old son with attacks that seemingly succeed but don’t, while any records of his own background have been erased, as if he had never even lived, at least not in the 21st century. As a bonus, the story also has a grandfather paradox.
The theory said that a man returning through time could alter the social and technological trends of the people and times to which he returned, in order to change history that was already past.
“Infinite Intruder” by Alan E. Nourse, in Space Science Fiction, July 1953.

Minimum Sentence

by Theodore R. Cogswell
Flip Danielson and his partner-in-crime Potsy are facing a minimum of four years hard time for their deeds, so they hijack a spaceship to Alpha Centauri, thinking (as the rest of humanity) that the ship is faster-than-light, but as the buglike Quang Dal keeps telling them, it is a sub-light ship that’s has only a few time conveniences that won’t help the humans shorten the journey at all.
“Are explaining many times before,” said Quang Dal patiently. “Is no such thing as faster-than-light drive. As your good man Einstein show you long time ago, is theoretical impossibility.”
“Minimum Sentence” by Theodore R. Cogswell, in Galaxy, August 1953.

Never Go Back

by Charles V. de Vet
As his first experiment in time travel, Arthur Meissner visits his own childhood in 1933 with the hope of saving a friend who drowned in the local swimming hole. He seems to aver the friend’s disaster, but he himself no longer exists in 1933, and moreover, he no longer seems to exist even when he returns to his adult time.

By the way, this is another example of a time traveler who arrives naked. I wonder who first penned that now clichéd mode of arrival. Also, the story expresses an early version of the Chronology Protection Principle.

You see, you yourself are the object in this particular instance, and by going back into time you—the same object—would be occupying two separate units of space at the same time, which is axiomatically impossible. Therefore, nature made its adjustment; the same as it would if an irresible force hit a so-called immovable object. It eliminates one of them.
“Never Go Back” by Charles V. de Vet, in Amazing, Aug/Sep 1953.

Time Is the Traitor

by Alfred Bester
“Time Is the Traitor” by Alfred Bester, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1953.

ACE Comics

by Aaron A. Wyn and Rose Wyn
Ace Comics published a couple dozen anthology comic titles between 1940 and 1956. The only time travel that I’ve spotted so far was in Baffling Mysteries 18.
I am Chronos, the spirit of time! Do not destroy the sacred sun dial! Come closer and I shall initiate you into the mysteries of time which you pursue so hotly.
“ACE Comics” by Aaron A. Wyn and Rose Wyn, in Baffling Mysteries 18, November 1953.

Black Magic

by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
Simon and Kirby put together the Black Magic horror comic for Prize Comics in the fifties, and there was at least one time-travel story, “A Hole in His Head” by none other than an early Steve Ditko. That story was based on a 1951 TV episode of Lights Out (“And Adam Begot”) written by Arch Oboler and taken from the 1939 radio show Arch Oboler’s Plays.
Somehow we have stepped out of our own time into another.
“Black Magic” by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, in Black Magic 27, November 1953.

Journey into Space

by Charles Chilton
According to the Operation Luna liner notes, this serial drama program was the last BBC radio broadcast to outdraw the television audience on the same night. The first of the three original series (“Journey to the Moon”) centered on a crew of four, rocketing to the moon in 1965. The first time travel occurs in the 11th episode where they find themselves displaced on Earth by thousands of years. Eventually, they return to their own time.

Almost all of the recordings of that first series were destroyed, but most were rerecorded for a rerun series (renamed “Operation Luna”). Those rerecordings are available on CD along with the non-time-travel second series (“The Red Planet”) and third series (“The World in Peril”).

And during that period, time for me went backwards. I returned to my childhood.
Journey into Space by Charles Chilton (30 November 1953).

Hall of Mirrors

by Fredric Brown
You have invented a time machine of sorts that can, at any time, replace yourself with an exact duplicate of your body—and mind—from any time in the past.
They didn’t use that style of furniture in Los Angeles—or anywhere else that you know of—in 1954. That thing over there in the corner—you can’t even guess what it is. So might your grandfather, at your age, have looked at a television.
“Hall of Mirrors” by Fredric Brown, in Galaxy, December 1953.

Operation Freedom

|pending byline|
A group called the Institute of Fiscal and Political Education published a series of at least six giveaway comic books to extol the virtues of America and democracy. Some were printed with blue and red ink with nice halftones, and others were black and white. I don’t know many details, but Lone Star Comics says that Joshua Strong goes back in time to explain issues such as the right to free speech and press (in issue 5).
We must never forget our rights are based on our FAITH IN GOD. We claim them in Jefferson’s words, Not under the charters of kinds or legislatures, but under the King of Kings.
“Operation Freedom” |pending byline| (Six issues, circa 1953).

Anachron

by Damon Knight
Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don’t interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine.
“By God and all the saints,” he said. “Time travel.”

Harold snorted impatiently. “My dear Peter, ‘time’ is a meaningless word taken by itself, just as ‘space’ is.”

“But barring that, time travel.”

“If you like, yes.”

“Anachron” by Damon Knight, in If, January 1954.

Lost in the Future

by John Victor Peterson
“Lost in the Future” by John Victor Peterson, Fantastic Universe, January 1954.

The Will

by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A preteen boy develops leukemia before medicine can help him. He leaves all of his treasures (stamp collection, etc) and a note in a time capsule for the future. It works, and someone from the future arrives to save him.
— Dave Hook
“The Will” by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Fantastic, January/February 1954.

The Haertel Complex

Beep

by James Blish
“Beep” by James Blish, Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1954.

Experiment

by Fredric Brown
Professor Johnson’s colleagues wonder what would happen if he refuses to send an object back to the past after it has already appeared there.

I haven’t found anything earlier that brings up this question, but although the resolution was clever, it didn’t satisfy me, and (though I could be wrong) I think Brown misses the fact that at one point there should be two copies of the object in existence at the same time. In any case, this was the first part of a pair of short-short stories in the Feb ’54 Galaxy, which together were called Two-Timer (the second of which had no time travel).

What if, now that it has already appeared five minutes before you place it there, you should change your mind about doing so and not place it there at three o’clock? Wouldn’t there be a paradox of some sort involved?
“Experiment” by Fredric Brown, in Galaxy, February 1954.

Haertel Scholium

by James Blish
Blish’s story “Beep” appeared in 1954 with a casual mention of time-travel when a message is overheard from a future spaceship that’s following a worldline backward through time. The main story follows video reporter Dana Lje who stumbles upon the newly invented Dirac radio which allows instantaneous communication and, as only she realizes, also carries a record of every transmission ever made, both past and future.

At Larry Shaw’s request, Blish expanded “Beep” into the short novel The Quincunx of Time, and both these stories share a background wherein the work of Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein) provides an FTL-drive (the Haertel Overdrive, later called the Imaginary Drive), an antigravity device (the spindizzy), and an instantaneous communicator (the Dirac Radio). I read many of these in the early ’70s, but can’t find my notes and don’t remember any other time travel beyond that one communiqué that Lje overheard. Still, I’ll list everything in The Haertel Scholium and reread them some day!

It is instead one of the seven or eight great philosophical questions that remain unanswered, the problem of whether man has or has not free will.
“Haertel Scholium” by James Blish, in Galaxy, February 1954.

Marvelman Family

by Mick Anglo
When Fawcett was forced by legal action to shut down their Captain Marvel franchise, the British publisher L. Miller and Son scrambled to find a replacement for their weekly reprints. The result was a new Marvel family created by Mick Anglo and featuring Marvelman, Young Marvelman, and Kid Marvelman. The first issues were Marvelman 25 and Young Marvelman 25 on 3 Feb 1953 (with the #25 being a continuation of the Captain Marvel numbering).

Marvelman (also called Jack Marvel in Australia, and later renamed Miracleman for a 1980s reboot) counted time travel among his powers, although I don’t know when he or his kin first traveled.

I’ve got it! I’ll go to an era back in time where my superior intellect will soon make me master of the universe—and Marvelman can’t touch me!
“Marvelman Family” by Mick Anglo (3 February 1954).

The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov
“The End of Eternity” by Isaac Asimov, initially unpublished, 6 February 1954.

The Man from Time

by Frank Belknap Long
Daring Monsson (yes, that’s his name) is one of many travelers in a Time Observatory, but he feels a compelling urge to do more than just observe. So he quickly opens the Observatory’s iris and steps into the 20th century where he can read minds and interact with people in various dramas, but doesn’t know how to speak.
How incredible that it had taken centuries of patient technological research to master in a practical way the tremendous implications of Einstein’s original postulate. Warp space with a rapidly moving object, move away from the observer with the speed of light—and the whole of human history assumed the firm contours of a landscape in space. Time and space merged and became one.
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Time Fuze

by Randall Garrett
“Time Fuze” by Randall Garrett, in If, March 1954.

The Golden Man

by Philip K. Dick
“The Golden Man” by Philip K. Dick, in If, April 1954.

Jon’s World

by Philip K. Dick
First the Soviets and the Westerners fought. Then the Westerners brought Schonerman’s killer robots into the mix. Then the robots fought both human sides. You know all that from Dick’s earlier story, “Second Variety.” But now it’s long after the desolation, long enough that Caleb Ryan and his financial backer Kastner are willing to bring back the secret of Schonerman’s robots from the past to make their world a better place for surviving mankind, including Ryan’s visionary son Jon.
— Michael Main
And then the terminator’s claws began to manufacture their own varieties and attack Soviets and Westerners alike. The only humans that survived were those at the UN base on Luna.
“Jon’s World” by Philip K. Dick, in Time to Come: Science-Fiction Stories of Tomorrow, edited by August Derleth; Farrar (Strass and Young, April 1954).

The Immortal Bard

by Isaac Asimov
Dr. Phineas Welch tells an English professor a disturbing story about a matter of temporal transference and a student in the professor’s Shakespeare class.
I did. I needed someone with a universal mind; someone who knew people well enough to be able to live with them centuries way from his own time. Shakespeare was the man. I’ve got his signature. As a memento, you know.
“The Immortal Bard” by Isaac Asimov, in Universe Science Fiction, May 1954.

Where the World is Quiet

by Henry Kuttner
This story appears in an issue of Fantastic Universe with a remarkable lineup including Frank Belknap Long, Philip José Farmer, Jack Williamson, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Bloch. As for Kuttner’s contribution, a crippled priest enlists the aid of an adventurous anthropologist, Señor White, to track the fate of seven young girls who disappeared into the Cordilleras of eastern Peru in the direction of the great peak, Hauscan. Do anthropologists know anything about time-slips? (Yes, just a slight time-travel connection.)
So, even now I do not know all that lay behind the terror in that Peruvian valley. This much I learned: the Other, like Lhar and her robot, had been cast adrift by a time-slip, and thus marooned here. There was no way for it to return to its normal Time-sector. It had created the fog-wall to protect itself from the direct rays of the sun, which threatened its existence.
“Where the World is Quiet” by Henry Kuttner, Fantastic Universe, May 1954.

Something for Nothing

by Robert Sheckley
A wishing machine (aka Class-A Utilizer, Series AA-1256432) appears in Joe Collins’ bedroom along with a warning that this machine should be used only by Class-A ratings!
In rapid succession, he asked for five million dollars, three functioning oil wells, a motion-picture studio, perfect health, twenty-five more dancing girls, immortality, a sports car and a herd of pedigreed cattle.
“Something for Nothing” by Robert Sheckley, in Galaxy, June 1954.

Breakfast at Twilight

by Philip K. Dick
Tim McLean’s ordinary family awakens on an ordinary day to find themselves in a war zone seven years in the future.
We fought in Korea. We fought in China. In Germany and Yugoslavia and Iran. It spread, farther and farther. Finally the bombs were falling here. It came like the plague. The war grew. It didn’t begin.
“Breakfast at Twilight” by Philip K. Dick, in Amazing, July 1954.

A Thief in Time

by Robert Sheckley
Eight years before Professor Thomas Eldridge invents a time machine, a man from the future shows up with two policemen to arrest him for his future crimes. Knowing that he could never be a criminal, Eldridge swipes their time machine and flees to three future times, discovering that he’s wanted in each time for crimes ranging from potato theft to murdering another man’s fiancé

All in all, Sheckley’s story is a perfect example of a causal loop: I knew those potatoes would come in handy and that, given time, the girl would show up safe and sound.

“We have no lawyers here,” the man replied proudly. “Here we have justice.”
“A Thief in Time” by Robert Sheckley, in Galaxy, July 1954.

This Is the Way the World Ends

by H. W. Johnson
Living in a world threatened by nuclear extinction, seven-year-old Tommy receives the current and future thoughts of animals and people.
There isn’t going to be anything. It’s all black after tomorrow.
“This Is the Way the World Ends” by H. W. Johnson, Astounding, August 1954.

The Easy Way

by Oscar A. Boch
Hal Thomas’s wife thinks that he doesn’t pay enough attention to his children, one of whom is building an antigravity/time machine upstairs and the other of whom doesn’t need the machine to move through space and time.
Space-time—is cute?
“The Easy Way” by Oscar A. Boch, Astounding, September 1954.

Meddler

by Philip K. Dick
A government project sends a Time Dip into the future just to observe whether their actions have turned out well, but subsequent observations show that the act the observing has somehow eliminated mankind, so Hasten (the world’s most competent histo-researcher) must now go forward to find out what caused the lethal factor.
We sent the Dip on ahead, at fifty year leaps. Nothing. Nothing each time. Cities, roads, buildings, but no human life. Everyone dead.
“Meddler” by Philip K. Dick, in Future Science Fiction, October 1954.

Cave Girl

by Bob Powell
Cave Girl had four issues of jungle adventures (numbers 11 to 14), and the last one had a strange machine that made dead people come to life by sending them into their own past, but keeping them in the present moment. In the end, the machine sends itself into the far past and disappears from the present.

The comic was published by Magazine Enterprises, which published from 1944 to 1958. So far, this Cave Girl is the only time travel I’ve spotted, though I do have one of their Teena issues in my dad’s stash of comics.

Men in strange garb appear. It seems that they unfasten the machine and take it away. Actually they are setting up the machine, but since time is running backwards—so do they!
“Cave Girl” by Bob Powell, in Cave Girl 14, December 1954.

The Past Master

by Robert Bloch
With the United States on the verge of atomic war with the Communists, a handsome, naked man—let’s call him John Smith—walks out of the ocean with a bag full of money and, according to eyewitnesses, a mind to buy the Mona Lisa and a long list of other masterpieces.
Then he began writing titles. I’m afraid I gasped. “Really,” I said. “You can’t actually expect to buy the ‘Mona Lisa’!”
“The Past Master” by Robert Bloch, in Bluebook, January 1955.

Return of the Moon Man

by E. L. Malpass
During a surprise trip to the moon by Grandpa, Grandma is mad about being left behind and leaves town with another man with a time machine. Grandpa returns, finds another time machine, and strands Grandma in time and space.
— Dave Hook
We got the meal ready, and then someone said, “Where is Grandfather?”
“Return of the Moon Man” by E. L. Malpass, in The Observer, 2 January 1955.

Time Crime

by H. Beam Piper
“Time Crime” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, February 1955.

The Dragon

by Ray Bradbury
On a dark night on a moor, 900 years after the nativity, two knights face down a steaming behemoth.
It was a fog inside of a mist inside of a darkness, and this place was no man’s place and there was no year or hour at all, but only these men in a faceless emptiness of sudden frost, storm, and white thunder which moved behind the great falling pane of green glass that was the lightning.
“The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1955.

Of Missing Persons

by Jack Finney
“Of Missing Persons” by Jack Finney, in Good Housekeeping, March 1955.

Project Mastodon

by Clifford D. Simak
Wes Adams, Johnny Cooper and Chuck Hudson (chums since boyhood) build a time machine and proceed to do exactly what you or I would do: Go back 150,000 years, found the new Republic of Mastodonia somewhere in pre-Wisconsin, and seek diplomatic recognition from the United States of America.
If you guys ever travel in time, you’ll run up against more than you bargain for. I don’t mean the climate or the terrain or the fauna, but the economics and the politics.
“Project Mastodon” by Clifford D. Simak, in Galaxy, March 1955.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Billy Friedberg et al. , directed by Bill Hoban and Max Liebman
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Billy Friedberg et al. , directed by Bill Hoban and Max Liebman (NBC-TV, USA, 12 March 1955).

Target One

by Frederik Pohl
Thirty-five years after the death of Albert Einstein, atomic bombs have left 2 billion corpses; the bombs came from Einstein’s formulae; so what is it we need?

I had the good fortune to meet Fred Pohl in July of 2003 at Jim Gunn's workshop in Manhattan, Kansas. On a warm day outside the student union building, he kindly sat and talked to me about the background for a story I was writing about him and Asimov.

Quite simply, it is the murder of Albert Einstein.
“Target One” by Frederik Pohl, in Galaxy, April 1955.

Science Fiction Theater

by Ivan Tors
I’ve seen only the second episode, “Time Is Just a Place” (in color!), in which a happy 1950s couple (one of whom is Mr. B from Hazel—did she ever time travel?) get new neighbors who have escaped from the future. The episode was based on the 1951 Jack Finney story, “Such Interesting Neighbors.”
Nothing to get excited about. Any housewife could use one.
Science Fiction Theater by Ivan Tors (15 April 1955).

Sam, This Is You

by Murray Leinster
While up on a pole, lineman Sam Yoder gets a call from his future self who proceeds to tell him exactly what to do, even if is suspiciously criminal and it makes his girl, Rosie, furious.
You’ve heard of time-traveling. Well, this is time-talking. You’re talking to yourself—that’s me—and I’m talking to myself—that’s you—and it looks like we’ve got a mighty good chance to get rich.
“Sam, This Is You” by Murray Leinster, in Galaxy, May 1955.

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Time Patrol

by Poul Anderson
In the first of a long series of hallowed stories, former military engineer (and noncomformist) Manse Everard is recruited by the Time Patrol to prevent time travelers from making major changes to history. (Don’t worry, history bounces back from the small stuff.)
— Michael Main
If you went back to, I would guess, 1946, and worked to prevent your parents’ marriage in 1947, you would still have existed in that year; you would not go out of existence just because you had influenced events. The same would apply even if you had only been in 1946 one microsecond before shooting the man who would otherwise have become your father.
“Time Patrol” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1955.

Service Call

by Philip K. Dick
It the midst of McCarthyism, Dick wrote this story about an accidental travel through time to the 1950s by a swibble repairman, whereupon Mr. Courtland and his colleagues pry information out of the repairman about exactly what a swibble is and how it has stopped all war.
—remember the swibble slogan: Why be half loyal?
“Service Call” by Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction Stories, July 1955.

The Trolley

by Ray Bradbury
“The Trolley” by Ray Bradbury, in Good Housekeeping, July 1955.

The Waitabits

by Eric Frank Russell
“The Waitabits” by Eric Frank Russell, Astounding, July 1955.

The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov
Andrew Harlan, Technician in the everwhen of Eternity, falls in love and starts a chain of events that could lead to the end of everything.
— Michael Main
He had boarded the kettle in the 575th Century, the base of operations assigned to him two years earlier. At the time the 575th had been the farthest upwhen he had ever traveled. Now he was moving upwhen to the 2456th Century.
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, August 1955).

Time Bomb

by Wilson Tucker
As Illinois police Lieutenant Danforth investigates a series of politically motivated deadly bombings, he realizes that the mythical Gilgamesh himself may be involved as well as a bomb-delivering time machine from the future.

Unlike Tucker’s earlier Gilgamesh book, The Time Masters, this one really does have a time machine.

A loose-knit but fanatical political party is driving for control of the nation. This November they may have it. Meanshile one or more equally fanatical parties are seeking a practical time machine.
Time Bomb by Wilson Tucker (Rinehart, August 1955).

Timeslip

by Charles Eric Maine, directed by Ken Hughes
Timeslip by Charles Eric Maine, directed by Ken Hughes (at movie theaters, Belgium, 5 August 1955).

First Time Machine

by Fredric Brown
A short-short, 1950s version of the grandfather paradox with a resolution that’s not quite satisfying (branching universes, I think, but it’s unclear).

The story was reprinted in the 1958 collection, Honeymoon in Hell, which features a cover by Hieronymus Bosch (indexer Grzegorz’s favorite painter) with an owl in the background (Grzegorz’s favorite bird)!

What would have happened if you’d rushed to the door and kicked yourself in the seat of the pants?
“First Time Machine” by Fredric Brown, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September 1955.

The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway

by William Tenn
An art critic from the 25th century visits struggling poet David Dantziger and his totally unappreciated painter friend Morniel Mathaway.
So we indulged in the twentieth-century custon of shaking hands with him. First Morniel, then me—and both very gingerly. Mr. Glescu shook hands with a peculiar awkwardness that made me think of the way an Iowan farmer might eat with chopsticks for the first time.
“The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway” by William Tenn, in Galaxy, October 1955.

Psi-Man Heal My Child!

by Philip K. Dick
In a post nuclear apocalypse world, a small group of Psionic people use their powers to help survivors while Jack repeatedly travels back in time to try to stop a general from taking a firm stand against the Russians.

Unfortunately, for me, the unexplained time-travel paradoxes in the ending lowered my enjoyment, even though it was no worse than the inexplicable paradoxes in so many other stories.

Eleven times and always the same.
“Psi-Man Heal My Child!” by Philip K. Dick, in Imaginative Tales, November 1955.

X Minus One

by Ernest Kinoy et al.
When Dimension X was canceled in 1951, I wonder whether radio listeners felt like future Trekkies. If so, they had to wait less than four years for a revival of sorts with the first 15 episodes of X Minus One being new versions of old DX shows. Those were followed by more than 100 new episodes, many of which were taken from contemporary Galaxy stories and some of which took us through time.
These are stories of the future, adventures in which you’ll live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine presents. . . X‑x‑x‑x‑x. . . Minus‑minus‑minus‑minus‑minus. . . One‑one‑one‑one‑one. . .
X Minus One by Ernest Kinoy et al. (14 December 1955).

Consider Her Ways

by John Wyndham
An amnesiac woman, Jane Waterleigh, awakens in an all-female future world with four castes (mothers, doctors, servants and workers), and she can only assume she’s in a dream or hallucination where she finds herself in an enormous body whom the doctors and servants call “Mother Orchis.”
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways.
“Consider Her Ways” by John Wyndham, in Sometime, Never (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956).

The Crossroads of Time

by Andre Norton
The Crossroads of Time by Andre Norton, in Ace Double #D-164: Mankind on the Run by Gordon R. Dickson / The Crossroads of Time by Andre Norton (Ace Books, 1956).

The World Jones Made

by Philip K. Dick
The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick, in Ace Double #D-150: The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick / Agent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair 1956).

Host Age

by John Brunner
“Host Age” by John Brunner, tag-4106 | New Worlds Science Fiction #43, January 1956.

The Minority Report

by Philip K. Dick
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick, Fantastic Universe, January 1956.

Avoidance Situation

by James McConnell
“Avoidance Situation” by James McConnell, If, February 1956.

Barrier to Yesterday

by Bob Shaw
The story revolves around tribes who migrate to follow the sun around a slowly rotating world. I don’t understand what the title refers to, but it is not time travel.
— Michael Main
He seemed to think it was a privilege to live on a world whose spin had almost stopped, stretching the days and nights into years so that it was useless even to go underground.
“Barrier to Yesterday” by Bob Shaw, in Nebula Science Fiction #16, March 1956.

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A Gun for Dinosaur

by L. Sprague de Camp
Dinosaur hunter Reggie Rivers and his partner, the Raja, organize time-travel safaris in a world with a Hawking-style chronological protection principle.
Oh, I’m no four-dimensional thinker; but, as I understand it, if people could go back to a more recent time, their actions would affect our own history, which would be a paradox or contradiction of facts. Can’t have that in a well-run universe, you know.
“A Gun for Dinosaur” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Galaxy, March 1956.

Unusual Tales #3

The Lodestone

by Joe Gill [?] and Ernie Bach
Businessman Burt Carpe and his scientist sidekick Jeff struggle with coming up with a plan to make money from their time machine. In the end, they take a large lump of carbon back to an unspecified ice age a few million years in the past. Can you guess why?
— Michael Main
There she is, my cyclo-metronome, a real live time-machine!
“The Lodestone” by Joe Gill [?] and Ernie Bach, Unusual Tales #3 (Charlton Comics, April 1956).

Second Chance

by Jack Finney
A college student lovingly restores a 1923 Jordan Playboy roadster—a restoration that takes him back in time.
You can’t drive into 1923 in a Jordan Playboy, along a four-lane superhighway; there are no superhighways in 1923.
“Second Chance” by Jack Finney, in Good Housekeeping, April 1956.

Journey into Mystery #33

There’ll Be Some Changes Made

by Carl Wessler and Steve Ditko
Paul Haines spends his days stewing over the money his 18th-centery ancestor wasted, until he realizes that there’s a way he can get it. I found the story oddly disquieting in that Paul never really faced punishment for his crime and he got the girl too boot—definitely not the usual weird fiction pattern, although I’ll still tag it that way.
— Michael Main
Change the past! Why haven’t I thought of this before? It can be done!
“There’ll Be Some Changes Made” by Carl Wessler and Steve Ditko, in Journey into Mystery #33 (Atlas Comics, April 1956).

The Failed Men

by Brian Aldiss
Surry Edmark, a 24th century volunteer on a humanitarian mission to save mankind from extinction some 360,000 centuries in the future, tells his story to a comforting young Chinese woman.
You are the struback.
“The Failed Men” by Brian Aldiss, in Science Fantasy, May 1956.

A Question of Time

by Edmund Cooper
“A Question of Time” by Edmund Cooper, Fantastic Universe, May 1956.

Journey into Mystery #35

Fallon’s Folly!

by unknown writers and Paul Reinman
Professor Fallon’s research into artificial suns may not be taken seriously today, but there are other times where it could be the very thing that’s needed.
— Michael Main
Research has to be along practical lines! The trustees demand it!
“Fallon’s Folly!” by unknown writers and Paul Reinman, in Journey into Mystery #35 (Atlas Comics, June 1956).

In the Cards

by Alan Cogan
Newlyweds Gerry and Marge are brought to the verge of divorce by a troublesome machine that shows the future without fail. That machine—the Grundy Projector—causes numerous problems in society, although (as we all know), viewing the future is not time travel. In this story, however, the solution to the Grundy problems does include a dose of real traveling.
It’s no different than reading a story and then having to relive the whole thing, anticipating each action and bit of dialogue.
“In the Cards” by Alan Cogan, in Galaxy, June 1956.

The Man Who Came Early

by Poul Anderson
An explosion throws Sergeant Gerald Robbins from the 1950s to about 990 AD Iceland where, despite his advanced knowledge, he has trouble fitting in.
Now, then. There is one point on which I must set you right. The end of the world is not coming in two years. This I know.
“The Man Who Came Early” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1956.

Absolutely Inflexible

by Robert Silverberg
Whenever one-way jumpers from the past show up, it’s up to Mahler to shuffle them off to the moon where they won’t present any danger of infection to the rest of humanity, but now Mahler is faced with a two-way jumper.
Even a cold, a common cold, would wipe out millions now. Resistance to disease has simply vanished over the past two centuries; it isn’t needed, with all diseases conquered. But you time-travelers show up loaded with potentialities for all the diseases the world used to have. And we can’t risk having you stay here with them.
“Absolutely Inflexible” by Robert Silverberg, Fantastic Universe, July 1956.

Journey into Mystery #36

Something Is Happening in There

by unknown writers and Carl Hubbell
Yes! They had sf nerds even back in the 1950s, but they called them “born fools.” In this case, the born fool is Ebenezer, who believes that a secretive new stranger is building a time machine.
— Michael Main
It’s just like this picture . . . of a time machine!
“Something Is Happening in There!” by unknown writers and Carl Hubbell, in Journey into Mystery #36 (Atlas Comics, July 1956).

The Time Machine

by Lorenz Graham [story] and Lou Cameron
This first comic book adaptation appeared in the month of my birth. Of course, as a self-respecting child of the ’50s and ’60s, I was never seen reading Classics Illustrated in public. Fortunately, adults everywhere can now read the classic comic online.

A black and white version was reprinted in 1971 by Pendulum Press as a precursor to their original Pendulum Classics series.

Then I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands and went off into time.
“The Time Machine” by Lorenz Graham [story] and Lou Cameron, in Classics Illustrated 133, July 1956.

Compounded Interest

by Mack Reynolds
“Mr. Smith” shows up in 1300 A.D. to invest ten gold coins at 10% annual interest with Sior Marin Goldini’s firm, after which he shows up every 100 years to provide guidance.
In one hundred years, at ten per cent compounded annually, your gold would be worth better than 700,000 zecchini.
“Compounded Interest” by Mack Reynolds, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1956.

Time for the Stars

by Robert A. Heinlein
Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein (Charles Scribner’s Sons, August 1956).

Time in Advance

by William Tenn
“Time in Advance” by William Tenn, in Galaxy, August 1956.

The Celebrated No-Hit Inning

by Frederik Pohl
If pitcher and star hitter Boley—the league’s best player and certainly on par with Snider, Mays and Mantle—has any weakness, it is a lack of modesty, but the team owner’s uncle has a plan to address that involving the future of baseball.
Don’t you see? He’s chasing the outfield off the field. He wants to face the next two men without any outfield! That’s Satchell Paige’s old trick, only he never did it except in exhibitions where who cares? But that Boley—
“The Celebrated No-Hit Inning” by Frederik Pohl, Fantastic Universe, September 1956.

Unusual Tales #5

The Man Who Changed Times

by Joe Gill [?] and Dick Gordano [?]
A prisoner, Vincent Rand, is offered a way out of his ten-year sentence.
— Michael Main
Wouldn’t you prefer being free, even five hundred years in the past, to serving out a ten year sentence in this prison?
“The Man Who Changed Times” by Joe Gill [?] and Dick Gordano [?], Unusual Tales #5 (Charlton Comics, September 1956).

Journey into Mystery #38

Stone Face!

by an unknown writer and John Giunta
When Richard Dell buys a stone statue and puts it in his side show, he doesn’t realize that aliens turned their compatriot to stone for a good reason centuries ago.
— Michael Main
Step right up, folks! See the wonder of the century!
“Stone Face!” by an unknown writer and John Giunta, in Journey into Mystery #38 (Atlas Comics, September 1956).

The Door Into Summer

by Robert A. Heinlein
Inventor Dan Davis falls into bad company and wakes up 30 years later, but he gets an idea of how to put things right even at this late point.
Denver in 1970 was a very quaint place with a fine old-fashioned flavor; I became very fond of it. It was nothing like the slick New Plan maze it had been (or would be) when I had arrived (or would arrive) there from Yuma; it still had less than two million people, there were still buses and other vehicular traffic in the streets—there were still streets; I had no trouble finding Colfax Avenue.
The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct-Dec 1956.

George All the Way

by Richard Wilson
Because of his sizeable donation to the time travel project in 1977, playboy Bill Marcer is one of the first to climb in the machine that’s supposed to take him to a fanciful 2177. Upon arrival, those who greet him have thoughtfully studied up on twentieth century slang, and women are paraded before him like commodities.
“Then everything’s jake,” he said with a visible return of his assurance. “We’ve straightened up and are flying right. Ishkabibble?”
“George All the Way” by Richard Wilson, in Galaxy, October 1956.

Hopper

by Robert Silverberg
I haven’t yet read this short story that Silverberg expanded to a novel in 1967, though perhaps some day I will spot the Ace Double paperback that packaged it along with four other stories and the short novel, The Seed of Earth.
“Hopper” by Robert Silverberg, in Infinity Science Fiction, October 1956.

The Man Who Liked Lions

by John Bernard Daley
At a zoo, a Nobel time traveler (and mind manipulator) who hunted mankind’s ancestors and communes well with lions tries to evade capture by another Nobel and a Scientist who disapprove of the rift in time that the hunter created.
“Lions seldom eat people,” said Mr. Kemper.
“The Man Who Liked Lions” by John Bernard Daley, in Infinity Science Fiction, October 1956.

The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester
Even before I found Asimov and Heinlein and other books with space ships on the spine in the local library, I stole this paperback from my dad’s shelf around 1964. As you can see from the picture, it had an irresistible cover (yes, that’s the stolen copy).

For the most part, Bestor’s story has jaunting (teleportation through space) with no time travel, which is enough to cause plenty of excitement for Gully Foyle (aka Geoffrey Fourmyle) as he jaunts around the war-torn solar system, seeking revenge on various space merchants. But at one climactic point, he also manages a jaunt through time.

And then he was tumbling down, down, down the space-time lines, back into the dreadful pit of Now.
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, in Galaxy, October 1956 to January 1957.

Conquest over Time

by Michael Shaara
A fun story of first contact with a planet where astrology reigns supreme, but despite the story’s title, there is no actual time travel™ or other time phenomena.
— Michael Main
Every event that happens on this cockeyed world, from a picnic to a wedding to a company merger or a war, it’s all based on astrology.
“Conquest over Time” by Michael Shaara, Fantastic Universe, November 1956.

The Hohokam Dig

by Theodore Pratt
George Arthbut and Sidney Hunt plan to spend their summer at an archeology dig to settle once and for all why the prehistoric Hohokam abandoned their villages, but wouldn’t it be nice if they could talk directly to the ancient people?
“There’s a few questions I’d like to ask them,” said George. “I certainly wish we had some to talk with.”
“The Hohokam Dig” by Theodore Pratt, Fantastic Universe, November 1956.

Journey into Mystery #40

I Saw a Demon!

by an unknown writer and John Giunta
When Dr. Morgan succeeds in playing back sound from ancient Egyptian rocks, an ancient Egyptian demon unexpectedly appears.
— Michael Main
I forgot! Sounds could be etched on this rock by voices in its vicinity over the ages, since it was first formed!
“I Saw a Demon!” by an unknown writer and John Giunta, in Journey into Mystery #40 (Atlas Comics, November 1956).

Of Time and Texas

by William F. Nolan
Professor C. Cydwick Ohms has a way of solving the world’s population problem by opening a one-way time door to the wide-open spaces of 1957 Texas.
And now—good-bye, gentlemen. Or, to use the proper colloquialism—so long, hombres!
“Of Time and Texas” by William F. Nolan, Fantastic Universe, November 1956.

Journey into Mystery #40

The Question That Can’t Be Answered!

by an unknown writer and John Forte
Reporter Ned Parker tries to expose a fraudulent hypnotist, but instead he ends up being hypnotized and sent into his look-alike descendant 500 years in the future.
— Michael Main
It was Ned who fell under the hypnotic trance . . . and Ned who responded to the commands of Jiminez!
“The Question That Can’t Be Answered!” by an unknown writer and John Forte, in Journey into Mystery #40 (Atlas Comics, November 1956).

Journey into Mystery #41

He Came from Nowhere

by an unknown writer and Gray Morrow
As a government scientist makes a breakthrough discovery, he’s confronted out of nowhere by a time traveling kidnapper from a future government.
— Michael Main
Your work, this house, everything must be destroyed!
“He Came from Nowhere” by an unknown writer and Gray Morrow, in Journey into Mystery #41 (Atlas Comics, December 1956).

Of All Possible Worlds

by William Tenn
Max Alben Mac Albin is genetically predisposed to survive time travel, so he’s the natural choice to go back in time and shift the course of a missile that shifted the course of history.
— Michael Main
Now! Now to make a halfway decent world! Max Alben pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
Now! Now to make a halfway interesting world! Mac Albin pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
“Of All Possible Worlds” by William Tenn, Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1956.

The Sons of Japheth

by Richard Wilson
When all Earth is destroyed in World War V, only bomber pilot Ray Vanjan and scientist Dr. Garfield Gar remain in outer space, so Gar sends Vanjan back to nip mankind in the bud at the time Noah and his family emerged from the Ark.
“I want you to strafe the Ark, exercising car not to hurt any of the animals,” said old Dr. Garfield Gar.
“The Sons of Japheth” by Richard Wilson, in Infinity Science Fiction, December 1956.

Below the Salt

by Thomas Costain
Below the Salt by Thomas Costain (Doubleday, 1957).

Bob Morane 20

Les chasseurs de dinosaures

English release: The Dinosaur Hunters Literal: The dinosaur hunters

by Henri Vernes
[ex=bare]Les chasseurs de dinosaures | The dinosaur hunters[/ex] by Henri Vernes (Marabout, 1957).

The Isotope Man

by Charles Eric Maine
The Isotope Man by Charles Eric Maine (Hodder and Stoughton, 1957).

The Last Word

by Damon Knight
A fallen angel, who himself cannot undo time, pushes mankind to the brink of extinction.
Cowardice again—that man did not want to argue about the boundaries with his neighbor’s muscular cousin. Another lucky accident, and there you are. Geometry.
“The Last Word” by Damon Knight, in Satellite Science Fiction, February 1957.

A Gun for Grandfather

by F. M. Busby
The para doesn’t quite dox for me, but the story is still enjoyable as Busby’s first publication.
I’m not kidding you at all,” Barney insisted. “I have produced a workable Time Machine, and I am going to use it to go back and kill my grandfather.
“A Gun for Grandfather” by F. M. Busby, in Future Science Fiction, Fall 1957.

The Winds of Time

by Chad Oliver
The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver (Doubleday, April 1957).

Time in the Round

by Fritz Leiber
“Time in the Round” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1957.

Blank!

by Isaac Asimov
Dr. Edward Barron has a theory that time is arranged like a series of particles that can be traveled up or down; his colleague and hesitant collaborator August Pointdexter isn’t so sure about the application of the theory to reality.
An elevator doesn’t involve paradoxes. You can’t move from the fifth floor to the fourth and kill your grandfather as a child.
“Blank!” by Isaac Asimov, in Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957.

The Assassin

by Robert Silverberg
Walter Bigelow has spent 20 years of his life building the Time Distorter that will allow him to go back to save Abraham Lincoln.
The day passed. President Lincoln was to attend the Ford Theatre that night, to see a production of a play called “Our American Cousin.”
“The Assassin” by Robert Silverberg, in Imaginative Tales, July 1957.

A Loint of Paw

by Isaac Asimov
Master criminal Montie Stein has found a way around the statute of limitations.
It introduced law to the fourth dimension.
“A Loint of Paw” by Isaac Asimov, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1957.

Double Indemnity

by Robert Sheckley
Everett Barhold, sales manager for the Alpro Manufacturing Company (Toys for All the Ages) has plans to make a fortune in the time traveling business, but not in the usual way. He and his wife have hatched a plan to swindle the Inter-Temporal Insurance Company by taking advantage of the rarely used double indemnity clause.
Everett Barhold didn’t take out a life insurance policy casually. First he read up on the subject, with special attention to Breach of Contract, Willful Deceit, Temporal Fraud, and Payment.
“Double Indemnity” by Robert Sheckley, in Galaxy, October 1957.

Soldier from Tomorrow

by Harlan Ellison
Qarlo Clobregnny (aka pryt sizfifwunohtootoonyn), psychologically and physically conditioned as a foot soldier from the moment of birth, is transported from the time of Great War VII to a 1950s subway platform where he and his story eventually become a force in an unexpected direction.

A few years later, the story was the basis of an Outer Limits episode.

No matter how violent, how involved, how pushbutton-ridden Wars became, it always simmered down to the man on foot. It had to, for men fought men still.
“Soldier from Tomorrow” by Harlan Ellison, Fantastic Universe, October 1957.

Unusual Tales #9

Clairvoyance

by Joe Gill [?] and [?Steve Ditko[/exn]
Young David Fenner just wants to play baseball, but when an electric charge zaps him with the power of clairvoyance, researchers at the local university have other plans for the boy.
— Michael Main
There were no ill effects from the shock! But some days later, the first signs of his hunusual new power appeared . . .
“Clairvoyance” by Joe Gill [?] and [?Steve Ditko[/exn], Unusual Tales #9 (Charlton Comics, November 1957).

Sanctuary

by William Tenn
Henry Hancock Groppus seeks sanctuary from the Ambassador from the Next Century after he is condemned to death for proposing and practicing genetic selective breeding to solve the problems of the Uterine Plague.
“The point being,” said the Secretary of State, “that most social values are conditioned by the time, place and prevailing political climate. Is that what you mean by perspective?
“Sanctuary” by William Tenn, in Galaxy, December 1957.

Time Out for Tomorrow

by Richard Wilson
Darius Dave, chairman of the Omega Science Fiction Club, brings his great grandson from the year 2017 to address the club. Most of the club members think the time traveler is just a gag, but artist Jennie Rhine has gold-digging designs on Darius’s descendant.
Even as he spoke, there was a shimmering in the air next to him and a whining hum. The shimmering became the outline of a man—a tall man wearing silvery shorts and some sort of metalic hardness over his bronzed skin, with a heavy cloak thrown back from the shoulders.
“Time Out for Tomorrow” by Richard Wilson, in Science Fantasy, December 1957.

The Lincoln Hunters

by Wilson Tucker
When a time travel novel brags the title The Lincoln Hunters, you more-or-less expect a mad race to stop John Wilkes Booth, but Tucker’s book instead focuses on Benjamin Steward, an agent of Time Researchers who is pegged to lead a team from the year 2578 back to 1856 Bloomington, Illinois, where they plan to record Lincoln’s lost speech condemning slavery.
Full of fire and energy and force; it was logic; it was pathos; it was enthusiasm; it was justice, equity, truth and right, the good set ablaze by the divine fires of a soul maddened by the wrong; it was hard, heavy, knotty, gnarled, edged and heated, backed with wrath.
The Lincoln Hunters by Wilson Tucker (Rinehart, 1958).

The Time Traders

by Andre Norton
Young Ross Murdock, on the streets and getting by with petty crime and quick feet, gets nabbed and sent to a secret project near the north pole—the first of many secret projects for the Time Traders series.
So they have not briefed you? Well, a run is a little jaunt back into history—not nice comfortable history such as you learned out of a book when you were a little kid. No, you are dropped back into some savage time before history—
The Time Traders by Andre Norton (World Publishing Co., 1958).

Unusual Tales #10

Man from the Ages

by Joe Gill [?] and [?Bill Molno[/exn]
A military post in Alaska discovers a prehistoric man frozen in ice.
— Michael Main
You are right, Jason. This is big!! A beast-like human, frozen solid for who knows how many thousands of years . . . perhaps millions of years, and perfectly preserved!
“Man from the Ages” by Joe Gill [?] and [?Bill Molno[/exn], Unusual Tales #10 (Charlton Comics, January 1958).

Exploring Tomorrow

by John W. Campbell, Jr.
From Dec 1957 to Jun 1958, John W. Campbell himself hosted this radio series for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Many episodes were written by John Flemming, and although there was no official connection between the show and Campbell’s Astounding, many other scripts were by Campbell’s stable of writers including Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Murry Leinster, Robert Silverberg and George O. Smith (“Time Traveler”). There were at least three time-travel episodes.
You’ve got a son to take care of you in your old age, Mr. Thompson.
Exploring Tomorrow by John W. Campbell, Jr. (29 January 1958).

Aristotle and the Gun

by L. Sprague de Camp
When Sherman Weaver’s time machine project is abruptly canceled, he takes matters into his own hands, visiting Aristotle with the plan to ensure that the philosopher takes the scientific method to heart so strongly that the dark ages will never come and science will progress to a point where it appreciates Sherman’s particular genius.
Like his colleagues, Aristotle never appreciated the need for constant verification. Thus, though he was married twice, he said that men have more teeth than women. He never thought to ask either of his wives to open her mouth for a count.
“Aristotle and the Gun” by L. Sprague de Camp, Astounding, February 1958.

Carrefour du temps

Literal: Crossroads of time

by F. Richard-Bessière
Carrefour du temps by F. Richard-Bessière (Fleuve Noir, February 1958).

Time Travel Inc.

by Robert F. Young
I found this in one of three old sf magazines that I traded for at Denver’s own West Side Books. (Thank you, Lois.) Both the title and the table-of-contents blurb (They wanted to witness the Crucifixion) foreshadow Moorcock’s “Behold the Man,” although the story is not as vivid.
— Michael Main
Oh . . . The Crucifixion. You want to witness it, of course—
“Time Travel Inc.” by Robert F. Young, Super-Science Fiction, February 1958.

Change War series

The Big Time

by Fritz Leiber
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber, 2-part serial, Galaxy Science Fiction, March and April 1958.

Changewar

by Fritz Leiber
Two groups, the Snakes and the Spiders, battle each other for the control of all time. At least one other story (“When the Change-Winds Blow”) has appeared in the Change War collections with no snakes or spiders, but it may be in the Change War universe nonetheless.
Change one event in the past and you get a brand new future? Erase the conquests of Alexander by nudging a Neolithic pebble? Extirpate America by pulling up a shoot of Sumerian grain? Brother, that isn’t the way it works at all! The space-time continuum’s built of stubborn stuff and change is anything but a chain-reaction.
“Changewar” by Fritz Leiber, Astounding, March 1958.

Poor Little Warrior!

by Brian Aldiss
You are reading an artsy story, told in the second-person, about a time traveler from AD 2181 who hunts a brontosaurus.
Time for listening to the oracle is past; you’re beyond the stage for omens, you’re now headed in for the kill, yours or his; superstition has had its little day for today; from now on, only this windy nerve of yours, this shakey conglomeration of muscle entangled untraceably beneath the sweat-shiny carapice of skin, this bloody little urge to slay the dragon, is going to answer all your orisons.
“Poor Little Warrior!” by Brian Aldiss, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1958.

Travel Diary

by Alfred Bester
Travel diary of blasé tourists around the Solar System, to other stars, back in time to the Great Fire of London and to another galaxy.
— Dave Hook
“Travel Diary” by Alfred Bester, in Starburst (Signet, May 1958).

Two Dooms

by C. M. Kornbluth
Young Dr. Edward Royland, a physicist at Los Alamos in 1945, travels via a Hopi God Food to the early 22nd century to see what a world ruled by the Axis powers will be like—and quite possibly setting off a seemingly endless sequence of alternate WWII stories such as The Man in the High Castle, most of which, sadly, do not include time travel.

I liked Kornbluth’s description of the differential analyzer as well as the cadre of office girls solving differential equations by brute force of adding machines.

Instead of a decent differential analyzer machine they had a human sea of office girls with Burroughs’ desk calculators; the girls screamed “Banzai!” and charged on differential equations and swamped them by sheer volume; they clicked them to death with their little adding machines. Royland thought hungrily of Conant’s huge, beautiful analog differentiator up at M.I.T.; it was probably tied up by whatever the mysterious “Radiation Laboratory” there was doing. Royland suspected that the “Radiation Laboratory” had as much to do with radiation as his own “Manhattan Engineer District” had to do with Manhattan engineering. And the world was supposed to be trembling on the edge these days of a New Dispensation of Computing that would obsolete even the M.I.T. machine—tubes, relays, and binary arithmetic at blinding speed instead of the suavely turning cams and the smoothly extruding rods and the elegant scribed curves of Conant’s masterpiece. He decided that he would like it even less than he liked the little office girls clacking away, pushing lank hair from their dewed brows with undistracted hands.
“Two Dooms” by C. M. Kornbluth, in Venture Science Fiction, July 1958.

The Amazing Mrs. Mimms

by David C. Knight
The Amazing Althea Mimms is an operative for the time-traveling nonprofit agency Destinyworkers, Inc. This time (the only time actually recorded in a story as far as I could determine), she’s tasked with sowing domestic harmony in a 1950s apartment building in New York City. It’s neverending, hard work, but at least there’s the compensation of 20th-century tea when she has enough energy left to make it.
There was a muffled rushing noise and the faintly acrid smell of ion electrodes as the Time Translator deposited Mrs. Mimms back into the year 1958. Being used to such journeys, she looked calmly about with quick gray eyes, making little flicking gestures with her hands as if brushing the stray minutes and seconds from her plain brown coat.
“The Amazing Mrs. Mimms” by David C. Knight, Fantastic Universe, August 1958.

That Hell-Bound Train

by Robert Bloch
“That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1958.

Thing of Beauty

by Damon Knight
After a time-slip, con artist Gordon Fish receives nine packages containing a machine that makes magnificent drawings, but the instructions are in some unknown language.
There was a time slip in Southern California at about one in the afternoon. Mr. Gordon Fish thought it was an earthquake.
“Thing of Beauty” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy, September 1958.

The Ugly Little Boy

by Isaac Asimov
Edith Fellowes is hired to look after young Timmie, a Neanderthal boy brought from the past, but never able to leave the time stasis bubble where he lives.
He was a very ugly little boy and Edith Fellowes loved him dearly.
“The Ugly Little Boy” by Isaac Asimov (Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958, pp. 6-44.).

The Last Paradox

by Edward D. Hoch
“The Last Paradox” by Edward D. Hoch, in Future Science Fiction, October 1958.

The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

by Alfred Bester
When Professor Henry Hassel discovers his wife in the arms of another man, he does what any mad scientist would do: build a time machine to go back and kill his wife’s grandfather. He has no trouble changing the past, but any effect on the present seems rather harder to achieve.
“While I was backing up, I inadvertently trampled and killed a small Pleistocene insect.”

“Aha!” said Hassel.

“I was terrified by the indicent. I had visions of returning to my world to find it completely changed as a result of this single death. Imagine my surprise when I returned to my world to find that nothing had changed!”

“The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” by Alfred Bester, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1958.

Wildcat

by Poul Anderson
Herries, the leader of 500 men drilling for oil in the Jurassic, wonders about free will and the eventual fate of twentieth century America and its nuclear-armed adversaries.

The story was a nice forerunner to Silverberg’s “Hawksbill Station.”

But we are mortal men. And we have free will. The fixed-time concept need not, logically, produce fatalism; after all, Herries, man’s will is itself one of the links in teh causal chain. I suspect that this irrational fatalism is an important reason why twentieth-century civilization is approaching suicide. If we think we know our future is unchangeable, if our every action is foreordained, if we are doomed already, what’s the use of trying? Why go through all the pain of thought, of seeking an answer and struggling to make others accept it? But if we really believed in ourselves, we woiuld look for a solution, and find one.
“Wildcat” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1958.

Unusual Tales #14

Giant from the Unknown

by Joe Gill [?] and Steve Ditko
While digging a well, farmer John Grainey stumbles upon a buried giant.
— Michael Main
I believe your giant was in some scientific vault from another age [. . .]
“Giant from the Unknown” by Joe Gill [?] and Steve Ditko, Unusual Tales #14 (Charlton Comics, December 1958).

Magic or Not?

by Edward Eager
Magic or Not? by Edward Eager (Harcourt, Brace, 1959).

Passage to Gomorrah

by Robert F. Young
In a future of FTL spaceships, time storms between the stars, and male-only space explorers, young Berenice had run away to the stars as a sex worker. But when she inexplicably becomes pregnant, the powers-that-be book passage for her on Captain Cross’s ship to the exhile planet called Gomorrah.
— Michael Main
“But wouldn’t our objective reality be affected?”

He nodded. “It could be,” he said, “since, in the absence of any real passage of time, it would be in temporal ratio to our involvement in our pasts, which might force it into a different time plane altogether.”

“Passage to Gomorrah” by Robert F. Young, Fantastic January 1959.

Snitkin’s Law

by Eleazar Lipsky
Lipsky, himself a lawyer, tells the story of Lester Snitkin, an untrustworthy, small-time lawyer who is whisked into the Unimaginable Future to save mankind from the perfect justice meted out by the Justice Machine.
According to the Theory of Improbability, all moral qualities can be suitably quantified under the so-called Lenin-Stalin-Khrushchev Transformation Equations. By these fruitful formulations, it was discovered early in the twentieth century that everything can be taken to mean anything else provided that the number field be restricted to the transcendentals.
“Snitkin’s Law” by Eleazar Lipsky, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1959.

A Statue for Father

by Isaac Asimov
A wealthy man’s father was a time-travel researcher who died some years ago, but not before leaving a legacy for all mankind.
They’ve put up statues to him, too. The oldest is on the hillside right here where the discovery was made. You can just see it out the window. Yes. Can you make out the inscription? Well, we’re standing at a bad angle. No matter.
“A Statue for Father” by Isaac Asimov, in Satellite Science Fiction, February 1959.

“—All You Zombies—”

by Robert A. Heinlein
A 25-year-old man, originally born as an orphan girl named Jane, tells his story to a 55-year-old bartender who then recruits him for a time-travel adventure.
— Michael Main
When I opened you, I found a mess. I sent for the Chief of Surgery while I got the baby out, then we held a consultation with you on the table—and worked for hours to salvage what we could. You had two full sets of organs, both immature, but with the female set well enough developed for you to have a baby. They could never be any use to you again, so we took them out and rearranged things so that you can develop properly as a man.
“‘—All You Zombies—’” by Robert A. Heinlein, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1959.

Lost in Translation

by Rosel George Brown
Prudish Mercedes King, a devotee and advocate of the neo-Victorian revival as well as a true Graecophile, is approached by her father’s graduate student about participating in a certain experiment.
Let me at least tell you what the experiment is. You can faint after I’m finished.
“Lost in Translation” by Rosel George Brown, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959.

Tenth Time Around

by J. T. McIntosh
Gene Player seems destined to always lose his love Belinda to his friend Harry Scott, but maybe, just maybe, he’ll get it right on the tenth time around as he’s once again sent back to his 1975 body in this branching universe time travel story. But what if in the new 1975, he meets young Doreen for the first time, not to mention those other small things that go differently?
It was a big decision, the first time. If you were at all successful in life at forty, fifty, sixth, the glorious thought of being young again, strong, healthy and probably in love, was considerably tempered by the consideration that you’d be pushed around again, that you’d have to get up at seven and work hard all day for less than a tenth of what you made now, that you’d have to go through this or that operation again, that you’d have to see your father and mother die again . . .
“Tenth Time Around” by J. T. McIntosh, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959.

Production Problem

by Robert F. Young
Bridgemaker has never had any trouble making money, but it’s a different vocation that he longs for, a vocation that was apparently widespread in the past, so he sends men from Timesearch, Inc., to find the secret that had to exist in the past.
Our field men have explored the Pre-Technological Age, the First Technological Age, and the early years of our own age; but even though they witnessed some of the ancient technicians at work, they never caught a glimpse of the machine.
“Production Problem” by Robert F. Young, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1959.

Unborn Tomorrow

by Mack Reynolds
Private investigator Simon and his assistant Betty are hired by a curious old man to hunt up some time travelers at Oktoberfest. Betty is game, but Simon, sporting a major hangover, is uncharacteristically reticent.
“Time travel is impossible.”

“Why?”

Betty looked to her boss for assistance. None was forthcoming. There ought to be some very quick, positive, definite answer. She said, “Well, for one thing, paradox. Suppose you had a time machine and traveled back a hundred years or so and killed your own great-grandfather. Then how could you ever be born?”

“Confound it if I know,” the little fellow growled. “How?”

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“Unborn Tomorrow” by Mack Reynolds, Astounding, June 1959.

Hector Heathcote

by Eli Bauer
Hector first appeared in a movie theater short feature (I miss short features) called “The Minute and ½ Man” in 1959 where he goes back to the American Revolution and fouls things up until the end when he scares away the Redcoats (reminiscent of the 1955 Casper cartoon). I haven’t seen that first cartoon in which Hector travels by time machine, but Hector later had TV escapades (his own show, starting 5 Oct 1963) visiting the likes of Daniel Boone and inventing the telephone in 1876, all without a time machine in the ones I saw. There was also a children’s book (which had no time travel), a Dell spin-off comic book (Mar 1964), and a Colorforms’ play set (which provided the image to the top-left).
You’re wanted on the telephone—a young lady.
Hector Heathcote by Eli Bauer (4 July 1959).

Time Patrol 2

Brave to Be a King

by Poul Anderson
Patrolman Keith Denison uses some sketchy tactics (sketchy to the Patrol, that is) to track down his partner Keith Denison, who’s disappeared in the time of the Persian King Cyrus the Great,
— Michael Main
In the case of a missing man, you were not required to search for him just because a record somewhere said you had done so. But how else would you stand a chance of finding him? You might possibly go back and thereby change events so that you did find him after all—in which case the report you filed would “always” have recorded your success, and you alone would know the “former” truth.
“Brave to Be a King” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1959.

Change War series

Damnation Morning

by Fritz Leiber
“Damnation Morning” by Fritz Leiber, Fantastic, August 1959.

Galactic Derelict

by Andre Norton
Ross Murdock (from the first book) is now recruiting others to the organization, including cattle farmer amatuer local archaeologist Travis Fox. The two of them along with archaeologist Gordon Ashe travel back to the time of mammoths to seek out the spaceship of the guys who brought time travel to Earth in the first place.
So, you’re a part of this now, whether or no. We can’t afford to let you go, the situation is too critical. So—you’ll be offered a chance to enlist.
Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton (World Publishing Co., 1959).

MUgwump Four

by Robert Silverberg
Oh, dear! Albert Miller has dialed a wrong number on the Mugwump-4 exchange, and the mutants who answered have decided that the only solution is to catapult him into the future where he won’t be able to upset their plans for World Domination.
— Michael Main
At this stage in our campaign, we can take no risks. You’ll have to go. Prepare the temporal centrifuge, Mordecai.
“Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Dell, October 1959).

Triple-Time Try

by Les Cole
“Triple-Time Try” by Les Cole, Amazing Science-Fiction Stories, October 1959.

Peabody’s Improbable History

by Ted Key
The genius dog, Mr. Peabody, and his boy Sherman travel back in the Wayback Machine to see what truly happened at key points of history.
Peabody here.
Peabody’s Improbable History by Ted Key (29 November 1959).

The Boys’ Life Time Machine Stories

by Donald Monroe and Keith Monroe
Boy Scout Bob “Tuck” Tucker, of the Polaris Patrol, doesn’t want to look after tag-along Elsworth “Brains” Baynes, but he does so as a favor to his father. Then one day near the scout camp, they find a time machine that lets them explore history with a bit of science fiction (people have no hair or teeth in the future) thrown in on the side. Later in the series, they’re joined by Kai from the city of Troy in the year 4000 and Dion from ancient Sparta.

Some of the stories were gathered into two collections: Mutiny in the Time Machine (1963) and Time Machine to the Rescue (1967).

One little egghead reached out, kind of scared, and gave my hair a nasty tug. “Mullo,” the Scoutmaster said sharply. “Jog law six. A Scout is kind. He is warmheart to animals. He nul kills or pangs any living creature for trivia.”

Their words for the sixth Scout Law were weird, but I was glad to know they still had the law, especially if they thought I was an animal.

“The Boys’ Life Time Machine Stories” by Donald Monroe and Keith Monroe, in Boys’ Life, December 1959.

Flight of Time

by Paul Capon
Flight of Time by Paul Capon (William Heinemann, 1960).

Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno
Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory.
— Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
“The Time Cap” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno, Unusual Tales #20 (Charlton Comics, January 1960).

The Other Wife

by Jack Finney
“The Other Wife” by Jack Finney, in The Saturday Evening Post, 30 January 1960.

Dr. Futurity

by Philip K. Dick
Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick, in Ace Double D-421, Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick / Slavers of Space[/em] by John Brunner (Ace Books, February 1960).

Future Science Fiction, February 1960

Through Other Eyes

by R. A. Lafferty
Although the story is not about time travel, the characters do spend the first couple of pages reminiscing about their disappointing experiences with a time machine.
— Fred Galvin
“And watching the great Pythagorous at work.”
“And the three days that he spent on that little surveying problem. How one longed to hand him a slide-rule through the barrier and explain its working.”
“Through Other Eyes” by R. A. Lafferty, Future Science Fiction, February 1960.

The Time Machine

by Alex Toth
The second comic book adaption was drawn by the talented storyteller and artist Alex Toth who closely followed the movie script in Dell’s Four Color 1085. Online sources indicate that this was March of 1960, though that would be several months before the movie.

A black and white reprint appeared in the 2005 Alex Toth Reader (Volume 2).

The year is 1900. The place is London, England, at an imposing mansion overlooking the river Thames. Impatient dinner guests sit in the library, awaiting an overdue host. . .
“The Time Machine” by Alex Toth (March 1960).

The Well-Wishers

by Edward Eager
The Well-Wishers by Edward Eager (March 1960).

The Corianis Disaster

by Murray Leinster
“The Corianis Disaster” by Murray Leinster, Science Fiction Stories,[/em] May 1960.

Change War series

The Oldest Soldier

by Fritz Leiber
“The Oldest Soldier” by Fritz Leiber, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1960.

The Time Machine

by David Duncan, directed by George Pal
The Traveller now has a name—H. George Wells (played by Rod Taylor)—and Weena has the beautiful face and talent of Yvette Mimieux.
— Michael Main
When I speak of time, I’m speaking of the fourth dimension.
The Time Machine by David Duncan, directed by George Pal (at limited movie theaters, Rome, 25 May 1960).

Chronopolis

by J. G. Ballard
“Chronopolis” by J. G. Ballard, in New Worlds Science Fiction, June 1960.

The Covenant

by Poul Anderson
Captain Ban, son of the Warden, is told by an oracle that he alone must fly to the island stronghold of those masters of time, the Cloud-People.
Your world is a slope and you roll down it all the time. Down and down until you wear out and die.
“The Covenant” by Poul Anderson, Fantastic July 1960.

Trouble with Time

by Arthur C. Clarke
“Trouble with Time” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1960.

Beyond the Time Barrier

by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Major Bill Allison flies the experimental X-80 into the year 2024 where a plague has turned most humans into subhuman mutants and the rest are mostly deaf, dumb, and sterile. Once there, the leaders of an underground citadel (not to be confused with the ITTDB Citadel) have plans for him to marry the beautiful telepathic (and possibly non-sterile) Princess Trirene, and thereby re-populate the world. But together with Trirene and a small group of scientists, he devises a plan to return to his own time and prevent the plague from ever occurring.

The flight to the future is explained by scientific gibberish that contains a high concentration of mumbo jumbo, but the gist of it is that the speed of Allison’s plane (around 10,000 mph) added to the rotational speed of the Earth plus the speed of the Earth’s orbit around the sun plus the speed of the Solar System around the center of the galaxy plus maybe another speed or two, managed to bring his total speed close to that of light, which brought him to the future. Apparently, reversing his plane’s path is all that’s needed to return him to the past (ideally with Trirene beside him).

A self-defeating act paradox is set up nicely (if Alison stops the plague, then the citadel in the, future won’t be there to send him back to stop the plague), but the issue is never explicitly discussed and the ending of the film is inconclusive on the matter. Nevertheless, I commend the film for being the first to raise the issue of time travel paradoxes, albeit in the background.

— Michael Main
I may be able to prevent it: Is that what you mean?
Beyond the Time Barrier by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (at movie theaters, USA, circa July 1960).

Archie Comics

by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Simon and Kirby created The Fly as part of Archie Comics attempt to ride the silver age superhero craze. He flew through time at least five times, with the first episode (in issue 8, no longer Simon and Kirby) being a trip to 3rd century Persia. The Jaguar also trekked at least six times starting in Pep 5 (Oct 1961) and continuing in the Man of Feline’s own comic book, Adventures of the Jaguar as well as Laugh Comics. And the Shield had some time-travel adventures, beginning in The Fly 37 (May 1966) where he met a gladiator from the future.
My colleagues, clever as they are, would never dream of the angle I’ll use to get rid of the Fly! I’ll destroy him with beauty!
“Archie Comics” by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, in Adventures of the Fly 8, September 1960.

Welcome

by Poul Anderson
Tom Barlow, the world’s first time traveler, receives a welcome from Earth’s rulers 500 years in the future.

Tom departed from the late twentieth century because of its unpleasant political climate, but the description of Barlow’s orginal time reads more as if Anderson got a peek at 2016 Donald Trump.

Disgust would be the simplest word.
“Welcome” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1960.

Tooter Turtle

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In each of the 39 short episodes (aired as part of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects), young Tooter would visit Mr. Wizard with the latest passionate idea of what he wanted to be. Mr. Wizard would magically make him into his wish (often back in time), but it would always end up with Tooter learning a lesson.
Be just vhat you is, not vhat you is not. Folks vhat do zis are ze happiest lot.
Tooter Turtle |pending byline| (15 October 1960).

Gun for Hire

by Mack Reynolds
Hit man Joe Prantera is transported to the year 2133 to knock off a bad guy since nobody of that time is capable of doing violence.
Ya think I’m stupid? I can see that.
“Gun for Hire” by Mack Reynolds, in Analog, December 1960.

La caverne du futur

Literal: The cave of the future

by Jimmy Guieu
La caverne du futur by Jimmy Guieu (Fleuve Noir, 1961).

Extempore

by Damon Knight
Mr. Rossi yearns so much to travel through time that he manages to do so with only the power of his mind, but now he’s traveling is out of control: a series of moments past to present to future, which keep repeating but never the same.
He found a secondhand copy of J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment with Time and lost sleep for a week. He copied off the charts from it, Scotch-taped them to his wall; he wrote down his startling dreams every morning as soon as he awoke. There was a time outside time, Dunne said, in which to measure time; and a time outside that, in which to measure the time that measured time, and a time outside that.. . . Why not?
“Extempore” by Damon Knight, in Far Out, edited by Damon Knight (Simon and Shuster, 1961).

Les magiciens d’Andromède

Literal: The magicians of Andromeda

by Max-André Rayjean
Les magiciens d’Andromède by Max-André Rayjean (Fleuve Noir, 1961).

Random Quest

by John Wyndham
“Random Quest” by John Wyndham, in Consider Her Ways and Others (Michael Joseph, 1961).

Ijon Tichy

Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego, pt. 4

Literal: From remembrances of Ijon Tichy, pt. 4

by Stanisław Lem
Ijon is unphased when Physicist Molteris lugs his time machine into Ijon’s sitting room, promising Ijon will be repaid for the colossal amount of electricity that will be consumed by the first trip.
— Michael Main
Zamierzałem, ale . . . widzi pan . . . ja . . . mój gospodarz wyłączył mi elektrycznoćś . . . w niedzielę.
I planned to, but, you see, I—my landlord turned off the electricity on Sunday.
English
[ex=bare]Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego, pt. 4 | From remembrances of Ijon Tichy, pt. 4[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Księga robotów (Iskry, 1961).

Unusual Tales #26

Where Is Amelia?

by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia
At a happenin’ party, a beatnik puts Amelia into a trance, sending her to, like, the the 25th century!
— Michael Main
Sleep, chick, sleep deep! You will like go into another world. A world without squares. A world where everyone is like real sweep people!
“Where Is Amelia?” by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia, Unusual Tales #26 (Charlton Comics, February 1961).

Worlds of the Imperium

by Keith Laumer
Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer, serialized in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, February to April 1961.

The End

by Fredric Brown
I like Fredric Brown and his creative mind, but this was just a gimmick short short time-travel story in which the gimmick didn’t gimme anything. Now, if he had used this gimmick and the story had actually parsed, that would have caught my attention.
. . . run backward run. . .
“The End” by Fredric Brown, in Dude, May 1961.

My Object All Sublime

by Poul Anderson
A man becomes fast friends with a real estate entrepreneur who, one night, tells him a fantastic story of time-travelers in the far future who use the past as a criminal dumping ground.
The homesickeness, though, that’s what eats you. Little things you never noticed. Some particular food, the way people walk, the games played, the small-talk topics. Even the constellations. They're different in the future. The sun has traveled that far in its galactic orbit.
“My Object All Sublime” by Poul Anderson, in Galaxy, June 1961.

Of Time and Eustace Weaver

by Fredric Brown
When the eponymous hero invents a time machine, he’s quite happy to embark on a career of larceny, gambling, and playing the market to make his riches, knowing that if things go awry, he can always return to the start.

When the story was reprinted in Nightmares and Geezenstacks it was presented as three separate vignettes (“The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver,” Parts I to III), but the original EQMM publication had just one entry (Of Time and Eustace Weaver) in its table of contents.

He could become the richest man in the world, wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. All he had to do was to take short trips into the future to learn what stocks had gone up and which horses had won races, then come back to the present and buy those stocks or bet on those horses.
“Of Time and Eustace Weaver” by Fredric Brown, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 1961.

Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoons

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Even before the modern Duck Tales that my kids watched, I’ll bet Mickey and his friends went romping through time numerous times. The only one that I remember seeing as a kid myself was a trek by a singing father and son to see the invention of the wheel by a prehistoric Donald Duck (“Donald and the Wheel”).
This cat is really nowhere; in some circles, we’d call him square.
Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoons |pending byline| (21 June 1961).

The Zookeeper

by Otis Kidwell Burger
Some 18,000 centuries in the future, one remaining being from the past looks after the animals and artifacts in the zoo where They keep Their collectables including Ruth, a reflective and naive woman of the long-lost past.
Having conquered Time and Space, They have now returned to them, as children do to long-forgotten toys. The collectors of string, match-boxes, old bottle-caps, have finally inherited the earth, and the City, built in the first star-reaching flush of power, has now become a dusty antique shop stuffed with every period Man ever knew. People in queer costumes parade the streets; the Old Vehicles Club has outings along SP@ Ave. (and only They, who can control time and motion, could keep Anglo-Saxon carts and Hexabiles from the 4th archy going at the same pace.)
“The Zookeeper” by Otis Kidwell Burger, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1961.

The Kappa Nu Nexus

by Avram Davidson and Morton Klass
Spending a night at the Kappa Nu fraternity, potential freshman pledge Hank Gordon is the recipient of visits from Thaïs, Cleopatra, Nell Gwynn, and other ladies on their way from the past to their future patrons.
Upon the bit of flimsy fabric which emphasized, rather than concealed, her bosom, was a large name-pin reading Cleopatra. This she removed, the action revealing to astonished Hank two small but distinct areas on which he had never till this moment realized that rouge might be applied.
“The Kappa Nu Nexus” by Avram Davidson and Morton Klass, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1961.

Unusual Tales #29

Where Does It Go?

by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia
J. L . Standish finds himself unexpectedly on a flying bus to the future where the automata have a job for him.
— Michael Main
But what would I do? If your automated processes are as efficient as I believe, a mere mortal cannot be important to you!
“Where Does It Go?” by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia, Unusual Tales #29 (Charlton Comics, August 1961).

Unusual Tales #30

A Small Matter of Time

by Joe Gill [?] and Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio
The title suggests that Professor Amos Shute’s intrepid travelers are going back in time to four planets that are identical in every way to our own, but then again, perhaps those four planets were merely at earlier times to begin with. We won’t say one way or another, but we are glad that the Spanish Flu pandemic, World War I, World War II, and World War III were all averted on some Earth.
— Michael Main
In what time period will you find yourselves when you land at your particular destinatoin!
“A Small Matter of Time” by Joe Gill [?] and Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio, Unusual Tales #30 (Charlton Comics, October 1961).

Green Sunrise

by Doris Pitkin Buck
Alfred loves his time machine more than his wife, but when she pushes him into it and he meets Zopheeta and others from an unspecified future time, he gets almost as confused as I was while reading this story.
Too late. Emmeline’s little pale wreath slithered down the curve of a hoop and knocked a switch and two spirals as it did so. Again the Machine quivered. But this time something delecate near the circlet—another spiraled wire—was flicked to a new position. The Machine jarred. Al reached toward the three switches but only had time to pull one.
“Green Sunrise” by Doris Pitkin Buck, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961.

The Other End of the Line

by Walter Tevis
After accidentally telephoning himself two months in the future, George Bledsoe wonders what would happen if he doesn’t answer that call.
Don’t argue, dammit. I’m talking to you from October ninth. I’m sitting in a boat, twenty-eight miles and two months from where you are and I’ve got a pile of newspapers, Georgie, that haven’t even been printed yet, back there in August where you’re talking from.
“The Other End of the Line” by Walter Tevis, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961.

Rainbird

by R. A. Lafferty
At the end of this life, Higgston Rainbird, a prolific inventor of the late 18th century, invents a time machine to go back in time to tell himself how to be even more prolific.
Yes, I’ve missed so much. I wasted a lot of time. If only I could have avoided the blind alleys, I could have done many times as much.
“Rainbird” by R. A. Lafferty, in Galaxy, December 1961.

Remember the Alamo!

by R. R. Fehrenbach
John Ord goes back to observe the Alamo and perhaps to persuade some reluctant defenders that even if the Alamo falls, it’ll nevertheless be the turning point in winning the west.
“The Alamo, sir.” A slow, steady excitement seemed to burn in the Britainer’s bright eyes. “Santa Anna won’t forget that name, you can be sure. You’ll want to talk to the other officers now, sir? About the message we drew up for Sam Houston?”
“Remember the Alamo!” by R. R. Fehrenbach, in Analog, December 1961.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L’Engle
It was a dark and stormy night.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962).

Clyde Crashcup

by Ross Bagdasarian
As a separate feature in The Alvin Show, Quirky Clyde Crashcup (with his assistant Leonardo) invented everything from babies to a time machine that reverses all time.
I should like to remind you that all of you who witnessed this demonstration are five minutes younger than you were when we started.
Clyde Crashcup by Ross Bagdasarian (31 January 1962).

The Defiant Agents

by Andre Norton
The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton (World Publishing Co., February 1962).

La jetée

English release: La Jetée Literal: The pier

written and directed by Chris Marker
In a world made uninhabitable by the Third World War, a prisoner is chosen as being the only person with vivid enough memories of the past to travel through time and return with salvation.

This 28-minute photo montage with about 1,200 words of narration has a nice seed of an idea, but I find it insulting to other talented filmmakers that Time magazine ranked this sketch of a film as #1 in their 2010 list of best time travel movies.

— Michael Main
Tel était le but des expériences : projeter dans le Temps des émissaires, appeler le passé et l’avenit au secours du présent.
Such was the purpose of the experiments: to project emissaries into Time, to summon the Past and the Future to the aid of the Present.
English
La jetée written and directed by Chris Marker (at movie theaters, France, 16 February 1962).

Times Without Numbers

by John Brunner
In an alternate Spanish-dominated 20th century, Don Miguel Navarro is a time traveler in the western world’s Society of Time who are locked in a time-travel cold war with the Confederacy of the East, not to mention their task of tracking down various time crimes.

I try to avoid major spoilers (stop reading now, if you wish), but the reason that Don Miguel ends up in a world without time travel is one that I thought of (long after Brunner) based on fixed-points in mathematics. That idea alone gives the story an extra star.

The original three stories appeared in three consecutive issues of Science Fiction Adventure, and they were later fixed up into a short novel that was subsequently expanded. It’s the expanded version that I read from the CU library.

It wasn’t only the embarrassing experience of being shown off around the hall by her—as it were, a real live time-traveller, exclamation point, in the same tone of voice as one would say, “A real live tiger!” That happened too often for members of the Society of Time not to have grown used to it; there were, after all, fewer than a thousand of them in the whole of the Empire.
“Times Without Numbers” by John Brunner, in Science Fiction Adventure (25, March 1962).

The Stars, My Brothers

by Edmond Hamilton
A man who does not understand people is frozen for 100 years. He’s brought back to life enroute to an alien planet, where surprising things happen.
— Dave Hook
“The Stars, My Brothers” by Edmond Hamilton, Amazing Stories, May 1962.

The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass

by Frederik Pohl
This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the editorial pages of Pohl’s Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation.
— Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through 20th century medicine.
“The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.

Brown Robert

by Terry Carr
Arthur Leacock has his eye on his boss, young Robert Ernsohn, who has invented a time machine and is about to try it out on himself. Young professors, such as Robert, are not to be trusted with the young girls on campus.

I found the story to be quite a scary character sketch of Arthur, but was disapponted that the time travel aspect dealt with that worn-out aspect of the Earth moving away from the time traveler.

The machine, the time machine, was ready for operation. It was clean and had been checked over for a week; all the parts which were doubtful had been replaced, and on a trial run yesterday it had performed perfectly. Robert’s sweater—obert’s, of course, not Arthur’s—had been sent two days into the future and had come back. It had been sent six months and then five years into the future, and it had still come back. But of course Arthur had never doubted that it would.
“Brown Robert” by Terry Carr, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1962.

Dell/Gold Key Comics

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In addition to the well-known comic book adaptation of The Time Machine, Dell and Gold Key comics had numerous movie and TV spin-offs in the 60s, some of which had time travel. Some were just one-shots (such as The Three Stooges Meet Hercules in Dell Movie Classics 208; and Hector Heathcote in 1964) while others were series (such as the short-lived two issues of The Time Tunnel in 1967). The second issue of The Outer Limits had a cover story, “The Boy with the Incredible Time Machine Saved the World,” which was reprinted in The Outer Limits 18. They were big on boys saving the world, usually from aliens. Tooter Turtle appeared in seven issues of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, some of which were before Aug 1962, but their time travel pedigre is dubious because the issues I saw could have occured in the present day.

As I find other time travel stories, I’ll add them to my time travel comic book page.

Two scientists are hurled helpless into the lost world of time!
Dell/Gold Key Comics |pending byline|, in Dell Movie Classics 208, August 1962.

When You Care, When You Love

by Theodore Sturgeon
Sylva—an heiress who is used to getting her way—devises a plan to (sort of) save her terminally ill lover, Guy Gibbon.
— Michael Main
But lots of things were crazier and some bigger, nd now they’re commonplace.
“When You Care, When You Love” by Theodore Sturgeon, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1962.

The Winds of Time

by James H. Schmitz
Schmitz wrote a popular series of novels and stories about a galactic federation called the Hub. This is the only one of the stories that I’ve read—about Gefty Rammer, the captain of a space freighter that is commissioned by a secretive man named Maulbow who claims to be from a race of future time travelers.
Also, according to Maulbow, there was a race of the future, human in appearance, with machines to sail the current of time through the universe—to run and tack with the winds of time, dipping in and out of the normspace of distant periods and galaxies as they chose.
“The Winds of Time” by James H. Schmitz, in Analog, September 1962.

Harvey Comics

by Alfred Harvey
Richie Rich 13 was the first Harvey Comic that I ever bought (the same month as Fantastic Four 7). On the cover, the poor little rich boy was watching his big-screen TV with a master control that also indicated movies, hi-fi, phono-vision, short wave and satellites. And inside he time traveled to visit his ancestor Midas Rich. What more could a six-year-old want?

Other Harvey time-travel comics are listed on my time travel comics page.

Away we go, Mawster Richie!
“Harvey Comics” by Alfred Harvey, in Richie Rich 13, October 1962.

The Heart on the Other Side

by George Gamow
“The Heart on the Other Side” by George Gamow, in The Expert Dreamers, edited by Frederik Pohl (Doubleday, October 1962).

The Face in the Photo

by Jack Finney
Young physics Professor Weygand is questioned by Instructor Martin O. Ihren about the disappearance of several recent criminals who have shown up in very old photos.
I did, and saw what he meant; a face in the old picture almost identical with the one in the Wanted poster. It had the same astonishing length, the broad chin seeming nearly as wide as the cheekbones, and I looked up at Ihren. “ Who is it? His father? His grandfather?”
“The Face in the Photo” by Jack Finney, The Saturday Evening Post, 13 October 1962.

Lem’s Star Diaries

Czarna komnata profesora Tarantogi

Literal: Professor Tarantoga's black room

by Stanisław Lem
Professor Tarantoga saves human civilization! After using his chronopad to investigate the leading scientists and artists in history, Tarantoga concludes that without exception they are lazy drunkards. So naturally, he sends smart young people into various eras to invent differential calculus, to paint the Mona Lisa, etc.—all while a pair of police inspectors have their eye on him.
— based on Wikipedia
[ex=bare]Czarna komnata profesora Tarantogi: Widowisko telewizyjne | Professor Tarantoga’s black room: Television show[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963).

Lem’s Star Diaries

Dziwny gość profesora Tarantogi

Literal: Professor Tarantoga’s strange guest

by Stanisław Lem
I’d bet my last złotych that Lem is carefully satirizing the rule of the Polish United Workers’s Party in this story of a fourth-millennium man who hails from Mars and has room in his brain for two or three different personalities (Kazimierz Nowak, Hipperkorn, and possibly a dreaded Nanów), the first of which leapt from a touring chronobus in the 20th century where he hoped to find the inventor of time travel, Professor Tarantoga.
— Michael Main
W kilku słowach: w naszym społeczeñstwie decyduje o losie człowieka ranga intelektualna. Ludzie wartoœciowi, o zdolnoœciach wybitnych, mają prawo do całego, własnego ciała. Ja właœnie byłem takim, byłem samodzielnym, suwerennym meżczyznę!
Briefly, in our society the fate of a person depends on his intellectual level. Valuable people with outstanding abilities have the right to their entire body. I was just that, I was an independent, sovereign man!
English
[ex=bare]Dziwny gość profesora Tarantogi: Widowisko telewizyjne | Professor Tarantoga’s strange guest: Television show[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963).

Întâlniri în Timp

Literal: Rendezvous in time

by Ion Hobana
“Întâlniri în Timp” by Ion Hobana, in Oameni și stele (Editura Tineretului, 1963).

鉄腕アトム

Tetsuwan Atomu English release: Astro Boy Literal: Mighty Atom

|pending byline|
Astro Boy began as a Japanese comic (manga) in 1952 and then became an anime cartoon before anybody knew what anime was. The cartoons of the 21st century Pinocchioish robot boy were dubbed in English and syndicated in the U.S. starting in 1963. I do remember one time-travel episode in which Astro Boy stopped a time-traveling collector from the future who was after ancient animals and people for his zoo; and I suspect there was more time travel in the manga and later U.S. cartoons.
Dad’s taking animals and plants and even people back with him to display in the 23rd century.
[ex=bare]鉄腕アトム | Mighty Atom | Tetsuwan Atomu[/ex] |pending byline| (1963).

Who Else Could I Count On?

by Manly Wade Wellman
Wellman’s tall-tales character of John the Balladeer has a conversation with an old man who came from forty years in the future to stop a terrible war.
I’ve come back to this day and time to keep it from starting, if I can. Come with me, John, we’ll go to the rulers of this world. We’ll make them believe, too, make them see that the war mustn’t start.
“Who Else Could I Count On?” by Manly Wade Wellman, in Who Fears the Devil? (Arkham House, 1963).

Lem’s Star Diaries

Wyprawa profesora Tarantogi

Literal: Professor Tarantoga’s voyage

by Stanisław Lem
Oh, tensor! Oh, turbulent perturbation! Some time before Professor Tarantoga invented a time machine and met a schizophrenic man from the fourth millennium, he apparently invented a transporter that took him and his new assistant Chybek to a series of progressively more advanced civilizations, the last of which included a barefaced cook who had an embarrasing accident in the cosmic kitchen, resulting in mankind (and indirectly resulting in time travel for the professor and Chybek).
— Michael Main
I znów mi się przypaliło—jedno spiralne ramie, od spodu, na trzysta parseków—i znowu wybiegła mi słonecznica, i ścięło się, i będzie zgęstek, i powstanie białko, przeklęte białko! I znowu będzie ewolucja, i ludzkość, i cywilizacja, i będę się musiał tłumaczyć, usprawiedliwiać, składać we dwoje, przepraszać, że to niechcący, że przez przypadek . . . Ale to wy, nie ja!
And I got burned again—one spiral arm, underneath, three hundred parsecs—and again a sunflower came out of me and it was choked and there will be a bundle of white, cursed protein! And there will be evolution again, and humanity and civilization, and I will have to justify, justify, put together, apologize that it’s accidentally, that by accident . . .
English
[ex=bare]Wyprawa profesora Tarantogi: Widowisko w sześciu częściach | Professor Tarantoga’s voyage: A television show in six parts[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963).

Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me

by Fritz Leiber
A grandpa living in the Cold War era receives a visit from his great-granddaughter who wants to know details about Norse mythology.
“That's right,” she told me, nodding. “Khrushchev was the giant Skymir, I’m pretty sure. Jotunheim and Asgard are Russia and America, all set to shoot missiles at each other across England and Europe, which must be Midgard, of course—though sometimes I think the English are the Vanir.”
“Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me” by Fritz Leiber, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1963.

Key Out of Time

by Andre Norton
Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe take a team of telepathic dolphins and their Polynesian friend back in time to a water planet whose past may hold the key to the murderous time travelers who visited Earth long ago.
Do you mean, have we changed the future? Who can answer that?
Key Out of Time by Andre Norton (World Publishing Co., Mar 1963).

Brain Boy

by Herb Castle and Gil Kane
All you really need to be a superhero is to be really smart. That’s Brain Boy, and he battled a time machine in issue 4 (Mar/May 1963).
And you haven’t asked what the late Professor Krisher was working on. It was the practical application of a theory of time travel! Going back in time—say to civil war days, or the days of the Roman Empire!
“Brain Boy” by Herb Castle and Gil Kane, in Brain Boy 4, Mar/May 1963.

The Histronaut

by Paul Seabury
Political scientist Paul Seabury, an expert on U.S. foreign policy during the cold war, wrote just one sf story speculating on how a cadre of time travelers, one of whom is assigned to Vladimir Lenin, might become the next weapon of choice for the war-prevention strategy of mutually assured destruction.

Janet and I spent an enjoyable Saturday morning tracking down this single extant photo of Professor Seabury.

As Professor Schlesinger pointed out, some Soviet historians doubtless were already preparing the assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Florida in 1933—so that the “historically necessary” contradictions of capitalism would emerge in the administration of President John Nance Garner.
“The Histronaut” by Paul Seabury, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1963.

The Great Time Machine Hoax

by Keith Laumer
When Chester W. Chester inherits an omniscient computer, he and his business partner Case Mulvihill arrange to promote the machine as if it were a time machine.
Now, this computer seems to be able to fake up just about any scene you want to take a look at. You name it, it sets it up. Chester, we’ve got the greatest side-show attraction in circus history! We book the public in at so much a head, and show ’em Daily Life in Ancient Rome, or Michelangelo sculpting the Pietà, or Napoleon leading the charge at Marengo.
The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer, in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June to August 1963.

Green Magic

by Jack Vance
“Green Magic” by Jack Vance, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963.

A Hoax in Time

by Keith Laumer
I haven’t yet read this serialized version that Laumer expanded to the novel The Great Time Machine Hoax in 1964, though I think this shorter version might have been published in the Armchair Fiction Double Novel 31 in 2011.
A Hoax in Time by Keith Laumer, in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June to August 1963.

Flux

by Michael Moorcock and Barrington J. Bayley
When the government of the European Economic Community has no idea what to do next, they send Marshall-in-Chief Max File ten years into the future to find out the eventual effects of their actions.

Although this story was too abstract for my taste, I did enjoy the early presentation of what today might be called a Boltzmann Brain.

The world from which he had come, or any other world for that matter, could dissipate into its component elements at any instant, or could have come into being at any previous instant, complete with everybody’s memories!
“Flux” by Michael Moorcock and Barrington J. Bayley, New Worlds, July 1963.

Glory Road

by Robert A. Heinlein
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jul to Sep 1963.

Martian Time-Slip

by Philip K. Dick
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick, 3-part serial, Worlds of Tomorrow, August, October, and December 1963.

Dr. Weird

by Howard Keltner
Dr. Weird was Howard Keltner’s creation, appearing in the first issue top comic book fanzine of the early 1960s, Star-Studded Comics. Although, George R.R. Martin claims he was unrelated to the contemporaneous Dr. Strange, both projected themselves into the astral plane to fight occult menaces. Weird’s menaces, though, were certainly darker—and he came from the future.

I don’t know whether any episodes after the origin included time travel.

Slowly and warily, the Astral Avenger approached a huge black wall. His substance seemed to waver and fade as he passed effortlessly through it into the blackened inside.
“Dr. Weird” by Howard Keltner, in Star-Studded Comics 1, September 1963.

All in Good Time

by Edward Ormondroyd
At the end of the first book, motherless Susan Shaw has finally convinced her father to at least try the whole elevator-to-1881 business. After that, well, of course her father will marry the widowed Mrs. Walker, and Susan will live happily ever after in the past with her new sister and brother, Vicky and Bobbie. Unless—no, it couldn’t be!—what if Mr. Shaw sees things differently?
Mr. Shaw rallied. “No, no, thank you, frog in my throat. I’m all right. Really pleased to meet you, too. I’m ah – it’s just that – oh, look here, I’m having a hard time taking all this in. I mean, Susan’s told me an incredible story about herself and you –”
All in Good Time by Edward Ormondroyd (Parnassus Press, November 1963).

Dr. Who

by Sydney Newman et al.
Sadly, I’ve never been a vassel of the Time Lord, though I’ve seen his pull on his other subjects such as my student Viktor who gave me a run-down of the TV and movie series and spin-offs. In exchange, I guaranteed him at least a 4-star rating and he promised to never again mention the short story, comic book, audio book, radio, cartoon, novel, t-shirt, stage and coffee mug spin-offs.
Hard to remember. Some time soon now, I think.
Dr. Who by Sydney Newman et al. (23 November 1963).

The Right Time

by John Berryman
“The Right Time” by John Berryman, in Analog, December 1963.

The Tree of Time

by Damon Knight
Professor Gordon Naismith unexpectedly discovers that he’s a warrior Shefth from the future, and now the Uglies from the future wants him to return to kill an alien Zug who managed to get through the time barrier that’s meant to keep out the Zugs.

The full version, called Beyond the Barrier, was published shortly after the shortened two-part serial (about 45,000 words) appeared in F&SF.

Let us say there was a need to be inconspicuous. This is a dead period, for hundreds of years on either side. No one knows about this abandoned liner except us, and no one would think of looking here.
The Tree of Time by Damon Knight, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 1963 to Jan 1964.

The Sword in the Stone

by Bill Peet
The Sword in the Stone by Bill Peet (25 December 1963).

The Yesterday Machine

written and directed by Russ Marker
Two decades after the end of World War II, Nazi Professor Ernst Von Hauser builds a time machine in the backwoods of Texas, and he’s got a plan to use it to change the outcome of the war: Start by bringing Confederate soldiers to the present; kidnap a wandering majorette; and finally send that nosy reporter Jim Crandell and his sidekick singer Sandy De Mar back to the past before bringing them back to be imprisoned.

As you may know, in the 1960s, the best way to present this kind of story was through an hour of snail-paced police procedural followed by detailed lectures from the mad professor. Oh, and also be sure to also send the majorette on a brief trip to the future, and keep a close eye on that brave Egyptian slave.

— Michael Main
But just suppose, for the sake of argument, the Ellison kid did see two men from out of the past of 100 years ago. That would mean somebody around here is tampering with time.
The Yesterday Machine written and directed by Russ Marker (at movie theaters, USA, circa 1963).

The Deep Reaches of Space

by A. Bertram Chandler
The Deep Reaches of Space by A. Bertram Chandler (Herbert Jenkins, 1964).

The Voyages of Ijon Tichy 11

Podróż siódma

English release: The Seventh Voyage Literal: Journey seven

by Stanisław Lem
What do you do when your one-man spaceship loses an argument with a meteor, and the only way to repair the rudder demands two people? “The Seventh Voyage” is the eleventh tale of Stanisław Lem’s space traveler Ijon Ticvhy, but I believe it’s the first where the hero also wrangles with time.
— Michael Main
— Zaraz — odparł wolno, nawet nie ruszając palcem. — Dzisiaj jest wtorek. Jeżeli ty jesteś środowy i do tej chwili we środę jeszcze nie są naprawione stery, to z tego wynika, że coś przeszkodzi nam w ich naprawieniu, ponieważ w przeciwnym razie, ty, we środę, nie nakłaniałbyś już mnie do tego, abym ja, we wtorek, wspólnie je z tobą naprawiał. Więc może lepiej nie ryzykować wyjścia na zewnątrz?
“Just a minute,” I replied, remaining on the floor. ”Today is Tuesday. Now if you are the Wednesday me, and if by that time on Wednesday the rudder still hasn’t been fixed, then it follows that something will prevent us from fixing it, since otherwise you, on Wednesday, would not now, on Tuesday, be asking me to help you fix it. Wouldn’t it be best, then, for us to not risk going outside?”
English
[ex=bare]“Podróż siódma” | Voyage seven[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania by Stanisław Lem (Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1964).

Powrót z gwiazd

English release: Return from the stars

by Stanisław Lem
Powrót z gwiazd by Stanisław Lem (Zora, 1964).

The Time Twisters

by J. Hunter Holly
“The Time Twisters” by J. Hunter Holly (Avon, 1964).

Waterspider

by Philip K. Dick
Aaron Tozzo and his colleague Gilly travel back to a 1950s science fiction convention (to them, a Pre-Cog Gathering) to ’nap Poul Anderson because they believe that sf writers have pre-cognition of their own time that can solve their current space travel problem. A cute story with descriptions of many writers of the time, but the ending takes that turn that I never like of Tozzo slowly losing his memory of the original world after they inadvertantly change something.
“Yes,” he said to Poul, “you do strike me as very, very faintly introve—no offense meant, sir, I mean, it’s legal to be introved.”
“Waterspider” by Philip K. Dick, in If, January 1964.

Herbie, the Fat Fury

by Richard E. Hughes and Ogden Whitney
Herbie Popnecker was the prototypical cool nerd before there were cool nerds, and his lollipops and grandfather clock took him to different eras 13 times, the first episode being in the first issue of his own comic (after five monotime appearances in ACG’s Forbidden Worlds). He also had an early cameo in a time-travel story in Unknown Worlds #20 (Jan 1963). All in all, the fat fury time traveled in Herbie numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and the odd issues in 9 through 23 (not to mention a 1994 cameo in Flaming Carrot 31).
Civil War. . . wonder how it’s going to turn out?
“Herbie, the Fat Fury” by Richard E. Hughes and Ogden Whitney, in Herbie 1, April/May 1964.

The Second Philadelphia Experiment

by Robert F. Young
No, the first Philadelphia experiment wasn’t the one you’re thinking of. Instead, it was Ben Franklin’s first kite-flying escapade. Bet you didn't know he had a second kite that produced a message that Franklin struggled to interpret.
—to the Dick the Disk Show, brought to you by W-D-U.
“The Second Philadelphia Experiment” by Robert F. Young, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1964.

Time Tunnel

by Murray Leinster
We’re tracking down a copy of this one. All we know just now is that it was not a basis for the later Time Tunnel franchise.
— pending
Time Tunnel by Murray Leinster (Pyramid Books, July 1964).

A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Massachusetts

by Wilma Shore
After Dr. Edwin Gerber’s death, a tape recording surfaces that purportedly has him interviewing a man from the year 2061.
Q. How does it feel to go back a hundred—
“A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Massachusetts” by Wilma Shore, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1964.

Charlton Comics

|pending byline|
When I turned 10, Steve Ditko broke my heart by leaving Marvel and rejoining Charlton Comics, which published only two superheroes at that time. I loyally bought the new Blue Beetle (aquired from Fox Comics in the ’50s) and Captain Atom (whom Ditko had first drawn in 1960’s Space Adventures), but I no longer have them and I can’t remember whether they had any time travel in the ’60s. Nevertheless I know of a few possible time-travel moment in the ’60s Charlton superhero comics: the pre-Ditko Blue Beetle 2 (Sep 1964) features on its cover the Man of Dung vs. a mammoth and a saber-tooth tiger; Charlton Premiere 1 (Sep 1967), which (among other items) has Pat Boyette’s time traveling Spookman; and Hercules 9 (Feb 1969) with Thane of Bagarth vs a 21st century time traveler.
The mightiest man battles reds from today, and monsters from yesterday!
“Charlton Comics” |pending byline|, in Blue Beetle 2, September 1964.

Hainish series

The Dowry of Angyar

by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Dowry of Angyar” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Amazing Stories, September 1964.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

by Alfred Hitchcock
As a kid, I knew of the iconic theme song and profile of Alfred Hitchcock, but it wasn’t until 2013 that I spotted one episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour with time travel—namely, their adaptation of John Wyndham’s “Consider Her Ways.”
This evening’s tale begins with a nightmare-like experience, but that is only a prelude to the terrifying events which follow. And now, speaking of terrifying events. . .
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour by Alfred Hitchcock (28 September 1964).

Farnham’s Freehold

by Robert A. Heinlein
Hugh Farnam makes good preparations for his family to survive a nuclear holocaust, but are the preparations good enough to survive a trip to the future?

In his blog, Fred Pohl wrote about how Heinlein’s agent gave permission for Pohl publish the novel in If and to cut “five or ten thousand words in the beginning that were argumentative, extraneous and kind of boring” (and Pohl agreed to pay full rate for the cut words). But apparently, Heinlein “went ballistic” when he saw the first installment, so much so that when the book appeared as a separate publication, Heinlein made sure people knew who was responsible for the previous cuts by adding a note* that “A short version of this novel, as cut and revised by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If Magazine.”

* The version of Heinlein’s note that Pohl recalled was much funnier than Heinlein’s actual note in our timeline, but sadly, we have lost track of where we saw Pohl’s version.

— Michael Main
Because the communists are realists. They never risk a war that would hurt them, even if they could win. So they won’t risk one they can’t win.
Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 1964).

The Time Travelers

written and directed by Ib Melchior
Using their time viewer, three scientists see a desolate landscape 107 years in the future, at which point the electrician realizes that the viewer has unexpectedly become a portal. All four jump through, only to have the portal collapse behind them, whereupon they are chased on the surface by Morlockish creatures who are afraid of thrown rocks, and they meet an advanced, post-apocalyptic, underground society that employs androids and is planning a generation-long trip to Alpha Centauri.

The film draws in at least four important additional time travel tropes: suspended animation, a single nonbranching, static timeline (with the corresponding inability to go back and change it), experiencing the passage of time at different rates, and a trip to the far future. And according to the SF Encyclopedia, the film was originally conceived as a sequel to the 1960 film of The Time Machine.

— Michael Main
Isn’t it obvious? The war did happen. You never did go back with your warning.
The Time Travelers written and directed by Ib Melchior (at movie theaters, USA, 29 October 1964).

Gunpowder God

by H. Beam Piper
“Gunpowder God” by H. Beam Piper, in Analog, November 1964.

When Time Was New

by Robert F. Young
At the behest of a paleontological society, adventurer Howard Carpenter, heads back to the Age of Dinosaurs to scope out an anachronistic fossil, where among other things, he runs into two terrified kids from Mars and a gang of Martian kidnappers.
79,061,889 years from now, this territory would be part of the state of Montana. 79,062,156 years from now, a group of paleontologists digging somewhere in the vastly changed terrain would unearth the fossil of a modern man who had died 79,062,156 years before his disinterment—Would the fossil turn out to be his own?
“When Time Was New” by Robert F. Young, in If, December 1964.

Famous First Words

by Harry Harrison
For the most part, this story is about a cantankerous inventor who merely listens in on past historical events—which, of course does not qualify as time travel. But there is that for-the-most-part part.
Thor, will you please take care of. . .
“Famous First Words” by Harry Harrison, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1965.

The Flintstones

by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Everyone gathered around the TV to watch America’s favorite stone-age family on Flintstones night in the 60s. In one episode of their final season (“Time Machine,” the Flintstones and the Rubbles turn the tables on America by visiting the 1964 World’s Fair (among other times in the future).
Oh, it’s marvelous, absolutely marvelous. You just step inside and I throw a lever. And things spin and lights go on and off, and you wind up somewhere in the future.
The Flintstones by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (15 January 1965).

Campfire Tales from Philmont Scout Ranch

by Al Stenzel
A Navaho who steps through the cave finds himself at a vast inland sea; at first it is populated by dinosaurs, but each subsequent strip takes him to a later time.

Jon Shultis told me of this comic strip that told the tale of the Cave of Time in many of the Boys’ Life issues from March 1965 through March 1967.

This is all wrong! If I dare change their stone age way of life, it may affect the whole future of their race.
“Campfire Tales from Philmont Scout Ranch” by Al Stenzel, in Boys’ Life, March 1965.

Double Take

by Jack Finney
Jake Pelman is hopelessly in love with Jessica, the breathtaking star in a movie that he works on, but it takes a breathless trip to the 1920s for Jess to realize what her feelings for Jake might be.
Out of the world’s three billion people there can’t be more than, say, a hundred women like Jessica Maxwell.
“Double Take” by Jack Finney, Playboy,April 1965.

Man in His Time

by Brian Aldiss
Janet Westerman is trying to cope with the return of her husband Jack from a mission to Mars in which some aspect of the planet made it so that his sensory input now comes from 3.3077 minutes in the future.
Dropping the letter, she held her head in her hands, closing her eyes as in the curved bone of her skull she heard all her possible courses of action jar together, future lifelines that annihilated each other.
“Man in His Time” by Brian Aldiss, in Science Fantasy, April 1965.

The Other Side of Time

by Keith Laumer
The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer, Fantastic April 1965.

Wrong-Way Street

by Larry Niven
Ever since an accident that killed his eight-year-old brother, Mike Capoferri has been interested in time travel, and now he thinks one of the alien artifacts found on the moon is a time machine.
Mike was a recent but ardent science-fiction fan. “I want to change it, Dr. Stuart,” he said earnestly. “I want to go back to four weeks ago and take away Tony’s Flexy.” He meant it, of course.
“Wrong-Way Street” by Larry Niven, in Galaxy, April 1965.

The Corridors of Time

by Poul Anderson
While awaiting trial for a self-defense killing, young Malcolm Lockridge is approached by a wealthy beauty, Storm Darroway, who offers to defend him in return for him joining her in what he eventually finds out are Wars in Time between the naturalist Wardens and the technocrat Rangers.

For many years, I thought this novel was part of Poul’s Time Patrol series, until Bob Hasse mentioned this as one of his favorites that is not in the series. The beginning reminded me of Heinlein’s Glory Road, and the rest is reminiscent of Asimov’s The End of Eternity, both of which captivated me in the summer of 1968. Poul’s book holds up well in that company.

A series of parallel black lines, several inches apart, extended from it, some distance across the corridor floor. At the head of each was a brief inscription, in no alphabet he could recognize. But every ten feet or so a number was added. He saw 4950, 4951, 4952. . .
The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson, in Amazing, May-Jun 1965.

Of Time and the Yan

by Roger Zelazny
“Of Time and the Yan” by Roger Zelazny, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1965.

Doctor Who and the Daleks

by Milton Subotsky, directed by Gordon Flemyng
Doctor Who and the Daleks by Milton Subotsky, directed by Gordon Flemyng (unknown release details, 25 June 1965).

Основание цивилизации

Osnovaniye tsivilizatsii English release: Foundation of Civilization Literal: Foundation of civilization

by Ромэн Яров
A story of time travel racing and the founding of civilization.
— Dave Hook
[ex=bare]Основание цивилизации | Foundation of civilization | “Osnovaniye tsivilizatsii”[/ex] by Ромэн Яров, in [ex=bare]Фантастика 1965 || Fantastika 1965,[/ex] vol. 2, edited by [exn=bare]Аркадий Стругацкий | Arkady Strugatsky[/exn] ([ex=bare]Молодая гвардия || Molodaya gvardiya[/ex], mid-1965).

The Fury Out of Time

by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
The Fury Out of Time by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (Doubleday, July 1965).

Gorgo 23

The Land of Long Ago

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Montes
Charlton’s Gorgo comic was inspired by the the 1961 movie of the same name Unlike the movie, however, the comic book Gorgo had one adventure in time when Dr. Hobart Howarth rescues Gorgo from YaPa* by sending the giant reptile back to the late Jurassic. Sadly, as a child, I bought only one Gorgo comic, which was not the time-travel issue, although that one issue I had was drawn by Steve Ditko, hooray!
* Yet another Pentagon attack
— Michael Main
I will send Gorgo back into is own era in the stream of time. Here he is an anachronism . . . In his own time, he would be in harmony withhis surroundings!
“The Land of Long Ago” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Montes, in Gorgo #23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965).

Small Deer

by Clifford D. Simak
Alton James has a bent for all things mechanical and an interest in dinosaurs, so when his mathematically minded friend describes how a time machine should be built, Alton builds it and heads for 65 million B.C. to see what killed off the dinosaurs.
We were lucky, that was all. We could have sent that camera back another thousand times, perhaps, and never caught a mastodon—probably never caught a thing. Although we would have known it had moved in time, for the landscape had been different, although not a great deal different. But from the landscape we could not have told if it had gone back a hundred or a thousand years. When we saw the mastadon, however, we knew we’d sent the camera back 10,000 years at least.

I won’t bore you with how we worked out a lot of problems on our second model, or how Dennis managed to work out a time-meter that we could calibrate to send the machine a specific distance into time. Because all this is not important. What is important is what I found when I went into time.

I’ve already told you I’d read your book about Cretaceous dinosaurs and I liked the entire book, but that final chapter about the extinction of the dinosaurs is the one that really got me. Many a time I’d lie awake at night thinking about all the theories you wrote about and trying to figure out in my own mind how it really was.

So when it was time to get into that machine and go, I knew where I would be headed.

“Small Deer” by Clifford D. Simak, in Galaxy, October 1965.

Down Styphon!

by H. Beam Piper
“Down Styphon!” by H. Beam Piper, in Analog, November 1965.

Mind Switch

by Damon Knight
Mind Switch by Damon Knight (Berkley Medallion, November 1965).

The Time Bender

by Keith Laumer
Axe and Dragon by Keith Laumer, serialized Fantastic November 1965 (January 1966, and March 1966).

Agent of T.E.R.R.A. 1

The Flying Saucer Gambit

by Jack Owen Jardine
The Flying Saucer Gambit by Jack Owen Jardine (Ace Books, 1966).

October the First Is Too Late

by Fred Hoyle
Dick, a composer, and his boyhood friend John, now an eminent scientist, find themselves in a patchwork world of different times from classical Greece to a far future that humanity barely survives.

My favorable impression is no doubt reflective of the time when I read it (the summer of 1970, nearly 13, while moving from Washington State to Alabama). Perhaps the fiction doesn’t hold up as well decades later up, but the issues of time that it brings up still interest me and it was my first exposure to the idea of a geographic timeslip. And, similar to Asimov, Hoyle served to cultivate my interest in the natural sciences.

— Michael Main
To the Reader: The “science” in this book is mostly scaffolding for the story, story-telling in the traditional sense. However, the discussions of the significance of time and the meaning of consciousness are intended to be quite serious, as also are the contents of chapter fourteen. —from Hoyle’s preface
October the First Is Too Late by Fred Hoyle (William Heinemann, 1966).

Hainish series

Rocannon’s World

by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin, in Ace Double D-574: The Kar-Chee Reign by Avram Davidson / Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace Books, 1966).

Traveller’s Rest

by David I. Masson
“Traveler’s Rest’” by David I. Masson, in Worlds Best Science Fiction, edited by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim (Ace Books, 1966).

The Great Clock

by Langdon Jones
“The Great Clock” by Langdon Jones, New Worlds, March 1966.

Now Wait for Last Year

by Philip K. Dick
Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick (Doubleday, March 1966).

Tunnel Through Time

by Lester del Rey
When Bob Miller’s dad invents a time machine and sends Doc Tom gets trapped in the time of the dinosaurs, there’s only one possible solution: send a pair of 17-year-olds (including Bob) back on a rescue mission!

This was the first book that I got through the Scholastic Book Club when we moved to Bellevue in 1968. Each month, the club would give you a flier where you ticked off the books that you wanted, and the next month the books would magically show up at school!

But they’d overlooked someone. Me. Somehow, by hook or crook, I was going to make that trip, too. Doc Tom wasn’t the only one who liked dinos!
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey (May 1966).

The Wings of a Bat

by Pauline Ashwell
“The Wings of a Bat” by Pauline Ashwell, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1966.

Warren Comics

by James Warren
In the late 1960s, these horror comics were a little risqué for a young teen. After all, they were the size of a magazine, printed in black-and-white, were sold next to Playboy in the 7-11, and just for your teenaged-boy mind, they featured scantily clad, buxom women. I have only one issue that I actually managed to hang on to (Vampirella 13 from 1970), but I surreptitiously soaked up many other issues of Creepy and Eerie with fabulous covers by Frazetta and Krenkel. The earliest Eerie time travel that I’ve found so far was an adaptation of Robert Bloch’s story “The Past Master” in Eerie 12; and Creepy 9 had an (original?) Alex Toth (who adapted The Time Machine for George Pal) story called “Out of Time” in June 1966.
Be silent. . . there is little time! From the pages of the great black book came the incantation that has drawn you from the future.
“Warren Comics” by James Warren, in Creepy 9, June 1966.

The Man from When

by Dannie Plachta
A man goes to investigate an explosion and finds a time traveler.
A calculated risk, but I proved my point. In spite of everything, I still think it was worth it.
“The Man from When” by Dannie Plachta, in If, July 1966.

The Keys to December

by Roger Zelazny
Tens of thousands of people, genegineered for an iceworld are left homeless after a nova, so they set out to create their own world, not realizing the potentialities of the indiginous life.
— Michael Main
The vanguard arrived, decked out in refrigeration suits, installed ten Worldchange units in either hemisphere, began setting up coldsleep bunkers in several of the larger caverns.
“The Keys to December” by Roger Zelazny, New Worlds, August 1966.

Light of Other Days

by Bob Shaw
On a driving holiday in Argyll, Mr. and Mrs. Garland hope to find a way out of their hateful marriage, but instead they find a field of slow glass harvesting the light of other days.
— Michael Main
Apart from its stupendous novelty value, the commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that having a scenedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Bob Shaw, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966.

The Productions of Time

by John Brunner
The Productions of Time by John Brunner, 2-part serial, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August and September 1966.

Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday

by Philip K. Dick
“Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday” by Philip K. Dick, in Amazing, August 1966.

Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

by Milton Subotsky, directed by Gordon Flemyng
Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. by Milton Subotsky, directed by Gordon Flemyng (at movie theaters, UK, 5 August 1966).

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock
The first version of this story that I read was the 24-page graphic adaptation scripted by Doug Moench and illustrated by Alex Nino in final issue of my favorite comic magazine of 1975, the short-lived Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction. In the complex story, Karl Glogauer travels back to 28 A.D. hoping to meet Jesus, but none of the historical figures he meets are whom he expected.
The Time Machine is a sphere full of milky fluid in which the traveler floats enclosed in a rubber suit, breathing through a hose leading into the wall of the machine.
“Behold the Man” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, September 1966.

The Time Tunnel

by Irwin Allen
When the senate threatens to cut off funding for Project Tic-Toc, Tony Newman and Doug Phillips set out to prove that the project is viable, but instead they are trapped moving from one past time (perhaps the Titanic!) to another (could be the first manned mission to Mars) each week.
He could be living in yesterday or next week or a million years from now.
The Time Tunnel by Irwin Allen (9 September 1966).

It’s About Time

by Sherwood Schwartz
Astronauts Gilligan and the Skipper Mac and Hector get thrown from the space age to the stone age, complete with Tyrannosaurus Rex, English-speaking cavemen, a beautiful cavewoman (Imogene Coca) and the requisite hijinx. Partway through the first season, the cavepeople came to modern-day New York.

During my 2012 visit to Bellevue, my college roommate Paul Eisenbrey reminded me of this show from our childhood.

It’s about time, it’s about space, about two men in the strangest place.
It’s About Time by Sherwood Schwartz (11 September 1966).

Star Trek (s01e04)

The Naked Time

by John D. F. Black, directed by Marc Daniels
After an alien spore infects the entire Enterprise crew with madness, it seems that the only available action to save the ship from a rapdidly decaying orbit is a cold restart of the engines.
— Michael Main
You know, Dr. McCoy said the same thing.
Star Trek (s01e04), “The Naked Time” by John D. F. Black, directed by Marc Daniels (NBC-TV, USA, 29 September 1966).

Cyborg 2087

by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Franklin Adreon
Cyborg 2087 by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Franklin Adreon (at movie theaters, USA, October 1966).

Dimension 5

by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Franklin Adreon
Justin Power, a 007-poser, has one thing that 007 never had: a spacetime belt with an eight-week time range forward or backward. As near as I can tell, going to the past rewinds time with only you retaining your memory. When you travel to the future, you just skip the intervening time and reappear at the same spot. And it seems you can also travel to nearby locations. I sure hope that Power and his sidekick Kitty can stop the H-bomb that’s being assembled in Los Angeles in the twenty film-minutes that are left after taking their time to set up the situation.
— Michael Main
Power: [serious voice] One of the rules of time travel, Kitty, is to never kill anyone in the past, ’cause it might start a chain reaction that could indirectly affect your own life.
Dimension 5 by Arthur C. Pierce, directed by Franklin Adreon (at movie theaters, USA, October 1966).

NoMan

by Wally Wood et al.
NoMan, a cloaked hero with the power of invisibility, was a member of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, a team of superheroes first published in 1965 by Tower Comics. I didn’t read them until 1976, when I bought a black and white reprint comic, Uncanny Tales, when I was in Stirling. I don’t know whether any of the other agents time traveled, but NoMan did in both of the issues of his own comic (in Nov 1966 and Mar 1967).
Trapped in the Past!
“NoMan” by Wally Wood et al., in NoMan 1, November 1966.

Marvel

|pending byline|
Admittedly, I watched Marvel cartoons on ABC Saturday morning as early as 1966, but I was never enamored by them as I was with the comic books. I can list the first time travel in many series—including what I think is the first actual time travel of Spider-Man in any medium—but I have watched only a few.
Hey, listen to this! ‘This is my last entry. I have set the machine to three million B.C. The door will remain open for any who wish to follow.’
Marvel |pending byline| (10 November 1966).

Space Ghost

by Lewis Marshall et al.
Back in 1966, there was a certain excitement about the each fall’s new lineup of cartoons. Maybe it was because the networks (CBS in the case of Space Ghost) made a big deal about it, even advertising in Marvel Comics; or maybe it was because kids had relatively few choices compared with today’s cable extravaganza. Whatever the reason, I do remember anxiously anticipating the new cartoons in 1966, including Space Ghost and Dino Boy. Space Ghost traveled through time at least once, back to the time of the Vikings in “The Time Machine.”
Spaaaaaaaaaace Ghoooooooooost!
Space Ghost by Lewis Marshall et al. (26 November 1966).

The Wild Wild West

by Michael Garrison
Agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon (in hindsight, quite likely agents of Warehouse 12) traveled in time at least one time when they met none other than Ricardo Montalbán (aka Kahn) who plays Colonel Noel Barley Vautrain with a scheme to travel back to kill Ulysses S. Grant in “The Night of the Lord of Limbo.”
The concept of a warp in the fabric of space, a break that could permit an object—or a group of Marco Polos if you please—to enter and go voyaging through space’s unlimited fourth dimension: time.
The Wild Wild West by Michael Garrison (30 December 1966).

The Evil Eye

by Alfred Gillespie
“The Evil Eye” by Alfred Gillespie, in New Worlds of Fantasy, edited by Terry Carr (Ace Books, 1967).

The Technicolor Time Machine

by Harry Harrison
The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison (Doubleday, 1967).

Leinster’s Time Tunnel 1

The Time Tunnel

by Murray Leinster
The Time Tunnel by Murray Leinster (Pyramid Books, January 1967).

Star Trek (s01e19)

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

by D. C. Fontana, directed by Michael O’Herlihy
Darn those high-gravity black stars! Always accidentally throwing starships hither and yon through time. Although in this case, the crew of the Enterprise manages to correct all the problems they caused by beaming 1960s Air Force pilot Captain John Christopher on board.
— Michael Main
Spock: Fifty years to go. Forty. Thirty.
Kirk: Never mind, Mr. Spock.
Spock: [silence]
Star Trek (s01e19), “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” by D. C. Fontana, directed by Michael O’Herlihy (NBC-TV, USA, 26 January 1967).

Counter-Clock World

by Philip K. Dick
Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick (Berkley Medallion, February 1967).

Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne

by R. A. Lafferty
The Ktistec machine Epiktistes and wise men of the world decide to change one moment in the dark ages while they carefully watch for changes in their own time.
We set out basic texts, and we take careful note of the world as it is. If the world changes, then the texts should change here before our eyes.
“Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne” by R. A. Lafferty, in Galaxy, February 1967.

The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy . . .

by J. G. Ballard
“The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy . . .” by J. G. Ballard, New Worlds, March 1967.

The Jewels of Elsewhen

by Ted White
The Jewels of Elsewhen by Ted White (Belmont Books, April 1967).

Super Green Beret

by Otto Binder et al.
When teenager Tod Holton dons the magical green beret that was given to him by his uncle, Tod turns into a muscular adult green beret soldier himself with whatever magic power seems to be needed at the moment—including the power of time travel. In the first issue, Tod travels back to a World War II battle in the Black Forest; in the second (and final) issue, Tod plays a role in the American Revolution.
This is a new one on me! Can my green beret’s supernatural powers even transport me back in time??
“Super Green Beret” by Otto Binder et al. (April 1967).

Star Trek (s01e28)

The City on the Edge of Forever

by Harlan Ellison, directed by Joseph Pevney
After a delirious Bones hurtles through a time portal to the 1930s, Kirk and Spock follow to save him and stop dangerous changes to the timeline, no matter the cost.
— Michael Main
Star Trek (s01e28), “The City on the Edge of Forever” by Harlan Ellison, directed by Joseph Pevney (NBC-TV, USA, 6 April 1967).

The Time Hoppers

by Robert Silverberg
The High Government of the 25th century has directed Joe Quellen (a Level Seven) to find out who’s behind the escapes in time by lowly unemployed Level Fourteens and put a stop to it.
Suppose, he thought fretfully, some bureaucrat in Class Seven or Nine or thereabouts had gone ahead on his own authority, trying to win a quick uptwitch by dynamic action, and had rounded up a few known hoppers in advance of their departure. Thereby completely snarling the fabric of the time-line and irrevocably altering the past.
The Time Hoppers by Robert Silverberg (Doubleday, May 1967).

The Doctor

by Theodore L. Thomas
A doctor named Gant volunteers to be the first time traveler and ends up stranded in a time of cave people.
There had been a time long ago when he had thought that these people would be grateful to him for his work, that he would become known by some such name as The Healer.
“The Doctor” by Theodore L. Thomas, in Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, June 1967).

The Hole on the Corner

by R. A. Lafferty
When Homer Hoose arrives home to his perfect home one evening, he is met by other Homers whom the Diogenes Pontifex insists are not Jung’s alternate versions of ourselves, but instead are actual versions of ourselves occupying the same space. None of which has to do with time travel, but the brilliant Diogenes does mention in passing his experiments in other fields. I suppose that’s another Lafferty story, but I haven’t run into it yet.
“You speak of it as if. . . well, isn’t this the twentieth century?” Regina asked.

“This the twentieth? Why, you’re right! I guess it is,” Diogenes agreed. “You see, I carry on experiments in other fields also, and sometimes get my times mixed.”

“The Hole on the Corner” by R. A. Lafferty, in Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, June 1967).

To Outlive Eternity

by Poul Anderson
“To Outlive Eternity” by Poul Anderson, in Galaxy, June 1967.

Compound Interest

by Christopher Anvil
“Compound Interest” by Christopher Anvil, in Analog, July 1967.

Leinster’s Time Tunnel 2

Timeslip!

by Murray Leinster
Timeslip! by Murray Leinster (Pyramid Books, July 1967).

Hawksbill Station

by Robert Silverberg
Jim Barrett was one of the first political prisoners sent on a one-way journey to a world of rock and ocean in 2,000,000,000 BC; now a secretive new arrival threatens to upset the harsh world that he looks after.
One of his biggest problems here was keeping people from cracking up because there was too little privacy. Propinquity could be intolerable in a place like this.
“Hawksbill Station” by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxy, August 1967.

Lost in Space

by Irwin Allen
Three seasons with 2 time-travel episodes.
Danger Will Robinson, danger!
Lost in Space by Irwin Allen (13 September 1967).

An Age

by Brian Aldiss
Once again, here’s an example that’s not time travel. Instead, an artist named Edward Bush (and others) “mind travel” to the Jurassic (and other ages) where they may view the past without physically traveling. Viewing the past is not time travel. Interestingly, though, the authoritarian government can’t seem to get their hands on the travelers while they’re traveling, so I am gonna count this as time travel.
On his last mind into the Devonian, when this tragic illness was brewing, he had intercourse with a young woman called Ann.
An Age by Brian Aldiss, serialized New Worlds, October to December 1967.

The Night That All Time Broke Out

by Brian Aldiss
Aldiss confessed that this story contains one of the wackiest ideas that he ever had. Does it contain time travel? You should read the story first and decide for yourself, but here’s my spoil-laden take on the matter:

An invisible, subterranean gas can be supplied right to your house along with controls that let you control its delivery to your brain. Depending on the concentration, the result is to bring aspects of your previous consciousness (or that of your ancestors) right into your present-day brain: physical sensations, bodily abilities, mental attitudes, and the psychological make-up of the channeled person all take over your body, although you remain present. To me, this could be ancestral memory—perhaps passed down genetically and triggered by the newly discovered gas—but I’m going to list it as time travel.

Fifi could not understand what on earth he was talking about. Every since leaving Plymouth, she had been adrift, and that not entirely metaphorically. It was bad enough playing Pilgrim Mother to one of the Pilgrim Fathers, but she did not dig this New World at all. It was now beyond her comprehension to understand that the vast resources of modern technology were fouling up the whole time schedule of a planet.
“The Night That All Time Broke Out” by Brian Aldiss, in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, October 1967).

Dragonriders of Pern 1A

Weyr Search

by Anne McCaffrey
Time travel doesn’t yet occur in this first of the Pern stories, but hop on over to the second story for the first display of a dragon jumping between times.
— Michael Main
The danger was definitely not within the walls of Hold Ruath. Nor approaching the paved perimeter without the Hold where relentless grass had forced new growth through the ancient mortar, green witness to the deterioration of the once stone-clean Hold.
“Weyr Search” by Anne McCaffrey, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, October 1967.

Dragonriders of Pern 1B

Dragonrider

by Anne McCaffrey
By the time that Lessa of Ruatha Hold becomes Weyrwoman of the only remaining dragon weyr, the end of all Pern seems imminent since a single weyr is not enough to fight off the falling threads from the Red Star.

“Dragonrider,” which was first released as a two-part Analog serial (December 1967 and January 1968), was the second Pern story, appearing after the shorter novella “Weyr Search” (October 1967). Together, the two stories formed the first Pern novel, Dragonflight (1968). When the online version of the ITTDB was in a nascent stage, my friend Allison Thompson-Brown reminded me that the dragons can travel to a new when as well as a new where, and that time travel first appeared near the end of “Dragonrider.” Time travel on Pern occurs in a single, static timeline, so the dragons and their riders can never change anything known to be certain in the past.

— Michael Main
“Dragons can go between times as well as places. They go as easily to a when as to a where.”

Robinton’s eyes widened as he digested this astonishing news.

“That is how we forestalled the attack on Nerat yesterday morning. We jumped back two hours between times to meet the Threads as they fell.”

“Dragonrider” by Anne McCaffrey, 2-part serial, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, December 1967 to January 1968.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

by Irwin Allen
In the fourth season, the futuristic submarine Seaview and its crew had four time-traveling escapades, including the finale.
Suppose we had a working time device. Would we be able to get back aboard Seaview before the explosion, find out what caused it, and prevent it from happening?
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Irwin Allen (3 December 1967).

Journey to the Center of Time

written and directed by David L. Hewitt
The writer, David L. Hewitt, took chunks of plot and script from The Time Travelers (1964), swapped the blonde for a brunette, swapped the accidental time gate for an accidental time rift that drags the whole lab through time as if it were a time ship, added a anachronistic dinosaur, and ended up with an unwatchable movie.

Like the 1964 version, this version has a brief mention that it’s impossible to change events that have already happened, but unlike the original, the montage at the end of the film is mere chaos that no longer reinforces the idea of a single deterministic, nonbranching timeline. Despite that, I enjoyed the consequences of the villainous character running into himself, but at the same time, I dismayed at the discussion of how meeting yourself could instantly cause a disastrous explosion or implosion or maybe something-or-other (the audio was unintelligible at 1:12) would cease to exist. (I pray that the space-time continuum wasn’t in peril).

— Michael Main
Well, isn’t it obvious, Manning? The war did happen. We didn’t get back with our warning.
Journey to the Center of Time written and directed by David L. Hewitt (at movie theaters, USA, a forgettable day in 1967).

Hawksbill Station

by Robert Silverberg
The novelization pads out the original nine sections of the novella and adds five new chapters with Barrett’s backstory as a revolutionary, right to the point where he’s sent back to the station. I didn’t get much from the new chapters, and between the novel and the original story, I would recommend reading the original only.
So Hawksbill’s machine did work, and the rumors were true, and this was where they sent the troublesome ones. Was Janet here too? He asked. No, Pleyel said. There were only men here. Twenty or thirty prisoners, managing somehow to survive.
Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg (Doubleday, October 1968).

Past Master

by R. A. Lafferty
Thomas More is brought from the 16th century to the 26th in a time machine to save the world.
— Fred Galvin
We are trying to find a new sort of leader who can slow, even reverse, the break-up, Paul. We’ve selected a man from the Earth Past, Thomas More. We will present him to the people only as the Thomas, or perhaps, to be more fanciful, as the Past Master. You know of him?
Past Master by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968).

Sam, of de pluterdag

English release: Where Were You Last Pluterday? Literal: Sam, or Pluterday

by Paul Van Herck
I’m often confused as to whether an author is being humorous or being artsy, but if I’m not laughing a lot and it sounds a little like Kurt Vonnegut, then I assume it be art or possibly satire. That’s the case here when science fiction writer Sam is put out of a job because science fiction has been banned, all of which happens just as he falls in love with the beautiful and carefree heiress Julie Vandermasten, who asks him to meet her next Pluterday—and yes, there’s a time machine involved, too, because he needs to go back after missing the Pluterday rendezvous.
Sam got out of his bed. “Pluterday!” he rejoiced. And today he had an appointment with Julie. He did some push-ups, meditated a short while on the word om, which he didn’t find fulfilling today, washed himself abundantly, and cursed the normal being that called Sunday a beautiful day.
[ex=bare]Sam, of de Pluterdag | Sam, or Pluterday[/ex] by Paul Van Herck (Meulenhoff, 1968).

Space Chantey

by R. A. Lafferty
Lafferty rewrites The Odyssey with a time machine, called a Dong Button, featured in Chapters 3 and 4.
— Fred Galvin
The Dong button was just that, a big green button with the word Dong engraved on it. You pushed it, and it went dong. Well, that was alnost too simple. Should there not be a deeper reason for it? And the small instruction plate over it didn't add much. It read: “Wrong prong, bong gong.”
Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty, in Ace Double #H-56: Pity about Earth by Ernest Hill / Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968).

Star Trek

by James Blish
I bought the first four of these collections in July of 1971 in Huntsville, and the rest I snapped up as they were issued in the ’70s (plus Blish’s original novel Spock Must Die!). At that point in my life, I could recite them by heart. Here’s the list of time-travel adaptations, which does not include “The Naked Time” (in Star Trek 1) since the 71 hours of time travel was omitted in the Blish version:
“Jim,” McCoy said raggedly. “You deliberately stopped me. . . Did you hear me? Do you know what you just did?”

Kirk could not reply. Spock took his arm gently. “He knows,” he said. “Soon you will know, too. And what was. . . now is again.”

“Star Trek,” by James Blish, in Star Trek 2 (Bantam Books, February 1968).

Planet of the Apes

by Michael WIlson and Rod Serling, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Planet of the Apes by Michael WIlson and Rod Serling, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (at movie theaters, USA, 8 February 1968).

Star Trek (s02e26)

Assignment: Earth

by Art Wallace, directed by Marc Daniels
The Enterprise and her crew make their first intentional trip back in time to study historical aspects of 1968 and the Cold War, but unexpectedly, they intercept a transporter beam that brings the mysterious Gary Seven and his feline from a faraway advanced planet.
— Michael Main
Humans of the 20th century do not go beaming around the Galaxy, Mr. Seven.
Star Trek (s02e26), “Assignment: Earth” by Art Wallace, directed by Marc Daniels (NBC-TV, USA, 29 March 1968).

The Goblin Reservation

by Clifford D. Simak
Professor Peter Maxwell sets out for one of the Coonskin planets, but his beam is intercepted and later returned to Earth only to find that his beam was actually duplicated, his duplicate has been killed, and his friends (some goblins, a ghost, and a time-traveling Neanderthal among others) have already buried him.

I wonder whether this was the first transporter accident story (which, as we all know, eventually leads to two Will Rikers).

You mean there were two Pete Maxwells?
The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak, in Galaxy, Apr-Jun 1968.

The Time of His Life

by Larry Eisenberg
“The Time of His Life” by Larry Eisenberg, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1968.

Je t’aime, je t’aime

English release: Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime Literal: I love you, I love you

by Jacques Sternberg and Alain Resnais, directed by Alain Resnais
Je t’aime, je t’aime by Jacques Sternberg and Alain Resnais, directed by Alain Resnais (at movie theaters, France, 24 April 1968).

The Masks of Time

by Robert Silverberg
To me, this seemed like Robert Silverberg’s answer to Stranger in a Strange Land, although this time the stranger is Vornan-19, who claims to be from the future.
There’s no economic need for us to cluster together, you know.
The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg (Ballantine Books, May 1968).

Backtracked

by Burt K. Filer
At forty-something, Fletcher sends his current well-honed body back ten years where his out-of-shape thirty-something mind and his thirty-something wife must now accept it without really knowing why the transfer was done.
Maybe he should call Time Central? No, they were duty bound to give him no help at all. They’d just say that at some point ten years in the future he had gone to them with a request to be backtracked to the present—and that before making the hop his mind had been run through that clear/reset wringer of theirs.
“Backtracked” by Burt K. Filer, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1968.

The Beast That Shouted Love

by Harlan Ellison
For me, this nontraditional story didn’t bring any clarity to the notion of evil—but perhaps that’s what was intended, to artistically portray the incomprehensible nature of evil. Still, even without clarity, it was worth reading the award-winning story of evil being distilled and somehow sent throughout time by two future aliens: it stretched my understanding of story and helped me comprehend The Incredible Hulk 140.
Seven dog-heads slept. 
“The Beast That Shouted Love” by Harlan Ellison, in Galaxy, June 1968.

Dragonriders of Pern 1 [fix-up]

Dragonflight

by Anne McCaffrey
By the time that Lessa of Ruatha Hold becomes Weyrwoman of the only remaining dragon weyr, the end of all Pern seems a possibility since a single weyr is not enough to fight off the falling threads from the Red Star.

Allison Thompson-Brown reminded me that dragons can go when as well as where, and the travel through time always results in a stable time loop, so that dragon travel can never change anything known to be certain in the past. The actual whening part (or going between time, as it’s called) didn’t come until the third installment (Part 2 of “Dragonrider” in the Jan 1968 Analog), but I’ll date the concept back to the slightly earlier appearance of the first story (“Weyr Search” in Oct 1967). The two stories were fixed up into the first Pern novel, Dragonflight, in July of 1968, but it was another ten years before I discovered it.

“Dragons can go between times as well as places. They go as easily to a when as to a where.”

Robinton’s eyes widened as he digested this astonishing news.

“That is how we forestalled the attack on Nerat yesterday morning. We jumped back two hours between times to meet the Threads as they fell.”

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Books, July 1968).

For a Foggy Night

by Larry Niven
“For a Foggy Night” by Larry Niven, in Decal, July 1968.

Hawk among the Sparrows

by Dean McLaughlin
“Hawk among the Sparrows” by Dean McLaughlin, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, July 1968.

Assignment in Nowhere

by Keith Laumer
Assignment in Nowhere by Keith Laumer (Berkley Medallion, August 1968).

All the Myriad Ways

by Larry Niven
Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble suspects that the recent spate of suicides and violent crime is somehow connected to the discovery that the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics is real and each of those worlds can be traveled to.
— Michael Main
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? Trimble didn’t understand the theory, though God knows he’d tried. The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision every made could go both ways. Every choice ever made by every man, woman and child on Earth was reversed in the universe next door.
“All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven, in Galaxy, October 1968.

Star Trek (s03e06)

Spectre of the Gun

by Gene L. Coon, directed by Vincent McEveety
After barging into the space of the reclusive Melkotians, Kirk and his crew find themselves facing the Earps and Doc Holliday in a second-rate simulation of the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
— Michael Main
History has been changed in the fact that Billy Claiborne didn’t die, but Chekov is lying there dead.
Star Trek (s03e06), “Spectre of the Gun” by Gene L. Coon, directed by Vincent McEveety (NBC-TV, USA, 25 October 1968).

Star Trek (s03e11)

Wink of an Eye

by Arthur Heinemann, directed by Jud Taylor
In an outer quadrant of the galaxy, the Enterprise is taken over by Deela and her subject Scalosians, who can accelerate their personal time frames to a point where everyone else seems frozen.
— Michael Main
They cannot hear you, Captain. To their ears, you sound like an insect.
Star Trek (s03e11), “Wink of an Eye” by Arthur Heinemann, directed by Jud Taylor (NBC-TV, USA, 29 November 1968).

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

by Samuel R. Delany
“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” by Samuel R. Delany, New Worlds, December 1968.

Setni 1

L’exilé du temps

Literal: The exile of time

by Pierre Barbet
L’exilé du temps by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, 1969).

The Future Is Ours

by Edward D. Hoch
Hoch was a mystery and detective story writer who sent two stories to the Crime Prevention anthology, so this one was published under his Dentinger pseudonym. In the story, a modern-day detective is sent forward to the year 2259 so he can bring back future crime fighting methods, but what he finds is rather less than impressive.
I understand that it can transport me three hundred years in the future to study techniques of crime prevention and law enforcement.
“The Future Is Ours” by Edward D. Hoch, in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century, edited by Hans Stefan Stantesson (Walker, 1969).

The House on the Strand

by Daphne Du Maurier
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier (Gollancz, 1969).

Bob Morane 93

Les sortilèges de l’ombre jaune

Literal: The yellow shadow spells

by Henri Vernes
Les sortilèges de l’ombre jaune by Henri Vernes (Marabout, 1969).

Berserker 2

Brother Assassin

by Fred Saberhagen
Brother Assassin by Fred Saberhagen (Ballantine Books, January 1969).

Praiseworthy Saur

by Harry Harrison
At least three lizards from the future (Numbers 17, 35 and 44) project themselves into the past to protect their remote ancestor.
The centuries will roll by and, one day, our race will reach its heights of glory.
“Praiseworthy Saur” by Harry Harrison, in If, February 1969.

Star Trek (s03e19)

Requiem for Methuselah

by Jerome Bixby, directed by Murray Golden
The seemingly all-powerful Flint lives with the brilliant young Raina, hangs unknown [tag-3791 | da Vinci[/ex] paintings on his walls, and provides Mr. Spock with a modern-day Brahms waltz. Could his riches be ill-got via time travel or is there a mundane explanation?
— Michael Main
Your collection of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, Mr. Flint—they appear to have been recently painted.
Star Trek (s03e19), Requiem for Methuselah by Jerome Bixby, directed by Murray Golden (NBC-TV, 14 February 1969).

Karl Glogauer

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (Allison and Busby, March 1969).

Hainish Cycle 4

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace Books, March 1969).

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and sometimes zoo occupant on a far-off planet, lives one moment of his life, then he’s thrown back to another, then forward again, and so on amidst the sadness of what men do to each other in this deterministic and fatalistic universe.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on.
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Delacorte Press, March 1969).

Star Trek (s03e22)

The Savage Curtain

by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty
The critics agree that this episode lives in the bottom ten of all Star Trek episodes, but we kinda liked seeing Lincoln and Surak, even if Spock concludes that they were mere sims.
— Michael Main
Conjecture, Captain, rather than explanation: It would seem that we were held in the power of creatures able to control matter and to rearrange molecules in whatever fashion was desired, so they were able to create images of Sarak and Lincoln after scanning our minds and using their fellow creatures as source matter.
Star Trek (s03e22), “The Savage Curtain” by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty (NBC-TV, USA, 7 March 1969).

Star Trek (s03e23)

All Our Yesterdays

by Jean Lisette Aroeste, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
The three principal Trekkers find themselves on a planet where everyone is being evacuated to the past to escape an impending supernova.
— Michael Main
Spock! You’re reverting into your ancestors, five thousand years before you were born!
Star Trek (s03e23), “All Our Yesterdays” by Jean Lisette Aroeste, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (NBC-TV, USA, 14 March 1969).

Magnus, Robot Fighter

by Russ Manning
There were times in the 60s when there simply weren’t enough Marvel comics, so I picked up the occasional issue of Magnus, including issue 26 where the nemesis of robots was stranded in the distant future.
I’d say the reason that no time traveler has ever arrived from the future is precisely the same reason that Galileo failed to discover radio astronomy.
“Magnus, Robot Fighter” by Russ Manning, in Magnus (Robot Fighter 26, May 1969).

Nine P.M., Pacific Daylight Time

by Ronald S. Bonn
Mad scientist Maxwell Scheinst gives a science writer a paradox: If time travel is possible, then where are all the time travelers? Scheinst also provides an answer: They haven’t arrived yet because nobody has built a receiver . . . until now!

Mathematician Fred Galvin from Kansas University pointed us to this gem, which also got us wondering who was the first to pose the paradox. Both Clarke and Hawking have mentioned the problem, but where did it originate? We’re working on tracking that down. Let us know if you have any leads!

— Michael Main
I’d say the reason that no time traveler has ever arrived from the future is precisely the same reason that Galileo failed to discover radio astronomy.
“Nine P.M., Pacific Daylight Time” by Ronald S. Bonn, in Venture Science Fiction, May 1969.

Only Yesterday

by Ted White
Near the start of the Great Depression, a man waits for college student Donna Smith—someday to be Donna Albright—at the trolley stop near her rural Virgina home.
— Michael Main
Nervously fingering his narrow lapel, he broke the silence, saying, “I’d like to tell you some things . . . Totally outrageous things. You have to promise me just one thing first.”
“Only Yesterday” by Ted White, Amazing Stories, July 1969.

Up the Line

by Robert Silverberg
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg, 2-part serial, Amazing Stories, July and September 1969.

The Timesweepers

by Keith Laumer
I haven’t yet read this short story that Laumer expanded to the novel Dinosaur Beach in 1971, though perhaps some day I will spot the Ballantine paperback, Timetracks, that collected it along with four other stories.
“The Timesweepers” by Keith Laumer, in Analog, August 1969.

Woody Woodpecker

by Bugs Hardaway et al.
I found one cartoon where the screwball woodpecker travels back in time: “Prehistoric Super Salesman” from 1969 where Professor Grossenfibber needs a subject for his time tunnel.
Now my time machine is all ready for the experiment. All I need is somebody. . . is somebody. . . ah, the woodpecker, ya!
Woody Woodpecker by Bugs Hardaway et al. (1 September 1969).

H.R. Pufnstuf

by Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft
The clock family has a time machine.
H.R. Pufnstuf by Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft (6 September 1969).

Macroscope

by Piers Anthony
Macroscope by Piers Anthony (Avon Books, October 1969).

Land of the Giants

by Irwin Allen
When a suborbital ship gets caught in a space storm, it ends up on a planet where everything and everyone is twelve times bigger than normal, providing fodder for adventure and at least two treks through time (“Home Sweet Home” on 12 Dec 1969, and “Wild Journey” on 8 Mar 1970).

The writing, acting and sets had little appeal to me, though I did enjoy Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) in “Wild Journey,” aka Marta, the green Orion dancer from the third season of Star Trek.

But don’t you see: If we never take that flight out, there would have never been a crash, and the others would have never been stranded on this planet.
Land of the Giants by Irwin Allen (21 December 1969).

Chronocules

by D. G. Compton
Chronocules by D. G. Compton (Ace Books, 1970).

A Shape in Time

by Anthony Boucher
Time-traveling, Marriage-prevention specialist Agent L-3H has her first failure while trying to intervene in the 1880 marriage of Edwin Sullivan to Angelina Gilbert.
Temporal Agent L-3H is always delectable in any shape; that’s why the Bureau employs her on marriage-prevention assignments.
“A Shape in Time” by Anthony Boucher, in The Future Is Now, edited by William F. Nolan (Sherbourne Press, 1970).

Tau Zero

by Poul Anderson
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (Doubleday, 1970).

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Time and Again

by Jack Finney
Si goes back to 19th century New York to solve a crime and (of course) fall in love.

This is Janet’s favorite time-travel novel, in which Finney elaborates on themes that were set in earlier stories such as “Double Take.”

— Michael Main
There’s a project. A U.S. government project I guess you’d have to call it. Secret, naturally; as what isn’t in government these days? In my opinion, and that of a handful of others, it’s more important than all the nuclear, space-exploration, satellite, and rocket programs put together, though a hell of a lot smaller. I tell you right off that I can’t even hint what the project is about. And believe me, you’d never guess.
Time and Again by Jack Finney (Simon and Shuster, 1970).

Time Trap

by Keith Laumer
Roger Tyson is caught in a madcap changewar between aliens and time travelers from the future
. . . it would be our great privilege to bring to the hypergalactic masses, for the first time in temporal stasis, a glimpse of life on a simpler, more meaningless, and therefore highly illuminating scale. I pictured the proud intellects of Ikanion Nine, the lofty abstract cerebra of Yoop Two, the swarm-awareness of Vr One-ninety-nine, passing through these displays at so many megaergs per ego-complex, gathering insights into their own early evolutionary history. I hoped to see the little ones, their innocent organ clusters aglow, watching with shining radiation sensors as primitive organisms split atoms with stone axes, invented the wheel and the betatron, set forth on their crude Cunarders to explore the second dimension. . .
Time Trap by Keith Laumer (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970).

Who Has Poisoned the Sea?

by Audrey Coppard
Who Has Poisoned the Sea? by Audrey Coppard (William Heinemann, 1970).

The Year of the Quiet Sun

by Wilson Tucker
Brian Chaney—researcher, translator, statistician, a little of this and that—is unwillingly drafted as the third member of a team (which includes Major Moresby and Lt. Commander Saltus) to study and map the central United States at the turn of the century, at about the year 2000.

For me, I see the tone of several later items, such as the TV show Seven Days, as descendants of Tucker’s novel—and we finally understand why the Terminator arrives at his destination naked.

She said: “It’s a matter of weight, Mr. Chaney. The machine must propel itself and you into the future, which is an operation requiring a tremendous amount of electrical energy. The engineers have advised us that total weight is a critical matter, that nothing but the passenger must be put forward or returned. They insist upon minimum weight.”

“Naked? All the way naked?”

The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker (Ace Books, 1970).

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

by Paul Dehn, directed by Ted Post
Beneath the Planet of the Apes by Paul Dehn, directed by Ted Post (at movie theaters, Italy, 23 April 1970).

Quest for the Future

by A. E. van Vogt
Hey, I got an idea! Let’s take three unrelated time-travel stories, change the name of the protagonist to be the same in all three, paste in some transition material, and call it a novel!

To be fair, I did enjoy this paperback when I bought it in the summer of 1970, but when I went to read van Vogt’s collected stories 42 years later, bits kept seeming familiar, which is when I discovered the truth. If I were a new reader, I’d just as soon read the individual stories and skip the conglomeration. The three stories are “Film Library,” “The Search” and “Far Centaurus” (all in van Vogt’s Transfinite collection).

A new novel by “the undisputed idea man of the futuristic field” (to quote Forrest J. Ackerman) is bound to be an event of major interest to every science fiction reader.
Quest for the Future by A. E. van Vogt (Ace Books, July 1970).

Timeslip

by Ruth Boswell and James Boswell
Serious Simon and Emotional Elizabeth use the Time Barrier to travel to different doctorwhoish pasts and presents, never meeting the Time Lord himself, of course, but sometimes meeting versions of themselves and their families.
Old Beth: Sometimes in life you have to make decisions and hope they come out for the best. You’ll know about that soon enough.
Young Liz: But I’ll never make your decisions, will I?
Old Beth: Then how did I come to make them? We’re the same, Liz. But I’m like a person You’ll never be, and you’re like a person I never was, never.
Timeslip by Ruth Boswell and James Boswell (28 September 1970).

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Michael Robinson, directed by Zoran Janjic
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Michael Robinson, directed by Zoran Janjic (CBS-TV, USA, 26 November 1970).

The Ever-Branching Tree

by Harry Harrison
A Teacher takes a group of disinterested children on a field trip through time to see the evolution of life.
Yesterday we watched the lightning strike the primordial chemical soup of the seas and saw the more complex chemicals being made that developed into the first life foms. We saw this single-celled life triumph over time and eternity by first developing the ability to divide into two cells, then to develope into composite, many-celled life forms. What do you remember about yesterday?
“The Ever-Branching Tree” by Harry Harrison, in Science against Man, edited by Anthony Cheetham (Avon Books, December 1970).

The Gates of Time

by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Gates of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr., in Ace Double 27400: The Gates of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr. / Dwellers of the Deep by K. M. O’Donnell (Ace Books, December 1970).

Les seigneurs de la guerre

English release: The Overlords of War Literal: The warlords

by Gérard Klein
[ex=bare]Les seigneurs de la guerre | The overlords of war[/ex] by Gérard Klein (Robert Laffont, December 1970).

Setni 2

À quoi songent les Psyborgs?

Literal: What are the cyborgs thinking about?

by Pierre Barbet
À quoi songent les Psyborgs? by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, 1971).

The Bird of Time

by Jane Yolen
“The Bird of Time” by Jane Yolen (Crowell, 1971).

The Leaves of Time

by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Leaves of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr. (Lancer Books, 1971).

The Voyages of Ijon Tichy 20

Podróż dwudziesta

English release: The Twentieth Voyage Literal: Journey twenty

by Stanisław Lem
After the time mish-mash of Ijon Tichy’s seventh voyage, it wasn’t clear whether Ijon would ever ply the channels of time again, but here he is, traveling back in time to persuade himself to go forward in time and take up the helm of THEOHIPPIP—a.k.a. Teleotelechronistic-Historical Engineering to Optimize the Hyoerputerized Implementation of Paleological Programming and Interplanetary Planning. It takes a few attempts for older Ijon to convince younger Ijon to head to the future on a one-man chronocykl, but when he does, the younger Ijon begins the unexpectedly hard task of righting history’s wrongs. As a sophisticated time traveler yourself, you’ll spot what’s happening early on, while you also get a tour of history from the formamtion of the Solar System to the extinction of the dinosaurs and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. You’ll also recognize the fun Lem has at the expense of the bureaucracies of mid-20th-century Poland.
— Michael Main
Zresztą Bosch nie powstrzymał się od niedyskrecji. W „Ogrodzie uciech ziemskich,” w „piekle muzycznym” (prawe skrzydło tryptyku) stoi w samym środku dwunastoosobowy chronobus. I co miałem z tym robić?
Even so, Bosch couldn’t refrain from certain indiscretions. In the “Garden of Earthly Delights,” in the very center of the “Musical Hell” (the right wing of the triptych), stands a twelve-seat chronobus. Not a thing I could do about it.
English
[ex=bare]“Podróż dwudziesta” | Journey twenty[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Dzienniki gwiazdowe, expanded third edition, by Stanisław Lem, (Czytelnik, 1971).

Dragonquest

by Anne McCaffrey
In the first book, dragonriders from the past came forward to battle the falling Thread that most everyone had dismissed as a long-past threat. Now the Oldtimers butt heads with the present-day leaders, particularly with F’nor who rashly sets out on his own to destroy the Thread at its source on the Red Star.
There must be some way to get to the Red Star.
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Books, May 1971).

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor
Among the original Apes movies, only this one had true time travel; the others involved only relativistic time dilation, which (as even Dr. Milo knows) is technically not time travel. But in this one, Milo, Cornelius, and Zira are blown back to the time of the original astronauts (given the violence of the explosion, we’re going to call it a time rift) and are persecuted in a 70s made-for-TV manner.
— Michael Main
Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?
Escape from the Planet of the Apes by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 26 May 1971).

Son of Man

by Robert Silverberg
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg (Ballantine Books, June 1971).

The Worlds of Monty Willson

by W. F. Nolan
“The Worlds of Monty Willson” by W. F. Nolan, Amazing Science Fiction, July 1971.

Dinosaur Beach

by Keith Laumer
Timesweep agent Ravel finds himself the only survivor of an attack on the Dinosaur Beach substation until his wife shows up, although their marriage still lies in her future.
The Timesweep program was a close parallel to the space sweep. The Old Era temporal experimenters had littered the timeways with everything from early one-way timecans to observation stations, dead bodies, abandoned instruments, weapons and equipment of all sorts, including an automatic mining setup established under the Antarctic icecap which caused headaches at the time of the Big Melt.
Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer (Charles Scribner’s Sons, September 1971).

Dazed

by Theodore Sturgeon
In 1950, a 25-year-old man begins to think that his own generation—those who will soon be in charge—are taking the world in an Orwellian direction because of an imbalance that’s occurring, so he writes a personal ad seeking help in rebalancing the world, and he gets an instant answer that, among other things, takes him a few decades into the future.
When he was in Lilliput there was a war between the Lilliputians and another nation of little people—I forget what they called themselves—and Gulliver intervened and ended the war. Anyway, he researched the two countries and found they had once been one. And he tried to find out what caused so many years of bitter enmity between them after they split. He found that there had been two factions in that original kingdom—the Big Endians and the Little Endians. And do you know where that started? Far back in their history, at breakfast one morning, one of the king’s courtiers opened his boiled egg at the big end and another told him that was wrong, it should be opened at the small end! The point Dean Swift was making is that from such insignificant causes grow conflicts that can last centuries and kill thousands. Well, he was near the thing that’s plagued me all my life, but he was content to say it happened that way. What blow-torches me is—why. Why are human beings capable of hating each other over such trifles? Why, when an ancient triviality is proved to be the cause of trouble, don’t people just stop fighting?
“Dazed” by Theodore Sturgeon, in Galaxy, September/October1971.

As on a Darkling Plain

by Ben Bova
As on a Darkling Plain by Ben Bova (Walker, 1972).

The Stainless Steel Rat 6

The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

by Harry Harrison
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison (Putnam, 1972).

When We Went to See the End of the World

by Robert Silverberg
Nick and Jane are disappointed when they discover that they are not the only ones from their social group to have time-tripped to see some aspect or other of the end of the world.
“It looked like Detroit after the union nuked Ford,” Phil said. “Only much, much worse.”
“When We Went to See the End of the World” by Robert Silverberg, in Universe 2, edited by Terry Carr (Ace Books, 1972).

Khokarsa 1

Time’s Last Gift

by Philip José Farmer
Time’s Last Gift by Philip José Farmer (Ballantine Books, January 1972).

Against the Lafayette Escadrille

by Gene Wolfe
I’m a little surprised at how much I am enjoying Gene Wolfe’s stories. This is a fantasy of a man who builds an exact replica of a Fokker triplane; then, one day on a flight, he sees a beautiful girl in a vintage balloon, an event that seems explicable only via time travel.

The story puts me in the mood of Jack Finney’s wonderful non-time-travel story, “Home Alone.”

“Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, March 1972).

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Stephen Geller, directed by George Roy Hill
Billy Pilgrim’s life, unstuck in time, is faithfully brought to the big screen, including the role of fellow patient Mr. Rosewater who, I believe, is reading a Kilgore Trout story.
— Michael Main
I have come unstuck in time.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Stephen Geller, directed by George Roy Hill (at movie theaters, USA, 15 March 1972).

The Hand from the Past

by Christopher Anvil
“The Hand from the Past” by Christopher Anvil, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May 1972.

The Man Who Walked Home

by James Tiptree, Jr.
After an accident at a temporal research facility in Idaho, a manlike monster known as John Delgano shows up for half a seoncd once a year at the same time and place.

As early as the 1930s, stories have addressed the issue of the Earth moving to a different position when a time traveler moves through time. This story addresses the issue by saying that the time traveler appears only once per year, but that doesn't really solve the problem for so many reasons, starting with the fact that a given position on the surface of the Earth will not be at “the same” position in the subsequent year.

— Michael Main
Then that winter they came down for Christmas and John said they had something new. He was really excited. A temporal displacement, he called it; some kind of time effect.
“The Man Who Walked Home” by James Tiptree, Jr., in Amazing, May 1972.

“Willie’s Blues”

by Robert J. Tilley
A music historian travels back to the 1930s to uncover the real story of how Willie Turnhill rose from an extra in the Curry Band to tenor sax virtuoso ever.
— Michael Main
He thinks of me now as the one person who’ll be able to say who’s the original and who’s the plagiarist when “the other guy” does eventually turn up!
“‘Willie’s Blues’” by Robert J. Tilley, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1972.

Time Story

by Stuart Gordon
Time Story by Stuart Gordon (New English Library, June 1972).

Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket

by James Tiptree, Jr.
At 75, heiress Loolie Aerovulpa travels back to her nubile teenaged body to throw herself at her one true love, Dovy Rapelle.
“Do you like me?

I’m attractive, am’t I?” She opened the blanket to look at herself. “I mean, am I attractive to you? Oh, Dovy, s-say something! I’ve come so far, I chartered three jets, I, I,—Oh, Dovy d-darling!”

“Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket” by James Tiptree, Jr., Fantastic August 1972.

Proof

by F. M. Busby
Jackson, a reporter, wants proof that a time machine really works, and he also wouldn’t mind proof about who killed SenatorBurton 20 years ago.
The Time Chamber. with its loose-hanging power cables and confused-looking control panel, didn’t look much like Mr. Wells’ crystal bicycle.
“Proof” by F. M. Busby, in Amazing, September 1972.

There Will Be Time

by Poul Anderson
The doctor and confidant of Jack Havig relates Jack’s life story from the time the infant started disappearing and reappearing to the extended firefight through time with the few other time travelers that Havig encountered.
No, no, no. I suppose it’s simply a logical impossibility to change the past, same as it’s logically impossible for a uniformly colored spot to be both red and green.
There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson (Nelson Doubleday, September 1972).

An Alien Heat

by Michael Moorcock
The time machine from Moorcock’s earlier “Behold the Man‘ allows Jherek to pursue his romantic interest, Amelia Underwood, from Jherek’s own time to her Victorian age.

According to the alien Yusharisp, Jherek’s time is at the end of the universe, which allows this story to be billed as the last love story of the universe. However, the phrase ’last story’ might be slightly inappropriate for the first story of a series that includes three other novels and five short stories. The first three novels, including this one, are gathered in an omnibus edition called The Dancers at the End of Time.

“Yes,” said Jherek. “I have already met the time-traveller. Last night. At the Duke of Queens’. I was so impressed by the costume that I made one up for myself.”
An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock (MacGibbon and Kee, October 1972).

Stretch of Time

by Ruth Berman
Sylvia Fontis at Luna University has built a working time machine—she calls it the Dimensional Revolver—but she’s too scared to use it until Professor Kent comes up with an idea for an experiment.
So what did you do, bring back the results of the Centauri Probe? Kill your grandmother?
“Stretch of Time” by Ruth Berman, in Analog, October 1972.

Green Darkness

by Anya Seton
Green Darkness by Anya Seton (Hodder and Stoughton, November 1972).

from Watership Down

The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé

by Richard Adams
According to rabbit lore, during a dire time when El-ahrairah’s warren is under siege, the wise rabbit devices a plan to offer his life to Death himself in return for relief from the siege. So with the help of a distraction by his brave generals, El-ahrairah and his faithful companion Rabscuttle escape from the burrows and journey to the land of Death. You’ll have to read of their quest yourself, but I will tell you that their passage of time in the land of the gods is—as in our own traditional tales of The Mahabharata and The Tipitaka—much slower than the passage of time in the mortal realm.
— Michael Main
“The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé” by Richard Adams, chapter 17 of Watership Down, (Rex Collings, November 1972).

The Brady Kids

by Hal Sutherland
The kids, sans Alice and parents, starred in their own cartoon show with magical adventures including at least one time-travel incident where Marlon the wizard bird changes places with Merlin—all directed by Hal Sutherland, the soon-to-be director of the animated Star Trek.
Boys: ♫Meet three sisters,
Girls: ♫Now meet their brothers,
Marcia: ♫Greg’s the leader and a good man for the job.
Jan: ♫There’s another boy, by the name of Peter,
Cindy: ♫The youngest one is Bob.
Boys: ♫See our sisters: They’re all quite pretty.
Greg: ♫First there’s Marcia, with her eyes a sparklin’ blue.
Peter: ♫Then there’s Jan, the middle one, who’s really groovy,
Bobby: ♫And sister Cindy, too.
Boys: ♫Let’s get set now, for action and adventure, as we see things we never saw before.
Girls: ♫We’ll meet Mop Top and Ping and Pong, the pandas, and Marlon who has voices by the score.
All: ♫The Brady kids, the Brady kids, it’s the world of your friends the Brady kids!♫♫♫
The Brady Kids by Hal Sutherland (16 December 1972).

Frankenstein Unbound

by Brian Aldiss
When the weapons of war-torn 2020 open time slips that unpredictably mix places and times, grandfather Joe Boderland finds himself and his nuclear-powered car in 1816 Switzerland along with the seductive Mary Shelley, a maniacal Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s monster.
You know, Joe, you are my first reader! A pity you don’t remember my book a little better!
Frankenstein Unbound by Brian Aldiss (Jonathan Cape, 1973).

Setni 3

La planète enchantée

English release: The Enchanted Planet Literal: The enchanted planet

by Pierre Barbet
[ex=bare]La planète enchantée | The enchanted planet[/ex] by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, 1973).

Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind

by Philip José Farmer
“Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind” by Philip José Farmer, in Nova 3, edited by Harry Harrison (Walker, 1973).

The Smallest Dragonboy

by Anne McCaffrey
“The Smallest Dragonboy” by Anne McCaffrey, in Science Fiction Tales, edited by Roger Elwood (Rand McNally, 1973).

The Snake Horn

by Morton Grosser
The Snake Horn by Morton Grosser (Atheneum, 1973).

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon

by Spider Robinson
At Mike Callahan’s bar, the regulars listen to the tall tales of all time travelers (and others including aliens, vampires, talking dogs, etc.).
And as Callahan refilled glasses all around, the time traveler told us his story.
“Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon” by Spider Robinson, in Analog, February 1973.

The Man Who Folded Himself

by David Gerrold
Reluctant college student Danny Eakins inherits a time belt from his uncle, and he uses it over the rest of his life to come to know himself.
The instructions were on the back of the clasp—when I touched it lightly, the words TIMEBELT, TEMPORAL TRANSPORT DEVICE, winked out and the first “page” of directions appeared in their place.
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold (Random House, February 1973).

Linkage

by Barry N. Malzberg
Donald Alan Freem is only eight, but he’s been institutionalized because of delusions that a time-traveling alien gave him the power to make people do whatever he wants.
I made you say that.
“Linkage” by Barry N. Malzberg, in Demon Kind, edited by Roger Elwood (Avon Books, March 1973).

Mad Magazine

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As a kid, there were always too many comic books to read for me to have much interest in Mad, but in later years, I enjoyed the time-travel movie spoofs (though I’m unsure whether all the spoofs actually included time travel).
For some reason which will never be satisfactorily explained, I have been transported back in time to 1960! I must remember that I’m now eighteen and not forty-three! It’s great to be young again and be back in the good old days when I had nothing to worry about except SAT’s. . . and acne. . . braces. . . and being flat chested and living with insensitive parents. . . and. . . hey, get me out of here and back to the present!
“Mad Magazine” |pending byline| (March 1973).

Paths

by Edward Bryant
A traveler from the future makes his way to Morisel’s office to warn the reporter about the consequences of continued mindless rape of the environment.

In addition to acknowledging that Ed Bryant’s stories are among my favorites, I can also add that he is a kind and generous mentor to writers in the Denver area, including myself!

I don’t want to seem cynical. You may be my ten-times-removed egg-father or something, but right now it’s awfully hard not to believe you’re just a run-of-the-mill aberrant. I mean, here you crawl into my office close to midnight, spread yourself down, and then calmly announce you’re a traveler from the future.
“Paths” by Edward Bryant, in Vertex, April 1973.

ドラえもん

Doraemon English release: Doraemon Literal: Stray pancake boy

|pending byline|
Doraemon, an imperfect, talking, cat-shaped robot from the future, imperfectly helps young Nobita through coming-of-age problems. Neither the short-lived 1973 anime series nor the 26-year-long 1979 series made it to English-language TV, but English dubs of the third revival (665 episodes and counting) began airing on the Disney channel in 2014 as Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future.

The original manga comic was created by Fujiko F. Fujio.

I wouldn’t get bogged down in the details right now. The thing to focus on is that ’ve come here to save you from a horrible fate.
[ex=bare]ドラえもん | Stray pancake boy | Doraemon[/ex] |pending byline| (1 April 1973).

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At the Narrow Passage

by Richard C. Meredith
At the Narrow Passage by Richard C. Meredith (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, May 1973).

Topolino #911

Zio Paperone e la scorribanda nei secoli

English release: Money is the Root of Upheaval Literal: Uncle Scrooge and the scavenger gang through the centuries

by Jerry Siegel, Romano Scarpa, and Sandro Del Conte
After waking an Egyptian pharaoh from a millennia-long sleep, Uncle Scrooge summons Donald and Gearloose, eventually realizing that they can restore the pharoah to his rightful throne via a trip to ancient Egypt in Gearloose’s not-quite-finished time machine. That doesn’t go quite as planned, and on the way home, they manage to turn the future into a money-mint-land or somnethin’?.
— based on Duck Comics Revue
Il veicolo aveva bisogno di una messa a punto! Comunque, siamo sulla “strada” giusta! Tenetevi forte!
Keep your seat belts buckled at all times! In the unlikely event of a water landing, your seat cushion doubles as a flotation device.
English
[ex=bare]“Zio Paperone e la scorribanda nei secoli” | Uncle Scrooge and the scavenger gang through the centuries[/ex] by Jerry Siegel, Romano Scarpa, and Sandro Del Conte, Topolino [Mickey Mouse] #911 (Mondadori, 13 May 1973).

Breckenridge and the Continuum

by Robert Silverberg
Wall Street investor Noel Breckenridge has been summoned to the far future, possibly to tell stories, but is there a larger purpose?
— Michael Main
Am I supposed to tell you a lot of diverting stories? Will I have to serve you six months out of the year, forevermore? Is there some precious object I’m obliged to bring you from the bottom of the sea? Maybe you have a riddle that I’m supposed to answer.
“Breckenridge and the Continuum” by Robert Silverberg, in Showcase, edited by Roger Elwood (Harper and Row, June 1973).

Time Enough for Love

by Robert A. Heinlein
During his 2000 years of misadventures, Lazarus Long has loved and lost and loved again, so now he’s to die, unless Minerva can think of an exciting adventure: perhaps visiting his own childhood?
This sad little lizard told me he was a brontosaurus on his mother’s side. I did not laugh, people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein (Putnam, June 1973).

The Time Machine

by Otto Binder and Alex Niño
There’s a papal dispensation (straight from Clifford Simak) that allows me to list all comic book adaptations of The Time Machine, even if they appeared after 1969. This Alex Niño version was printed as a small black and white graphic novel at least twice (Pendulum Press B&W 1973 and Academic Industries Pocket Classics 1984,). I haven’t seen it directly, but I recently found out that it was colored and printed as the second issue of the Marvel Classics series (cover by Gil Kane), which I first read in Pullman in early 1976. The storyline follows the 1960 movie closely.
As a trial, I’ll just pull the future lever a short ways.
“The Time Machine” by Otto Binder and Alex Niño (June 1973).

Idaho Transfer

by Thomas Matthiesen, directed by Peter Fonda
A group of secretive scientists develop time travel near Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, discovering a near-future apocalypse. Since anyone much over age 20 can’t survive traveling, they’re in the process of sending a group of young people, including Isa and her withdrawn sister Karen, beyond the apocalypse to rebuild civilization. Things go wrong (not the least of which are the plot, the dialogue, the acting, the sound track, and the requirement that the young Jane Fonda lookalikes must strip to travel through time), but even so, the film has a certain unprepossessing appeal.
— Michael Main
You see, Dad and Lewis are trying to get it together, to secretly transfer a lot of young people into the future, bypassing the eco-crisis or whatever it is. Start a new civilization.
Idaho Transfer by Thomas Matthiesen, directed by Peter Fonda (at movie theaters, USA, 15 June 1973).

A Witch in Time

by Janet Fox
“A Witch in Time” by Janet Fox, Fantastic September 1973.

Star Trek

by Hal Sutherland and Bill Reed
This series has a special place in my heart because of the day in 1974 when Dan Dorman and I visited Hal Sutherland north of Seattle to interview him for our fanzine, Free Fall. He treated the two teenagers like royalty and made two lifelong fans.

I think the series had only one time-travel story, “Yesteryear” (written by D.C. Fontana), which was the second in Sutherland’s tenure. In that episode, Spock returns from a time-traveling mission to find that he’s now in a reality where he died at age 7, and hence he returns to his own childhood to save himself.

Captain’s Log, Supplemental: When we were in the time vortex, something appears to have changed the present as we know it. No one aboard recognizes Mr. Spock. The only answer is that the past was—somehow—altered.
Star Trek by Hal Sutherland and Bill Reed (15 September 1973).

Иван Васильевич меняет профессию

Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu English release: Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future Literal: Ivan Vasilievich changes profession

by Владлен Бахнов and Леонид Гайдай, directed by Гайдай
Hitler kaput!
[ex=bare]Иван Васильевич меняет профессию | Ivan Vasilievich changes profession | Ivan Vasilievich menyayet professiyu[/ex] by Владлен Бахнов and Леонид Гайдай, directed by Гайдай (at movie theaters, Soviet Union, 17 September 1973).

Many Mansions

by Robert Silverberg
With eleven years of marriage behind them, Ted and Alice’s fantasies frequently start with a time machine and end with killing one or another of their spouse’s ancestors before they can procreate. So naturally, they each end up at Temponautics, Ltd. Oh, and Ted’s grandpa has some racy fantasies of his own.
In Silverberg’s Something Wild Is Loose (Vol. 3 of his collected stories), he posits that this story is “probably the most complex short story of temporal confusion” since Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941) or “—All You Zombues—” (1959), but I would respectfully disagree. In particular, I would describe Heinlein’s two stories as the most complex short stories of temporal consistency in that there is but a single, static timeline and (in hindsight) every scene locks neatly into place within this one timeline. By contrast, Silverberg story involves multiple time travel choices by the characters in what I would call parallel universes. The confusion, such as it is, stems more from what appears to be alternate scenes in disconnected universes rather than temporal confusion per se.
— Michael Main
On the fourth page Alice finds a clause warning the prospective renter that the company cannot be held liable for any consequences of actions by the renter which wantonly or wilfully interfere with the already determined course of history. She translates that for herself: If you kill your husband’s grandfather, don’t blame us if you get in trouble.
“Many Mansions” by Robert Silverberg, in Universe 3, edited by Terry Carr (Random House, October 1973).

Sleeper

by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, directed by Woody Allen
Jazz musician Miles Monroe is conscripted into a long sleep and awakened 200 years later.
— Michael Main
Look, you gotta be kidding. I wanna go back to sleep! If I don't get at least 600 years, I'm grouchy all day.
Sleeper by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, directed by Woody Allen (at movie theaters, USA, 17 December 1973).

The Greatest Television Show on Earth

by J. G. Ballard
Wildly popular global TV stations are desperate for new material for their viewers, so the discovery of time travel in 2001 will be a fortuitous boon if it can live up to its hype.
These safaris into the past cost approximately a million dollars a minute. After a few brief journeys to verify the Crucifixion, the signing of Magna Carta and Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, the government-financed Einstein Memorial Time Centre at Princeton was forced to suspend operations.

Plainly, only one other group could finance further explorations into the past—the world’s television corporations.

“The Greatest Television Show on Earth” by J. G. Ballard, in Ambit 53, 1972/1973.

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (St. Martin’s Press, January 1975).

The Dancers at the End of Time 2

The Hollow Lands

by Michael Moorcock
The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, 1974).

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Magiciens galactiques

Literal: Galactic magicians

by Pierre Barbet
Magiciens galactiques by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, 1974).

The Marathon Photograph

by Clifford D. Simak
I feel for one character in this story: Humphrey, who wants no more than to figure out the various goings on—past, present and possibly future—in this out-of-the-way place where Andrew Thornton comes to fish and write a geology text. Andrew’s friend Neville Piper finds a cube with a hologram of the Battle of Marathon alongside the bear-mauled body of the mysterious Stefan from the even more mysterious Lodge, and that long-lost mine that Humphrey has been researching is finally found without Humphrey ever being told of it.
Humphrey did mind, naturally, but there was nothing he could do about it. Here was the chance to go up to the Lodge, probably to go inside it, and he was being counted out. But he did what he had to do with fairly good grace and said that he would stay.
“The Marathon Photograph” by Clifford D. Simak, in Threads of Time, edited by Robert Silverberg (Thomas Nelson, 1974).

Teach’s Light

by Nell Wise Wechter
Teach’s Light by Nell Wise Wechter (J. F. Blair, 1974).

Renaissance Man

by T. E. D. Klein
When the new time machine randomly grabs a random man from the future, all the waiting bigwigs and reporters are delighted that they managed to catch a scientist for the six-hour interview.
We knew we’d pull back someone from the Harvard Physics Department, because we’re here in the building right now. But it could have been just anyone. We might have found ourselve questioning a college freshman. . . Or a scrubwoman. . . Or even a tourist visiting the lab.
“Renaissance Man” by T. E. D. Klein, in Space 2, edited by Richard Davis (Abelard-Schuman, January 1974).

If Ever I Should Leave You

by Pamela Sargent
A nameless narrator (called Nanette by an overly zealous copy-editor in the If publication) tells of time-traveler Yuri’s return as a dying old man and of the subsequent times when she visited him. I enjoyed that beginning part of the story, but the ending, as the narrator herself ages, spoke to me more deeply.

I met Pamela Sargent in Lawrence, Kansas, at Jim Gunn’s writing workshop. She was insightful and kind to the young writers who came to learn from her and other talented writers.

— Michael Main
All the coordinates are there, all the places and times I went to these past months. When you're lonely, when you need me, go to the Time Station and I’ll be waiting on the other side.
“If Ever I Should Leave You” by Pamela Sargent, in If, February 1974.

Big Game

by Isaac Asimov
Jack Trent hears a half-drunken story of time travel and the real cause of the dinosaur extinction.

Asimov wrote this story in 1941, but it was lost until a fan found it in the Boston University archives in the early ’70s.

Jack looked at Hornby solemnly. “You invented a time machine, did you?”

“Long ago.” Hornby smiled amiably and filled his glass again. “Better than the ones those amateurs at Stanford rigged up. I’ve destroyed it, though. Lost interest.”

“Big Game” by Isaac Asimov, in Before the Golden Age, edited by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, April 1974).

FTA

by George R. R. Martin
“FTA” by George R. R. Martin, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1974.

A Little Something for Us Tempunauts

by Philip K. Dick
Addison Doug and his two fellow time travelers seem to have caused a time loop wherein everyone is reliving the same events with only vague memories of what happened on the previous loop.
Every man has more to live for than every other man. I don’t have a cute chick to sleep with, but I’d like to see the semi’s rolling along the Riverside Freeway at sunset a few more times. It’s not what you have to live for; it’s that you want to live to see it, to be there—that’s what is so damn sad.
“A Little Something for Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick, in Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg (Charterhouse, May 1974).

Future Tense

by Eli Segal
Professor Eli Segal and his students at Western Michigan University created quality new productions of radio shows that were mostly taken from old episodes of X Minus One and Dimension X. According to otr.org, the first season of Future Tense 18 stories (13 based on X-1 scripts, two based on DX scripts, and 3 original scripts) and these first aired as 16 episodes in May of 1974. The second season had ten episodes (8 based on X-1 scripts and 2 original scripts) which aired in July 1976, At least three episodes involved time travel. Now why couldn’t I have gone to WMC?
Stay tuned now for excitement and adventure in the world of the future! Entertainment for the entire family produced right here in Kalamazoo.
Future Tense by Eli Segal (7 May 1974).

The Birch Clump Cylinder

by Clifford D. Simak
When a contraption drops onto the Coon Creek Institute causing various objects to appear and disappear from out of time, Old Prather calls together three former students: someone with expertise in time travel (our discredited time-travel researcher and narrator, Charley Spencer), one who’s a mean-spirited, world-famous mathematician (Leonard Asbury), and with no preconceptions about the matter (the lovely composer, Mary Holland, who broken more than one heart on the campus).
A time machine has fallen into a clump of birch just above the little pond back of the machine shops.
“The Birch Clump Cylinder” by Clifford D. Simak, in Stellar 1, edited by Judy-Lynn de Rey (Ballantine Books, September 1974).

Land of the Lost

by Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft
Land of the Lost by Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft (7 September 1974).

The Hollow Lands

by Michael Moorcock
Still in pursuit of Amelia Underwood, Jherek again travels to Victorian England where he runs into her husband (oh, yes, that quaint Victorian Mrs. nomenclature) and a disbelieving H.G. Wells.
“No true Eloi should be able to read or write.” Mr. Wells puffed on his pipe, peering out of the window.
The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, October 1974).

Retroflex

by F. M. Busby
Haldene tracks down a man named Cochrane, who turns out to be a killer from the future.
The one calling himself Cochrane is not of this era, but of a time far forward.
“Retroflex” by F. M. Busby, in Vertex, October 1974.

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Notrufsender Gorsskij

Literal: Emergency transmitter Gforssku

by K. H. Scheer
Notrufsender Gorsskij by K. H. Scheer (Pabel, November 1974).

Let’s Go to Golgotha!

by Garry Kilworth
A typical family of four decide to go with their best friends to see the crucifixion of Jesus.
If you’re talking about time-tours, why don’t you come with us? We’re going to see the Crucifixion.
“Let’s Go to Golgotha!” by Garry Kilworth, in Sunday Times Weekly Review, 15 December 1974.

Bid Time Return

by Richard Matheson
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (Viking Press, 1975).

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1

Light of Other Days

by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito
Until the last page, this was a nice adaptation of Bob Shaw’s original story. Don’t know why they felt a need to change it or add an epilogue.
— Michael Main
The commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that owning a scnedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1, January 1975.

Trips

by Robert Silverberg
Silverberg’s introduction to “Trip” in the collection Trips, vol. 4 of the Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Subterranean Press, 2009), states that he wrote the story with the goal of being the ultimate alternative universes story, and he lived up to that goal, devising nearly a dozen alternative Bay Area universes for his hero Cameron to express his wanderlust. Admittedly, there’s no actual time travel because the story was part of an anthology of ultimate sf, and Silverberg left the time travelin’ to Philip K. Dick’s “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts.” But there is a world that Cameron thinks is a 1950s San Francisco (it isn’t) and there’s a chance that Cameron experiences the passage of time at rates that differ from world to world.

Warning: The first publication of the story in that ultimate anthology (Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology) was “cut to shreds” by a ham-handed editor at Charterhouse, so your best bet is to read it in one of Silverberg’s later collections.

— Michael Main
There’s an infinity of worlds, Elizabeth, side by side, worlds in which all possible variations of every possible event take place. Worlds in which you and I are happily married, in which you and I have been married and divorced, in which you and I don’t exist, in which you exist and I don’t, in which we meet and loathe one another, in which—in which—do you see, Elizabeth, there's a world for everything, and I’ve been traveling from world to world.
“Trips” by Robert Silverberg, in The Feast of St. Dionysus (Charles Scribner’s Sons, March 1975).

ZBV 36

Spätkontrolle aufschlußreich

by K. H. Scheer
Spätkontrolle aufschlußreich by K. H. Scheer (Pabel, July 1975).

Nobody Here but Us Shadows

by Sam J. Lundwall
“Nobody Here but Us Shadows” by Sam J. Lundwall, Galaxy, August 1975.

ZBV 38

Losung Takalor

Literal: Solution Takalor

by H. G. Francis
Losung Takalor by H. G. Francis (Pabel, September 1975).

Anniversary Project

by Joe Haldeman
One million years after the invention of writing, Three-Phasing (nominally male) brings a 20th century man and his wife forward in time to teach the ancestors of man how to read.
“Pleasta Meetcha, Bob. Likewise, Sarah. Call me, uh. . .“ The only twentieth-century language in which Three-phasing’s name makes sense is propositional calculus. “ George. George Boole.”
“Anniversary Project” by Joe Haldeman, in Analog, October 1975.

Time Patrol 3

Gibraltar Falls

by Poul Anderson
As part of an crew assigned to crew to observe the filling of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic in the late Micene, Patrolman Tom Nomura breaks the rules to use time travel to rescue Feliz a Rach when she’s swept over the falls.
— Michael Main
The Mediterranean floor lay ten thousand feet below sea level. The inflow took most of that drop within a fifty-mile strait. Its volume amounted to ten thousand cubic miles a year, a hundred Victoria Falls or a thousand Niagaras.
“Gibraltar Falls” by Poul Anderson, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1975.

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No Brother, No Friend

by Richard C. Meredith
No Brother, No Friend by Richard C. Meredith (Doubleday, 1976).

Time Piper

by Delia Huddy
In the first of two books Luke meets an out-of-place girl named Hare, and given all the tachyons flying around, he begins to suspect that Tom Humboldt—the head of Luke’s summer research project—has pulled Hare from the past.

A sequel, The Humboldt Effect, picks up Luke’s life several years later.

She was strange, remote, and beautiful, and she called herself “Hare.”
Time Piper by Delia Huddy (Hamish Hamilton, 1976).

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The Way Back

by A. Bertram Chandler
The Way Back by A. Bertram Chandler (Robert Hale, February 1976).

Dragonsong

by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum, March 1976).

Time Travelers

by Jackson Gillis, directed by Alexander Singer
ABC-TV picked up this failed pilot (a proposed revival of The Time Tunnel) and aired it as a made-for-TV movie in which Dr. Clinton Earnshaw and his government-sent sidekick Jeff Adams venture back to 1871 to track down a cure for a modern-day epidemic.
— Michael Main
He didn’t tell you that we do time research here? That you’re going to travel back in time to 1871?
Time Travelers by Jackson Gillis, directed by Alexander Singer (ABC-TV, USA, 19 March 1976).

Birth of a Notion

by Isaac Asimov
The world’s first time traveler, Simeon Weill, goes back to 1925 and gives some ideas to Hugo.
That the first inventor of a workable time machine was a science fiction enthusiast is by no means a coincidence.
“Birth of a Notion” by Isaac Asimov, in Amazing, April 1976.

An Infinite Summer

by Christopher Priest
For purposes that only they can know, people from the future—Thomas Lloyd calls them “freezers”—put a small number of people into a kind of suspended animation. Nobody can see the frozen except for those who have been previously frozen and then thawed. Thomas himself is among this select group: frozen in 1903 on the verge of proposing to his beloved Sarah; unfrozen shortly before World War II, at which point he can but view his still-frozen Sarah.
Thomas James Lloyd, straw hat raised in his left hand, his other hand reaching out. His right knee was slightly bent, as if he were about to kneel, and his face was full of happiness and expectation. A breeze seemed to be ruffling his hair, for three strands stood on end, but these had been dislodged when he removed his hat. A tiny winged insect, which had settled on his lapel, was frozen in its moment of flight, an instinct to escape too late.
“An Infinite Summer” by Christopher Priest, in Andromeda, edited by Peter Weston (Orbit, May 1976).

Woman on the Edge of Time

by Marge Piercy
“Woman on the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy, in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Susan Janice Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1976).

Woman on the Edge of Time

by Marge Piercy
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (Alfred A. Knopf, June 1976).

Dancers at the End of Time 3

The End of All Songs

by Michael Moorcock
The End of All Songs by Michael Moorcock (Harper and Row, July 1976).

The State 1

A World Out of Time

by Larry Niven
A World Out of Time by Larry Niven (Holt, Reinhart and Winston, September 1976).

I See You

by Damon Knight
“I See You” by Damon Knight, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976.

The Pursuit of the Pankera

by Robert A. Heinlein
The 2020 posthumous publication of this 1977 manscript shows us Heinlein’s first forey into the multiperson solipsism of semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest Zeb Carter, Hilda Corners and their time/dimension-traveling ship Gay Deceiver. In all, the earlier manuscript has three adventures that were significantly changed in his eventual 1980 publication of the work, retitled as The Number of the Beast:
  1. In Pankera, the Mars Ten actually is Barsoom where the gang meets the Princess of Mars and others, while in Beast, Mars Ten is a relatively boring futuristic British Mars.
  2. Pankera has a long adventure in the Lensman universe, while Beast has only a few pages.
  3. Pankera’s ending is a 30-page, rushed description of how they plan to launch a major war against the Panki, while Beast’s 130-page ending takes the gang to the universe of Dora and Lazurus Long where they rescue Maureen from the past and are joined by a passel of Heinlein’s characters.
In both books, Gay Deceiver can clearly travel through any one of three time axes at will, although that ability is largely ignored apart from Maureen’s rescue in Beast. Because of this, we had a fierce debate up in the ITTDB Citadel about whether to even include Pankera in the database. In the end, we decided yes, marking it as the parent work of Beast, but on account of no easily recognizable time travel, we also marked it as having only debatable time travel.
— Michael Main
Sharpie, you have just invented multiperson solipsism. I didn’t think that was mathematically possible.
Six-Six-Six by Robert A. Heinlein, unpublished, 1977.

Setni 9

Vénusine

by Pierre Barbet
Vénusine by Pierre Barbet (Librairie des Champs-Élysées, 1977).

On the Martian Problem

by Randall Garrett
Ed’s “Uncle Jack’ writes to him with an explanation about why the recent Martian landers show such a different Mars than that which Jack himself has visited and written about.
To the Reader of this Work:

In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.

My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack. . . .

very sincerely yours,

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“On the Martian Problem” by Randall Garrett, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Winter 1977.

Time and Hagakure

by Steven Utley
“Time and Hagakure” by Steven Utley, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Winter 1977.

The Astronomical Hazards of the Tobacco Habit

by Dean McLaughlin
Whenever an effect of an action occurs before that action itself (i.e., an endochronic property), I consider it to be time travel, with the canonical example being Asimov’s Thiotimoline research first published in 1948. According to McLaughlin, Asimov continued that research, using the profits to establish a foundation that funds further research into such phenomena.
Dr. Isaac Asimov
Director: Thiotimoline Research Foundation
Trantor MA31416
“The Astronomical Hazards of the Tobacco Habit” by Dean McLaughlin, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Summer 1977.

Dragonsinger

by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum, February 1977).

Crisis

by James Gunn
Bill Johnson travels from the future to affect important political change at moments of crisis, but each time he makes a change, he also forgets all personal details about himself.
But each time you intervene, no matter how subtly, you change the future from which you came. You exist in this time and outside of time and in the future, and so each change makes you forget.
“Crisis” by James Gunn, in Analog, March 1977.

The Rook

by Bill DuBay
As you know, post-1969 comic books are not normally permitted on the list, but seeing as how Restin Dane, aka The Rook, is the great, great grandson of Wells’s original traveler (not to mention that the Rook and his Time Castle rescued the traveler at the Alamo in his debut “castling” adventure), how can I not make an exception?
Mister. . . I don’t know who you are, where you came from, or where you got them fancy guns. . . but I want t’thank God and San Houston f’r sendin’ ya! My name’s Crockett. . . and before you got here, I thought fro sure I’d wake up tomorrow shakin’ hands with th’ devil!
“The Rook” by Bill DuBay, in Eerie 82, March 1977.

Air Raid

by John Varley
Mandy snatches doomed people from the past in order to populate her war-decimated time.
I had to choose between a panic if the fathead got them to thinking, and a possible panic from the flash of the gun. But when a 20th gets to talking about his “rights” and what he is “owed,&rdauo; things can get out of hand.
“Air Raid” by John Varley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Spring 1977.

Joelle

by Poul Anderson
Canadian Eric Stranathan is one of the few people in the world who can merge his mind with computer hardware, taking him to mental vistas beyond that of mere humans. At a conference to explore the possibilities of the technology, he meets the beautiful American Joelle who shares his ability. The two fall deeply in love, but because of security restrictions, it’s fifteen months before she can show him the capabilities of her mind-machine connection.

The time-travel connection is slight in this long story, but it is relevant to Joelle. As I read though, I wondered whether the story could have been much more had the time-travel element been taken more to heart.

He swept out of the cell, through space and through time, at light-speed across unseen prairies, into the storms that raged down a great particle accelerator.
“Joelle” by Poul Anderson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fall 1977.

Lorelei at Storyville West

by Sherwood Spring
A writer who’s working on a book about Dixieland singers interviews the one man who might have a 1955 tape recording of Ruby Benton whose voice always drew comparisons to the most outstanding singer you’d ever heard. The man does indeed have a recording as well as a theory about why Ruby disappeared from the clubs of Storyville West at the particular time she did.
The tattoo was obviously her social security number, but it was preceded by an “A” and followed by a space and five additional digits.
“Lorelei at Storyville West” by Sherwood Spring, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fall 1977.

Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation

by Larry Niven
A mathematician named Quifting has a way to use a time machine to end the war with the Hallane Regency once and for all.
Did nobody ever finish one of these, ah, time machines?
“Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation” by Larry Niven, in Analog, August 1977.

Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem

English release: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea Literal: Tomorrow I'll wake up and scald myself with tea

by Miloš Macourek and Jindrich Polák, directed by Jindrich Polák
Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem by Miloš Macourek and Jindrich Polák, directed by Jindrich Polák (at movie theaters, Czechoslovakia, 1 August 1977).

Orion

by Ben Bova
Orion the Hunter is tasked by mighty Ormazd to continually battle evil Ahriman, the Dark One. Bova’s first tale chronicles a time thousands of years in the past when Orion is part of a nomadic hunting clan that includes the beautiful Ana whom he has bonded with and loved throughout time.
But even from this distance I could see she was the gray-eyed woman I had known in other eras; the woman I had loved, thousands of years in the future of this world. The woman who had loved me.
Orion by Ben Bova, in Weird Heroes, Volume Eight, edited by Byron Preiss, Jove Books (November 1977).

DC

|pending byline|
As you know, I was forced to ban all post-1969 comic books from The List because comic books pretty much fell to pieces after that date. If I discover many more superhero cartoons like these ones, I will be forced to expand the ban.
It is the fifth century, A.D., the place is Britain, and I am Merlin Ambrosius.
DC |pending byline| (10 December 1977).

Les passagers du temps

Literal: Passengers of time

by Piet Legay
Les passagers du temps by Piet Legay (Fleuve Noir, 1978).

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978).

Threads of Time

by C. J. Cherryh
“Threads of Time” by C. J. Cherryh, in Darkover Grand Council Program Book IV, edited by Andrew Siegel (unknown publisher, 1978).

A Time-Span to Conjure With

by Ian Watson
“A Time-Span to Conjure With” by Ian Watson, in Andromeda 3, edited by Peter Weston (Orbit, 1978).

The Very Slow Time Machine

by Ian Watson
In 1985, a small impenetrable living pod appears out of nothing at the National Physics Laboratory. A window on one side shows the pod’s occupant: a delirious man who grows younger and saner through the years, although generally doing little other than sitting and reading, leading the observers to conclude that his quarters are in fact a VSTM taking him back through time at the rate of one year for each year of his life.

As of writing this, I am only partway through my reading and wondering so many things: When the man in the world at large who will eventually enter the machine realize that he is the traveler? From his perspective, what happened to the machine (and him!) when it materialized in 1985? (Ah! That question is answered shortly after it occurs to me.) For that matter, why doesn’t he himself, while in the pod, already know that he will reach 1985? To what extent does his very appearance cause the technology that permits his trip to occur? VCIS! (Very Cool Idea-Story!), although it offers little in plot or character.

Our passenger is the object of popular cults by now—a focus for finer feelings. In this way his mere presence has drawn the world’s peoples closer together, cultivating respect and dignity, pulling us back from the brink of war, liberating tens of thousands from their concentration camps. These cults extend from purely fashionable manifestations—shirts printed with his face, now neatly shaven in a Vandyke style; rings and worry-beads made from galena crystals—through the architectural (octahedron and cube meditation modules) to life-styles themselves: a Zen-like “sitting quietly, doing nothing.”
“The Very Slow Time Machine” by Ian Watson, in Anticipations, edited by Christopher Priest (Faber and Faber, 1978).

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Vestiges of Time

by Richard C. Meredith
Vestiges of Time by Richard C. Meredith (Doubleday, 1978).

A Traveller in Time

by Diane DeVere Cole
The BBC adapted Alison Uttley’s children’s book in a miniseries of five half-hour episodes, faithfully taking young Penelope Taberner Cameron back to Elizabethan England and the time of Mary, Queen of Scots. If you can find the British DVD, you'll even hear Simon Gipps-Kent regale Penelope with “Greensleeves.”
♫Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off, discourteously♫
A Traveller in Time by Diane DeVere Cole (4 January 1978).

Mastodonia

by Clifford D. Simak
Asa Steele buys a farm near his boyhood farm in southwestern Wisconsin where the loyal Bowser and his simple friend Hiram talk to a lonely time-traveling alien who opens time roads for the three of them.
Maybe it takes gently crazy people and simpletons and dogs to do things we can’t do. Maybe they have abilities we don’t have.. . .
Mastodonia by Clifford D. Simak (Del Rey, March 1978).

Grimes at Glenrowan

by A. Bertram Chandler
Chandler’s widely traveled, spacefaring captain John Grimes had at least one adventure through time which he told to a pretty reporter named Kitty on the Rim World of Elsinore. It seems that when Grimes was a much younger spacehand on leave in his native Australia, he once ran into two former crewmates who had figured out how to project themselves and Grimes into their own nefarious ancestors in the 1880 outback.

I’m still searching for other time travel stories about Grimes or Chandler’s Rim Worlds.

“I built it,” said Kelly, not without pride.

“What for?” I asked. “Time Travel?” I sneered.

“Yes,” he said.

“Grimes at Glenrowan” by A. Bertram Chandler, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 1978.

The Small Stones of Tu Fu

by Brian Aldiss
A time traveler enjoys spending time with the aged poet Tu Fu in 770 A.D.
Swimming strongly on my way back to what the sage called the remote future, my form began to flow and change according to time pressure. Sometimes my essence was like steam, sometimes like a mountain.
“The Small Stones of Tu Fu” by Brian Aldiss, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 1978.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams
Apart from the original radio programs that I listened to in Stirling on my study abroad, the travails of Arthur Dent dodging Vogons never inflamed my passion—and I’m not quite sure where time travel slipped into the further radio shows, books, TV shows, movies and video games (which I won’t list here, apart from noting Tim’s favorite quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: “There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!” Still, those original radio shows got me laughing, including the first moment of time travel in the 4th episode.

The radio series spawned six books and at least one time-travel infused short story.

For instance, at the very moment that Arthur Dent said, “I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,” a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far, far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space, to a distance galaxy where strange and war-like beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (BBC Radio, 29 March 1978).

Fair Exchange?

by Isaac Asimov
John Sylva has invented a temporal transference device that allows his friend Herb to enter the mind of a man in 1871 London and to thereby attend three performances of a lost Gilbert & Sullivan play.

I read this story as I was starting my graduate studies in Pullman in 1978. Sadly, there was no second issue of Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine.

We can’t be sure how accurate our estimates of time and place are, but you seem to resonate with someone in London in 1871.
“Fair Exchange?” by Isaac Asimov, in Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine, Fall 1978.

The Last Full Measure

by George Alec Effinger
Corporal Bo Staefler lands and dies on Normandy Beach on D-Day, after which an alien brings him back to life and asks him to do it all again (and again), making sure to pay attention to all the details.
He went through every moment, every step, every ragged breath, every slow, wading, stumbling yard through the cold water to the beach. And it all felt the same, as though he were just a spectator. The shell exploded. Staefler died a second time.
“The Last Full Measure” by George Alec Effinger, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 1978.

The White Dragon

by Anne McCaffrey
Young Jaxom of Ruatha Hold is a lord, so of course, he’s not supposed to impress himself on a dragon. But then again, the stunted white dragon Ruth wasn’t supposed to be big enough to fly with a rider either. Nevertheless, amidst the Thread and Oldtimers on Pern, Jaxon does impress Ruth, and together they do a few other things that they’re not meant to be doing either.

The story incorporates the novella, “A Time When” (1975), which appeared only as a limited edition at Boskone where McCaffrey was the Guest of Honor.

Before Jaxom could remind Ruth that they weren’t supposed to go between time, they had.
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey, June 1978).

One Rejection Too Many

by Paula Nurse
A time-traveling writer gets more and more fed up with Isaac Asimov’s demands for rewrites on his story submissions.
Anything you can do to expediate the publishing of Vahl’s story will be most appreciated, so that he will feel free to return to his own time.
“One Rejection Too Many” by Paula Nurse, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 1978.

Nebogipfel at the End of Time

by Richard A. Lupoff
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.
“Nebogipfel at the End of Time” by Richard A. Lupoff, in Heavy Metal, September 1978.

Stalking the Timelines

by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.
A catlike being lives the life of a soldier in many different times and places, but always with the same goal of stamping out war.
. . . but in all the lines I’m big, tough, and smart enough to know how to take good orders and not hear bad ones.
“Stalking the Timelines” by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr., in Analog, September 1978.

The Adventure of the Global Traveler

by Anne Lear
Apparently, that trip over the Reichenbach Falls didn’t kill Moriarty after all. Instead, he survived to build a Time Velocipede (which he showed off to some guy named Wells) only to be trapped back in the time of Shakespeare and the Globe Theater.
Having learned early of the dangers attendant upon being unable to move the Time Machine, I had added to its structure a set of wheels and a driving chain attached to the pedals originally meant simply as foot rests. In short, I converted it into a Time Velocipede.
“The Adventure of the Global Traveler” by Anne Lear, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 1978.

Thirty Love

by Jack C. Haldeman II
“Thirty Love” by Jack C. Haldeman II, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 1979.

Mork and Mindy

by Anthony W. Marshall and Garry Marshall
There’s a scene in the first episode where Mork explains that he’s traveling from the 1950s Happy Days to 1978—but that scene did not air until subsequent reruns. The other time travel that I know of is in the penultimate episode where the couple travel via Mork’s ruby red, size eight, time-travel shoes.
Wait! I have one last request! I would like to die with dignity, with honor,. . . and with my penny-loafers on.
Mork and Mindy by Anthony W. Marshall and Garry Marshall (14 September 1978).

The Avatar

by Poul Anderson
No, this book has nothing to do with Cameron’s more widely-known movie, although critics have noted a similarity between the movie and an earlier Anderson story, “Call Me Joe.” As for The Avatar, it’s a political story of time-space portals (Tipler cylinders known in the book as T-machines) left behind by the “Others.” Wealthy Daniel Broderson wants to use results of a portal exploration team for the benefit of all mankind, while the authoritarian leaders of Earth thinks that mankind isn’t ready for the full truth.

The title avatar of Anderson’s book is present as one of the portal exploration team members right from the start of the goings-on, but the name avatar isn’t used until the conclusion of the book—and the meaning of the word is the one that predates our modern digital view.

For us, approximately eight Terrestrial years have passed. It turns out that the T-machine is indeed a time machine of sorts, as well as a space transporter. The Betans—the beings whom we followed—calculated our course to bring us out near the date when we left.
The Avatar by Poul Anderson (Berkley Putnam, October 1978).

Time Warp

by Theodore Sturgeon
On the hidden planet of Ceer, Althair tells all the little pups and pammies of the time when he accompanied the brave Will Hawkins and the chief pilot Jonna Verret as they traveled back in time to save Earth from the Meercaths from Orel who had the power to blow up the Earth and would use it whether the Earthlings revealed the secret of time travel or not.

In my first semester of graduate school, I bought the first issue of Omni, which included this story. But I forgot about it until Bill Seabrook (a baseball fan and sf reader from Tyne-and-Wear) sent me a pointer to this story as well as J.B. Priestley’s time plays.

We’ll arrive on Orel before they leave and stop them.
“Time Warp” by Theodore Sturgeon, Omni, October 1978.

One More Time

by Jack Gaughan
One thing you can be certain of when you meet a nostalgic physicist in a science fiction story: There’s gonna be some time travelin’. In this case, the nostalgic narrator travels from 1978 back to pastoral American days at the end of the Great Depression with the goal of helping his father stand up to a domineering wife.

Gaughan was better knowm as a prolific sf artist, but he also produced this story and one other for Asimov’s Science Fiction.

So I told him.

From beginning to end (well not end, I didn’t tell him of his own funeral) and tried to leave nothing out that was pertinent to the plan. I didn’t know what else to do. The year 1939 may have been ready for Buck Rogers or Brick Bradford and his Time Top, but was it ready for the hard, cold reality of time travel?

“One More Time” by Jack Gaughan, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 1978.

The Time Machine

by Wallace Bennett, directed by Henning Schellerup
For me, the update to the 1970s took this made-for-TV movie too far away from the original novel. For example, the Traveller (now a rocket scientist called Neil Perry) explains the workings of the machine with gibberish, whereas the original Traveller expressed himself with up-to-date mathematical terminology. The travel to the Salem witch trials and the California gold rush were also off the mark, as was the dreamy Weena who immediately speaks English.
— Michael Main
Well, in principle, it utilizes a electromagnetic force field to molecularly reconstruct the space-time continuum.
The Time Machine by Wallace Bennett, directed by Henning Schellerup (NBC-TV, USA, 5 November 1978).

Lem’s Star Diaries

Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Tarantoga

Literal: The strange encounters of Professor Tarantoga

[writer unknown], directed by Charles Kerremans
We have no details on the German remake of Wyprawa profesora Tarantogi except that Lem adaptation was humorless.
— Michael Main
[ex=bare]Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Tarantoga | The strange encounters of Professor Tarantoga[/ex] [writer unknown], directed by Charles Kerremans (ZDF, West Germany, 4 December 1978).

Der Fehler

Literal: The mistake

by Rolf Smolka
[ex=bare]“Der Fehler” | The mistake[/ex] by Rolf Smolka, Perry Rhodan [German Heftserie Auflage 4] #62: Die blauen Zwerge, 12 December 1978 .

Starcrash

by Luigi Cozzi and Nat Wachsberger, directed by Luigi Cozzi
Smugglers Stella Star and Akton are sprung from prison by the Galactic Emperor (Christopher Plummer!) to rescue the Galactic Prince (the Hoff!) and save the universe (using kickboxing and an occasional lightsaber!) from the Evil Count Zarth Arn (“Evil” appears to be his first name). At various points, the murky plot has brief stints with suspended animation (Stella), precognition (Arkon), and the freezing time (the Emperor), none of which rises to actual time travel. On the other hand, in the words of reviewer Kurt Dahike, “the budget special effects transcend into the realm of real art.”
— Michael Main
Stella: So you can see into the future? All these years you never told me. Think of all the trouble I might have avoided.

Akton: You would have tried to change the future, which is against the law.

Starcrash by Luigi Cozzi and Nat Wachsberger, directed by Luigi Cozzi (at movie theaters, West Germany, 21 December 1978).

The Agent

by Christopher Priest and David Redd
Egon Rettmer—citizen of neutral Silte, but an agent for the Nord-Deutschland in their war against the Masurians—uses time travel for his communiques and, as he realizes on the eve of the N-D invasion, there’s the potential to use it for more, maybe even to get a good start with that entrancing visitor, Heidi.
She was behaving towards him, literally, as if he had been in two places at once. . . as if, this morning, he had met her and told her of the escape plans he had only half started to form a few minutes ago!
“The Agent” by Christopher Priest and David Redd, in Aries, 1, edited by John Grant (David and Charles, 1979).

Time after Time [Alexander] 1

Time after Time

by Karl Alexander
Time after Time by Karl Alexander (De Kern, 1979).

Garbage

by Ron Goulart
“Garbage”—which I read during the 1978 Christmas when Janet visited me in Washington—was my first exposure to Goulart, who is the Mel Brooks of short science fiction. In the story, Product Investigation Enterprises agent Dan Tockson sends a typevox memo to his boss explaining what went wrong in an investigation into a Florida food with were-ish side effects.

There was no time travel in the food investigation, but at the start of Tockson’s memo, he refers to a previous investigation that took him to 15th century Italy. I found one later Tockson story, “Ask Penny Jupiter,’ but it was timetravelless.

“You’re angry because I stayed in fifteenth-century Italy so long?”

“I’m not especially mad,” you answered, growling. “but the Time Travel Overseeing Community wasn’t much pleased. You shouldn’t have dropped in on Leonardo da Vinci with those tips on aerodynamics.’

“Garbage” by Ron Goulart, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 1979.

Back to Byzantium

by Mark J. McGarry
“Back to Byzantium” by Mark J. McGarry, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1979.

Dragondrums

by Anne McCaffrey
Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum, February 1979).

Ahead of the Joneses

by Al Sarrantonio
Harry Jones’s neighbor has a compulsion to own every modern gadget that’s bigger and better and more whiz-bang than whatever Harry’s got.
Eat your heart out Harry Jones!
“Ahead of the Joneses” by Al Sarrantonio, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1979.

The Day Time Ended

by Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry Carroll, and David Schmoeller, directed by John “Bud” Cardos
After an hour or so of mundane conversation and weird happenings—a triple supernova, a UFO, a tiny mannequin/alien, and creepy lights, and alien monsters transporting in and out—the Williams family and their horses are transported through a time-space warp to an unknown time for the other twenty minutes of the movie. (The creepy lights stick around, too.) It’s hard to tell for sure, but I think they’re going to live out their lives amongst the weird lights and crystal structures of this new time.
— Michael Main
Steve, you know what this is, don’t cha? It’s a time-space warp.
The Day Time Ended by Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry Carroll, and David Schmoeller, directed by John “Bud” Cardos (Paris Festival of Fantastic Films, circa March 1979).

Lem’s Star Diaries

Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast

Literal: Professor Tarantoga and his strange guest

by Dr. Albrecht Börner, directed by Jens-Peter Proll
According to Fernsehen der DDR, the German adaptation of Lem’s script finds the science-obsessed Professor Tarantoga with a strange guest who calls himself Novak (or maybe Hipperkorn) and claims to hail from fourth-millennium Mars where he quulles. part from the bit about quuelling, this certainly sounds like the 1963 Polish script that we read, but we don't know whether it was expanded or revised.
— based on Ffernsehen der DDR
[ex=bare]Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast | Professor Tarantoga and his strange guest[/ex] by Dr. Albrecht Börner, directed by Jens-Peter Proll (Deutscher Fernsehfunk, East Germany, circa 21 April 1979).

The Dead of Winter

by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.
Four miners, trapped over winter in a mountain cabin, run out of food, but three people in a love triangle show up from the future with a couple of candy bars, a flask of drink, and a feud.
“Oh, well—” He runs his pasty white hands through hispockets while Cole and the girl do the same. “I have a candy bar or two, I believe,” and he brings them out. “Cole, you have a bottle, don’t you?"

The guy with the black hat scowls at him, but brings a flask out of his hip pocket and lays it on the table.

“The Dead of Winter” by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr., in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1979.

“Old Friends across Time”

by Paul J. Nahin
“‘Old Friends Across Time’” by Paul J. Nahin, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1979.

The Pinch-Hitters

by George Alec Effinger
Sandor Courane and four other up-and-coming sf writers are snagged from their hotel at a 1979 convention in New Orleans only to wake up the next morning as five insignificant major league ballplayers in 1954—and the aging Sandor is hitting only .221.
I felt angry. I wanted to show that kid, but there wasn’t anything I could show him, with the possible exception of sentence structure.
“The Pinch-Hitters” by George Alec Effinger, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1979.

Time Shards

by Gregory Benford
“Time Shards” by Gregory Benford, in Universe, 9, edited by Terry Carr (Doubleday, May 1979).

Illusions

by Tony Sarowitz and Paul David Novitski
“Illusions” by Tony Sarowitz and Paul David Novitski, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1979.

The Thaw

by Tanith Lee
“The Thaw” by Tanith Lee, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1979.

The Merchant of Stratford

by Frank Ramirez
The world’s first time traveler sets out to visit a retired Will Shakespeare, carrying along a case of books that he hopes will be a unique treat for the immortal bard.
In my storage case were volumes for his perusal—a concise history of the world through the year 2000, a selection of the greatest poets since the master, selected volumes of Shakespearean criticism, and the massive one-volume Armstead Shakespeare, the definitive Shakespeare, published in 1997.
“The Merchant of Stratford” by Frank Ramirez, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1979.

Unidentified Flying Oddball

by Don Tait, directed by Russ Mayberry
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande and enemies with the awful knight Sir Nordred. It seems Nordred is out to oust Arthur, while Alisande's father is not the goose she believes him to be but is also a victim of Nordred's schemes. It's as well the Americans have arrived.
— from publicity material
Unidentified Flying Oddball by Don Tait, directed by Russ Mayberry (premiered at an unknown movie theater, London, 19 July 1979).

Jenning’s Operative Webster

by J. E. Walters
For a fee, Jenning’s time-travel agency which will send Webster back through the time stream to inhabit other’s bodies in an attempt to alter some important event such as the loss of a son in Vietnam.
The fabric of time is a delicate, almost whimsical thing. Our success rate runs at nearly eight-two percent, and within the industry that is an enviable rate. But we just can not guarantee success.
“Jenning’s Operative Webster” by J. E. Walters, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1979.

Time after Time

written and directed by Nicholas Meyer
Apart from the hero in The Time Machine movie (1960), this is the earliest that I’ve seen of the H.G.‑Wells-as-time-traveler subgenre. Our hero chases Jack the Ripper into the 20th century.
— Michael Main
Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I am an amateur.
Time after Time written and directed by Nicholas Meyer (Toronto International Film Festival, 7 September 1979).

Alternities, Inc.

by John M. Ford
I read the first of Ford’s stories in which a small group of men and women, ever hopeful of finding their Homeline, march through a narrow tube where hatches to alternate worlds and alternate times appear every 100 kilometers. I think that most of the Earthlike worlds have a corporation—Alternities, Inc.—which has tried to turn a profit on the tubes.
Clever people he worked for.

But not clever enough to preven the Fracture, when Augustan Romans had tumbled into the waters of the Spanish Main and bandannaed urban guerillas shot the hell out of the Sun King’s palace at Verasilles. Not clever enough to point the way to Homeline, except as a hundred-kilometer march from line to line through a hexagonal sewer in Space4.

“Alternities, Inc.” by John M. Ford, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1979.

Twist Ending

by Barry B. Longyear
An intelligent Dromaeosaurus named GerG (or maybe just an actor playing GerG in a story, it’s hard to tell), prepares to travel 70,000,000 years into the future in order to pave the way for all the soon-to-be-extinct dinosaurs to escape.
There exists but one node of time/future open within the range of our frames. You must go there and prepare the way for our exodus. Else, the supernova shall extinguish us all.
“Twist Ending” by Barry B. Longyear, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1979.

Fangface

by Jerry Eisenberg
Sherman Fangsworth, a cross between Looney Tunes’ Tasmanian Devil and a teen werewolf, had at least one adventure in time when he and his buddies were accidentally transported back to the 18th century by a modern-day pirate (“A Time-Machine Trip to the Pirate’s Ship”).
After my time machine warms up, we’ll be transported to the deck of the Silver Swan, the Spanish fleet’s most prized treasure ship. And after we pirate her valuable cargo, I’ll be the riches man in the world—ha ha ha ha ha!
Fangface by Jerry Eisenberg (3 November 1979).

Closing the Timelid

by Orson Scott Card
Centuries in the future, Orion throws an illicit party in which the partygoers get to experience complete death in the past.
— Michael Main
Ah, agony in a tearing that made him feel, for the first time, every particle of his body as it screamed in pain.
“Closing the Timelid” by Orson Scott Card, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1979.

Written in Sand

by Robert Chilson
Paul Enias travels from 21st century Egypt back to the third century where he becomes Pausanias, falls in love with the slave Taia, and takes advice from Apollonius about which of 750,000 available books to bury in clay jars for future Egyptians to discover.
Odd that the book-man should shrug off the value of books, but Pausanias had too much to do to ponder it, overseeing the copying, the shipping of the books up the Nile, the reorganization of his new estate, and of course there was taia, then a new—bride.
“Written in Sand” by Robert Chilson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1979.

戦国自衛隊

Sengoku jietai English release: G. I. Samuri Literal: Sengoku Self-Defense Force

by 鎌田敏夫, directed by 斎藤光正
[ex=bare]戦国自衛 | Sengoku Self-Defense Force | Sengoku jieitai[/ex] by 鎌田敏夫, directed by 斎藤光正 (日本テレビ [Nippon TV], Japan, 5 December 1979).

The Number of the Beast

by Robert A. Heinlein
Semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest Zeb Carter, Hilda Corners (“Aunt Hilda” if you prefer) and their time/dimension-traveling ship Gay Deceiver yak and smooch their way though many time periods in many universes (including that of Lazurus Long), soon realizing the true nature of the world as pantheistic multiperson solipsism.

In Heinlein’s first version of this novel, written in 1977, the middle third of the story takes place on Barsoom, but in the 1980 published version, Barsoom was replaced by a futuristic British Mars

— Michael Main
Sharpie, you have just invented multiperson solipsism. I didn’t think that was mathematically possible.
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein (Fawcett Columbine, 1980).

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (Pan Books, 1980).

Martin Gardner’s SF Puzzles

by Martin Gardner
Growing up, I read every Martin Gardner science book that I could lay my hands on. Janet even claims that I ignored her on our honeymoon in order to read Gardner’s Relativity for the Million (which is absolutely not true—it was The Ambidextrous Universe). Gardner was a colleague and friend of Asimov’s, which led to a series of sf puzzle stories beginning in the first issue of IASFM and continuing through November of 1986. There was a mention of tachyons in the Mar/Apr 1978 puzzle (“The Third Dr. Moreau”), and the May 1979 puzzle (“How Bagson Bagged a Board Game”) had a device to view the past, but the first actual time travel didn’t occur until February of 1980, quickly followed by another in July 1980 (which coincidentally was the month of the disputed honeymoon).
Somewhere in the text is a block of letters which taken forward spell the last name of a top science fiction author who has written about time travel.
Martin Gardner’s SF Puzzles by Martin Gardner, Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1980.

Galatica 1980

by Glen A. Larson
I eagerly awaited the reboot of Battlestar Galactica in 1980, shortly before I left to join my soon-to-be wife in England. Sadly, the reboot was a disappointment: poor plots, poor characters, the same few seconds of special effects and explosions endlessly repeated—and not even Cassiopeia (Laurette Spang, whom I was in love with in 1978) or Serina (Jane Seymour, whom I am in love with now).

However, I later discovered one redeeming feature: Time travel in Part Three of the 1980 Galactica pilot show, when the warriors follow an evil scientist back to 1944 and foil his plot to give modern technology to the Nazis. I think this was the only hint of time travel in the Galactica franchise, although the same future wife whom I went to meet in 1980 now tells me that this bit of time travel may have planted a seed in writer Donald P. Bellisario for his later series, Quantum Leap.

The great ship Galactica, majestic and loving, strong and protecting, our home for these many years we endured the wilderness of space. And now we near the end of our journey. Scouts and electronic surveillance confirm that we have reached our haven, that planet which is home to our ancestor brothers. Too many of our sons and daughters did not survive to share the fulfillment of our dream. We can only take comfort and find strength in that they did not die in vain. We have at last found Earth.
Galatica 1980 by Glen A. Larson (10 February 1980).

Thrice Upon a Time

by James P. Hogan
In answer to his least favorite question, James Hogan explained (in the Jan 2006 Analog) that the idea for this novel came from an all night conversation with Charles Sheffield about the classic time-travel paradox of what happens if you send something back in time and the arrival of that thing is the very cause of you not sending said thing back in time. Much of the novel is a similar conversation between physicist Murdoch Ross, his friend Lee, and Murdoch’s Nobel Prize winning grandfather Charles who has invented a way to send messages through time.
Suppose your grandfather’s right. What happens to free will? If you can send information backward through time, you can tell me what I did even before I get around to doing it. So suppose I choose not to?
Thrice Upon a Time by James P. Hogan (Del Rey, March 1980).

Doraemon #1

ドラえもん のび太の恐竜

Doraemon: Nobita no kyoryu Literal: Doraemon: Nobita’s dinosaur

by 藤子・F・不二雄 and 松岡清治, directed by 福冨博
[ex=bare]ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 | Doraemon: Nobita’s dinosaur | Doraemon Nobitas no kyoryu[/ex] by 藤子・F・不二雄 and 松岡清治, directed by 福冨博 (at movie theaters, Japan, 15 March 1980).

Travels

by Carter Scholz
“Travels” by Carter Scholz, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1980.

Unidentified Flying Oddball

by Vic Crume
Unidentified Flying Oddball by Vic Crume (Scholastic, April 1980).

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

by George Zateslo, directed by William Wiard
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by George Zateslo, directed by William Wiard (Operation Prime Time, TV syndication, USA, May 1980).

The Final Countdown

by David Ambrose et al. , directed by Don Taylor
Observer Warren Lasky is aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz when a storm takes the carrier back to the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Should they prevent the attack? What will be the consequences of saving a politician who may become Roosevelt’s running mate? Then the ship is returned to the present before they can do anything vaguely cool.
— Michael Main
Today is December 7, 1941. I’m sure we are all aware of the significance of this date in this place in history. We are going to fight a battle that was lost before most of you were born. This time, with God’s help, it’s going to be different. . . . Good Luck.
The Final Countdown by David Ambrose et al. , directed by Don Taylor (premiered at an unknown movie theater, London, 21 May 1980).

One Time in Alexandria

by Donald Franson
“One Time in Alexandria” by Donald Franson, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1980.

Timescape

by Gregory Benford and Hilary Benford
Timescape by Gregory Benford and Hilary Benford (Simon and Shuster, August 1980).

Trans Dimensional Imports

by Sharon N. Farber
“Trans Dimensional Imports” by Sharon N. Farber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1980.

ヤマトよ永遠に

Yamato yo towa ni English release: Be Forever Yamato Literal: Yamato, forever

by 舛田利雄, 山本英明, and 藤川桂介~, directed by 舛田利雄 and 松本零士
[ex=bare]ヤマトよ永遠に | Yamato forever | Yamato yo towa ni[/ex] by 舛田利雄, 山本英明, and 藤川桂介~, directed by 舛田利雄 and 松本零士 (at movie theaters, Japan, 2 August 1980).

Appointment on the Barge

by Jack Ritchie
After Professor Bertoldt delivers a speech about his theories on how to send a person back to an earlier incarnation, he gets two visitors wanting to go back in time because they claim to be Cleopatra and Antony.
I have hesitated to use a human until I can be positive that no psychic harm will result to my subject. However, I do believe that last week I did succeed in sending a chimpanzee back several generations. How far back, I can't be certain. We had a bit of difficulty in communication.
“Appointment on the Barge” by Jack Ritchie, in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).

Murder in the Nth Degree

by R. A. Montana
An insurance agent from Cleveland is selected as the representative of Earth in a galactic trial for multiple crimes against life, but it’s not until the verdict that you’ll see the time travel angle.
Representative? I’m an insurance agent from Cleveland, Ohio! I got a wife and three kids and about the worst thing I’ve ever done was voting Republican in the last election. How can I be a representative?
“Murder in the Nth Degree” by R. A. Montana, in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).

Package Deal

by Donald Franson
Vernon Lewis has a theoretical idea for a time machine, but no money to build it, so he hatches a plan to send himself various money-making artifacts from the future and use the money to build the machine that will send the items back—and one day, in the afternoon mail, the package arrives.
He ripped the tape off, unwrapped the brown paper. There it was—an almanac.
“Package Deal” by Donald Franson, in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).

Prairie Sun

by Edward Bryant
On the Oregon trail west of Laramie in 1850, 13-year-old Micah Taverner asks two scavenger men from the future to cure his sister Annie from the smallpox.

Janet and I heard this read by James Whiteman in 2004 at a series of dramatic readings called Colorado Homegrown Tales. The other stories at the February session were “Hungry” by Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Dream of Houses” by Wil McCarthy, and my own “Childrey Green” read by Debbie Knapp.

The road was lined with all manner of belongings thrown away by the exhausted, overburdened men and women barely halfway along their arduous journey.
“Prairie Sun” by Edward Bryant, Omni, October 1980.

Somewhere in Time

by Richard Matheson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc
An elderly woman presses a pocket watch into a man’s hand, beseeching him to come back to her, and eventually) he does come back to her. We count this as science fiction rather than fantasy because of Professor Finney(!)’s attempt at an explanation of time travel via self-hypnosis, similar to the method in Jack Finney’s Time and Again (1970). In addition, the film may contain the first example of a looping artifact with no beginning and no end.

Wayne Winsett, owner of Time Warp Comics, tells me that this is his favorite time travel movie. Wayne is not alone in his assessment of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, as the film now enjoys a mild cult following.

— Michael Main
Come back to me.
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc (at movie theaters, USA, 3 October 1980).

Eight Ball Blues

by Jack C. Haldeman II
A time traveler from the 21st century comes to a Florida bar to talk with pool shark Tucker “Skeeter” Moore about his choices in marriage and about saving the world.
Now wait a minute! I married—er, I’m going to marry—Betty-Ann?
“Eight Ball Blues” by Jack C. Haldeman II, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1980.

Obsession temporelle

Literal: Time obsession

by Piet Legay
Obsession temporelle by Piet Legay (Fleuve Noir, December 1980).

Professor Noah’s Spaceship

by Brian Wildsmith
Professor Noah rescues all the animals from a dying planet, and during their journey of 40 days and 40 nights they plan to travel through a time-zone to take them hundreds of years into the future. At one point, the elephant must take a spacewalk to fix the time-zone guideance fin, which suggests that the time-zone is some sort of a wormhole or other time portal in space rather than mere reletavistic time dilation—and indeed there is actual time travel!
— Michael Main
He put on a special space-suit, went out through the air-lock, and pulled the fin into shape.
Professor Noah’s Spaceship by Brian Wildsmith (Oxford University Press, December 1980).

Justice Trilogy 3

The Gathering

by Virginia Hamilton
The Gathering by Virginia Hamilton (Julia MacRae, 1981).

L’insolite aventure de Marina Sloty

Literal: The unusual adventure of Marina Sloty

by Raoul de Warren
L’insolite aventure de Marina Sloty by Raoul de Warren (Éditions de l’Herne, 1981).

Der letzte Tag der Schöpfung

English release: The Last Day of Creation Literal: The last day of creation

by Wolfgang Jeschke
[ex=bare]Der letzte Tag der Schöpfung | The last day of creation[/ex] by Wolfgang Jeschke (Nymphenburger, 1981).

The Man Who Loved Morlocks

by David J. Lake
The Man Who Loved Morlocks by David J. Lake (Hyland House, 1981).

The Saga of the Pliocene Exile

by Julian May
A band of twenty-second century exiles steps through a gate to the Pliocene where they hope to start a new life, but they didn’t expect to find exotic aliens for company.
“None of the above,” said Aiken Drum. “I choose Exile.”
The Saga of the Pliocene Exile by Julian May (1981).

Death in Vesunna

by Elaine O’Byrne and Harry Turtledove
Lou Muller and his partner-in-crime Mark Alvarez (a.k.a. Lucius and Marcus) travel back from AD 2059 to obtain Sophocles’ lost play Aleadai, but when the owner of the rare manuscript won’t part with it, they kill him and take it, counting on the obscurity of the backwater second-century town to stop the Time Patrol from discovering their foul deed. That may indeed happen, but they didn’t count on Gaius Tero, one of the second century’s finest, and the sharp-tongued physician Kleandros.
Whatever. And as for the Time Patrol, why are we here in the boondocks instead of at the library of Alexandria? Why do we insist on so much privacy when we make our deals? Just so they won’t run across us. And they won’t.
“Death in Vesunna” by Elaine O’Byrne and Harry Turtledove, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 19 January 1981.

The Final Days

by David Langford
During an important presidential election between the slick Harman and the less polished Ferris, scientists detect eyes that are watching Harman from the future, perhaps because he is fated to be such an important political figure.
The people have this hint of the winning side, as they might from newspaper predictions or opinion polls—but the choice remains theirs, a decisions which we politicians humbly accept. 
“The Final Days” by David Langford, in A Spadeful of Spacetime (Ace Books, February 1981).

These Stones Will Remember

by Reginald Bretnor
“These Stones Will Remember” by Reginald Bretnor, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 16 February 1981.

Saga of the Pliocene Exile 1

The Many-Colored Land

by Julian May
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May (Houghton Mifflin, March 1981).

Pshrinks Anonymous

by Janet Asimov
I haven’t read all of psychiatrist Janet Asimov’s stories of a lunch club whose Pshrink members relate to each other stories about various patients, but the two I did read had fantastic case studies involving time travel.
Doctors don’t know anything. I lived through it, and I know that my hot flashes certainly were hotter.
“Pshrinks Anonymous” by Janet Asimov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 13 April 1981.

Graffiti

by Gary Alexander
Seventeen years working as the nighttime janitor in the Winston Building and Harv Blasingame has never seen the likes of this futuristic graffiti that refuses to be obliterated.
THE ALLIANCE IS AN IMPOTENT SHAM, IT’S PRINCIPAL EXPORT BEING STUPIDITY AND TREACHERY.
“Graffiti” by Gary Alexander, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 19 April 1981.

Něco je ve vzduchu

Literal: Something’s in the air

by Drahoslav Makovicka, directed by Ludvík Ráza
Něco je ve vzduchu by Drahoslav Makovicka, directed by Ludvík Ráza (unknown release details, 1 May 1981).

Ben Hardy, Time Detective

by Warren Salomon
For me, Salomon’s first story of Ben Hardy, hard-boiled temporal private eye, was about one Delorean shy of having enough boisterous fun that I could completely ignore the inconsistencies in the time-travel model—but even so, I had fun as Ben attempted to restore time to its rightful path for heiress Patricia Wadsworth (and in the process try to figure out the familial relations between himself, Pat, Pat’s parents, the inventor of time travel, and that dastardly lawyer).
They all say that. “Why is it,” I asked her, “you seem to remember the, ah, original sequence? In a reality change, memories are altered along with everything else. How can you be certain that time has been tampered with?” That question usually ends it right there.
“Ben Hardy, Time Detective” by Warren Salomon, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 11 May 1981.

The Gernsback Continuum

by William Gibson
“The Gernsback Continuum” by William Gibson, in Universe 11, edited by Terry Carr (Doubleday, June 1981).

The Jaunt

by Stephen King
“The Jaunt” by Stephen King, in Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1981.

Star Trek: The Entropy Effect

by Vonda N. McIntyre
Spock and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise transport a time-traveling criminal, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, between planets.
The effort required to change an event is proportional to the square of its distance in the past. The curve of a power function approaches infinity rather quickly.
Star Trek: The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre (Pocket Books, June 1981).

Time Machine II

by Joe Morhaim and George Pal
“Time Machine II” by Joe Morhaim and George Pal (Dell, June 1981).

Dinosaur Weather

by Dona Vaughn
The real reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs becomes apparent, a reason that makes a certain restaurant cat both elated and enormous.
I frowned and made a mental note to buy an umbrella.
“Dinosaur Weather” by Dona Vaughn, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 3 August 1981.

On the Nature of Time

by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
A boy grows up hating his father; hence, when the boy invents a time machine, he uses it to go back to kill his father before his own conception.
When I was sixteen I wished that the dream of my father’s murder had not been a dream at all.
“On the Nature of Time” by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, in Amazing, September 1981.

Liros: A Tale of the Quintana Roo

by James Tiptree, Jr.
“Liros: A Tale of the Quintana Roo” by James Tiptree, Jr., in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 28 September 1981.

The Pusher

by John Varley
“The Pusher” by John Varley, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1981.

Superbook

|pending byline|
Young Chris Peeper finds a magic Bible that transports him, his friend Joy, and his robot Gizmo back to Old Testament happenings. The first run was anime, followed by a second run of 3-D CGI animation.
♫ Chris and Joy and everyone were having lots of fun. Superbook fell off the shelf: look what they’ve done. When it hit the computer, oh, they were surprised. Superbook got programmed in; now it’s computerized.♫ 
Superbook |pending byline| (1 October 1981).

Ulysses 31

by Jean Chalopin and Nina Wolmark
When a future Ulysses angers the gods, he and his children are exiled to travel space forever. Time travel occurs in the ninth episode, when they enter the domain of Chronos, and in a later episode where they head back to meet the original Ulysses.
Time! I must turn it back! This must work!
Ulysses 31 by Jean Chalopin and Nina Wolmark (31 October 1981).

End Game

by Brian Aldiss
Thing wondrous: a review that is palindromic. Yes, palindromic! Is that review a wondrous thing?
Thunder. Distant sound.

Questions posed shake universes like constructs , like universes, shake posed questions, sound distant thunder.

“End Game” by Brian Aldiss, in Asimov`’s Science Fiction, 21 December 1981.

K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend

by Terence Dudley, directed by John Black
K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend by Terence Dudley, directed by John Black (BBC1, UK, 28 December 1981).

Bound in Time

by D. F. Jones
Mark Elver, a terminally ill doctor, agrees to be the first time traveler with a destination some four centuries in the future. His first contact upon arrival is with a pair of children, but the world has more beyond them.
The birthplace of time-travel, a collection of huts huddled together well away from the main campus, did not look impressive. A cheap sign nailed to the paint-hungry door stated ‘Dept., of Physics—Project Four’, below that a thumb-tacked notice, the lettering faded added a little more information: ‘Go away. If you must, ring bell.’
Bound in Time by D. F. Jones (Granada, 1982).

Fish Night

by Joe Lansdale
Rather more frequently than I’d like, it’s hard to tell whether a story involves time travel or not. This could just be a ghost fish story, but there are some indications that the old toothless door-to-door salesman might be traveling back to the time of the early fish.
Millions and millions of years ago this desert was sea bottom. Maybe even the birthplace of man. Who knows?
“Fish Night” by Joe Lansdale, in Specter!, edited by Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1982).

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The Golden Torc

by Julian May
The Golden Torc by Julian May (Pan Books, 1982).

The Humboldt Effect

by Delia Huddy
Years ago, in Time Piper, Luke discovered that Tom Humboldt, the boss of his summer research project, had a time machine. Now Luke is on a submarine version of the machine. One crew member has disappeared overboard, and the time machine has grabbed a noted Biblical man.
The Humboldt Effect by Delia Huddy (Julia MacRae, 1982).

The Winds of Change

by Isaac Asimov
Jonas Dinsmore is not half the physicist as his colleagues, the politically astute Adams and the brilliant Muller, but in their presence, he claims to have figured out how to interpret Muller’s Grand Unified Theory to allow time travel.
Time-travel, in the sense of going backward to change reality, is not only technologically impossible now, but it is theoretically impossible altogether.
“The Winds of Change” by Isaac Asimov, in Speculations, edited by Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurance (Houghton Mifflin, 1982).

Unsound Variations

by George R. R. Martin
Peter Norten and his wife Kathy already had a rocky marriage before heading up to Bruce Bunnish’s Colorado mansion for a ten-year reunion with Bruce and two other members of the Northwestern University B Team that Peter captained to a near-win at the North American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship. But will Peter and Kathy’s marriage survive the trip, and just how did Bruce end up as the only member of the team to go on to success?
— Michael Main
Time is said to be the fourth dimension, but it differs from the other three in one conspicuous way—our consciousness moves along it. From past to present only, alas. Time itselfdoes not flow, no more than, say, width can flow. Our minds flicker from one instant of time to the next. This analogy was my starting point. I reasoned that if consciousness can move in one direction, it can move in the other direction as well. It took me fifty years to work out the details, however, and make what I call a flashback possible.
“Unsound Variations” by George R. R. Martin, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, January 1982.

Oxford Time Travel Historians 0.1

Fire Watch

by Connie Willis
“Fire Watch” by Connie Willis, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, February 1982.

The Oxford Time-Traveling Historians

by Connie Willis
In the first short story of the series, an Oxford graduate student travels back to the World War II bombing of St. Paul’s for his history practicum. This launched a series of novels, the first of which has Kivrin Engle being sent to 14th century England, but when she arrives, she can’t remember where and when her pickup will be. The second book incorporated more comedy, and the last two returned to World War II.
“But I’m not ready,” I’d said. “Look, it too me four years to get ready to travel with St Paul. St Paul. Not St Paul’s. You can’t expect me to get ready for London in the Blitz in two days.”
by Connie Willis, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 15 February 1982.

Amy, at the Bottom of the Stairs

by John M. Ford
Warnke, a time traveler who has visited the moment of a past death more than once, comes to the house of Lady Amy Dudley née Robsart) on the eve that she is fated to fall down the stairs in an accident that her husband, Robert Dudley (an accused but reprieved conspirator in the taking of the English throne by Jane Grey) will be suspected of arranging so that he would be free to marry Elizabeth I.
I’m not a seer. I’m a. . . traveler. From one time to another. Do you understand? I know when you’ll die, and where, and how, because it’s all written down in a history book.
“Amy, at the Bottom of the Stairs” by John M. Ford, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1982.

Aquila

by S. P. Somtow
In an alternate second century where Romans rule a swathe of North America as far as the Dakotas, Titus Papinianus meets the Lakota chief Aquila who first teaches him a new way to fight the hoards from Asia and then leads him on adventures (including the time-traveling Central Dimension Patrol Authority) from modern-day Mexico to China.
I understood very little of what he was saying, but he went on to say that he was from the far future and that they had come in search of certain criminals who had to be brought to trial, who were guilty of attempting to tamper with the past. . . .
Aquila by S. P. Somtow, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1982.

No Enemy But Time

by Michael Bishop
After a falling out with his parents over their commercialization of his Pleistocene dreams, John Monegal changes his name to Joshua and finds a way to actually travel to the Pleistocene where he lives with the Homo zarakalensis, fathers a daughter, and eventually brings her back to the twentieth century and beyond.
Until the moment of my departure, you see, my life had been a slide show of dreams divided one from another by many small darknesses of wakeful dread and anticipation.
No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (Timescape Books, April 1982).

Valhalla

by Gregory Benford
A nameless traveler from the future appears in Hitler’s bunker moments before the Führer’s suicide. Hitler interprets the man as a Valkyrie, come to escort him to a higher place, but the man (who is made up to look exactly like Hitler) has plans that don’t exactly include a Nordic heaven in Hitler’s future.
Immortality, Führer! That is what I offer. I have come to you from the future!
“Valhalla” by Gregory Benford, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1982.

Voyage from Yesteryear

by James P. Hogan
Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan (Nelson Doubleday, April 1982).

The Flying House

by Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji
While playing in the woods, Justin Casey and his pals Angie and Corkey stumble upon a house owned by Professor Humphrey Bumble and his robot Solar Ion, whereupon the professor reveals that the house is a time machine and the entire gang visits various Biblical happenings from the New Testament.
♫ We were having fun, playing hide-and-seek, then a summer storm appeared. Corkey got afraid, when it started to rain, then we came upon a house—should we go insiiiiide? ♫ 
The Flying House by Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji (5 April 1982).

All the Time in the World

by Daniel Keys Moran
Seven centuries after the Big Crunch atomic war, one of the clan of Huntresses learns to travel back in time after talking with aliens and perhaps sensing the man who would be negative entropy.
Here we have a time traveler, and her name is Jalian. Yes, Jalian d’Arsennette, except that there have been some changes.
“All the Time in the World” by Daniel Keys Moran, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1982.

The River of Time

by David Brin
Daniel Brand, a science fiction writer, walks us through the new world where he lives that started when a large number of people seemingly froze in place.
— Michael Main
Physicians listened to heartbeats that dragged on, lonely and deep, for over a minute per. They worried over eyes that refused to blink, yet remained somehow moist. They despaired over encephalograms whose spikes could be counted in single neuron flashes, adding up to a complex pattern that was . . . normal!
“Co-Existence” by David Brin, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982.

Azimuth 1, 2, 3 . . .

by Damon Knight
Shortly after genius Azimuth Backfiler (yes, that’s his real name) finds a way to travel back in time, Azimuth 2 appears and hands him next week’s newspaper causing some sort of feedback that create Azimuth 3, Azimuth 4,. . .
Therefore, he was not surprised to see himself emerge from the chamber, wearing this very suit, a moment after he had formed the decision.
“Azimuth 1,2,3 . . .” by Damon Knight, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1982.

The Comedian

by Tim Sullivan
A projected vision from the future takes on the forms of various 20th century comedians from Charley Chaplin to Don Rickles, and he’s also making wildlife manager Chris Reilly kidnap children.
The comedian looked just like a living, breathing, three-dimensional human being, the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce, come to see the unhappy world end.
“The Comedian” by Tim Sullivan, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1982.

Lazarus Rising

by Gregory Benford
“Lazarus Rising” by Gregory Benford, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1982.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 3

Life, the Universe and Everything

by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Pan Books, August 1982).

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

by William Dear and Michael Nesmith, directed by William Dear
Now that I know that one of the Monkees wrote this time-travel yarn of a dirtbiker riding his motorcycle through a time portal and into the Old West, the universe begins to make sense.
— Michael Main
You shot it. What a bunch of dumb sons of bitches. You shot it—a machine, you butt-heads!
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann by William Dear and Michael Nesmith, directed by William Dear (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Austin, Texas, 27 August 1982).

The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever

by James Tiptree, Jr.
“The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever” by James Tiptree, Jr., Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1982.

Dr. Time

by Sharon N. Farber et al.
“Dr. Time” by Sharon N. Farber et al., in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1982.

Cherryh’s Alternate Realities #1

Port Eternity

by C. J. Cherryh
Living an isolated life on the spaceship Maid of Astolat, Lady Dela and her crew of cloned servants designed in the image of Arthurian legends are pulled into a parallel dimension, but despite the title of this first book in Cherryh’s Alternate Realities series, there is no actual time travel.
— from publicity material
Then it was as if whatever was holding us had just stopped existing, no jolt, but like sliding on oil, like a horrible falling where there is no falling.
Port Eternity by C. J. Cherryh (DAW Books, October 1982).

Voyagers!

by James D. Parriott
Bright, young orphan Jeffrey and ladies’ man Phineas Bogg leap from one moment in history to another, righting those moments that have gone wrong in this Quantum Leap progenitor.
This isn’t 1942. Where’s Columbus, kid?
Voyagers! by James D. Parriott (3 October 1982).

Good Golly, Miss Molly

by Steven Bryan Bieler
When Dr. Demented Physicist Particle Breakdown bets his entire life savings on a horse race and the campus’s best handicapper picks Miss Molly instead, the good Dr. Breakdown has no choice but to further handicap Miss Molly.
Locating his car, Dr. Breakdown extracted from the trunk a Phillips-head screwdriver, a toothbrush, his spare tire, five felt pens, and a plumber’s helper. With these materials he constructed a duplicate of the time machine in the university physics lab.
“Good Golly, Miss Molly” by Steven Bryan Bieler, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1982.

The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang

by Wolfman Jack
Before Marty McFly went to the 50s, this 50s gang traveled through time using a time machine brought to them by a future chick name o’ Cupcake, all in 24 episodes where they desperately try to get back to 1957 Milwaukee.
Oh, now the gang got zapped into that time machine, and they’re, like, travelin’ through time. My, my, they do not dig where that machine is goin’, but they sure hope to get back to 1957 Milwaukee!
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang by Wolfman Jack (8 November 1982).

Coming Back

by Damien Broderick
Physics-lab flunky Eddie Rostow knows that the glory that his professor is claiming over localized time-reversal should rightly be Eddie’s own; and then, there’s Jennifer who let him have his way with her one night and now ignores him. So what, forsooth, will he do when the time contraption throws him into a 34-minute time loop?
I’m not trapped. I thought I was a prisoner, but I’m the first man in history to be genuinely liberated. Set free from consequence. Do it. If you don’t like the results, scrub it on the next cycle and try again.
“Coming Back” by Damien Broderick, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1982.

The Next One

written and directed by Nico Mastorakis
The Next One written and directed by Nico Mastorakis (direct-to-video, USA, 1983).

Illustrated Classic Editions for Children #4530

The Time Machine

by Shirley Bogart and Brendan Lynch
If you are a misguided completest, you may find yourself drawn to reading the new Chapter 13 in Bogart’s adaptation in which the Traveller finds himself in an authoritarian 22nd century populated by 1950s cape-wearing, B-movie characters. Do so if you must, but try to resist the urge to read any of the rest of Bogart’s adaptation for pre-teens, and whatever else you do, don’t let the book fall into the hands of your eight-to-twelve-year-old.

The first edition was released in 1983, possibly in multiple formats, although I’ve never spotted what I believe was the first edition published by Waldman Publishing in 1983; multiple editions, including a Chinese translation, have appeared since.

A figure in a silver cape and tights, with gloves to match, was saying, “That’s enough Apathy-Gas, Kolar. There’s only one passenger.’
“The Time Machine” by Shirley Bogart and Brendan Lynch (Moby Books, 1983).

Beyond the Dead Reef

by James Tiptree, Jr.
“Beyond the Dead Reef” by James Tiptree, Jr., Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1983.

Concerto in B Demolished

by Al Sirois
“Concerto in B Demolished” by Al Sirois, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 1983.

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The Nonborn King

by Julian May
The Nonborn King by Julian May (Houghton Mifflin, February 1983).

A Rebel in Time

by Harry Harrison
Lt. Troy Harmon, a black army sergeant, follows Colonel McCulloch back to 1859 to prevent the colonel from giving modern-day technology to the South.
“Then you are also telling me that down there among all that stuff—that you have built a time machine?”

“Well, I think. . .” She smiled brightly. “Why, yes, I suppose that we have.”

A Rebel in Time by Harry Harrison (Tor Books, February 1983).

Sweet Song of Death

by Stephen Kimmel
Dave, an old man on the verge of dying, partakes in a time travel experiment, hoping to save his long-ago wife and young daughter from a car accident even though nobody has ever managed to change past events before.
If our hypothesis is correct and the Corvini-Langstrum effect is a form of time travel. . . then you may be able to change the circumstances and prevent her death.
“Sweet Song of Death” by Stephen Kimmel, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1983.

Il mondo di Yor

English release: Yor, the Hunter from the Future Literal: The world of Yor

by Robert D. Bailey and Antonio Margheriti, directed by Antony M. Margheriti
Il mondo di Yor by Robert D. Bailey and Antonio Margheriti, directed by Antony M. Margheriti (at movie theaters, Italy, 10 February 1983).

After-Images

by Malcolm Edwards
“After-Images” by Malcolm Edwards, in Interzone, Spring 1983.

As Time Goes By

by Tanith Lee
The narrator tells of a time travel paradox where a girl of fifteen meets Day Curtis who has come from a disaster that’s still another sixteen years in the future—and she returns to the scene years later to warn him.
Let me prompt you. You’re dead, Curtis. Or you will be.
“As Time Goes By” by Tanith Lee, in Chrysalis 10, edited by Roy Torgeson (Doubleday, April 1983).

Short Timer

by John Morressy
After the Traveller’s miniature time machine makes its way back to Lilliput and the Emperor scares himself witless by a short trip forward in time, Pilibosh (a court carpenter) accidentally takes it out for a longer spin, finding H.G. Wells and Irish leprechauns along the way.
The story does not begin with Pilibosh. In a bewildering cosmological sense it does not begin at all, nor does it end. But that is a matter best left to the philosophers.
“Short Timer” by John Morressy, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1983.

Quand le temps soufflera

Literal: When time blows

by Michel Jeury
Quand le temps soufflera by Michel Jeury (Fleuve Noir, May 1983).

Millennium

by John Varley
When the snatchers leave two stun guns in the 20th century, we see the story from the viewpoints of Louise Baltimore (Mandy’s boss) and Bill Smith (head of an NTSB investigation, no relation to Woodrow “Bill” Smith so far as I know).
The crew had to stun just about everybody. The only bright spot was the number we’d managed to shuffle through during the thinning phase. The rest would have to go through on our backs.
Millennium by John Varley (Berkley Books, June 1983).

Needle in a Timestack

by Robert Silverberg
Nick Mikklesen and his wife Janine know that Janine’s ex-husband is out to break up their marriage by altering the past.
In the old days, when time was just a linear flow from then to now, did anyone get bored with all that stability? For better or for worse it was different now. You go to bed a Dartmouth man and wake up Columbia, never the wiser. You board a plane that blows up over Cyprus, but then your insurance agent goes back and gets you to miss the flight.
“Needle in a Timestack” by Robert Silverberg, Playboy,June 1983.

Slow Birds

by Ian Watson
Every year, Jason Babbidge competes in the skate-sailing race on the two-and-a-half-mile-wide glass surfaces left behind by slowly flying birds when they occassionally explode before disappearing. This year’a race is not a win for Jason, but even worse is what happens when his brother Daniel climbs aboard one of the birds afterwards.
— Michael Main
They were called slow birds because the flew through the air—at the stately pace of three feet per minute.
“Slow Birds” by Ian Watson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1983.

Sunlight

by Paul E. Holt
A reporter with the Time Warp Review is doing a story on a former mobster who doesn’t want to leave his condemned building. But what does he want? Fortunately, the reporter and his warpfotographer have a way to see what’s in the mobster’s future—or maybe it’s more than that.
I did a lotta things in my life that I ought notta.
“Sunlight” by Paul E. Holt, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1983.

Homefaring

by Robert Silverberg
A grand experiment takes McCulloch into the mind and body of an intelligent creature—an intelligent giant lobster—of the far future.
“It is not painful to have a McCulloch within one,” his host was explaining. “It came upon me at molting time, and that gave me a moment of difficulty, molting being what it is. But it was only a moment. After that my only concern was for the McCulloch’s comfort.”
“Homefaring” by Robert Silverberg (Phantasia Press, July 1983).

Setni 5

Rome doit être détruite

Literal: Rome must be destroyed

by Pierre Barbet
Rome doit être détruite by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, July 1983).

Twin Paradox

by Robert L. Forward
“Twin Paradox” by Robert L. Forward, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, August 1983.

The Yesterday Saga 1

Yesterday’s Son

by A. C. Crispin
Yesterday’s Son by A. C. Crispin (Timescape, August 1983).

The Crucible of Time

by John Brunner
The Crucible of Time by John Brunner (Del Rey, September 1983).

Stolen Moments

by Brad Strickland
A peculiar man repeatedly delays a small-town lawyer from taking what seems to be a most important phone call.
It falls our task to correct untoward trends in history, eliminating unhappy catastrophe.
“Stolen Moments” by Brad Strickland, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1983.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

by Roger Sweet
He-Man and his mighty battle cat possess fabulous super-powers in order to defend Castle Greyskull against the sometimes time-traveling Skeletor (and also to sell Mattel action figures).
Time is delicate, He-Man; do your job swiFTLy.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe by Roger Sweet (12 September 1983).

From Time to Time

by Bruce Stanley Burdick
With the universe nearing its end, Jinma Lor travels to an outpost to converse with antimatter beings whose sense of time is reversed from his own.
It is possible that the direction in which the associated souls are traveling is always the orientation for which matter becomes more disorganized.
“From Time to Time” by Bruce Stanley Burdick, in Analog, October 1983.

Full Chicken Richness

by Avram Davidson
Every now and then, I’ll be reading a story, not really sure whether it’s meant to be sf or not, but realizing that it has a pleasant sfnal tone—and then, voila!, there’s time travel. Davidson’s story is a piece that lives on the edge between real and surreal, ostensibly telling the story of Fred Hopkins, an artist who puts old buildings on canvas and takes a late morning breakfast at La Bunne Burger.
He read on: Ingredients: Water, Other Poultry and Poultry Parts, Dehydrated Vegetables, Chickens and Chicken Parts, seasoning. . . the list dribbled off into the usual list of chemicals.
“Full Chicken Richness” by Avram Davidson, in Last Wave, October 1983.

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
Moreta, the new weyrleader at Fort Weyr, leads the effort to save Pern from a deadly infection.

Traveling between times does not play a big role in the story, but there are small uses: K’lon stumble upon the chronoability of his dragon, using it to spend more time with his love A’murry; later, Moreta hatches a plan to bring more of the needed needlethorn from the future

But my dear boy, you’ve been taking a dreadful risking timing it. You could meet yourself coming and going—
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Severn House, October 1983).

Quarks at Appomattox

by Charles L. Harness
Colonel von Mainz travels back from the 21st century to 1865 Appomattox with weapons that can make the South win the war and thereby keep America divided, allowing Germany to win the wars of the 20th century.

This is one of the stories that I read in my dad’s Analogs at the end of my tricycle trip to Seattle.

I left the American sector of Berlin this morning, April 8, in the year two thousand five and sixty, almost exactly two hundred years in your future. I am indeed a colonel, but not in the Prussian army. I am a colonel in the Neues Schutz-Staffeln—the NSS—an underground paramilitary organization devoted to reuniting West and East Germany.
“Quarks at Appomattox” by Charles L. Harness, in Analog, October 1983.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol

by Burny Mattinson et al. , directed by Bunny Mattinson and Richard Rich
You’ll enjoy all the Disney characters’ renditions of all the Dickens characters, from Scrooge McDuck (as Scrooge, of course) to Goofy (as Marley), Jiminy Cricket (as the Ghost of Christmas Past), and the weasels (as Scrooge’s gravediggers).


With Dickens, we always want to know whether Scrooge actually time travels or merely observes the past and present. In this case, none of the spirits explicitly explain one way or the other, but if you watch carefully when Scrooge and Jiminy arrive in the past, you’ll spot Scrooge definitely interacting with a physical object the past when he’s unable to see the festivities inside Fezzywig’s. Verdict: probably time travel!

This cartoon was based on a 1972 audio musical entitled Disney's A Christmas Carol, although the cartoon is not a musical.

— Michael Main
If these shadows remain unchanged, I see an empty chair where Tiny Tim once sat.
Mickey’s Christmas Carol by Burny Mattinson et al. , directed by Bunny Mattinson and Richard Rich (unknown release details, 20 October 1983).

The Anubis Gates

by Tim Powers
A modern-day millionaire finds time-gates left by ancient Egyptian gods, which results in a lifetime of adventure for Professor Brendan Doyle as he attempts to stop various Egyptian god worshipers from changing the past. Oh yes: he’d also like to avoid his own fated death if possible.
You know our gods are gone. They reside now in the Tuaut, the underworld, the gates of which have been held shut for eighteen centuries by some pressure I do not understand but which I am sure is linked with Christianity. Anubis is the god of that world and the gates, but has no longer any form in which to appear here.
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (Ace Books, December 1983).

Time Bride

by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Shortly after turning eight, Marcy Meisner loses her childhood to an ever-present voice from the future who (so he assures Marcy’s parents) wants to marry Marcy when she grows up and has only Marcy’s best interests at heart.
Please let me explain, Mr. Meisner. I don’t want to marry Marcy now. I want to marry her in the future, ten years from now, when she’s eighteen. That is, I believe, an acceptable age.
“Time Bride” by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1983.

Norby

by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov
In the second book of this children’s series (Norby’s Other Secret, 1984), the precocious robot reveals his time-travel powers to his pal Jeff; their mishaps in time continue in at least three later books (Norby and the Queen’s Necklace, Norby Finds a Villain, and Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure).
Norby by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov (1984).

Terminator Books

The Terminator

by Shaun Hutson
The Terminator by Shaun Hutson (Star, 1984).

The Toynbee Convector

by Ray Bradbury
You’ll enjoy this story, but I’ll give away no more beyond the quote below. By the way, if you get the original publication, you’ll also see Kurt Vonnegut and Marilyn Monroe.
— Michael Main
What can I do to save us from ourselves? How to save my friends, my city, my state, my country, the entire world from this obsession with doom? Well, it was in my library late one night that my hand, searching along shelves, touched at last on an old and beloved book by H. G. Wells. His time device called, ghostlike, down the years. I heard! I understood. I truly listened. Then I blueprinted. I built. I traveled [. . .]
“The Toynbee Convector” by Ray Bradbury, Playboy,January 1984.

Post Haste

by Sharon N. Farber et al.
Science fiction writer Buzz Bailey has had several recent ideas for stories, including one about finding parking spaces through time travel, but the problem is that the top market, Prognosto Science Fiction, keeps vehemently rejecting the stories before they’re even written.
“What the?. . .” He tipped up the envelope. Ashes spilled onto the floor.
“Post Haste” by Sharon N. Farber et al., in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1984.

Saga of the Pliocene Exile 4

The Adversary

by Julian May
The Adversary by Julian May (Pan Books, March 1984).

Setni 6

Carthage sera détruite

Literal: Carthage will be destroyed

by Pierre Barbet
Carthage sera détruite by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, March 1984).

Ghost Lecturer

by Ian Watson
A conceited man brings Lucretius to the present in order to explain to the classical scientist exactly where he was wrong, but it turns out that Lucretius’s classical atomism was brought along with him.
What’;s happening? I’ll tell you what’s happening. Those “films” you see flying off surfaces and hitting your eyes—that’s how our friend here thought visions worked. And now we’re seeing it happen, as though it’s true.
“Ghost Lecturer” by Ian Watson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1984.

The Ice Pirates

by Stewart Raffill and Stanford Sherman, directed by Stewart Raffill
The Ice Pirates by Stewart Raffill and Stanford Sherman, directed by Stewart Raffill (at movie theaters, USA, 16 March 1984).

The Cold Room

written and directed by James Dearden
There’s nothing behind that wall, Carla, except maybe another room.
The Cold Room written and directed by James Dearden (HBO, USA, 24 March 1984).

Twilight Time

by Lewis Shiner
Travis goes back to the 1961 dance where he met his now-departed sweetheart, but he also has memories of aliens who quietly took over the world.
A decade of peace and quiet and short hair was winding down; a time when people knew their place and stayed in it. For ten years nobody had wanted anything but a new car and a bigger TV set. Now all that was about to change. In a little over a year the Cuban missile crisis would send thousands of people into their back yards to dig bomb shelters, and “advisors” would start pouring into Southeast Asia. In another year the president would be dead.
“Twilight Time” by Lewis Shiner, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1984.

Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut

by Stephen King
“Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” by Stephen King, in Redbook, May 1984.

Caballo de Troya: Jerusalén

English release: The Trojan Horse: Jerusalem Literal: Trojan Horse: Jerusalem

by Juan José Benítez
L.S. Thomas kindly sent me a copy of her English translation of the first of nine books about time travelers who visit the life of Christ. Another translation was written by Margaret Sayers Peden.
The computer display read 23 hours, 3 minutes and 22 seconds on Thursday March 30 of the year 30. We had “traveled back” a total of 17,019,289 hours.
[ex=bare]Caballo de Troya | Trojan Horse: Jerusalem[/ex] by Juan José Benítez (Planeta, June 1984).

Writing Time

by Isaac Asimov
“Writing Time” by Isaac Asimov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1984.

Realtime

by Gladys Prebehalla and Daniel Keys Moran
“Realtime” by Gladys Prebehalla and Daniel Keys Moran, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1984.

The Philadelphia Experiment I

The Philadelphia Experiment

by Michael Janover and William Gray, directed by Stewart Raffill
Seaman David Herdeg and his pal are thrown from 1943 to 1984 during a naval experiment gone awry, and in that future, David is the only one who can save a missing town (provided he can dodge enough bullets and perhaps win the heart of Allison Hayes).
— Michael Main
Navy owes me 40 years back pay.
The Philadelphia Experiment by Michael Janover and William Gray, directed by Stewart Raffill (at movie theaters, USA, 3 August 1984).

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension

by Earl Mac Rauch, directed by W.D. Richter
Banzaiers keep writing to the ITTDB Citadel, telling us to add this cult movie to our database (or else we should prepare ourselves for the unexpected, as He would). We finally gave in to keep them from banzaiing us, but alas, oscillation overthruster ≠ flux capacitor, and the rock-musician-neurosurgeon-particle-physicist Banzai merely travels through all the dimensions except time.
— Michael Main
May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch, directed by W.D. Richter (at limited movie theaters, USA, 10 August 1984).

Mackenzie

by John Gribbin
Mackenzie, a researcher and problem solver who must continually justify his existence to his benefactor, is puzzled about why the things he sends back in time never reappear, but then in the first story (“Perpendicular Worlds,” Sep 1984 Analog) he starts thinking about Hawking black holes and Everett parallel worlds, and his work continues in a second story (“Random Variable,” Feb 1986 Analog) (although I prefer Gribbon’s science books).
There must be as many different ways in which the world could have got into the state it is now as there are different ways in which it can develop into the future.
“Mackenzie” by John Gribbin, in Analog, September 1984.

Voltron

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Voltron |pending byline| (10 September 1984).

Christian

by Ian McDonald
In his favorite secret spot, a little boy meets Christian who tells the boy how he wanted to be a toymaker but instead had to be a ship pilot because of his special talents to see a bit into the future and the past. Now, Christian waits for the machine that he loved to return for him, and while he waits he builds kites, including one that moves a bit into the future and the past.
Well, you see, most kites fly in the three dimensions that we’re familiar with in our world, but some kites flyu in four or even five dimensions and go a little bit outward and a little bit inward into time.
“Christian” by Ian McDonald, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1984.

Timefall

by James Kahn
This is the third book in Kahn’s New World trilogy, but the hero Joshua doesn’t know about the post-apocalyptic fantasy adventures of World Enough, and Time (Book I) and Time’s Dark Laughter (Book II). Could this be a prequel? Well, sort of. Time is cyclic and a previous version of Joshua has left him a message that leads Joshua of our world, wife of our world, and millionaire of our world to a lost city in the Amazon where the people think Joshua is their god arisen. Oh, and there are tunnels to different times and a circuitous but definite, supramundane possibility that the entire cyclical universe is going to end (or maybe never even exist in the first place).

The 2014 release of the book includes new material.

We hurried him into the den, plugged in the skull, gave him a demonstration on the wall, showed him the composite map we’d constructed: the rivers, the road, the city.
La ronde subtile du temps by James Kahn (OPTA, October 1984).

Terminator 1

The Terminator

by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, directed by James Cameron
Artificially intelligent machines from 2029 send a killer cyborg back to 1984 to kill Sara Connor because, in 2029, her son John will lead the resistance against the machines’ rule.

The story has a classic self-defeating act: The Terminator goes back in time to kill Sara Connor, causing Kyle Reese to follow and become romantic with Sara Connor, causing John Connor to be born and eventually lead the revolution, causing the Terminator to go back in time to kill Sara Connor, . . .

— Michael Main
Kyle: [to Sarah at the Tech-Noir Club] Come with me if you want to live.
The Terminator by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, directed by James Cameron (at movie theaters, USA, 26 October 1984).

Slan Libh

by Michael F. Flynn
When Kevin O Malley’s home-built time machine becomes operable, he uses it to research his Irish ancestors during the potato blight of 1845.
The past is changeable but self-correcting. Easy to change small things; harder to change big ones.
“Slan Libh” by Michael F. Flynn, in Analog, November 1984.

Trancers I

Trancers

by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, directed by Charles Band
In the first of six (really!) Trancer movies (plus a “lost” short), heroic trancer-hunter (and newly anointed time cop) Jack Deth follows evil trancer-maker Martin Whistler from 2247 to 1985 via drug-induced time-travel that can take you back only to the body of an ancestor.
— Michael Main
Greetings to the council. As you may have gathered, I have survived the pathetic trap set by Trooper Deth on Mecon 7. For twelve long years, you have hunted my disciples like dogs. Now, my day of vengeance is at hand. I’ve synthesized a time drug, and in a moment shall retreat down the dark corridors of history. Know that it is I who is solely responsible for your demise. One by one, your ancestors shall be murdered, and you, their progeny, shall cease to exist. Then shall I return, join my legion, and claim the seat of power for my own. Adieu . . . adieu . . . 
Trancers by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, directed by Charles Band (at movie theaters, UK, 7 November 1984).

The Life of Boswell

by Jerry Oltion
Michael Wagoner doesn't really want to be an English major and write poetry for the rest of his life, but what choice does he have—until the first day of his final semester when he meets a centerfold.
All innocence, she turned to the middle, opened the gatefold, held it out sideways, then vertically. I dropped the beer when she shouted, “Grandma!”
“The Life of Boswell” by Jerry Oltion, in Analog, December 1984.

Hindsight

by Harry Turtledove
When 1950’s science fiction writer Mark Gordian has a flurry of great stories (“Watergate,” “Houston, We've Got a Problem,” “Neutron Star,” and the ultimate time-travel yarn, “All You Zombies”), Pete Lundquist has nothing but admiration, until Gordian comes out with a story that Pete himself has been outlining.
“Oh, my God! Tet Offensive!” McGregor stared from one of them to the other. “You’re not telling me that one’s based on fact?”
“Hindsight” by Harry Turtledove, in Analog, mid-Dec 1984.

Back to the Future 1

Back to the Future

by George Gipe
Back to the Future by George Gipe (Publicações Europa-América, 1985).

Matty Trakker 2

Matty Trakker and the UFO

by Roger Dunn
Matty Trakker and the UFO by Roger Dunn (Angus and Robertson, 1985).

Pepsi

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Relax, Smith. What could 12 oz. of Pepsi possibly change?
Pepsi |pending byline| (Summer 1985).

Through Road, No Wither

by Greg Bear
At a writers’ conference in Manhattan, KS, I was fortunate enough to sit beside the very kind and knowledgeable Greg Bear at the conference dinner, and I’ve enjoyed every piece of his fiction that I’ve read—but I simply didn’t understand this story any better than I understood its title. The story is set in an alternate version of 1984 where Hitler was victorious, and two lost SS officers come across a hag who (I think) sends them back in time.
Your cities in flame, your women and children shriveling to black dolls in the heat of their burning homes. The death camps found and you stand accused of hideous crimes.
“Through Road No Wither” by Greg Bear, in Far Frontiers, edited by Jim Baen and Jerry Pournelle (Baen Books, January 1985).

Sailing to Byzantium

by Robert Silverberg
Charles Phillips is a 20th-century New Yorker in a future world of immortal leisurites who reconstruct cities from the past.
— Michael Main
He knew very little about himself, but he knew that he was not one of them. That he knew. He knew that his name was Charles Phillips and that before he had come to live among these people he had lived in the year 1984, when there had been such things as computers and television sets and baseball and jet planes, and the world was full of cities, not merely five but thousands of them, New York and London and Johannesburg and Parks and Liverpool and Bangkok and San Francisco and Buenos Ares and a multitude of others, all at the same time.
“Sailing to Byzantium” by Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985.

Choose Your Own Time Machine 6

The Rings of Saturn

by Arthur Byron Cover
The Rings of Saturn by Arthur Byron Cover (Bantam Books, March 1985).

Klein’s Machine

by Andrew Weiner
After Philip Herbert Klein returns from a psychosis-inducing trip in his time machine, he has philosophical conversations with his psychiatrist.
The hamster is back. Also my wristwatch, which I strapped on its back.
“Klein’s Machine” by Andrew Weiner, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1985.

A Matter of Time

by Glen Cook
Detective Norman cash begins to wonder whether the mysterious dead body found in his small town has it’s origin in another time. Meanwhile, on the other “time axes,” Cash’s MIA son has been brainwashed by the communists, and sabotage in the far future has blown a small gang into the 19th century.
Norman Cash, line-walker, began to sense the line’s existence at the point labeled March 4, 1975
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook (Ace Books, April 1985).

Dinosaurs

by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Dinosaurs” by Geoffrey A. Landis, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1985.

The Invitation

by Paul J. Nahin
“The Invitation” by Paul J. Nahin, in The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction, edited by Ellen Datlow (Zebra Books, July 1985).

Back to the Future I

Back to the Future

by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
Typical skateboarding teenager Marty McFly meets Doc Brown for the first test of his DeLorean time machine, but when Libyan terrorists strike, things go awry, Marty and the DeLorean end up in 1955 where his parents are teens, and the Doc of 1955 must now send Marty back to the future.
— Michael Main
Next Saturday night, we’re sending you . . . back to the future!
Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis (at movie theaters, USA, 3 July 1985).

Eon 1

Eon

by Greg Bear
Eon by Greg Bear (Bluejay Books, August 1985).

My Science Project

written and directed by Jonathan R. Betuel
Not even the support of a young Fisher Stevens (Gary’s friend Chuck from Early Edition) could rescue this story of a high school motorhead who steals a power-sucking, space-time transforming orb from a military base for his science project.
— Michael Main
Now that sounds like we’re dealing with a time-space warp.
My Science Project written and directed by Jonathan R. Betuel (at movie theaters, USA, 9 August 1985).

Contact

by Carl Sagan
Sagan’s philosophical opus centers around Dr. Ellie Arrowway, the discovery of a radio message from Vega, and the subsequent building of a machine in accordance with directions in the message. A key twist in the plot requires Ellie to briefly posit time travel as the only explanation that fits her scientific viewpoint.
You know, it’s not called a space-time continuum for nothing. If they can make tunnels through space, I suppose they can make some kind of tunnels through time.
Contact by Carl Sagan (September 1985).

Mozart in Mirrorshades

by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
Time travelers are pilfering 18th century resources and generally pollute their century with pieces of modern culture.

And a little bone to pick, not with this story, but with Harry Turtledove, editor of The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, which includes this story. I suppose he’s just marketing the book with a title that he supposes will sell, but I would like a clear distinction drawn between alternate history (What if the South won the war?), time travel (such as this story), and true history (such as the true story of how Asimov met Campbell).

At first Sutherland hadn’t wanted Rice at the meeting with Jefferson. But Rice knew a little temporal physcis, and Jefferson had been pestering the American personnel with questions about time holes and parallel worlds.
“Mozart in Mirrorshades” by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner, Omni, September 1985.

What Makes Heironymous Run?

by Howard Waldrop
“What Makes Heironymous Run?” by Howard Waldrop, in Shayol 7, Fall/Winter 1985.

Under Siege

by George R. R. Martin
After a nuclear war, Americans attempt to prevent the rise of Russia at the outset of the 19th century by traveling back to that time and inhabiting the bodies of key Finnish and Swedish military men during the siege of Sveaborg.
He began to babble about Sveaborg, about the importance of what we are doing here, about the urgent need to change something, somehow, to prevent the Soviet Union from ever coming into existence, and thus forestall the war that has laid the world to waste.
“Under Siege” by George R. R. Martin, Omni, October 1985.

Transformers

by Takara Tomy
Two groups of robots who crashed to Earth in the distant past have returned to life and are making Earth—past and present—their battleground. These are the time-travel cartoon episodes that I spotted in the four original seasons (1984-1987) and in the Beast Wars episodes (1996-1999) in which time travel was commonplace. I haven’t seen the later series [Robots in Disguise (2000-2002), the Unicron Trilogy (2001-2006), the more recent animated series (2007-2010), and the webisodes (2010)].
They were called Autobots and Decepticons. But the brutal Decepticons were driven by a single goal: total domination. They set out to destroy the peace-loving Autobots, and a war between the forces of good and evil raged across Cybertron.
Transformers by Takara Tomy (24 October 1985).

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

by Robert A. Heinlein
Richard Ames doesn’t like the fact that a new acquaintance was killed while dining at his table. Killed, why? and by whom? and why won’t that cat stay put? The eventual answers could lead Richard to Lazarus Long, the Time Corps, and more multiperson pantheistic solipsism.
My darling had planned a pianissimo approach: Live for a time on Tertius (a heavenly place), get me hooked on multiverse history and time travel theory, et cetera. Not crowd me about signing up, but depend on the fact that she and Gretchen and Ezra and others (Uncle Jock, e.g.) were in the Corps. . . until I asked to be allowed to be sworn in.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners by Robert A. Heinlein (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, November 1985).

Terminator Books

The Terminator

by Randall Frakes
The Terminator by Randall Frakes (Bantam Books, November 1985).

Tangents

by Greg Bear
“Tangents” by Greg Bear, Omni, January 1986.

Conrad Stargard’s Adventures

by Leo Frankowski
Conrad Stargard, 20th century Polish engineer, stumbles through a time portal that was accidentally left open by those meddlers in the Historical Corps, and finds himself in 13th century Poland, whereupon he does any Connecticut Yankee proud.

One night when we were playing duplicate bridge, Bryan Campbell told me that this was the favorite time-travel series of a friend of his, which goes to show that just because my rating of a story is low, doesn’t mean that you (or Bryan’s friend) won’t enjoy it.

“This country and this century are in horrible shape because of the lack of socialism!”

“You are absolutely right, Sir Conrad! What is socialism?”

Conrad Stargard’s Adventures by Leo Frankowski (February 1986).

Conrad Stargard 1

The Cross-Time Engineer

by Leo Frankowski
The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski (Del Rey, February 1986).

Nerilka’s Story

by Anne McCaffrey
The time of sickness, first told in Dragonlady of Pern, is recounted from the viewpoint of Nerilka, Lady Holder of Hold Ruatha.
Desdra also tole me, since she knew me to be discreet and trustworthy, how the dragonriders had managed to make so many deliveries. This had contributed to their total exhaustion, a major factor in the tragedy: Dragons could go as easily between one time and another as one place to another. Moreta and Holth had overtaxed their strength this way. For only by stretching time in this bizarre fashion, or rather doubling back on themselves, could MOreta and Holth manage to deliver serum to all the holds on the Keroon plains.
Nerilka’s Story by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey, March 1986).

The Pure Product

by John Kessel
A cynical sociopath from the future goes on a crime spree (sometimes with random blood, sometimes with trite tripping on his future drugs) across 20th-century North America.
— Michael Main
“I said, have you got something going,” she repeated, still with the accent—the accent of my own time.
“The Pure Product” by John Kessel, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1986.

The Girl Who Heard Dragons

by Anne McCaffrey
“The Girl Who Heard Dragons” by Anne McCaffrey (Cheap Street, May 1986).

Realtime 2

Marooned in Realtime

by Vernor Vinge
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, 4-part serial, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May to August 1986.

Biggles

by John Groves and Kent Walwin, directed by John Hough
Biggles by John Groves and Kent Walwin, directed by John Hough (at movie theaters, UK, 23 May 1986).

Highway of Eternity

by Clifford D. Simak
Jay Corcoran and Tom Boone are trying to track down a missing client when the building they are in is demolished and the two of them jump into a time machine that takes them to one of the pockets of rebels from the far future who are resisting the decorporealization of man.
Horace, the hardheaded, practical lout, the organizer, the schemer. Emma, the moaner, the keeper of our consciences. Timothy, the student. Enid, the thinker. And I, the loafer, the bad example, the one who makes the others feel virtuous.
Highway of Eternity by Clifford D. Simak (Del Rey, June 1986).

Aymara

by Lucius Shepard
“Aymara” by Lucius Shepard, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 1986.

Flight of the Navigator

by Michael Burton and Matt MacManus, directed by Randal Kleiser
Twelve-year-old David Freeman stumbles down a ravine and wakes up eight years later without having aged. The explanation is that David was taken on a quick trip to the planet Phaelon, taking 2.2 hours for him while eight years passed on Earth. Relativistic time dilation, right? That’s the explanation, but it doesn’t scan because Phaelon is a full 560 light years from Earth, so at least 1120 years would have passed on Earth unless the aliens truly did have some form of time travel. The clincher comes at the end when David explicitly travels through time. Conclusion: alien time travel technology.
— Michael Main
This is totally rad. You’re like my big little brother.
Flight of the Navigator by Michael Burton and Matt MacManus, directed by Randal Kleiser (at movie theaters, USA, 1 August 1986).

Setni 7

La croisade des assassins

Literal: The crusade of the assassins

by Pierre Barbet
La croisade des assassins by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, September 1986).

Landscape with Giant Bison

by Avram Davidson
Never is it easy to discern what’s in the mind of the indiscernible Avram Davidson, but I suspect that he was on a train journey with a plethora of tourists—perhaps the California Zephyr, which enters the majestic Rockies at a point just outside of Eldorado State Park—and he thought to himself, “Just what would it take to pull my fellow travelers away from that there card game?”
A wooly rhino appeared out of nowhere on the right side of the track, its red hide caked with mud and dust, and paced the car for two miles; then it slackened and turned away, was lost to sight.
“Landscape with Giant Bison” by Avram Davidson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1986.

Swept Away 2

Woodstock Magic

by Fran Lantz
Woodstock Magic by Fran Lantz (Avon Flare, September 1986).

Lazer Tag Academy

by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
Young Jamie Jaren, the Lazer Tag champion of 3010, travels back to 1980 to protect her distant teenaged ancestors from the evil Draxon Drear who was unwittingly released into that earlier era.
As Drear races through time in his quest to conquer the future, he is pursued by Jamie Jaren. Jamie must team with her ancestors Tom, Beth and Nicky Jaren. Join us now in their adventure through time to preserve the past, save the future, and keep the peace established by. . . the Lazer Tag Academy!
Lazer Tag Academy by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears (13 September 1986).

Star TrekIV

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

by Steve Meerson et al. , directed by Leonard Nimoy
As the brave crew of the Enterprise are returning to Earth on a Klingon Bird of Prey to stand trial for the events of the previous movie, Spock determines that Earth’s demise is imminent unless they can return to 1986 and retrieve a humpback whale (which they proceed to do).

I saw this in the theater with Deb Baker and Jon Shultis during a winter trip to Pittsburgh for a small computer science education conference.

— Michael Main
McCoy: You realize that by giving him the formula you’re altering the future.
Scotty: Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Steve Meerson et al. , directed by Leonard Nimoy (at movie theaters, Canada, 21 November 1986).

Star Trek TOS Books

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

by Vonda N. McIntyre
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda N. McIntyre (Pocket Books, December 1986).

Muppet Babies

by Jim Henson
As babies, all the Muppets are occasionally looked after by Nannie. They first time traveled by taking Gonzo’s supersonic snowmobile trike back to rescue Nanny’s ruined yearbook in “Back to the Nursery.”
But how can we replace a picture taken a zillion years ago?
Muppet Babies by Jim Henson (27 December 1986).

Конец Вечности

Konets vechnosti English release: The End of Eternity Literal: The end of eternity

by Будимир Метальников and Андрей Ермаш, directed by Андрей Ермаш
In a blunt violation of protocol, my technician formed a relationship with a woman from reality.
[ex=bare]Конец Вечности | The end of eternity | Konets vechnosti[/ex] by Будимир Метальников and Андрей Ермаш, directed by Андрей Ермаш (unknown release details, 1987).

Setni 8

Un reich de 1000 ans!

Literal: A 1000-year reich!

by Pierre Barbet
Un reich de 1000 ans! by Pierre Barbet (Fleuve Noir, 1987).

Time of the Apes

by 阿部桂一, directed by 奥中惇夫 and 深沢清澄
This syndicated TV film was cobbled together from English-dubbed episodes of the Japanese TV series, 猿の軍団 :: Saru no gundan. It tells the story of Miss Catherine and two kids who are accidently frozen and wake up on an Earth ruled by apes. Inspired by (but not part of) the more widely known Earth-ruled-by-apes series, and I suppose not really time travel either because it’s merely cryogenic sleep.
— Michael Main
Uncle Charlie and Miss Catherine are engaged in important experiments at the lab, so don’t disturb their work.
Time of the Apes by 阿部桂一, directed by 奥中惇夫 and 深沢清澄 (King Features Entertainment, TV syndication, USA, 1987).

from The Teacher of Symmetry Cycle

Фотография Пушкин (1799–2099)

Fotografiya Pushkin (1799–2099) English release: Pushkin’s Photograph (1799–2099) Literal: Pushkin’s photograph (1799–2099)

by Андре́й Би́тов
In 1985, an author has visions of a time traveler named Igor from 2099. The traveler is being sent by his comrades in the domed city of St. Petersburg back to the 19th century, where he is tasked with capturing images and audio of motherland’s supreme father of poetry, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

Note: A dissertation by [ex=bare]Гулиус Наталья Сергеевна | Gulius Natalya Sergeevna[/ex] notes that this story is part of Bitov’s Teacher of Symmetry Cycle, which consisted of a series of avant-garde stories purportedly written by an obscure Englishman named [ex=bare]Э. Тайрд-Боффин | A. Tired-Boffin[/ex] and loosely translated to Russian by Bitov. The English version of “Fotografiya Pushkin (1799–2099)” was said to have been called “Shakespeare’s Photograph” (or possibly “Stern’s Laughter” or “Swift’s Pill”), and presumably it was about Shakespeare rather than Pushkin.

Sergeevna explains that all this artistic mystification was part of an extensive footnote to “Fotografiya Pushkin (1799–2099),” but up in the ITTDB Citadel, we’ve yet to track down the footnote. Perhaps it was part of the 1987 publication in [ex=bare]Знамя || Znamia[/ex], or maybe it did not appear until the story was published along with the rest of the cycle in Bitov’s 1988 collection, [ex=bare]Человек в пейзаже | Man in the landscape | Chelovek v peyzazhe[/ex]. It is not listed in the table of contents of [ex=bare]Преподаватель симметрии ] | | Prepodavatelʹ simmetrii[/ex](2008), which was translated to English as Symmetry Teacher (2014).

— Michael Main
. . . мы сможем в будущем, и не таком, господа-товарищи, далеком, заснять всю жизнь Пушкина скрытой камерой, записать его гол . . . представляете, какое это будет счастье, когда каждый школьник сможет услышать, как Пушкин читает собственные стихи!
. . . we will be able in the future, and, gentlemen-comrades, not such a distant one, to photograph Pushkin’s entire life with a hidden camera, record his voice . . . imagine how wonderful it will be when every schoolboy will be able to hear Pushkin read his own poetry!
English
[ex=bare]Фотография Пушкин (1799–2099) | Pushkin’s Photograph (1799–2099) | “Fotografiya Pushkin (1799–2099)”[/ex] by Андре́й Би́тов, [ex=bare]Знамя || Znamia[/ex], January 1987.

Replay

by Ken Grimwood
After 43-year-old radio newsman Jeff Winston dies, he finds himself back in his 18-year-old body in 1963—an occurrence that keeps happening each time he dies again in 1988; eventually, in one of his lives, he finds Pamela, another replayer, and they work at figuring out the meaning of it all (without success).
So he hadn’t died. Somehow, the realization didn’t thrill him, just as his earlier assumption of death had failed to strike him with dread.
Replay by Ken Grimwood (Arbor House, January 1987).

Timestalkers

by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz
After the death of his wife and child, Dr. Scott McKenzie stumbles upon a tintype photograph from the Old West showing three corpses, a shooter, and a modern Magnum 357, leading him to develop a theory of time travel that is confirmed when a beautiful woman from the future appears and takes him back to the Old West to chase the shooter, save President Cleveland, and pursue other obvious plot developments.

Spoiler: At the end, I believe that Georgia uses her time crystal to send Scott back for a do-over on the day of his family’s death. This is disappointing since up until that point, the film has set up a perfect example of a single, nonbranching timeline.

— Michael Main
What if Cole came back to set off a chain of events that would eventually destroy the one man who stood in his way?
Timestalkers by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz (CBS-TV, USA, 10 March 1987).

Зеркало для героя

Zerkalo diya geroya Literal: Mirror for the hero

by [!Надежда Кожушаная[/exn], directed by Влади́мир Хотине́нко
[ex=bare]Зеркало для героя | Mirror for the hero | Zerkalo diya geroya[/ex] by [!Надежда Кожушаная[/exn], directed by Влади́мир Хотине́нко (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Moscow, 14 March 1987).

Park Your Car on Baychester Road Tonight

by Bill Bickel
In the process of parking his car on a Wednesday night—always a difficult proposition—a man is approached by a time traveler who offers him two gold bars if he’ll park in a No Parking zone.
My friend Selka and I have devised a game in which we carefully alter the stream of time, to cause some subtle change in our own time period. This particular round, for example, concerns itself with the location of our city’s capitol building.
“Park Your Car on Baychester Road Tonight” by Bill Bickel, Asimov’s Science Fiction, 15 March 1987.

Amazing Stories

by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg brought Amazing Stories to TV in two seasons of an anthology format. At least one time-travel story—Jack Finney’s venerable “Such Interesting Neighbors”—appeared in the second season (20 Mar 1987).

Janet and I bought our first color TV for these episodes, a Sony of course.

Oh, Randy, neighbors are always strange; those are the rules.
Amazing Stories by Steven Spielberg (20 March 1987).

The Year Before Yesterday

by Brian Aldiss
The Year Before Yesterday by Brian Aldiss (Franklin Watts, April 1987).

Perpetuity Blues

by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Orphaned at a young age and sent to live with her abusive aunt and uncle, Maggie befriends the town’s odd duck, Oral, whose magic loop of wire protects the young girl. Oh, wait! I forgot to mention: Oral believes he’s from outer space and his ship bounces him through time.
Got the ship clear out of the atmosphere and hit this time warp or something. Nearly got eat by Vikings. Worse than the Mormons. Fixed up the ship and flipped it out again. Ended up in Medival Europe. Medicis and monks, all kinds of shit. Joined someone’s army in Naples. Got caught and picked olives for a duke. Lok at my face. They got diseases you never heard of there.
“Perpetuity Blues” by Neal Barrett, Jr., in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1987.

Dirk Gently 1

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Heinemann, June 1987).

Left or Right?

by Martin Gardner
“Left or Right?” by Martin Gardner, in Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, edited by Rudy Rucker (Arbor House, June 1987).

Sphere

by Michael Crichton
Because he wrote a government report on how to handle alien contact, psychologist Norman Johnson is called to the scene when the Navy discovers a 300-year-old crashed space ship on the Pacific floor. But it turns out to be an American space ship, just not from today’s America.
And yet now we have proof that time travel is possible—and that our own species will do it in the future!
Sphere by Michael Crichton (Alfred A. Knopf, June 1987).

Trapalanda

by Charles Sheffield
“Trapalanda” by Charles Sheffield, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1987.

Forever Yours, Anna

by Kate Wilhelm
Handwriting expert Gordon Siles becomes obsessed with four censored letters written by a woman named Anna to an introverted scientist whose missing research results may have national security implications.
— Michael Main
It should have ended there, Gordon knew, but it did not end. Where are you, Anna? he thought at the world being swampted in cold rain. Why hadn’t shecome forward, attended the funeral, turned in the papers?
“Forever Yours, Anna” by Kate Wilhelm, Omni, July 1987.

Rider

by Andrew Weiner
Arnold Lerner is deep into a fugue—a state that allows him to revisit past memories and rewrite them in your own mind. But he’s so deeply in fugue that he won’t ever come out. Then again, some people doubt both those sentences: Ruth Brandon, director of the Hartley Mind Research Center, says that it’s a long shot, but she might be able to go in after Lerner and pull him out; and some say that the rewriting of history is not just in your own mind.

Among other places, the story takes Ruth Brandon to the 1970 total solar eclipse in Miahuatlán; and quite by coincidence, I first read the story when I happened to take the July 1987 issue of Asimov’s with me on our road trip to Scottsbluff to see the Great American Coast-to-Coast eclipse of 2017. The stars (and the Moon) move in mysterious ways.

Even if you do come back. They say you really do travel in time and that you really can change things if you try hard enough.
“Rider” by Andrew Weiner, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1987.

To Sail Beyond the Sunset

by Robert A. Heinlein
In the 19th century, Maureen Johnson grows up near Kansas City, eventually marrying and raising her own brood, including Lazarus Long (the original) and Lazarus Long (from the future).
I found myself offering my hand and greeting a young man who matched in every way (even to his body odor, which I caught quite clearly—clean male, in fresh rut)—a man who was my father as my earliest memory recalled him.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein (Ace / Putnam, July 1987).

At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball

by Alexander Jablokov
Jacob Landstatter is an art critic, and his chosen objects d’art are the alternate realities that the Lords of Time commission from artists who go back in time to make specific changes that result in worlds of one sort or another. So who could want to kill someone with such an occupation as innocuous as Jacob’s?
Normal intestinal flora. Mutated and hybridized with amyotrophic lateral schlerosis. Infects via the GI tract and destroys the central nervous systems of higher primates. Neat. Grew it in the guts of an Australopithecine on the African veldt, two, three million years ago. Not easy, Jacob, not easy. When I woke up on that pallet at Centrum, I had bedsores, and a headache that lasted a month. Killed them all. Every last one of the buggers. Nothing left on this planet with more brains than an orangutan.
“At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1987.

Dragonharper

by Jody Lynn Nye
Dragonharper by Jody Lynn Nye (Tor Books, August 1987).

Book of The New Sun 5

The Urth of the New Sun

by Gene Wolfe
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (Gollancz, August 1987).

Masters of the Universe

by David Odell, directed by Gary Goddard
With the help of ominous music and a Cosmic Key that opens portals to other places, the evil Skeletor has finally conquered Castle Greyskull, giving Skeletor the power needed to become the Master of the Universe himself. Fortunately, He-Man and his warriors have a copy of the Key and can save the universe! Unless they misplace it and two current-day Earth teens stumble upon it.

I watched the movie through to the end(!), but spotted only one explicit small item to indicate that the Key might transport through time as well as space: When Skeletor’s minionette locates the copy of the Key, she says that they can find it within a “parsec-eon,” which kind of sounds like a space-time measurement. In addition, those who know the He-Man franchise tell me that he is a far-future descendant of Earth humans on the planet of Eternia, which means that the trip back to current-day Earth was through time. So it is a time-travel movie(!) but that fact has no bearing on the movie’s plot.

— Michael Main
I call it . . . The Cosmic Key! It is the most unique key in the universe. The tones it generates can open a doorway to anywhere.
Masters of the Universe by David Odell, directed by Gary Goddard (at movie theaters, USA, 7 August 1987).

Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson
Relax! We’ll be back as soon as we go.
“Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson (31 August 1987).

Himself in Anachron

by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
Tasco Magnon, time traveler, decides to take his new bride on his next trip through time—a quest to find the mythical Knot in Time—where the two of them get trapped, and only one can return.

After Smith’s death in 1966, the story was completed by his wife, Genevieve Linebarger, and sold to Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Vision, but that anthology was endlessly delayed. So in 1987, a translated version of the story was published in a French collection of Smith’s stories, and that was the first published version (although we’ve listed it as an English story, since that’s how it was written). The English version was finally published in Smith’s 1993 complete short science fiction collection by NESFA. By then, Ellison’s rights to the story had expired, although that didn’t stop him from suing NESFA.

— Michael Main
‘Honeymoon in time,’ indeed. Why? Is it that your woman is jealous of your time trips? Don’t be an idiot, Tasco. You know that ship’s not built for two.
“Lui-même en Anachron” by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger, in Les puissances de’espace [The powers of space[/em] (Presses Pocket, September 1987).

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06)

Where No One Has Gone Before

by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves
Yes, we see minor time phenomena when Picard and other members of the crew vividly experience moments and beings from their pasts, possibly created by their thoughts, but the real import of the episode is the introduction of The Traveler, who among other things is able to alter spacetime and is always on the lookout for promising individuals such as Wesley Crusher.
— Michael Main
The Traveler to Picard about Wesley: In such musical geniuses I saw in one of your ship’s libraries—one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others. Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played . . .
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06), “Where No One Has Gone Before” by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 24 October 1987) [syndicated].

The Time Guardian

by John Baxter and Brian Hannant, directed by Brian Hannant
When terminatoresque cyborgs attack a future Australian city (headed by Quantum Leap’s favorite scoundrel, Dean Stockwell, and defended by everyone’s favorite princess, Carrie Fisher), the scientists take them all back to 1988—a fine plan until the evil cyborgs follow.
— Michael Main
One city attempted to escape their onslaught by unraveling the secrets of time and travelling back in a desperate search for a safer age . . . they succeeded and time was their friend until the arrival yet again of their relentless enemy.
The Time Guardian by John Baxter and Brian Hannant, directed by Brian Hannant (at movie theaters, Australia, 3 December 1987).

Future Past

by Michael McGennan, directed by Rob Stewart
While working at his extravagant computer, computer whiz-kid Harlan, comes into contact with a group from the future including a fairly absurd professor. What happens is that a young man comes from the future back to the present and appears to be Harlan's grown self—a self-centred and smug exploitive man. The two clash while the professor tries to get the old Harlan back to the future.
— based on Peter Malone’s film reviews
Future Past by Michael McGennan, directed by Rob Stewart (Nine Network, Australia, circa 1987).

Human/Praxcelis Union 2

The Armageddon Blues

by Daniel Keys Moran
The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran (Bantam Spectra, April 1988).

The Yesterday Saga 2

Time for Yesterday

by A. C. Crispin
Time for Yesterday by A. C. Crispin (Titan Books, April 1988).

The Turning Point

by Isaac Asimov
In exactly 100 words, Madison goes back in time to meet himself at the turning point of his young life.

Thanks to Marc Richardson for sending this one to me.

— Michael Main
He was a clerk.
“The Turning Point” by Isaac Asimov, in The Drabble Project, edited by Rob Meades and David B. Wake (Beccon Publications, April 1988).

Red Dwarf (s01e01)

The End

by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye
In this pilot episode, menial worker Dave Lister on the spaceship Red Dwarf finds himself three million years in the future after accidentally overstaying his time in a stasis room where time does not exist. In contrast to a long sleep or cryogenics, traveling via stasis is actual time travel.
— Michael Main
The stasis room creates a static field of time. Just as x-rays can’t pass through lead, time cannot penetrate a stasis field. So although you exist, you no longer exist in time, and for you, time itself does not exist.
Red Dwarf (s01e01), “The End” by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye (BBC Two, UK, 15 Febrary 1988).

Many Mansions

by Alexander Jablokov
Working for an alien time cop, Mattias jumps through fixed wormholes in time, heading to medieval France, North America in the last ice age, ancient Egypt, 17th-century Persia, and probably a few other places that he and I are having trouble remembering. We both need a vacation.
It took most of Isaac Newton’s Principia to snap him out of it.
“Many Mansions” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1988.

Twisters

by Paul J. Nahin
“Twisters” by Paul J. Nahin, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1988.

Star Trek: The Original Series Books

Timetrap

by David Dvorkin
Determined to discover what the Klingons are doing in Federation space, Captain Kirk beams aboard their ship with a security team, just as the stormflares to its highest intensity. As the bridge crew watches in horror, Mauler vanishes from the Enterprise’s viewscrreen. And James T. Kirk awakens . . . one hundred years in the future.
— from publicity material
His age, his century, his civilization—they were all gone. This was now his universe. The fact was irreversible. So be it. I will adjust.
Timetrap by David Dvorkin (Titan Books, June 1988).

Gumby Adventures

by Art Clokey
In the 1988 episode “Lost in Chinatown,” Gumby’s claymation sister Minga travels through a magic tapestry to ancient China, and Gumby must rescue her!
Wow: a picture on silk! It looks real old. I wonder what life in China was like in those days. While waiting for Grandma, I’ll go and find out.
Gumby Adventures by Art Clokey (25 June 1988).

Dragonfire

by Jody Lynn Nye
Nye wrote two choose-your-own-adventure books in the world of Pern. I didn’t spot any time travel in the first (Dragonharper), but one of the branches of this second book involves the heroine, Mirrim, and her green dragon, Path, timing it back in three possible ways.
Path crooned deep in her throat. . .
Dragonfire by Jody Lynn Nye (Tor Books, July 1988).

The Grandfather Problem

by Andrew Weiner
Purely as a scientific experiment, physicist Harold Levett decides to go back in time to kill his grandfather.
“It’s nothing personal,” I say. “It’s strictly a scientific question . . .”
“The Grandfather Problem” by Andrew Weiner, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1988.

Insurance Fraud

by Mark Heath
Full coverage in event of death due to suicidal, time-traveling grandsons. . .
“Insurance Fraud” by Mark Heath, Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1988.

The Fort Moxie Branch

by Jack McDevitt
“The Fort Moxie Branch” by Jack McDevitt, in Full Spectrum, edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, September 1988).

Birthright Universe

Ivory

by Mike Resnick
Ivory by Mike Resnick (Tor, September 1988).

Eon 2

Eternity

by Greg Bear
Eternity by Greg Bear (Warner Books, October 1988).

Ripples in the Dirac Sea

by Geoffrey A. Landis
A physics guy invents a time machine that can go only backward and must always return the traveler to the exact same present from which he left.
— Michael Main
  1. Travel is possible only into the past.
  2. The object transported will return to exactly the time and place of departure.
  3. It is not possible to bring objects from the past to the present.
  4. Actions in the past cannot change the present.
“Ripples in the Dirac Sea” by Geoffrey A. Landis, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1988.

Dragonsdawn

by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey, November 1988).

On the Watchtower at Plataea

by Garry Kilworth
Miriam and her fellow time travelers, John and Stan, set up camp in an abandoned watchtower to observe and record the siege of the walled city-state Plataea in the Peloponnesian War.
It was a shock to find that the expedition could go no further back than 429 BC; though for some of us, it was not an unwelcome one. Miriam was perhaps the only one amongst us who was annoyed that we couldn't get to Pericles. He had died earlier, in the part of the year we couldn’t reach. So near—but we had hit a barrier, as solid as a rockface on the path of linear time, in the year that the Peloponnesian War was gaining momentum.
“On the Watchtower at Plataea” by Garry Kilworth, in Other Edens II, edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock (Unwin Paperbacks, November 1988).

Gravesite Revisited

by Elizabeth Moon
“Gravesite Revisited” by Elizabeth Moon, Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, mid-December 1988.

Back to the Future 2

Back to the Future: Part II

by Craig Shaw Gardner
Back to the Future: Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (Headline, 1989).

Real Time

by Lawrence Watt-Evans
An unnamed time-travel guard is trapped in the 20th century and must keep ever vigilant against those who might tamper with the time line because you never know whether the time guard will be able to handle it all.
They might send someone else, but they might not. The tampering might have already changed things too much.
“Real Time” by Lawrence Watt-Evans, in Asimovs’s Science Fiction, January 1989.

The Ring of Memory

by Alexander Jablokov
Time travel agent Hugh Solomon chases through time after Andy Tarkin who blames Hugh for the death of their common crush in 1902 Chicago.

The story has a nice bootstrapping paradox.

Have you sold a ring recently, in the shape of a serpent with its own tail in its mouth?
“The Ring of Memory” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 1989.

The Instability

by Isaac Asimov
Professor Firebrenner explains to Atkins how they can go forward in time to study a red dwarf and then return back to Earth.
Of course, but how far can the Sun and Earth move in the few hours it will take us to observe the star?
“The Instability” by Isaac Asimov, in The London Observer, 1 January 1989.

The Best Is Yet to Be

by John Gribbin
“The Best Is Yet to Be” by John Gribbin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1989.

Bill & Ted I

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Stephen Herek
The Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted “Theodore” Logan, are the subjects of time-traveler Rufus’s mission, but instead they end up using his machine to write a history report to save their band, Wyld Stallyns.
— Michael Main
Most excellent!
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Stephen Herek (at movie theaters, USA, 17 February 1989).

Conrad Stargard 2

The High-Tech Knight

by Leo Frankowski
The High-Tech Knight by Leo Frankowski (Del Rey, March 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e01–02)

Genesis

by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by David Hemmings
Physicist and all-around good guy Sam Beckett rushes his time machine into production—funding is about to be cut!—and as a consequence, he leaps into the life of a USAF test pilot, where Sam and his holographic cohort Al have a moral mission. And after setting things right in that pilot’s life, Sam—“oh, boy”—takes a few moments to win the big baseball game in 1968.
— Inmate Jan
One end of this string represents your birth, the other end your death. You tie the ends together, and your life is a loop. Ball the loop, and the days of your life touch each other out of sequence, therefore leaping to one point in the string to another . . .
Quantum Leap (s01e01–02), “Genesis” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by David Hemmings (26 March 1989) [double-length broadcast].

Quantum Leap (s01e03)

Star-Crossed

by Deborah Pratt, directed by Mark Sobel
Why would anybody leap into English Professor Gerald Bryant during June 1972? Sam is certain that his mission is to he can reconcile his own future quantum physicist girlfriend with her father so that her fear of commitment won’t cause her to leave Sam at the alter in another twelve years.
— Michael Main
Don’t ya see, Al? I’m here to give Donna and I a second chance.
Quantum Leap (s01e03), “Star-Crossed” by Deborah Pratt, directed by Mark Sobel (NBC-TV, USA, 31 March 1989).

Time’s Arrow

by Jack McDevitt
“Hard Landings” by Jack McDevitt, Critical Mass, Fall 1989.

Quantum Leap (s01e04)

The Right Hand of God

by John Hill, directed by Gilbert Shilton
Sam leaps into professional boxer Clarence “Kid”Cody in 1974, where he must win his first legitimate fight in a year to save the sisters of St. Mary’s, start a new life with Dixie, and also—if things work out as expected in the Rumble in the Jungle—escape the mob.
— Michael Main
That surprise punch in the last inning . . . it was inspired.
Quantum Leap (s01e04), “The Right Hand of God” by John Hill, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 7 April 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e05)

How the Tess Was Won

by Deborah Arakelian, directed by Ivan Dixon
Sam leaps into Doc Young, DVM, back in 1956 Lubbock, Texas, where it seems his purpose is to out-rope, out-ride, and out-posthole-dig cowgirl Tess McGill in an effort to win her heart.
— Michael Main
You can’t expect me to do this and not get involved. So if Tess falls in love with Doc, I’d appreciate it if you just leap me outta here as soon as possible.
Quantum Leap (s01e05), “How the Tess Was Won” by Deborah Arakelian, directed by Ivan Dixon (NBC-TV, USA, 14 April 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e06)

Double Identity

by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt
Sam does a double leap at one location: First into hitman Frankie LaPalma at the moment when he and Don Geno’s former girlfriend are in the sack together, and then as Don Geno himself.
— Michael Main
Who ever heard of one lousy hairdryer blacking out all of the East Coast?
Quantum Leap (s01e06), “Double Identity” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt (NBC-TV, USA, 21 April 1989).

Great Work of Time

by John Crowley
When a secret society called the Otherhood acquires Caspar Last’s time machine in 1983, they set out to change history so that the British Empire never declines (although it may be infused with various Lovecraftian species such as the Draconics), an endeavor for which in 1956 they recruit Denys Winterset, one of the Colonial Service’s many assistant district commissioners of police.
Of course the possible worlds we make don’t compare to the real one we inhabit—not nearly so well furnished, or tricked out with details. And yet still somehow better. More satisfying. Perhaps the novelist is only a special case of a universal desire to reshape, to ‘take this sorry scheme of things entire,’ smash it into bits, and ‘remold it nearer to the heart’s desire’—as old Kyayyám says. The egoist is continually doing it with his own life. To dream of doing it with history is no more useful a game, I suppose, but as a game, it shows more sport.
“Great Work of Time” by John Crowley, in Novelty (Doubleday Foundation, May 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e07)

The Color of Truth

by Deborah Pratt, directed by Michael Vejar
Upon arriving in an Alabama diner in 1955, Sam sits at the counter and sees an elderly Black man looking back at him from the mirror.
— Michael Main
You’re hear to save her tomorrow, not to initiate the civil rights activity in the South.
Quantum Leap (s01e07), “The Color of Truth” by Deborah Pratt, directed by Michael Vejar (NBC-TV, USA, 3 May 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e08)

Camikazi Kid

by Paul Brown, directed by Alan J. Levi
It seeems that the only way Sam can fulfill his mission of stopping 17-year-old Cam Wilson’s older sister from marrying shithead Bob is to race Bob “for pinks” in hopes that Bob will lose his cool and show his true self, but that’ll only work if Sam (as Cam) and his buddy Jill can soup up Cam’s pink mommobile with a blast of nitrous oxide at exactly the right moment of the race.
— Michael Main
Older Brother: Come on, Mikey, we gotta rehearse.

Mikey: [waving] Bye-bye!

Quantum Leap (s01e08), “Camikazi Kid” by Paul Brown, directed by Alan J. Levi (NBC-TV, USA, 10 May 1989).

Quantum Leap (s01e09)

Play It Again, Seymour

by Donald P. Bellisario and Scott Shepard , directed by Aaron Lipstadt
Sam arrives in 1953 as a private eye who looks like Humphrey Bogart and has to solve the mystery of his partner’s murder while trying to figure out his relationship with his partner’s wife and the eager kid at the newsstand.
— Michael Main
Kid, if I’m lucky I’m gonna spend the rest of my life leaping around from one place to another instead of face down in a pool of blood.
Quantum Leap (s01e09), “Play It Again, Seymour” by Donald P. Bellisario and Scott Shepard , directed by Aaron Lipstadt (NBC-TV, USA, 17 May 1989).

Beware the Fugitora

by John H. C. Pippy
Beware the Fugitora by John H. C. Pippy (Breakwater Books, June 1989).

Enter a Soldier, Later: Enter Another

by Robert Silverberg
“Enter a Soldier, Later: Enter Another” by Robert Silverberg, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1989.

A Knight in Shining Armor

by Jude Deveraux
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux (Pocket Books, July 1989).

Conrad Stargard 3

The Radiant Warrior

by Leo Frankowski
The Radiant Warrior by Leo Frankowski (Del Rey, July 1989).

A Sleep and a Forgetting

by Robert Silverberg
Mike is pulled out of his quiet tenured life as a professor in the Department of Sinological Studies at the University of Washington because his lifelong friend Joe Hedley seems to be receiving transmissions in Mongolian. When Mike arrives, he not only understands the transmission, but can talk back as well.

Time travel and alternate histories often overlap, usually when some incident of time travel to the past creates the alternate timeline. This story is an intriguing alternative where a supposedly alternate past history is discovered through the two-way transmission through time, but the origin of the alternate timeline remains a mystery.

Weirder and weirder, I thought. A Christian Mongol? Living in Byzantium? Talking to me on the space telephone out of the twelfth century?
“A Sleep and a Forgetting” by Robert Silverberg, Playboy,July 1989.

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s03e03)

The Lake

by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins
The TV adaptation of Bradbury’s “The Lake” focuses more on the adult man, who’s now thirty-something Doug, but the story structure and pathos of his lost childhood love remain intact.
— Michael Main
If I finish it, will you come?
The Ray Bradbury Theater (s03e03), “The Lake” by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins (USA Network, 21 July 1989).

Mixed Doubles

by Daniel da Cruz
Justin Pope, a music major (like Paul Eisenbrey!), stumbles upon a time machine that he uses to kidnap Franz Schubert from his deathbed; Pope cures Franz and uses him as a source of compositions to create a magnificent career of his own (with the help of Angelica), until Franz turns the tables (with the help of Philipa).

Paul Eisenbrey introduced me to this author in college, but I found Mixed Doubles on my own some years later.

From time to time double checking with the manual, he began to punch in the commands that, he had calculated from ceaseless experimentation, would project him three thousand years into the past, plus of minus fifteen years. It was a vast improvement on his first efforts, which had been accurate only to within two centuries. The reentry program was more precise by orders of magnitude: it would bring him back to the moment of departure, plus zero to seventeen hours.
Mixed Doubles by Daniel da Cruz (Del Rey, August 1989).

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s03e06)

A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins
Bradbury himself wrote the teleplay for this first on-screen adaptation of his famous story, and somehow he managed to do it without the word “butterfly” appearing in the script (though we do see the critter at the end).
— Michael Main
Travis: We might destroy a roach—or a flower, even—and destroy an important link in the species.

Eckles: So?

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s03e06), “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins (USA Network, 11 August 1989).

Millennium

by John Varley, directed by Michael Anderson
Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore opposite Kris Kristopherson’s Bill Smith in this movie adaptation of Varley’s novel (1983), although on-screen credit is given only to his earlier short story “Air Raid” (1977).
— Michael Main
For one thing, paradoxes can occur. Say you build a time machine, go backwards in time and murder your father when he was ten years old. That means you were never born. And if you were never born, how did you build the time machine? Paradox! It's the possibility of wiping out your own existence that makes most people rule out time-travel. Still, why not? If you were careful, you could do it.
Millennium by John Varley, directed by Michael Anderson (at movie theaters, West Germany, 24 August 1989).

Smurfs

by Peyo
While trying to return a dinosaur to its proper time at the start of season 9, a time whirlwind whips the annoying little mushroom blueters into time—a condition that’s carried on through the rest of the season.
Well, Papa Smurf, there is one way to get this critter back home, but it’s awfully dangerous.
Smurfs by Peyo (9 September 1989).

Ring Raiders

by Phil Harnage
Matchbox produced and aired five cartoon episodes in 1989 to promote their Ring Raider line of toys including the time-traveling planes of the evil Skull Squadron and the right-stuff Ring Raider pilots.
Lieutenant, I’ve got three strange bogeys about a mile north-northwest. They’re like nothing I’ve ever seen before. They don’t even have props.
Ring Raiders by Phil Harnage (16 September 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e01)

Honeymoon Express

by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt
Sam pops into newly married Tom McBride (a New York policeman), who is headed to Niagara Falls with his new bride (a budding lawyer and the daughter of a senator). The two of them engage in the usual honeymoon activities—fighting off ex-boyfriend thugs, rolling underneath moving trains, studying for the bar exam—while unbeknownst to Sam, Al is at a Senate committee meeting in Washington, D.C., fighting for the life of Project Quantum Leap. Oh, yes, and it’s now official: Sam and Al believe that God has taken control of the project, although Al refuses to be pinned down as to which god she is.
— Michael Main
This committee has decided that your 2.4 billion dollar funding request for Project Quantum Leap . . .
Quantum Leap (s02e01), “Honeymoon Express” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt (NBC-TV, USA, 20 September 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e02)

Disco Inferno

by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton
Sam finds out what it’s like to be a stuntman in a family with broken dynamics and (to him but not Al) in an era with broken music.
— Michael Main
Disco’s not gonna last forever. I got a feeling it’s probably gonna die in a couple of years.
Quantum Leap (s02e02), “Disco Inferno” by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 27 September 1989).

Conrad Stargard 4

The Flying Warlord

by Leo Frankowski
The Flying Warlord by Leo Frankowski (Del Rey, October 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e03)

The Americanization of Machiko

by Charlie Coffey, directed by Gilbert Shilton
In 1953, Sam steps off a bus as a sailor returning home from Japan with—surprise! to Sam and everyone else—a new bride named Machiko.
— Michael Main
“I try to find a husband . . . to find my husband”
Quantum Leap (s02e03), “The Americanization of Machiko” by Charlie Coffey, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 11 October 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e04)

What Price Gloria?

by Deborah Pratt, directed by Alan J. Levi
Sam leaps into the body of executive secretary Samantha Stormer during a time rife with sexual harrassment that hadn’t yet been challenged or even given a name.
— Michael Main
You know, this is degrading. First he chases me around the office, then he says I gotta wear lipstick
Quantum Leap (s02e04), “What Price Gloria?” by Deborah Pratt, directed by Alan J. Levi (NBC-TV, USA, 25 October 1989).

The Renegades of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
A retelling of various episodes of Dragonriders / Dragonquest / The White Dragon from the perspective of Thella, who is the main renegade of the title.

Also in November of 1989, Jody Lynn Nye (with help from McCaffrey) released The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern. No dragonreader should leave home without it.

It was then obvious that the absconding dragons had gone between time to secure their theft.
The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey, November 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e05)

Blind Faith

by Scott Shepard, directed by David G. Phinney
Who knew that if Sam leaped into a blind pianist’s body that he’d be able to see with his own eyes and stop a Central Park killer?
— Michael Main
He says he wants to play.
Quantum Leap (s02e05), “Blind Faith” by Scott Shepard, directed by David G. Phinney (NBC-TV, USA, 1 November 1989).

Quantum Leap (s02e06)

Good Morning, Peoria

by Chris Ruppenthal, directed by Michael Zinberg
Somewhat disoriented Sam—as Howlin’ Chic Howell at a 50’s radio station—must help station owner Rachel Powell defend rock’n’roll from the town elders and mobs of pitchfork-carrying, record-burning hayseeds.
— Michael Main
Fred, I appreciate your opinion, but no matter how many editorials you publish, I am not gonna stop playing rock’n’roll.
Quantum Leap (s02e06), “Good Morning, Peoria” by Chris Ruppenthal, directed by Michael Zinberg (NBC-TV, USA, 8 November 1989).

Back to the Future II

Back to the Future II

by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
Doc Brown takes Marty and Jennifer from 1985 to 2015 to save their children from a bad fate, but the consequences pile up when Biff also gets in on the time-travel action.
— Michael Main
The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe—women!
Back to the Future II by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis (at movie theaters, USA, 22 November 1989).

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

by Pat Murphy
“How I Spent My Summer Vacation” by Pat Murphy, in Time Gate, edited by Bill Fawcett and Robert Silverberg (Baen Books, December 1989).

The Resurrection Machine

by Robert Sheckley
“The Resurrection Machine” by Robert Sheckley, in Time Gate, edited by Bill Fawcett and Robert Silverberg (Baen Books, December 1989).

The Rose and the Scalpel

by Gregory Benford
“The Rose and the Scalpel” by Gregory Benford, in Time Gate, edited by Bill Fawcett and Robert Silverberg (Baen Books, December 1989).

Statesmen

by Poul Anderson
“Statesmen” by Poul Anderson, in Time Gate, edited by Bill Fawcett and Robert Silverberg (Baen Books, December 1989).

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Paul Zindel, directed by Mel Damski
Young Karen Jones finds herself in sixth-century Camelot after she falls from a horse. Using her modern-day “magic,” she fights the evil Merlin (none other than René Auberjonois) and Mordrid to restore peace to King Arthur’s court.
— from publicity material
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Paul Zindel, directed by Mel Damski (NBC-TV, USA, 18 December 1989).

Take Your Time

by Joan Clarke
Take Your Time by Joan Clarke (Jonathan Cape, 1990).

Kappatoo

by Ben Steed
In an amusing twist on The Prince and the Pauper, Kappatoo 70934 swaps places with his twentieth century lookalike, Simon, in this one-season series and its follow-up, Kappatoo II, in 1992. I like that Simon in the future had a computer as his foil, whereas back in our time, Kappatoo has a cat. The vintage 1990 PCs are also fun.
Not where, when. When did I come from? Which happens to be the year 2270.
Kappatoo by Ben Steed (20 January 1990).

Time and Chance

by Alan Brennert
Time and Chance by Alan Brennert (Tor Books, February 1990).

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

by D. C. Fontana
As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself.
— Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02), “Encounter at Farpoint” by D. C. Fontana (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated].

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s03e15)

Yesterday’s Enterprise

by Ira Steven Behr et al., directed by David Carson
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s03e15), “Yesterday’s Enterprise” by Ira Steven Behr et al., directed by David Carson (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 19 February 1993) [syndicated].

The Hemingway Hoax

by Joe Haldeman
Literature professor John Baird and conman Sylvester Castlemaine hatch a plan to get rich forging Hemingway’s lost stories, but before long, Baird is confronted by an apparent guardian of the many timelines in the form of Hemingway himself.
— Michael Main
I’m from the future and the past and other temporalities that you can’t comprehend. But all you need to know is that yiou must not write this Hemingway story. If you do, I or someone like me will have to kill you.
“The Hemingway Hoax” by Joe Haldeman, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990.

The Time Machine

by Bill Spangler and John Ross
This three-issue black-and-white adaptation has some creative twists such as when it occurs to the Traveller how to use the machine to destroy the Morlocks. In 1991, the three issues were issued as a single graphic novel in trade paperback size.
I was elated! I gripped the starting lever with both hands and went off with a thud.
“The Time Machine” by Bill Spangler and John Ross (April 1990).

Back to the Future III

Back to the Future III

by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
Marty and 1955-Doc travel back to the Old West where 1985-Doc is trapped along with various Biff ancestors and a possible love interest for Doc.
— Michael Main
Doc: [blowing train whistle] I’ve wanted to do that my whole life!
Back to the Future III by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis (at movie theaters, USA, 25 May 1990).

Back to the Future 3

Back to the Future III

by Craig Shaw Gardner
Back to the Future III by Craig Shaw Gardner (Headline, June 1990).

Future Zone

written and directed by David A. Prior
John Tucker—a gunslinging cop in future Mobile, Alabama, played by David Carradine—is visited by thirty-year-old Billy who’s almost as quick on the draw as John. But—ah, Grasshopper—just where does the visitor’s prescient knowledge come from, and more to the point given the ending of the film: Who taught Billy to shoot?
— Michael Main
Tucker: Where’d you learn to shoot like that?
Billy: You might say I learned from the best.
Tucker: And who might that be?
Billy: You’d never believe me.
Future Zone written and directed by David A. Prior (direct-to-video, USA, 18 July 1990).

Conrad Stargard 5

Lord Conrad’s Lady

by Leo Frankowski
Lord Conrad’s Lady by Leo Frankowski (Del Rey, September 1990).

Alvin and the Chipmonks

by Dianne Dixon
It was not until the final season of the Alvin revival (nearly two decades after creator Bagdasarian’s death) that Theodore, Simon and Alvin had a series of movie take-offs including Dianne Dixon’s episode, “Back to Our Future,” in which the quirky inventor Clyde Crashcup (filling in for Doc Brown) brings the 90s trio back to the 50s to stop the original trio from giving up their singing careers.
Now remember boys, you must convince the old Alvin to stick with his musical career, so you can all be stars in the future!
Alvin and the Chipmonks by Dianne Dixon (8 September 1990).

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures

by David Kirschner et al.
. . . featuring the most outstanding voices of the original Two Great Ones, but bogus plots and dialog.
♫ Whenever time stands still and trouble moves too fast, to save the future, we must learn about the past. ♫
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures by David Kirschner et al. (15 September 1990).

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3

by Reed Shelly and Bruce Shelly
The animation and sound effects are a good reflection of the video game. In one episode (“Toddler Terrors of Time Travel”), the son of King Bowser invents a time machine to go back in time and stop Mario, Luigi and Toad from ever coming to their kingdom. The heroes stow away, and everyone ends up as toddlers in Brooklyn.
Maybe we can go back and change history, King Dad. All we need is a little time travel.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 by Reed Shelly and Bruce Shelly (29 September 1990).

Invaders

by John Kessel
The story tells us of two sets of invaders—the 16th-century Spaniard Pizarro, who violently invaded the Incan Empire, and the Krel, who economically and culturally invaded 21st-century Earth—and we briefly hear of one man’s use of Krel tech to travel from the 21st century to the 16th.
— Michael Main
Sf is full of this sort of thing, from the power fantasy of the alienated child to the alternate history where Hitler is strangled in his cradle and the Library of Alexandria is saved from the torch.
“Invaders” by John Kessel, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1990.

The Spirit of ’76

written and directed by Lucas Reiner
It would seem that singing about the girl whose ♫ head was lost in time ♫ wasn’t David Cassidy’s only intersection with time travelers. In the year 2176, three time travelers aiming for 1776 end up in the time of David Cassidy and disco instead.
— Michael Main
Channel Six, our foremost epistomological anthrosociologist has redlined and outlined you for a mission back in time.
The Spirit of ’76 written and directed by Lucas Reiner (at limited movie theaters, USA, 12 October 1990).

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e08)

The Toynbee Convector

by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing
At the end of Bradbury’s adaptation of his own earlier story, he adds a holo-twist that viewers of The Ray Bradbury Theater may have enjoyed.
— Michael Main
Stiles: For years I brooded on it. I was in complete despair, and then one night, I was rereading H. G. Wells and his wonderful time machine, and then it struck me. “Eureka!” I cried, “I’ve found it. This [pounds book in hand] is my blueprint.”
The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e08), “The Toynbee Convector” by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing (USA Network, USA, 26 October 1990).

The Time Traveler

by Isaac Asimov
The little demon Azazel (the hero of many an Asimov tale) sends a world-renowned writer travels back in time to see his first writing teacher at a 1934 school that is remarkably like Asimov’s own Boys High in Brooklyn.
“Because,” and here he struck his chest a resounding thump, “the burning memories of youthful snubs and spurnings remain unavenged and, indeed, forever unavengable.”
“The Time Traveler” by Isaac Asimov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1990.

Frankenstein Unbound

by Roger Corman and F. X. Feeney, directed by Roger Corman
Joe Buchanan invents a weapon that’s meant to be so terrible it will end war forever, but the weapon causes time rifts, one of which takes him (and his futuristic talking car, a.k.a. his electric carriage) back in time to where he meets Dr. Frankenstein (a standoffish man, but willing to talk science), Frankenstein’s monster (who is fascinated with the talking car), and Mary Wollstonecraft (a budding author).

The film did a good job of bringing Brian Aldiss’s book’s premise to the screen, with a better pace than the book, but the short dream sequences were ineffective for me and Dr. Frankenstein is more of a clichéd villain than in the book.

— Michael Main
Zero pollution, maximum ozone shield: Something tells me we’re not in New Los Angeles any more.
Frankenstein Unbound by Roger Corman and F. X. Feeney, directed by Roger Corman (at movie theaters, Uruguay, 1 November 1990).

3 RMS Good View

by Karen Haber
When a lawyer from the future decides to rent an apartment in 1968 San Francisco, she must first sign your standard temporal noninterference contract—yeah, like that one ever holds up in court!
Don’t change the past or the past will change you. The time laws. You lawyers understand this kind of thing. You, and you alone, are responsible for any dislocation of past events, persons or things, et cetera et cetera. Read the small print and sign.
“3 RMS Good View” by Karen Haber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, mid-December 1990.

Ben Franklin’s Laser

by Doug Beason
It appears that the sun will go nova in 75 hours, which leaves Grayson to go back in time to give a boost to science in Ben Franklin’s time.
It sounded nice and simple: allow Ben Franklin to invent the laser and let the technology casade. Grow enough so that in five hundred years we’d have something to get us out of this mess.
“Ben Franklin’s Laser” by Doug Beason, in Analog, mid-December 1990.

Child of Time

by Isaac Asimov
Child of Time by Isaac Asimov (Polaris Beograd, 1991).

Escape from the Future

by Lisa Vasil
Escape from the Future by Lisa Vasil (Tui, 1991).

Danny Parker 1

The Fourth Caution

by David McRobbie
The Fourth Caution by David McRobbie (Longman Cheshire, 1991).

The Intergalactic Kitchen 2

The Intergalactic Kitchen Goes Prehistoric

by Frank Rodgers
The Intergalactic Kitchen Goes Prehistoric by Frank Rodgers (Puffin, 1991).

Terminator Books

Judgment Day

by Randall Frakes
Judgment Day by Randall Frakes (Sphere, 1991).

Wild Child 1

Wild Child

by Chloë Rayban
Wild Child by Chloë Rayban (Bodley Head, 1991).

The Romanian Question

by Michael Moorcock
Jerry appears to be a time traveler (or maybe God) involved with Hitler and the democratic movement in Romania, but I really didn’t get it. Even so, it was fun to see the bicycle he rides as a time machine, which shares a description with the time machine in “Behold the Man.”
The time machine was a sphere of milky fluid attached to the front lamp-holder of a Raleigh “Royal Albert” Police Bicycle of the old, sturdy type, before all the corruption had been made public.
“The Romanian Question” by Michael Moorcock, in Back Brain Recluse, Spring 1991.

Crossroads

by Paul McAuley
In an alternate 1960s America where the U.S. is isolationist and Adam Clayton Powell is president, Time traveler (or “Loop rider”) Ike Turner has a fascination with blues player Bobby Johnson, so he sticks around a bit longer than he should in 1937 to meet the musician. It shouldn’t be a big deal; after all, according to Einstein, not even the Loop riders can change the past.
Anyway, he went away maybe a year, and I don’t know if he went to the crossroads with ol Legba or not, but Son House told me when he came back he was carryin a gitar, and asked for a spot like old times. Well, Son was about ready to take a break, and told Bobby Johnson to go ahead and got himself outside before the boy began. But that time it was all changed. That time, he tol me, the music he heard Bobby Johnson make put the hair on his head to standin.
“Crossroads” by Paul McAuley, in Interzone, April 1991.

Robot Visions

by Isaac Asimov
A team of Temporalists send robot RG-32 200 years into the future where it seems to almost all that mankind is doing better than expected on Earth and in space.
RG-32 was a rather old-fashioned robot, eminently replaceable. He could observe and report, perhaps without quite the ingenuity and penetration of a human being—but well enough. He would be without fear, intent only on following orders, and he could be expected to tell the truth.
“Robot Visions” by Isaac Asimov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1991.

In the Native State

by Tom Stoppard
In the Native State by Tom Stoppard (20 April 1991).

The Propitiation of Brullamagoo

by Keith Laumer
“The Propitiation of Brullamagoo” by Keith Laumer, in Alien Minds (Baen, May 1991).

Trancers II

Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth

by Jackson Barr, directed by Charles Band
Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth by Jackson Barr, directed by Charles Band (Cannes Film Festival, mid-May 1991).

The Gallery of His Dreams

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Having spent his life and his fortune documenting the American Civil War, pioneering photographer Mathew Brady is repeatedly visited by a woman of the future who asks him to photograph the horrors of the wars she knows, starting with Hiroshima.
“I’m sorry, ma’am,” Brady said. He didn’t turn to see which portraits she had indicated. “I didn’t mean to offend you. These portraits show what war really is, and I think it’s something we need to remember lest we try it again.”
“The Gallery of His Dreams” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Axolotl Press, July 1991).

Terminator 2

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

by James Cameron and William Wisher, directed by James Cameron
Once more, the machines from 2029 send back a killer cyborg, this time a T-1000 to kill young John Connor in 1995, but Resistance-leader Connor of the future counters by sending a reprogrammed original T-800 to save himself.
— Michael Main
The T-800: [to Sarah at the Pescadero State Hospital] Come with me if you want to live.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day by James Cameron and William Wisher, directed by James Cameron (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 1 July 1991).

ఆదిత్య 369

Aditya 369 English release: Mission 369 Literal: Aditya 369

written and directed by సింగితం శ్రీనివాసరావు
[ex=bare]ఆదిత్య 369 | Aditya 369 | Aditya 369[/ex] written and directed by సింగితం శ్రీనివాసరావు (at movie theaters, India, 18 July 1991).

Bill & Ted II

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Peter Hewitt
Two Evil Robots from the future are out to destroy Bill & Ted and their babes. After all that, the Two Great Ones begin a journey that starts with Death and ends with Two Little Ones.
— Michael Main
Look, after we get away from this guy, we use the booth. We time travel back to before the concert and set up the things we need to get him now.
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Peter Hewitt (at movie theaters, USA, 19 July 1991).

All the Weyrs of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
After the time of the first books, Pern undergoes a technological revival engendered by the rediscovery of the Admin AI built by the original colonists. An ambitious plan to eliminate Thread forever (yeah, like that’s gonna happen) hinges on time travel and blowing up engines on the Red Star.
Jaxom shrugged as he changed pages. “A dragon has to know exactly the time when he is going to, or he can come out of between at the same spot he’s inhabiting at that earlier time. Too close, and it is thought that both dragon and rider will die. Equally, it’s unwise to go any place you haven’t already been, so you shouldn’t go forward, because you wouldn’t know if you were there or not.”
All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Bantam Books, September 1991).

Quantum Leap

by George Broderick, Jr.
Little known fact: The Quantum Leap comic books were actually written and drawn two decades before the birth of their creators, which is the only reason they have been given a special temporal dispensation overriding the law that forbids post-1969 comic books in this list. In the first issue, Sam desperately wants to save Martin Luther King Jr., but he realizes that’s not the reason he’s in Memphis.
He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own.
“Quantum Leap” by George Broderick, Jr. (September 1991).

Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence

by Martin Amis
Time’s Arrow or the Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, September 1991).

Back to the Future

by Bob Gale
After III, Doc Brown and Clara settle and raise a family in Hill Valley, though “settle” might be the wrong word when you once again have a working DeLorean.
You do sorta look like that J. Michael Fox guy.
Back to the Future by Bob Gale (14 September 1991).

Time Riders

by Jim Eldridge
Time Riders by Jim Eldridge (Red Fox, October 1991).

Bad Timing

by Molly Brown
When Alan’s coworker tells him that an old women’s magazine has a romance story called “The Love That Conquered Time” with Alan himself as the hero, he is dubious, but he reads the thing nonetheless.
You’re the only reason, Claudia. I did it for you. I read a story that you wrote and I knew it was about me and that it was about you. I searched in the Archives and I found your picture and then I knew that I loved you and that I had always loved you and that I always would.
“Bad Timing” by Molly Brown, in Interzone, December 1991.

Murder Most Horrid

by Dawn French
In this anthology series, Dawn French finds herself in one murder story after another, including a tale of a “Determined Woman” physicist who uses her time machine to attempt to change the happenings of one particular murder.
If you don’t get out of this house, I’m going to murder you!
Murder Most Horrid by Dawn French (5 December 1991).

Split Infinity

by Leo D. Paur, directed by Stan Ferguson
Split Infinity by Leo D. Paur, directed by Stan Ferguson (direct-to-video, USA, 1992).

Down the River Road

by Gregory Benford
On the verge of becoming a man, John travels a river that is an admixture of time-flow and liquid metal—or possibly of magic and science—with the goal of finding out about a father whom he barely remembers.
John followed the boot tracks away from the launch. They led inland, so there was no time pressure to fight. His clothes dried out as he walked beneath a shimmering patch of burnt-goald worldwall that hung tantalizingly behind roiling clouds.
“Down the River Road” by Gregory Benford, in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Martin H. Greenberg (Tor Books, January 1992).

Timescape

written and directed by David Twohy
Timescape written and directed by David Twohy (Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, mid-January 1992).

ドラゴンボール

English release: Dragon Ball Literal: Dragon ball

by Takao Koyama
Sent to Earth as a mere baby to lay preparations for an alien invasion, Goku suffers a clonk on the head, losing all memory of his mission and subsequently becoming a champion defender of our planet. I haven’t watched enough episodes to know for sure when the first time travel occurred, but it may have been in Episode 122 of the second Dragon Ball series (Dragon Ball Z, “My Dad is Vegeta”) in which time traveler Trunks arrives with a warning. Trunk and time traveling continued into the reboot series, Dragon Ball Z Kai, which I’ve seen on the Toon network.
Thirdly, please tell me the grown-up version of my mysterious son from the future is with you.
[ex=bare]ドラゴンボール | Dragon ball[/ex] by Takao Koyama (8 January 1992).

Freejack

by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, and Dan Gilroy, directed by Geoff Murphy
Freejack by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, and Dan Gilroy, directed by Geoff Murphy (at movie theaters, USA, 17 January 1992).

Children of the Rainbow

by Terence M. Green
Children of the Rainbow by Terence M. Green (McClelland and Stewart, March 1992).

Compound Interest

by Jim Heath
“Compound Interest” by Jim Heath, in Eidolon, Spring 1992.

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The Big Splash

by L. Sprague de Camp
Just what caused the dinosaurs’ extinction?
The scientists had been arguing for half a century over the nature of the K-T Event. Some said a comet or a planetoid hit the Earth; others, that one or more of those big super-volcanoes, like the one that mad your Yellowstone Park, cut loose with an eruption that blanketed the Earth with ash and smoke.
“The Big Splash” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1992.

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures

by Darren Starr
The Two Great Ones become the two lame ones, although the Elvis episode has some redeeming factors.
It’s a completely creepy feeling to fail before a large group of Elvises.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures by Darren Starr (28 June 1992).

Back to the Time Trap

by Keith Laumer
Twenty-two years after the first installment, Laumer provides a sequel to Roger Tyson’s humorous adventures with powerful time traveling aliens who fling Roger back in forth in time.
“This is Roger; he’s as helpless and bewildered as I am. We were just planning how to escape from this, ah, time trap. How did you—’

“Went in the pantry,’ Fred grunted.

Back to the Time Trap by Keith Laumer (Baen Books, July 1992).

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Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis
We may never know just how young Kivrin Engle wrangled her academic advisor and the powers-that-be at the University of Oxford into sending her to previously off-limits, 14th-century England, but her timing was not ideal given that she’dd just been exposed to a recently re-emerged influenza virus. Oh, and the inexperience tech who also got hit with the virus with the virus after the drop may have sent Kivrin to the wrong year.
— Ruthie Mariner
You know what he said when I told him he should run at least one unmanned? He said, “If something unfortunate does happen, we can go back in time and pull Miss Engle out before it happens, can’t we?” The man has no notion of how the net works, no notion of the paradoxes, no notion that Kivrin is there, and what happens to her is real and irrevocable.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra, July 1992).

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Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra, July 1992).

Star Trek TNG Books

Imzadi

by Peter David
Imzadi by Peter David (Pocket Books, August 1992).

Two Guys from the Future

by Terry Bisson
Two guys from the future show up in an art gallery (to “salvage the works of art of your posteriors” because “no shit is fixing to hang loose any someday now.”) where they meet a security-guard-cum-artist and her boss, Mimsy.
“We are two guys from the future.”

“Yeah, right. Now get the hell out of here!”

“Don’t shoot! Is that a gun?”

That gave me pause; it was a flashlight.

“Two Guys from the Future” by Terry Bisson, Omni, August 1992.

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The Synthetic Barbarian

by L. Sprague de Camp
Clifton Standish’s motivation for travel to the Mesozoic is not entirely what it seems.
One day this bloke Standish came in with his friend Hofmann, saying they wanted a time safari to cave-man days, to shoot dinosaurs the way our ancestors used to do.
“The Synthetic Barbarian” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1992.

The Ugly Little Boy

by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
The story of Ms. Fellowes and Timmie is augmented by the story of what his tribe did during his time away.
He was a very ugly little boy and Edith Fellowes loved him more dearly than anything in the world.
The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (Doubleday Foundation, October 1992).

Darkwing Duck

by Tad Stones
The crimefighting duck (or his pals) time traveled at least five times, some of which used arch-nemesis Quackerjack’s Time Top (no word on whether it was stolen from Brick Bradford).
Need I remind you about the time with the floor wax, the peanut butter and my VCR?
Darkwing Duck by Tad Stones (18 September 1992).

Atlantis

by Orson Scott Card
“Atlantis” by Orson Scott Card, in Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, edited by Richard Gilliam et al. (Unnameable Press, October 1992).

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Crocamander Quest

by L. Sprague de Camp
Long before T. rex was king of the predators, the Triassic was terrorized by the 5-meter long amphibian K. col with a meter-long head, a powerful jaw, and rows of sharp teeth.
Imagine a newt or salamander expanded to crocodile size, with a huge head for catching smaller fry, and you’ll have the idea. Might call it a crocamander, eh?
“Crocamander Quest” by L. Sprague de Camp, in The Ultimate Dinosaur, edited by Byron Preiss and Robert Silverberg (Bantam Spectra, October 1992).

The Guns of the South

by Harry Turtledove
A faction from the early 21st century brings boatloads of AK-47 machine guns back to General Lee in the War between the States.
My friends and I—everyone who belongs to America Will Break—come from a hundred and fifty years in your future.
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove (Ballantine Books, October 1992).

Trancers III

Trancers III: Deth Lives

by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, and C. Courtney Joyner, directed by C. Courtney Joyner
Trancers III: Deth Lives by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, and C. Courtney Joyner, directed by C. Courtney Joyner (direct-to-video, USA, 14 October 1992).

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, sends out five magic rings which are obtained by teenagers who are then tasked with protecting the planet Earth, sometimes individually and sometimes by combining to call forth Captain Planet who (among other things) can even take them into the past (“OK at the Gunfight Corral”).
There she is, boys: my own time machine.
Captain Planet and the Planeteers by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle (31 October 1992).

The Poof Point

by Ellen Weiss and Mel Friedman
The Poof Point by Ellen Weiss and Mel Friedman (Alfred A. Knopf, November 1992).

Quantum Leap

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“Oh, boy,” he whispered.
Quantum Leap |pending byline| (November 1992).

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The Satanic Illusion

by L. Sprague de Camp
Murder most foul when religious fundamentalists plan a time safari to disprove the theory of evolution.
It will demonstrate that all these prehistoric beasts, whereof your clients bring home heads, hides, and photographs, did not live in succession, but all at the same time.
“The Satanic Illusion” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1992.

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Timelike Infinity

by Stephen Baxter
Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins, December 1992).

The Muppet Christmas Carol

by Jerry Juhl, directed by Brian Henson
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
— from publicity material
The Muppet Christmas Carol by Jerry Juhl, directed by Brian Henson (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 6 December 1992).

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The Cayuse

by L. Sprague de Camp
Apparently, the parasaurolophus does not play well with certain 20th century technology.
“The Cayuse” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Expanse, 1993.

One Giant Step

by John E. Stith
“One Giant Step” by John E. Stith, in Dinosaur Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Mike Resnick (DAW Books, 1993).

Time Chasers

written and directed by David Giancola
The film, about amateur inventor Nick Miller’s time machine in a two-prop plane and the evil corporation that tries to take it over, is unwatchable, but in a genuinely inoffensive, cultish way.
— Michael Main
You brought us up here this morning to look at your—time machine?!
Time Chasers written and directed by David Giancola (at movie theaters, USA, 1993).

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Timelock

by David McRobbie
Timelock by David McRobbie (Longman Cheshire, 1993).

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Pliocene Romance

by L. Sprague de Camp
How would an animal rights activist view the hunting of extinct species on Reggie’s time safaris?
But the beasts my clients hunt on these time safaris are all long extinct anyway. Ending the safaris wouldn’t bring any dinosaurs or mastodons back to life.
“Pliocene Romance” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Analog, January 1993.

A Sound of Thunder

by Richard Corben
In addition to reprinting Williamson’s 1954 adaptation, Ray Bradbury Comics 1 had a new 12-page adaptation by Richard Corben.
My god! It could reach up and grab the moon.
“A Sound of Thunder” by Richard Corben, in Ray Bradbury Comics 1, February 1993.

The Battle of Long Island

by Nancy Kress
Major Susan Peters is in charge of all the nurses at “The Hole” where a series of soldiers from alternative past Revolutionary Wars keep appearing.
They’re often like this. They find themsleves in an alien, impossible, unimaginable place, surround by guards with uniforms and weapons they don’t recognize, and yet their first concern is not their personal fate but the battle they left behind.
“The Battle of Long Island” by Nancy Kress, Omni, February/March1993.

X-Men

by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Even though the 1992 cartoon had all them new-fangled X-Men and their funky costumes, I still got some enjoyment from the Kirby-designed villains, such as the Sentinels in the two-part time-travel story, “Days of Future Past” (which, not coincidentally, will also be the name of the upcoming X-Men movie). Well, they were sort of Kirby-designed: He penciled the cover and sketched the layouts of X-Men 14.
We rebels have a theory: If the assasination of the 90s never occurred. . .
X-Men by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (13 March 1993).

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (13 April 1993).

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The Mislaid Mastodon

by L. Sprague de Camp
Wait a minute! Didn’t Reggie lay down the law long ago that his time safaris can’t meddle in human times? So how’s he gonna bring back a Mastodon alive for his latest customer?
“The Mislaid Mastodon” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Analog, May 1993.

Just Like Old Times

by Robert J. Sawyer
When serial killer Rudolph Cohen is convicted to die for his crimes, by transferring his consciousness into a previous nearly-dead being with no ability to control that being, he chooses a T. Rex. as the previous being, and it turns out that he can control it.
We can project a human being’s consciousness back in time, superimposing his or her mind overtop of that of someone who lived in the past.
“Just Like Old Times” by Robert J. Sawyer, in on Spec, June 1993.

The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy

by Lawrence Dyer
“The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy” by Lawrence Dyer, in Interzone, July 1993.

12:01

by Philip Morton, directed by Jack Sholder
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.
12:01:00 PM by Philip Morton, directed by Jack Sholder (FOX-TV, USA, 5 July 1993).

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse
In a steampunk Old West, gunfighter Brisco County, Jr., and his sidekick Lord Bowler are hired to track down the maniacal time-traveler John Bly who, among other things, kills the senior Brisco County and seeks a powerful Orb from the future—plenty of excitement for the 27 episodes of its one season.

At least one Brisco time traveler from 5502 appears naked a la the terminator, but (as of 2015) Harlan Ellison hasn’t sue Brisco over the time-travel requirement.

Brisco: Are you an angel? You look like an angel.
Karina: No. I’m from the future. My name is Karina.
Brisco: And, uh, in the future you’ve kinda given up on clothes?
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse (27 August 1993).

Muddle Earth

by John Brunner
Muddle Earth by John Brunner (Del Rey, September 1993).

The Plot to Save Hitler

by W. R. Thompson
“The Plot to Save Hitler” by W. R. Thompson, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1993.

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice

by Jean Chalopin
When the real King Arthur and his knights are put out of commission by the evil Morgana, Merlin brings a football player, Arthur King, and his teammates, the Knights, back as replacements for two seasons on this syndicated series.
And then, from the field of the future, a new king will come to save the world of the past.
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice by Jean Chalopin (13 September 1993).

The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George.

by William Tenn
A young time traveler from the future visits the most fascinating person she can think of in the past—that would be playboy George Rice, coincidentally her great-great-grandfather—but she won’t tell George what makes him so fascinating.
That left the incest angle, and I asked him about that. He says that making it with your great-great-granddaughter from the twenty-first century is not much different from making it with your clothes-designer neighbor from across the hall.
“The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George.” by William Tenn, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1993.

Tomorrow Calling

written and directed by Tim Leandro
The screenwriter and director, Tim Leandro, writes: “Bill, a photographer, is trapped in an alternative now as imagined in the past, in this adaptation of William Gibson’s short story, ‘The Gernsback Continuum’.” A great concept, but an alternate universe rather than time travel.
— Michael Main
Think of it as a giant theme park, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future.
Tomorrow Calling written and directed by Tim Leandro (British Film Festival, Early October 1993).

Pinky and the Brain

by Tom Ruegger and Steven Spielberg
In their quest for world domination, the pair of gene-spliced lab mice traveled through time multiple times, both in their role as an Animaniacs guest feature and in their own series. Their jaunts include a visit to H.G. Wells and his time machine.

As with the Warners in other Animaniacs episodes, it’s not always clear whether Pinky and the Brain are traveling through time or merely acting out a drama set in a different time period. Such is life within four walls.

Greetings from a post-apocalyptic future. We have traveled back through time to bring you the answer to all of your problems. We are your future selves.
Pinky and the Brain by Tom Ruegger and Steven Spielberg (6 October 1993).

Demolition Man

by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lenkov, directed by Marco Brambilla
Both the psychopath and the police sergeant undergo cryogenic sleep, but there’s no actual time travel.
— Michael Main
I'm a seamstress? That’s great. I come out of cryo-prison and I'm Betsy-fucking-Ross.
Demolition Man by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lenkov, directed by Marco Brambilla (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 7 October 1993).

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

by Reed Shelly et al.
Video game character Sonic and his sidekick Tails repeatedly foil the evil Dr. Robotnik, including a four-part quest to the past where Robotnik seeks the four all-powerful chaos emeralds in the times of Blackbeard, King Arfur, Sonic’s ancestors and prehistory.
I can’t go through with this. My theories of time and space were developed for peace, not for your evil schemes.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog by Reed Shelly et al. (26 October 1993).

The Silurian Tales

by Steven Utley
I’ve read ten of Utley’s stories of an expedition plopped into the Silurian geologic period, the most recent of which, “The End in Eden,” tells the tale of customs agents Phil Morrow and Sal Shelton, living at the border between the Silurian period and the present, matching wits with NCIS and JAG officers over a case of possible smuggling of Paleolithic biological specimens.
Where’s he going to run to? Home is four hundred million miles away.
“The Silurian Tales” by Steven Utley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1993.

Miocene Romance

by L. Sprague de Camp
“Miocene Romance” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Rivers of Time (Baen Books, November 1993).

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The Honeymoon Dragon

by L. Sprague de Camp
Reggie Rivers must watch his back when he accepts an invitation from a journalist to track down a Megalania (kinda like a giant Komodo dragon) in the Quaternary period. This is the only new story in the 1993 Reggie Rivers Collection, Rivers of Time.
“The Honeymoon Dragon” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Rivers of Time (Baen Books, November 1993).

The Philadelphia Experiment II

Philadelphia Experiment II

by Kevin Rock and Nick Paine, directed by Stephen Cornwell
At the end of the first movie, David Herdeg was left in 1983 America; ten years later, another experiment sends a nuclear bomb to 1943 Germany and David must go back to stop it from creating a Nazi-ruled world.
— Michael Main
That plane got sucked back there. Landed in the heart of Nazi Germany.
Philadelphia Experiment II by Kevin Rock and Nick Paine, directed by Stephen Cornwell (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 12 November 1993).

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story

by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Phil Nibbelink et al.
Based on the children’s book of the same name, Rex tells the story of how he went from the Cretaceous to the modern-day golf course. The story is weak, but the animation and voices are better than the usual 90s fare.
— Michael Main
Greetings friends, and welcome to my shack. My name is Captain Neweyes, and I live in the far future where all the stars and all the planets have had to learn to get along.
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Phil Nibbelink et al. (at movie theaters, USA, 24 November 1993).

Blue Flame

written and directed by Cassian Elwes
Two aliens take ACTCON agent Peter Flemming’s daughter, and now they control him—sending him through memories, through fantasies, into black holes in time, and into worlds they’ve created—in a way that sometimes seems like time travel, but never turns out to be. One character also ages biologically at a different rate than usual, but there’s no indication that that’s actually time travel either.
— Michael Main
Time isn’t real: It’s speeding somewhere in the universe and slowing somewhere else.
Blue Flame written and directed by Cassian Elwes (direct-to-video, USA, December 1993).

Dilbert

by Scott Adams
Make sure nothing changes because of my visit or it will kill everyone in the future.
“Dilbert” by Scott Adams (19 December 1993).

Star Trek TNG Books

All Good Things

by Michael Jan Friedman
All Good Things by Michael Jan Friedman (Pocket Books, 1994).

Time Trek

by Eric Scott
Time Trek by Eric Scott (Longman Cheshire, 1994).

The Real Physics of Time Travel

by Ian Stewart
“The Real Physics of Time Travel” by Ian Stewart, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1994.

Women on the Brink of a Cataclysm

by Molly Brown
Joanna, a successful sculptor in New York, agrees to be the traveler for her friend Toni’s time machine, but what neither of them knows is that any travel backward in time will start an avalanche of various artist Joannas going back and forth between alternate universes.
“Even if you’ve found a way, I’m not going back,” she said. “No way am I going back. Ever. This is my life now, my world, and I like it. Though. . .” She paused a moment, and her face—my face—crumpled into a mass of lines. Oh God, I thought, I don’t look as old as her, do I? She blinked hard, several times, as if she was trying not to cry. “How’s Katie? Is she all right?”
“Women on the Brink of a Cataclysm” by Molly Brown, in Interzone, January 1994.

A.P.E.X.

by Phillip J. Roth and Ron Schmidt, directed by Philip J. Roth
A.P.E.X. by Phillip J. Roth and Ron Schmidt, directed by Philip J. Roth (Fantasporto Film Festival, Porto, Portugual, February 1994).

The Tourist

by Paul Park
Once the time travel tourist business gets going, there’s no stopping it, not to mention all those travelers who feel they have business with Hitler or Stalin—which brings about an interesting theory of time not being a continuum at all, all told through the personal lens of one recently divorced man who buys a ticket for Paleolithic Spain and sets out after his ex-wife.
We just can’t keep our hands off, and as a result, Cuba has invaded prehistoric Texas, the Empire of Ashok has become a Chinese client state, and Napoleon is in some kind of indirect communication with Genghis Khan.
“The Tourist” by Paul Park, in Interzone, February 1994.

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Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

by Peter David, directed by David Nutter
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords by Peter David, directed by David Nutter (direct-to-video, USA, 2 February 1994).

The Quantum Physics of Time Travel

by David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood
I propose that all writers of time travel fiction should be required to read certain articles, and this is the first. Deutsch and Lockwood do an admirable job of describing the well-known Grandfather Paradox and the lesser known paradox of the causal loop (in which, for example, an art critic brings a book of famous paintings back to the artist before the time when the paintings were painted, and this book then inspires those very paintings, leaving the question of who created the paintings).

The article then tries to unwind these paradoxes in classical physics, where there is but one universe. In this universe, a time traveler who returns to the past can do nothing except that which was already done. For example, the traveler simply cannot kill his or her own grandfather before Grandpa meets Grandma because we know (by the birth of the traveler) that that didn’t happen. So, something in the universe must stop the murder. Things must happen as they happened.

But, say Deutsch and Lockwood, this conspiracy of the universe to preserve consistency violates the Autonomy Principle, according to which “it is possible to create in our immediate environment any configuration of matter that the laws of physics permit locally, without reference to what the rest of the universe may be doing.” In other words, if it’s physically possible for the traveler to point a gun at Grandpa, then the fact that elsewhen in the universe Grandpa must knock up Grandma cannot interfere with the traveler’s ability to pull the trigger.

Deutsch and Lockwood use the Autonomy Principle to reject something, but it’s classical physics they reject, not time travel. In a similar way, for stories that rely on a Causal Loop Paradox, Deutsch and Lockwood ask: Just where did the original idea of the paintings come from? They reject that the paintings might have come from nowhere (TANSTAAFL!), and again they reject classical physics.

Personally, I hope that time travel writers don’t fully embrace the Autonomy Principle and TANSTAAFL, because I want more wonderful stories where, in fact, there is but one history of events, the future and past may both be fixed, free will is an illusion, and free lunches exist. Hooray for “—All You Zombies—”!

But with classical physics banned, what else is there? Deutsch and Lockwood turn to Everett’s Many Worlds model wherein each collapse of the quantum wave function results in a new universe. When a time traveler goes to the past, they say, the arrival of the traveler creates a new multiverse, and this multiverse does not need to act the same as the original. Grandpa can die! The artist can be given inspiration from an artist doppelgänger in the original universe!

Notably, though, Deutsch and Lockwood never discuss how time travel might cause the same kind of universe splitting as the collapse of the wave function, but never mind. What they do discuss is how the new universe must respond to changes, and many stories where changing the past is possible fall down on this account. For example, if you change the past so that the reason for your trip to the past no longer exists, then when you return to the present you should find a new version of yourself who never considered traveling to the past. Multiverse time travelers should read this article just to understand that the present they return to may very well have another version of themselves. Two Marties McFly!

One final note: Of course we don’t live in a classical physics universe. That's clear from the many experiments that support quantum physics. But living in a quantum world doesn’t immediately imply Many Worlds. Could time travel exist in a single quantum universe? Or does it? For thoughts on that, check out the online Scientific American article “Time Travel Simulation Resolves Grandfather Paradox” by Lee Billings.

In the art critic story, quantum mechanics allows events, from the participants’ perspective, to occur much as Dummett describes. The universe that the critic comes from must have been one in which the artist did, eventually, learn to paint well. In that universe, the pictures were produced by creative effort, and reproductions were later taken to the past of another universe. There the paintings were Indeed plagiarized—if one can be said to plagiarize the work of another version of oneself—and the painter did get “some- thing for nothing.” But there is no para- dox, because now the existence of the pictures was caused by genuine creative effort, albeit in another universe.
The Quantum Physics of Time Travel by David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood, in Scientific American, March 1994.

Cloche vaine

English release: Empty ring Literal: Vain bell

by Francine Pelletier
At the end of her long successful writing career, a woman is still haunted by her sister’s death four decades earlier.
— Michael Main
We had talked about SF literature, books on the theme of going back in time. This was related to the activities of the day. During the convention, one of the guest scientists had stated that time travel was impossible.
[ex=bare]“Cloche vaine” | Vain bell[/ex] by Francine Pelletier, in Solaris 109, Spring 1994.

Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea

by Ursula K. Le Guin
At 18, Hideo leaves his family and his planet, O, to become part of a group that invents instantaneous transportation—a device that ends up taking him back to the time that he first left Planet O.
So: once upon a time when I was twenty-one years old I left my home and came on the NAFAL ship Terraces of Darranda to study at the Ekumenical Schools on Hain.
“Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea” by Ursula K. Le Guin, in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism, May 1994).

Firehand

by Andre Norton and P. M. Griffin
So how do you battle a powerful, time-traveling alien race who visited Earth in the far distant past? Ross Murdock has the right idea: You go back in time yourself to set up a resistance in the Dominion of Virgin civilization, which was wiped out by the murderous, bald aliens. And you get yourself a love interest.
. . . she kissed him joyfully.
Firehand by Andre Norton and P. M. Griffin (Tor Books, June 1994).

The Time Machine

by Seymour Reit and Ernie Colon
Nearly a century after the original publication of Wells’s tale, author Seymour Reit and artist Ernie Colon faithfully the comic book version up to date. The art was enjoyable, but to me, the Traveller’s connection with Weena is downplayed in exchange for werewolfish Morlocks.
After much study I’ve discovered that we can travel through time just as we travel through space. . .
“The Time Machine” by Seymour Reit and Ernie Colon, in Boys’ Life, June 1994.

An M-1 at Fort Donelson

by Charles L. Fontenay
“An M-1 at Fort Donelson” by Charles L. Fontenay, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July 1994.

Wild Child 2

Virtual Sexual Reality

by Chloë Rayban
Virtual Sexual Reality by Chloë Rayban (Bodley Head, August 1994).

Babylon 5

by J. Michael Straczynski
We admit it: Nobody up in the ITTDB Citadel knows a thing about this 23rd-century space station except, of course, that the humans and aliens sometimes travel through time. This entry in the ITTDB is just a placeholder to remind us to watch the series!
This is nuts! A station doesn’t just disappear and then reappear four years later like some kind of Flying Dutchman.
Babylon 5 by J. Michael Straczynski (10 August 1994).

Timecop

by S. D. Perry
Timecop by S. D. Perry (Berkley Books, September 1994).

Timecop

by Mark Verheiden, directed by Peter Hyams
Agent Van Damme (aka Agent Walker) of the Time Enforcement Commission goes back in time to blow lots of stuff up in hopes of saving his already-blown-up wife.
— Michael Main
I can’t tell you anything. He’ll send somebody back to wipe out my grandparents. It’ll be like I’ve never existed. My mother, my father, my wife, my kids, my fucking cat.
Timecop by Mark Verheiden, directed by Peter Hyams (at movie theaters, USA, 16 September 1994).

The Dolphins of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey, October 1994).

End of an Era

by Robert J. Sawyer
End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer (New English Library, October 1994).

Trancers IS V

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

by Peter David, directed by David Nutter
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth by Peter David, directed by David Nutter (direct-to-video, USA, 9 November 1994).

Dog City

by Jim Henson Productions
This combined animation/Muppet show from Jim Hensen Productions gets an extra half star just because the main characters are all dogs, one of who explains how a time machine has completely altered Dog City in the episode “Future Schlock’ (12 Nov 1994).
Due to the use of a time machine, events were changed in Dog City’s past, which naturally affected Dog City’s future, which was Dog City’s present, of course.
Dog City by Jim Henson Productions (12 November 1994).

Star Trek Generations

by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, directed by David Carson
Star Trek Generations by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, directed by David Carson (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 17 November 1994).

A.J.’s Time Travelers

by Barry Friedman, directed by Mike Finney
In the four episodes of this Fox Network Saturday morning show, teenaged Commander A.J. Malloy leads a crew through horribly written educational trips through time including visits to Imhotep, Newton, Gutenberg and the Tuskegee Airmen, Salem, Santa, and more.

I wish I knew more about when this aired. The first episode was definitely “Imhotep,” since that is where A.J. meets his crew; it might have aired as early as 3 Dec 1984.

Having a conversation with a dog in a time machine and you think something can be impossible?
A.J.’s Time Travelers by Barry Friedman, directed by Mike Finney (4 December 1994).

Ausgestorben

English release: Extinct Literal: Extinct

written and directed by Michael Pohl
Ausgestorben written and directed by Michael Pohl (unknown release details, 1995).

天は赤い河のほとり

Sora wa Akai Kawa no hotori English release: Red River Literal: By the banks of the Red River

by Chie Shinohara
Shortly after her first kiss, fifteen-year-old Yuri is transported back to the Hittite Empire in ancient Anatolia where she becomes involved in royal intrigue.

The adventure was originally published in sixty chapters of Sho̅jo Comic starting in early 1995. The chapters were collected into 28 volumes for book publication, also starting in 1995. For me, it’s unique enough that I’ll break the rule of no-post-1969 comic book time travel.

Please send me a note if you know the date of the first Sho̅jo, or better yet, please send a scan of the cover!

This place looks like the prop room for the Trojan War.
[ex=bare]天は赤い河のほとり | By the banks of the Red River | Sora wa Akai Kawa no hotori[/ex] by Chie Shinohara, in Shojo Comic, 1995.

H. G. Wells Time Machine Universe

The Time Ships

by Stephen Baxter
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (Heyne, 1995).

The Time Machine

by Neal Adams
My strongest memory of Neal Adams comes from his artwork and plotting for the final eleven issues of the original X-Men. By that time, I felt that Marvel was in decline, but The Strangest Teens of All! still had my attention even if they didn’t yet have time travel. Much later, Adams adapted Wells’s famous tale in a 3D mini-comic giveaway for Wendy’s kids’ meals in a style that’s reminiscent of his early 1970s work on Tower of Shadows.

In addition to the wonderful Neal Adams art, I’m also intrigued by the ChromaDepth® 3D glasses in which different wavelengths are shifted left or right a differing amount in the two eyepieces to create a 3D effect. If I understand it right, this means that Adams could draw the comic normally, and the 3D effect is added in the coloring process.

“The Time Machine” by Neal Adams, third issue of 1995, Summer 1995.

Indian Ink

by Tom Stoppard
Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard (Faber and Faber, January 1995).

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

by Rick Berman and Michael Piller
Seven seasons with nine time-travel episodes including the most troublesome “Trials and Tribble-ations.”
We do not discuss it with outsiders.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (2 January 1995).

Star Trek: Voyager

by Rick Berman et al.
Seven seasons with 12 time-travel episodes, two of which featured Kess’s namesake, Kes.
As they say in the Temporal Mechanics Department: There’s no time like the present.
Star Trek: Voyager by Rick Berman et al. (30 January 1995).

From Time to Time

by Jack Finney
Finney’s sequel to Time and Again initially finds Si Morley living a happy life in the 19th century with his 19th century family, while The Project in the future never even got started because he prevented the inventor’s parents from ever meeting. But vague memories linger in some of the Project member’s minds, and Morley can’t stay put.
— Michael Main
They’re back there in the past, trampling around, changing things, aren’t they? They don’t know it. They’re just living their happy lives, but changing small events. Mostly trivial, with no important effects. But every once in a while the effect of some small changed event moves on down to the—
From Time to Time by Jack Finney (Simon and Shuster, February 1995).

Ray Bradbury Presents 5

Dinosaur Empire

by Stephen Leigh
Dinosaur Empire by Stephen Leigh (AvoNova, March 1995).

The Moment Universe Stories 1

Some Like It Cold

by John Kessel
Sure, others have pulled that 20th century actress forward to make modern films with spectacular failure, each attempt spawning a branch universe unconnected to the 21st century of time traveler Det Gruber, but none of the others took into account the psychological factors in the way that Det’s employers have done.
— Michael Main
She may be a wreck, but she wants to be here. Not like Paramount’s version.
“Some Like It Cold” by John Kessel, Omni, Fall 1995.

Once and Future

by Mercedes Lackey
“Once and Future” by Mercedes Lackey, in Excalibur, edited by Richard Gilliam et al. (Aspect / Warner Books, May 1995).

Time Loft

by Clare Cooper
Time Loft by Clare Cooper (Pont Books, May 1995).

Epsilon

by Rolf de Heer, directed by de Heer
Epsilon by Rolf de Heer, directed by de Heer (Cannes Film Fesival, mid-May 1995).

A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Frank Encarnacao and Ralph L. Thomas, directed by Ralph L. Thomas
Michael York plays Merlin to teenage rock-and-roll hopeful Hank Morgan, who has been zapped back to the round table Mark-Twain-style by a wonky speaker.
— Michael Main
Lancelot? This is awesome.
Movida en la corte del Rey Arturo by Frank Encarnacao and Ralph L. Thomas, directed by Ralph L. Thomas (Antena 3 TV, Spain, 27 May 1995).

An Angel for May

by Melvin Burgess
An Angel for May by Melvin Burgess (Simon and Schuster, June 1995).

Eon 3

Legacy

by Greg Bear
Legacy by Greg Bear (Tor, June 1995).

Time’s Revenge

by Pauline Ashwell
A housewife has a chance encounter with a time-traveler who deals in ancient artifacts, after which the two of them have time-to-time encounters.
I had not realised how important the Time Traveler’s visits had become in my pleasant, prosperous, humdrum existence.
“Time’s Revenge” by Pauline Ashwell, in Analog, June 1995.

Time-Traveling Terraformers

by Pauline Ashwell
Sandy Jennings, an orphan and a red-headed Ph.D. student in microbiology, is recruited into a terraforming project by a group of several hundred time travelers who work in a loosely defined, non-authoritarian structure that spans years of their lifetimes and eons of the planet’s time. Sandy is not seen in the third and fourth stories, which show nick-of-time recruitments of volcanologist Simon Hardacre and plankton expert Haru.

I liked these last two stories, especially the character of Haru, but I longed for more development beyond what Sandy had already shown us of their common universe.

Knowledge, absolute and definite knowledge of the future as it affects yourself, is never any use. Whether it is bad or good, you cannot do anything that will change it. It simply takes away your power to decide.
“Time-Traveling Terraformers” by Pauline Ashwell, in Analog, August 1995.

A Kid in King Arthur’s Court

by Michael Part and Robert L. Levy, directed by Michael Gottlieb
This time around, the Yankee is failed little-leaguer Calvin Fuller who’s pulled back to Camelot where we see him with a flashlight, a Walkman, roller blades, superglue, a mountain bike with training wheels, bubble gum, karate, a candy bar, a Swiss Army knife, an aging Arthur, and a young princess.
— Michael Main
Swiss Army knife! The very name conjurs up greatness!
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court by Michael Part and Robert L. Levy, directed by Michael Gottlieb (at movie theaters, USA, 11 August 1995).

The Chronology Protection Case

by Paul Levinson
When six of seven physicists (plus one pretty wife) in a time-travel research group meet untimely ends, forensic examiner Phil D’Amato suspects that a paradox-paranoid universe is looking out for itself.
The drive back to Westchester was harrowing. Two cars nearly side swiped me, and one big-ass truck stopped so suddenly in front of me that I had all I could do to swerve out of crashing into it and becoming an instant Long Island Expressway pancake.
“The Chronology Protection Case” by Paul Levinson, in Analog, September 1995.

Star Trek: Gargoyles

by Greg Weisman
What’s that? You didn’t realize that Tim’s favorite childhood cartoon was part of the Star Trek universe? And I suppose you also believe that Doc Brown had nothing to do with Brownian motion?! According to the creator, this universe has a fixed time line in which you may travel but not change things—what he calls “working paradoxes,” though my memory holds only one time-travel episode, “Vows” (14 Sep 1995).
You may have prevented me from altering the past, but you failed too. You see I have clear memories of your little inspirational about keeping my vows of love. I never forgot it. Obviously history is immutable.
Star Trek: Gargoyles by Greg Weisman (14 September 1995).

A Worm in the Well

by Gregory Benford
“A Worm in the Well” by Gregory Benford, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1995.

12 Monkeys

by David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples, directed by Terry Gilliam
In the year 2035, with the world devastated by an artificially engineered plague, convict James Cole is sent back in time to gather information about the plague’s origin so the scientists can figure out how to fight it.
— Michael Main
If you can’t change anything because it’s already happened, you may as well smell the flowers.
12 Monkeys by David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples, directed by Terry Gilliam (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 8 December 1995).

The Moment Universe Stories 2

The Miracle of Ivar Avenue

by John Kessel
In 1949 Los Angeles, Detective Lee Kinlaw has writer/director Preston Sturges down in the morgue. The only problem is that Sturges is still alive and well in Hollywood.
— Michael Main
It’s a transmogrifier. A device that can change anyone into anyone else. I can change General MacArthur into President Truman, Shirley Temple into Marilyn Monroe.
“The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” by John Kessel, in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al., January 1996.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

by Orson Scott Card
Diko, a second-generation researcher in a project that observes the past, discovers that it’s actually possible to send objects to the past and that a previous timeline did just this to alter Christopher Columbus’s fate; now, Diko and two others propose a further alteration that involves three travelers going to the 15th century.
All of history was available, it seemed, and yet Pastwatch had barely scratched the surface of the past, and most watchers looked forward to a limitless future of rummaging through time.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card (Tor Books, February 1996).

Duckman

by Everett Peck
Seinfeld’s pal, George Costanza, lends his voice to private detective, lousy family man, and general letch Eric Tiberius Duckman, who in one amusing episode was visited by multiple future selves warning him of multiple future mistakes.
Actually, it seems that while trying to set the alarm on my clock radio, I may have ripped a hole in the time-space continuum.
Duckman by Everett Peck (20 April 1996).

Dexter’s Laboratory

by Genndy Tartakovsky
Boy Genius Dexter makes amazing invention after amazing invention including a time machine that his annoying sister Dee Dee first used in the first episode, “DeeDeemensional.” I enjoyed the way it ended.
If there were a message that was so important it required time travel, I certainly would not send my idiot sister.
Dexter’s Laboratory by Genndy Tartakovsky (28 April 1996).

Yesterday’s Target

by David Bourla, directed by Barry Samson
Yesterday’s Target by David Bourla, directed by Barry Samson (Showtime, USA, 28 April 1996).

Time Travelers Never Die

by Jack McDevitt
Dave Dryden and his pal Shel have a great life traveling through time, visiting with Napoléon and da Vinci, until Shel dies. Or does he?

I was lucky enough to meet Jack McDevitt at Jim Gunn’s workshop in Lawrence. He was always encouraging, kind, insightful and upbeat—for me, the best of the resident writers at the workshop.

Time travel should not be possible in a rational universe.
“Time Travelers Never Die” by Jack McDevitt, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1996.

Doctor Who

by Matthew Jacobs, directed by Geoffrey Sax
Doctor Who by Matthew Jacobs, directed by Geoffrey Sax (CITV-TV, Edmonton, 12 May 1996).

Hostile Takeover 3

Revolutionary

by S. Andrew Swann
Revolutionary by S. Andrew Swann (DAW Books, June 1996).

Péplum

by Amélie Nothomb
Péplum by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel, August 1996).

Red Star Rising

by Anne McCaffrey
Red Star Rising by Anne McCaffrey (Bantam Press, August 1996).

Wild Child 3

Love. In Cyberia

by Chloë Rayban
Love. In Cyberia by Chloë Rayban (Bodley Head, October 1996).

The Magic Tree House 8

Midnight on the Moon

by Mary Pope Osborne
For the first time, the tree house takes Jack and Annie to the future and off the Earth!
— Michael Main
Jack nodded. “The book says the moon base was built in 2031,” he said. “So this book was written after that! Which means this book os from the future!.”
Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, October 1996).

Star Trek VIII

Star Trek: First Contact

by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, directed by Jonathan Frakes
Picard and the Enterprise travel back to 2063 to stop the Borg from preventing Zefram Cochrane’s invention of the warp drive.
— Michael Main
Assimilate this!
Star Trek: First Contact by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, directed by Jonathan Frakes (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 18 November 1996).

Crossing into the Empire

by Robert Silverberg
Mulreany is a trader who travels back to 14th century Byzantium with Coca-Cola and other treats.
One glance and Mulreany has no doubt that the version of the capital that has arrived on this trip is the twelfth-century one.
“Crossing into the Empire” by Robert Silverberg, in David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination, edited by Janet Berliner and David Copperfield (HarperPrism, December 1996).

Star Trek TNG Books

First Contact

by J. M. Dillard
First Contact by J. M. Dillard (Pocket Books, December 1996).

Star Trek DS9 Books

Trials and Tribble-ations

by Diane Carey
Trials and Tribble-ations by Diane Carey (Pocket Books, December 1996).

Timelock

by Joseph John Barmettler and J. Reifel, directed by Robert Munic
As a result of a computer virus, criminals in cold sleep return to life. Has long sleep, but no real time travel.
— Michael Main
Timelock by Joseph John Barmettler and J. Reifel, directed by Robert Munic (direct-to-video, USA, circa 1996).

Patsy Ann 1

DogStar

by Beverley Wood
DogStar by Beverley Wood (Polestar Books, 1997).

Lancelot: Guardian of Time

by Patricia Monville, directed by Rubiano Cruz
Lancelot: Guardian of Time by Patricia Monville, directed by Rubiano Cruz (unknown release details, 1997).

Patton’s Spaceship

by John Barnes
After the hyperviolent killing of his family, private eye Mark Strang morphs into a self-taught military operative, fighting in a 1960s alternate, Nazi Berkeley against those-who-would-control-all-timelines.

I classify the Timeline Wars as alternate history (or timelines) more so than time travel, but within those timelines, Mark does travel to different epochs.

The current president was a Nazi; his opponent in the 1960 election had been Strom Thurmond, and the paper seemed to be in hysterics about Thurmond the “sore loser” having the termerity to criticize the government that had won the election. Their reference to him as an “ultra-liberal crazy” came very close to making me laugh out loud. . . I suppose context is everything.
Patton’s Spaceship by John Barnes (HarperPrism, January 1997).

Future War

by Dom Magwili, directed by Anthony Doublin
There’s only one scenario better than having a human slave escaping from the cyborgs of the future and being tracked across present-day Earth by dinosaurs from the past: having all that plus being lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
— Michael Main
From the future traveled a master race of Cyborgs. They made abductions from Earth’s past. The dinosaurs were trained as trackers. The humans were bred as slaves. Now a runaway slave escapes to a place his people call heaven. . . . We know it as Earth.
Future War by Dom Magwili, directed by Anthony Doublin (direct-to-video, USA, 28 January 1997).

The Moment Universe Stories 3

Corrupting Dr. Nice

by John Kessel
Take a pair of time-hopping con artists looking for their next mark. Add a naïve and incredibly rich young scientist waiting to be fleeced. Stir together in the volatile political atmosphere of Roman-occupied Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion. The result: a wickedly entertaining blend of screwball comedy and biting social satire from one of science fiction’s most honored authors.
— based on publicity material
The audacity of his snatching the first dinosaur out of the Cretaceous will draw the ire of every protect-the-past radical in the Northern Hemisphere.
Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel (Tor, February 1997).

Company

by Kage Baker and Kathleen Bartholomew
I’ve read five of Kage Baker’s highly acclaimed stories about a group of entrepreneurial time travelers from the 24th century, the first of which was “Noble Mold” in Mar 1977. Of those, my favorite was “The Likely Lad” about young Alec Checkerfield, abandoned by his blue-blood parents to be raised by the hired help; he longs for adventure on the high seas, which he does obtain—but to be honest, I didn’t think it was via time travel. (Perhaps none of the five Checkerfield stories have time travel, even though the ISFDB indicates that they’re set in the Company Universe; I shall have to read “The Likely Lad” again!).

In 2012, the first of the Company stories co-authored with Kathleen Bartholomew appeared.

For a while I lived in this little town by the sea. Boy, it was a soft job. Santa Barbara had become civilized by then: no more Indian rebellions, no more pirates storming up the beach, nearly all the grizzly bears gone. Once in a while some bureaucrat from Mexico City would raise hell with us, but by and large the days of the old Missions were declining into forlorn shades, waiting for the Yankees to come.
“Company” by Kage Baker and Kathleen Bartholomew, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1997.

Files of the Time Rangers

by Richard Bowes
I’ve read several of the Time Rangers’ stories, including “Straight to My Lover’s Heart’, in which a ranger named Raz (aka Cupid) takes two time-traveling children under his wings—not literal wings, although they could well have been, given the stories’ backdrop of ancient meddling gods.
Raz’s specialty is outcasts of Time. Runaways. Fugitives. Ones who can’t go home on holidays, because home hasn’t been built yet. Or it’s a place that's long gone or never was.
“Files of the Time Rangers” by Richard Bowes, in Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (White Wolf Publishing, March 1997).

Foundation’s Fear

by Gregory Benford
Foundation’s Fear by Gregory Benford (HarperPrism, March 1997).

Retroactive

by Michael Hamilton-Wright, Robert Strauss, and Phillip Badger, directed by Louis Morneau
Kylie keeps going back to the same time in order to stop a psycho killer who has almost as many lives as a Terminator.
— Michael Main
This is about you takin’ hold of your life, codependent no more.
Retroactive by Michael Hamilton-Wright, Robert Strauss, and Phillip Badger, directed by Louis Morneau (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, mid-March 1997).

Crime Traveller

by Anthony Horowitz
Unconventional detective Jeff Slade becomes even more unconventional when nerd Holly Turner reveals the limited time machine left to her by her lost-in-time father.
If something has happened, it will happen.
Crime Traveller by Anthony Horowitz (1 March 1997).

Baseball Card Adventures 1

Honus & Me

by Dan Gutman
Honus & Me by Dan Gutman (Avon Books, April 1997).

The Time Machine

by Nat Sagaloff
Tim had several of the Alien Voices dramatizations which featured the voices of Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie in classics such as Wells’s The Time Machine. The Traveller, called John, was voiced by Nimoy.
The Traveller: What we call civilization is little more than the history of war interrupted by uncertain moments of peace. Surely mankind aspires to something greater than that.

Filby: Yes, but what does this have to do with geometry, John?’

The Traveller: Everything, Filby, everything.

The Time Machine by Nat Sagaloff, two casettes, 1 April 1997.

Total Reality

by Phillip J. Roth and Robert Tossberg, directed by Roth
Six months ago, Commander Tunis and Colonel Norris escaped capture. Their ship was fitted with a time generator: They’re on Earth in the year 1998.
Total Reality by Phillip J. Roth and Robert Tossberg, directed by Roth (at movie theaters, USA, 4 April 1997).

Loose Ends

by Paul Levinson
Time traveler and history meddler Jeff Harris aims for the 1980s to prevent the Challenger explosion, but instead finds himself in the time of JFK, meets the love of his life, meets other time travelers, toys with the idea of assassinating Nixon and Andropov, and eventually does alter Challenger’s history with unintended consequences for the Soviet Union.
Do you think that, if someone had a mind to do it—if someone really wanted to and had the connections—that someone back in 1982 to 1984 could have forced Andropov from office—could have replaced him with someone not so dictatorial?
“Loose Ends” by Paul Levinson, in Analog, May 1997.

Washington’s Dirigible

by John Barnes
In the continuing battle to save the timelines, Mark Strang heads to skies of Colonial America and 18th-century Britain.
She might have said more except that at that moment the sky darkened above us; a passenger dirigible was coming in. I wondered how Chrys was reacting to all this; I knew her home civilization was spacefaring,but after some roaming around in the timelines you realize that’s a bit like knowing that a civilization uses counterpoint in music or the arch a lot in architecture—it isn&rsquyo;t the fact that they use it, but what they do with it, that really matters.
Washington’s Dirigible by John Barnes (HarperPrism, May 1997).

When Time Expires

written and directed by David Bourla
Discredited interplanetary time traveler Travis Beck has been relegated to a routine calibration task in a sleepy desert town (where it rains a lot). But excitement arises in the form of a pretty local waitress, Travis’s ex-partner (could well be Luke Skywalker), and a team of assassins who have Travis in their crosshairs.
— Michael Main
The Ministry says if I work as an investigator for a couple of years, keep a low profile, not get in any trouble, then they’ll consider me for real work again.
When Time Expires written and directed by David Bourla (Showtime, USA, 10 May 1997).

Einstein’s Bridge

by John G. Cramer
Einstein’s Bridge by John G. Cramer (Avon Books, June 1997).

The Seeds of Time

by Kay Kenyon
The Seeds of Time by Kay Kenyon (Bantam Spectra, June 1997).

Palindromic

by Peter Crowther
I wouldn’t have used the word palindromic to describe the happenings of this story: Aliens arrive in 1964, and their sense of time is backward from ours. It’s not palindromic because they experience the events in backward order: If I spell out the word time, they will hear e-m-i-t. It would be cool, however, to have a real palindromic story where some sequence of events in reverse is the same as that sequence experienced forward, like the expression emit time.

P.S. I just stumbled across another time travel story that is an actual palindrome! The Palindrome Paradox.

He seemed to be trying hard to find the right word. “They’re palindromic.”
“Palindromic” by Peter Crowther, in First Contact, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, July 1997).

Contact

by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, directed by Robert Zemeckis
Jodie Foster creates a convincing Ellie in this big screen release of Sagan’s novel.
— Michael Main
You want to classify prime numbers now?
Contact by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, directed by Robert Zemeckis (at movie theaters, Canada and USA, 11 July 1997).

Standing Room Only

by Karen Joy Fowler
On Good Friday in 1865, Anna Surratt pines for one of her mother’s boarders—a certain John Wilkes Booth—not knowing anything of Booth’s plans for the evening, her mother and brother’s possible role in those plans, or the reason for the legion of odd tourists packing the streets in the nation’s capital around Ford’s Theatre.
— Michael Main
“It didn’t seem a good show,” Anna said to Mrs. Streichman. “A comedy and not very funny.”

Mrs. Streichman twisted into the space next to her. “That was just a rehearsal. The reviews are incredible. And you wouldn’t believe the waiting list. Years. Centuries! I’ll never have tickets again.” She took a deep, calming breath. “At least you’re here, dear. That’s something I couldn’t have expected. That makes it very real. [. . .]”

“Standing Room Only” by Karen Joy Fowler, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1997.

Event Horizon

by Philip Eisner, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Trapped aboard a ghost ship around Neptune, a rescue team runs into possible hallucinations (and possible other horrors) rooted in past regrets, but I’m officially calling this one as having no actual time travel™.
— Jeff Delgado
When she crossed over, she was just a ship, but when she came back, she was alive.
Event Horizon by Philip Eisner, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (at movie theaters, Canada and USA, 15 August 1997).

Spider Worlds 3

Hiccups in Time

by Duncan Long
Hiccups in Time by Duncan Long (HarperCollins, September 1997).

A Scientific Romance

by Ronald Wright
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright (Anchor / Transworld Publishers, September 1997).

Safety Not Guaranteed

by John Silveira
Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me.
This is not a joke.
Safety Not Guaranteed by John Silveira, in Backwoods Home Magazine, September/October 1997.

The Sticky Fingers of Time

written and directed by Hilary Brougher
After watching an H-bomb test in 1952, frustrated writer Tucker Harding finds herself in 1997 where she runs into frustrated, suicidal writer Drew, and then both the writers have a lot of slow-paced angst when editor/friend Isaac explains that Tucker will be killed, causing her stuff to permeate time and infect lots of other time travelers.
— Michael Main
Think of nonlinear time as a pie. We can eat the pieces in any order, but you can’t eat the same slice twice. And baby, I’ve eaten a lot of pie.
The Sticky Fingers of Time written and directed by Hilary Brougher (Toronto International Film Festival, 9 September 1997).

Timeline Wars #3

Caesar’s Bicycle

by John Barnes
Mark Strang heads back to a classic Rome that, because of the evil Closers, isn’t quite our Rome.
The bicylce had wooden spoked wheels, but the tires were pretty obviously rubber. The “chain” was a knotted rope, which ran through large wooden pin gears, and it didn’t look like they’d developed the coaster brake yet, which may have explained why the helmet had a number of prominent dents.
Caesar’s Bicycle by John Barnes (HarperPrism, October 1997).

Star Trek TNG Books

Ship of the Line

by Diane Carey
Ship of the Line by Diane Carey (Pocket Books, October 1997).

Time Under Fire

by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed, directed by Scott P. Levy and Reed
Time Under Fire by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed, directed by Scott P. Levy and Reed (direct-to-video, Australia, 12 November 1997).

Men in Black: The Series

by Duane Capizzi et al.
I’ve yet to see a modern TV cartoon with animation up to my childhood fare, but the stories of this adaptation of the alien-fighters (based on the Malibu comic, which was based on the movie) are sometimes watchable, including some episodes where the Men time traveled even before Men in Black III.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do yesterday.
Men in Black: The Series by Duane Capizzi et al. (20 December 1997).

Singing the Dogstar Blues

by Alison Goodman
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman (Voyager, 1998).

Oxford Historians 2

To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last

by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (Easton Press, 1998).

Oxford Time Travel Historians 2

To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last

by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (Easton Press, 1998).

The Masterharper of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
The Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Books, January 1998).

Sphere

by Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, directed by Barry Levinson
For me, this adaptation of Crichton’s novel was slow and unscary.
— Michael Main
I borrowed from good writers, You know: Isaac Asimov, Rod Serling.
Sphere by Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, directed by Barry Levinson (at movie theaters, USA, 13 February 1998).

The Gates of Time 1

The Whispers

by Dan Parkinson
The Whispers by Dan Parkinson (Del Rey, April 1998).

Lost in Space

by Akiva Goldsman, directed by Stephen Hopkins
The Robinsons hope to open up a new planet for colonization—and if they fail there is always Dr. Smith’s time machine to let them try again, unless perhaps Smith goes back even further and . . .
— Michael Main
Will Robinson, I will tell you a joke. Why did the robot cross the road? Because he was carbon bonded to the chicken.
Lost in Space by Akiva Goldsman, directed by Stephen Hopkins (at movie theaters, USA, 3 April 1998).

Backtime

written and directed by Steven Miller
Backtime written and directed by Steven Miller (at movie theaters, USA, 3 May 1998).

Cosmic Corkscrew

by Michael A. Burstein
A science fiction writer goes back to 1938 to make a copy of Asimov’s first story before it is lost.
I looked at the copy of “Cosmic Corkscrew” I held in my hand, and I looked at the Chronobox.
“Cosmic Corkscrew” by Michael A. Burstein, in Analog, June 1998.

London Bone

by Michael Moorcock
“London Bone” by Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, edited by David Garnett (White Wolf Publishing, August 1998).

The Grandfather Paradox

by Steven Burgauer
The Grandfather Paradox by Steven Burgauer (Zero-G Press, September 1998).

Time Gypsy

by Ellen Klages
Thirty-year-old Dr. Carol McCullough, a physics post-doc at Berkeley, worships Sara Baxter Clarke, a rare woman physicist who died in 1956 before she could present her paper giving an argument for a practical tempokinetics.
I'm offering to send you back in time to attend the 1956 International Conference for Experimental Physics. I need a copy of Clarke’s last paper.
“Time Gypsy” by Ellen Klages, in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (The Overlook Press, September 1998).

The Truth about Weena

by David J. Lake
David Lake is a noted scholar on Wells and author of Darwin and Doom: H.G. Wells and the Time Machine wherein he notes that Wells knew of the paradoxes involved in time travel, but didn’t want to address them in what he saw as a serious story about social trends. So, Lake says, his own Weena story is a shot at showing “what really happens in backward time travel,” which in this case is a model where backward time travel causes the universe to split. Lake handles the idea consistently, although for me, Lake’s afterward to the story fails to fully acknowledge the history of the split-universe idea, and the afterward does not give sufficient credit to single timeline alternatives.

On the other hand, I love stories that tell us what truly happened in another well-known story, and Lake handles that well, telling us in the voice of the original narrator about what truly happened to the Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) after he first returned to 1891 and subsequently set out to rescue Weena.

Well, in its hitherto published form it was partly fiction, because at the time—1895—I could not write the full truth. The full truth was even more fantastic than the fiction—too fantastic, surely, to be believed; or if believed, too disturbing to received notions of Time. And besides, there were living people to protect: in particular, one young person who was very dear to us.
“The Truth about Weena” by David J. Lake, in Dreaming Down-Under, edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (Voyager, September 1998).

Timecop 1

Viper’s Spawn

by Dan Parkinson
Viper’s Spawn by Dan Parkinson (Del Rey, October 1998).

Flint, the Time Detective

|pending byline|
Flint, a none-too-bright cave boy, is defossilized in the 25th century and applies his remarkable strength and bravery to protecting the world from the time-changing machinations of the Dark Lord. The 39 Japanese anime episodes were dubbed in English and broadcast in 2000.
Crossing the time barrier to save the world!
Flint,the Time Detective |pending byline| (1 October 1998).

Teen Knight

by Antony Anderson and Christopher Mollo, directed by Phil Comeau
Teen Knight by Antony Anderson and Christopher Mollo, directed by Phil Comeau (at limited movie theaters, USA, 1 October 1998).

Seven Days

by Christopher Crowe and Zachary Crowe
Navy Lt. Frank Parker is the mentally unstable operative for government missions that can travel back in time exactly one week.
Someday I’m gonna form a chrononauts’ union.
Seven Days by Christopher Crowe and Zachary Crowe (7 October 1998).

Timecop 2

The Scavenger

by Dan Parkinson
The Scavenger by Dan Parkinson (Del Rey, November 1998).

The Wonderful World of Disney [s4:3e6]

A Knight in Camelot

by Joe Wiesenfeld, directed by Roger Young
Not even Whoopi (as Vivien Morgan, Ph.D., the Connecticut Yankee) or Michael York (King Arthur) could save this adaptation, even though it did bring many of the basic ideas and characters of Twain’s original. But it fell down on poor dialogue, forced melodrama, and strained moralizing.
— Michael Main
This evilness of yours must be avenged, so I’m gonna blot out the sun.
A Knight in Camelot by Joe Wiesenfeld, directed by Roger Young (ABC-TV, USA, 8 November 1998).

Out of Time

by David Brin
The 24th century needs heroes—teenaged heroes from our time.
But now you need to prepare yourself for a great shock. You’re not in New York, and you’re not in 1999. This is the future.
Out of Time by David Brin (1999).

Commander Halley 1

Time Future

by Maxine McArthur
Time Future by Maxine McArthur (Bantam Books, 1999).

Timeline

by Michael Crichton
Three bland archaeology graduate students, one of whom envisions himself as a knight, are sent back to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The novel mentions a multiverse model of time-travel, but gives no explication (nor does it enter the plotline); the most interesting characters and developments appear for a few pages and are never again heard of (at least not in this universe).
I don’t mean time travel at all. Time travel is impossible. Everyone knows that.
Timeline by Michael Crichton (1999).

Wingèd Chariot

by Ben Jeapes
Wingèd Chariot by Ben Jeapes (Scholastic, 1999).

Rappaccini’s Other Daughter

by Anthony Boucher
You know of Nathanial Hawthorne’s tale of “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” but do you know of the second, equally beautiful, daughter who had a significant effect on all time travelers?
And that is why our time machines are not permitted to travel back farther than the middle of the twentieth century.
“Rappaccini’s Other Daughter” by Anthony Boucher, in The Compleat Boucher (NESFA Press, January 1999).

Time at the Top

by Linda Brookover and Alain Silver, directed by Jim Kaufman
Time at the Top by Linda Brookover and Alain Silver, directed by Jim Kaufman (Showtime, USA, 17 January 1999).

L’équilibre des paradoxes

Literal: The balance of paradoxes

by Michel Pagel
L’équilibre des paradoxes by Michel Pagel (Fleuve Noir, March 1999).

Svetz

Rainbow Mars

by Larry Niven
Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven, in Rainbow Mars (TorNovember 2013, March 1999).

Stargate SG-1

by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner
Premise: Ancient visitors to Earth have left a gateway to the stars and to other Egyptian-like civilizations. I watched the movie and the first two seasons on Amazon, but never fully got pulled in to the gate, not even when they traveled back in time to 1969 and made a cool reference to “Tomorrow Is Yesterday.”
Thornbird: I’m Major Robert Thornbird. And you are?
O’Neill: Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
Stargate SG-1 by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner (5 March 1999).

Timecop 3

Blood Ties

by Dan Parkinson
Blood Ties by Dan Parkinson (Del Rey, April 1999).

Remembrance of Things to Come

by Lawrence Watt-Evans
As a first experiment in a new technology, the memories of English Professor Richard Williams are sent back in time into the mind of writer Dorrie Ledbetter right before her untimely death to see if those memories can cause her to leave a clue about the meaning of an ambiguous story.
We think we have a way to record the quantum state of a present-day brain onto a brain somewhere in the past in such a way that the patterns in the receiving brain will duplicate those in the source brain, and that as a result the receiving brain will acquire the memories of the source brain.
“Remembrance of Things to Come” by Lawrence Watt-Evans, in Analog, April 1999.

Watchers [Lerangis] 4

War

by Peter Lerangis
War by Peter Lerangis (Apple Paperbacks, April 1999).

The Thirteenth Floor

by Josef Rusnak and Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez, directed by Josef Rusnak
The Thirteenth Floor by Josef Rusnak and Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez, directed by Josef Rusnak (at movie theaters, Denmark, 16 April 1999).

Family Guy

by Seth MacFarlane
Nikolaus Correll turned me on to time travel in Family Guy.
It’s called a temporal causality loop. The universe created me, so that I could create it, so it could create me, and so on.
Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane (25 April 1999).

A Very Strange Trip

by L. Ron Hubbard and Dave Wolverton
As an alternative to doing a stretch in jail, West Virgina moonshiner Everett Dumphee joins the army and ends up driving a time machine from New Jersey to Colorado—er, well, not just driving it.

As one of the winners of the Writers of the Future contest, Dave Wolverton was asked to write this novel based on a full-length comedy screenplay that Hubbard wrote before his death. The result is a definite departure from Battlefield Earth.

We’ve got some pinhead mathematicians in Denver who can explain it to you better than I could.
A Very Strange Trip by L. Ron Hubbard and Dave Wolverton (Bridge Publications, May 1999).

Smedley Faversham

by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
If a particular conclusion is a good one, what makes you think that only one person will think of it? That’s why Smedley Faversham, in his first time-travel escapade, ran into more than one other time traveler. In all, the punster has had five adventures, each sillier than the last.
When Smedley Faversham traveled back in time to Munich in 1919, the first thing he saw was a large sign reading “THIS WAY TO KILL HITLER.”
“Smedley Faversham” by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, in Analog, June 1999.

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur

by Michael Swanwick
The director of Hilltop Research Station extinguishes various fires while hosting a donor dinner in the Cretaceous and planning predatory behavior of his own to keep the donor funds flowing, all while ensuring that the mysterious beings known only as the Unchanging remain in the dark about a quagmire of time travel violations.
— Michael Main
It would bring our sponsors down upon us like so many angry hornets. The Unchanging would yank time travel out of human hands—retroactively.
“Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1999.

Tempora Mutantur

by H. G. Stratmann
While dining at his favorite quiet rib joint, a private man is interrupted by billionaire businessman Rem Caesar who is being chased by time travelers.
If someone built a time machine, they’d be famous for all time. A magnet for every time traveling historian, media-type, tourist—or just “fans” with no lives of their own, coming back to bask in their idol’s luminous prescence.
“Tempora Mutantur” by H. G. Stratmann, in Analog, July/August 1999.

Aliens in the Wild, Wild West

by Alon Kaplan, directed by George Erschbamer
Aliens in the Wild, Wild West by Alon Kaplan, directed by George Erschbamer (direct-to-video, USA, 17 August 1999).

Now and Then, Here and Now

by Hideyuki Kurata
Now and Then, Here and Now by Hideyuki Kurata (14 October 1999).

The Timeshifters

by Kurt Inderbitzin and Gay Walch, directed by Mario Azzopardi
The Timeshifters by Kurt Inderbitzin and Gay Walch, directed by Mario Azzopardi (TBS-TV, USA, 17 October 1999).

Echoes in Time

by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith
In a new spirit of detente, Murdock and his new wife Eveleen Riordan join with the Russians to track down a group of missing scientists on a planet in the past.
Moments later the ground seemed to shake slightly: an illusion, Ross knew, a response of the mind to the distorted probability waves sweeping out from the apparatus as it catapulted the two agents into the distant past.
Echoes in Time by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith (Tor Books, November 1999).

Galaxy Quest

by David Howard and Robert Gordon, directed by Dean Parisot
Some TV shows (we won’t mention any names) live on for their fans decades after cancellation. The result might be that aliens think the heroes of these shows are real, in which case the aforementioned heroes could be kidnapped to rescue the aforementioned aliens (and to figure out whether the Omega 13 will destroy the universe in 13 seconds or reverse time for that aforementioned number of seconds).

Tim and I watched this at Lake Cushman during a trip to the northwest in 2003, and I was as surprised as anyone about how much we laughed at Tim Allen’s parody.

— Michael Main
Larado: Your orders, sir? [pause] Sir, your orders?
Commander Taggart: Activate the Omega 13. [To be continued . . .]
Galaxy Quest by David Howard and Robert Gordon, directed by Dean Parisot (at movie theaters, Canada, 23 December 1999).

Time Out of Joint

by Pauline Ashwell
A time traveler who makes a living as an antiquities dealer tells a tale of a Greek urn that appeared in two different places at the same time.
If the Time Traveller sold his wares directly from the maker, modern tests would show that they are only a few years old. They are stored in an underground cavern somewhere in the Pliocene to rack up the appropriate number of centuries, so that tests for thermoluminescence and cosmic ray tracks give the right answer.
“Time Out of Joint” by Pauline Ashwell, in Analog, January 2000.

Happy Accidents

written and directed by Brad Anderson
Ruby Weaver tells her therapist that her latest beau, Sam Deed, is sweet, kind, and quirky—and the fantasy that he’s come back from the year 2470 because of that photo he saw of her (possibly to make an important change) is nothing more than a game that they play.
— Michael Main
Break the causal chain.
Happy Accidents written and directed by Brad Anderson (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 25 January 2000).

Baseball Card Adventures 3

Babe & Me

by Dan Gutman
Babe & Me by Dan Gutman (Avon Camelot, February 2000).

Baseball Card Adventures 2

Jackie & Me

by Dan Gutman
Jackie & Me by Dan Gutman (Perfection Learning, February 2000).

Archie

by Hal Sutherland
There were Archie cartoons when I was a kid: The first ones I remember had the Riverdale teens as a pop band (“Sugar, Sugar!”) around the same time as the Monkees, but I don’t recall any time travel then, even if it was directed by Hal Sutherland, soon-to-be director of the animated Star Trek. However, I did spot a later three-part time travel story in Archie’s Weird Mysteries that ran in 2000 (“Archie’s Date with Fate,” “Alternate Riverdales,” and “Teen Out of Time”).
Free will and predestination aside, I vow to completely redesign my time travel invention to make it safer.
Archie by Hal Sutherland (14 February 2000).

The Light of Other Days

by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Tor Books, March 2000).

Time Merchant

by K. S. Hardy
“Time Merchant” by K. S. Hardy, Hadrosaur Tales 8, April 2000.

2000x: Tales of the Next Millennia

by Yuri Rasovsky
Yuri Rasovsky brought radio plays back to the future, or at least to the 21st century. The first play, broadcast on 4 Apr 2000, was based on Heinlein’s time travel story, “By His Bootstraps,” with the role of Bob Wilson distinctively voiced by Richard Dreyfuss. I'm not certain, but host Harlan Ellison might be the voice of the narrator in that episode.

At least two later time-travel stories were also produced.

2000X is produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear in association with National Public Radio.
2000x: Tales of the Next Millennia by Yuri Rasovsky (4 April 2000).

Frequency

by Toby [exn]Emmerich, directed by Gregory Hoblit
In 1999, John Sullivan, who lives in his boyhood home, finds an old ham radio that his dad had built, and he naturally wants to see whether it still works. As it turns out, not only does it work, but it puts him in communication with 1969 where he talks to his dad, Frank, on the very day before Frank’s death in a fire. With help from John, Frank avoids the fire, which gives his 1999 son the memories of both a fatherless life and a life where Frank survived but John’s mother did not.
— Michael Main
I want you to hide that wallet someplace where nobody’s gonna find it for thirty years.
Frequency by Toby [exn]Emmerich, directed by Gregory Hoblit (at movie theaters, USA, 28 April 2000).

동감

Donggam English release: Ditto Literal: Sympathy

by 장진, directed by 김정권
[ex=bare]동감 | Sympathy | Donggam[/ex] by 장진, directed by 김정권 (at movie theaters, South Korea, 27 May 2000).

How I Won the Lottery, Broke the Time Barrier (or is that Broke the Time Barrier, Won the Lottery), and Still Wound Up Broke

by Ian Randal Strock
A lowly lab assistant receives a message from his future self with the winning lottery numbers.
Tomorrow’s Lotto drawing is for forty-five million dollars. The winning numbers will be 17, 19, 30, 32, 42, and 51.
“How I Won the Lottery, Broke the Time Barrier (or is that Broke the Time Barrier, Won the Lottery), and Still Wound Up Broke” by Ian Randal Strock, in Analog, June 2000.

The Merchant Prince 1

The Merchant Prince

by Michael Scott
The Merchant Prince by Michael Scott (Pocket Books, June 2000).

The Invention of Time Travel

by Jim Loy
After reading Professor Hanson’s acceptance speech to the Swedish Academy, another man tells the real story of the professor’s invention.
Wanted: Time traveller to please give me a ride in a time machine. Please meet me at 342 E. Snow Way, New York, NY, at noon, July 1, 2000.
“The Invention of Time Travel” by Jim Loy, jimloy.com, July 2000.

Wild Child 4

Terminal Chic

by Chloë Rayban
Terminal Chic by Chloë Rayban (Bodley Head, July 2000).

Built upon the Sands of Time

by Michael F. Flynn
Physics professor Owen fitzHugh tells a story in a pub about how a small quantum fluctuation in the past can cause big consequences down the line—and how he may have sent a chronon into the past to do just that.
I’m not sure. A device to excite time quanta, I think. Into the past, of course.
“Built upon the Sands of Time” by Michael F. Flynn, in Analog, July/August 2000.

Quid pro Quo

by Ray Bradbury
An author, frustrated by the wasted talent of Simon Cross, builds a time machine to bring the wasted Cross back to meet the promising young Cross.
You do not build a time machine unless you know where you are going.
“Quid pro Quo” by Ray Bradbury, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 2000.

犬夜叉

Inuyasha Literal: Inuyasha

|pending byline|
Teen Kagome Higurashi is transported from modern Tokyo to the Japanese Age of Warring States (around 1500 A.D.) where she inhabits the body of her earlier self and fights the demon InuYasha.

The manga comic was adapted into 193 anime episodes in two series (InuYasha and InuYasha: The Final Act, both of which were dubbed in English. I do wish that the translation of the quote shown below had been more true to Dorothy’s line from The Wizard of Oz.

We really aren’t in Tokyo any more, are we?
[ex=bare]犬夜叉 | Inuyasha | Inuyasha[/ex] |pending byline| (16 October 2000).

Crow’s Feat

by John G. Hemry
Mid-list science fiction writer Paul Gallatin runs into scientist Ivan Ivanovich at a party, and the scientist offers to send Paul back to Shakespeare’s time.
Tell me, how many copies do you think a book would sell if it proved your belief that Shakespeare was a fraud?
“Crow’s Feat” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, November 2000.

South Park

by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The first indication of time travel in South Park was in 4th grade when (among other things) Cartman’s Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Futura S2000 has designs on killing Kenny and taking over the world, but fortunately a robot from the future has come back to protect and serve.
I have come to destroy that trapper keeper because it was the Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper that belongs to an Eric Cartman in South Park which three years from now manifests itself into an omnipotent super being and destroys all of hu-manity.
South Park by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (8 November 2000).

TimeQuest

written and directed by Robert Dyke
TimeQuest written and directed by Robert Dyke (Deep Ellum Film Festival, Dallas, Texas, 19 November 2000).

Nick McIver 1

Nick of Time

by Ted Bell
Nick of Time by Ted Bell (Xlibris Corporation, December 2000).

Dude, Where’s My Car?

by Philip Stark, directed by Danny Leiner
After a day of whacky adventures, Dude and Sweet find the cosmic continuum transfunctioner, save the world, make up with the twins, and are transported back to a time before the hijinks ensued.
— Michael Main
Wait a second, let’s recap: Last night, we lost my car, we accepted stolen money from a transsexual stripper, and now some space nerds want us to find something we can’t pronounce. I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying. 
Dude, Where’s My Car? by Philip Stark, directed by Danny Leiner (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 10 December 2000).

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

by John R. Dilworth
In one episode (“1000 Years in the Future”) of the misadventures of Courage and his family, an errant meteor knocks them into the future, it’s up to Courage to explore things in the new Banana Republic and get them back to their own time (or maybe chance will have to do that).
I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more, or the present time, or some combination of the two.
Courage, the Cowardly Dog by John R. Dilworth (29 December 2000).

Saving Aunt Alice

by Claire Carmichael
Saving Aunt Alice by Claire Carmichael (Random House, 2001).

A New Beginning

by Tony Ballantyne
“A New Beginning” by Tony Ballantyne, in Interzone, January 2001.

Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time

by Ralph E. Vaughan
“Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time” by Ralph E. Vaughan (Gryphon Books, January 2001).

Darko Family I

Donnie Darko

written and directed by Richard Kelly
For me, this cultish movie about a schizophrenic teenager presented a shallow understanding of both schizophrenia and time travel.
— Michael Main
I have reached the end of your book and there are so many things that I need to ask you. Sometimes I’m afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I’m afraid that you’ll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.
Donnie Darko written and directed by Richard Kelly (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 19 January 2001).

Market Blues

by Kirsty Murray
Market Blues by Kirsty Murray (Allen and Unwin, February 2001).

The Skies of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey
Don’t think for a moment that a Threadless world is going to mean the end of dragon drama or traveling between times. After a comet hits the Eastern Ring Sea, F’lessan and other dragonriders make a plan to go back in time to evacuate the devastated coastal holds before the impact.
“Does that mean we’re to time it?” Mirrim asked T’gellan in a hushed tone as soon as they were past Tunge, who had not recovered from the multiple shocks.

“What else?” F’lessan asked, right behind her, hauling Tai along beside him.

“How else could we do what is to be done?” T’gellan added as he dragged his weyrmate into a near run. “Yes, Ramoth just confirmed it to Monarth.”

“But what do we do first?” Mirrim demanded in a scared voice.

“Monarth’s bespeaking Talina’s Arwith. I’ve told her to take four wings at once to Monaco Bay, to warn Partmaster Zewe and to start moving people to safety.”

The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Bantam Books, February 2001).

Power Rangers Time Force

by Judd Lynn and Jackie Marchland
In the ninth season of the power rangers, evil mutant Ransik flees from the 30th century back to our time. Rangers pursue. I don’t know whether other years had time travel.
If I can’t rule the present, then I’ll just rule the paaaaaast!
Power Rangers Time Force by Judd Lynn and Jackie Marchland (3 February 2001).

All Over Again

written and directed by Cleve Nettles
This movie was made in 2001 and made the film festival circuits, but it wasn’t otherwise released until it appeared on DVD in 2007 (the DVD cover says that it won an award at the International Family Film Festival, but that’s not listed on the IFFF website). I didn’t take to the story, even though the hero (Z.T.) is a high school shortstop and budding inventor with a doting girlfriend (Delena), and his own future self come back to warn him about becoming an old drunk.
— Michael Main
From the future? A wino from the future?!
All Over Again written and directed by Cleve Nettles (Santa Clarita International Film Festival, mid-March 2001).

Captain Titus Oates

May Be Some Time

by Brenda W. Clough
“May Be Some Time” by Brenda W. Clough, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2001.

Titus Oates

by Brenda W. Clough
Titus Oates, a member of Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, is taken from the time stream and revived in a bewildering 21st century, whereupon he does what any self-respecting explorer would do—heads to the stars!

The two Oates stories (“May Be Some Time” in the April 2001 Analog and “Tiptoe on a Fence Post” in the Jul/Aug 2002 Analog) were combined and expanded for the 2009 novel, Revise the World.

Not only are you a person rescued from a tragic death, but your removal is supremely unlikely to trigger any change in the time-stream, since your body was lost: presumed frozen solid, entombed in a glacier for eons. . .
“Titus Oates” by Brenda W. Clough, in Analog, April 2001.

What Weena Knew

by James Van Pelt
I met the prolific James Van Pelt at an sf convention in Denver, where he kindly had coffee with me and signed my baseball. We talked about one of his students who later came to Boulder to study computer science. I had misinterpreted a biography of Van Pelt in Analog as if it were an obituary, so I was happy to see the outstanding writer alive and writing. Oh! And he wrote (among other things) this fine story of Weena from the moment that H. G. Wells’s Traveller rescued her from the river.
— Michael Main
Then a vice clamped her upper arm. A surge. A tremendous force, and she was clear of the stream. Air! There was air to breathe, but all she could do was cough. She was being carried. Her cheek rested on skin. Hough arms wrapped her close until they were on the bank. Gently, her rescuer put her down. Rock warmed her back; her hands lay flat in the heat, her head dropped onto the warmth. Against the sky stood a figure stragely shaped. Weena’s vision swirled—she could barely focus—but before she passed out, she saw in wonder, he was a giant.
“What Weena Knew” by James Van Pelt, in Analog, April 2001.

Farscape

by Rockne S. O’Bannon
I enjoyed the interplay of the characters in the first season: Earth astronaut John Crichton who’s sucked through a wormhole in the style of Star Trek Voyager to end up on a living spaceship (Moya) with the Pilot plus four fugitives: Peacekeeper soldier Aeryn, Warrior D’Argo, deposed emperor Rygel XVI, and the priestess Zhaan—all being pursued by the obsessed Bialar Crais. That first season had visions of the future but, alas, no time travel. In later seasons my interest waned, even though there was real time travel in one episode, “Different Destinations” (13 Apr 2001).
Chiana has already told me a few words. Yes. No. Bite me. That’s all I need to know.
Farscape by Rockne S. O’Bannon (13 April 2001).

Terminator (Stirling) #1

T2: Infiltrator

by S. M. Stirling
There are interminable Terminator spin-offs, and this series is the first. I enjoyed the first book, T2: Infiltrator, set after the second movie with Sarah and 16-year-old son on the run in Paraguay.
Come with me if you want to live.
T2: Infiltrator by S. M. Stirling (HarperEntertainment, May 2001).

Futurama

by Matt Groening
Philip J. Fry never caught my interest the way the Simpsons did, but after surviving a millennium in cryogenic suspension, Philip and his 31st century cohorts do have some wacky time travel, including “The Late Philip J. Fry” wherein the professor’s one-way time machine takes them further and further into futures with a strange resemblance to various sf movie futures.
We are travelers from the past, my good one. Since your time, human evolution has diverged. There are we—advanced in intellect and morality—and the dumblocks—stupid, vicious brutes who live underground.
Futurama by Matt Groening (6 May 2001).

A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy

by Robert Reginald
When Jake Smith’s neighbor—Stratton Bundford Audray, Ph.D.—invents a time machine, Jake volunteers to be the first human traveler in order to solve a vexing problem about his own ancestry.
I’ve been tracing my family tree, and ’ve reached this dead end, because Smith is such a common name, and I’d really like to volunteer to make the first manned expedition into the past.
“A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy” by Robert Reginald, in Katydid & Other Critters, edited by Robert Reginald (Ariadne Press, June 2001).

Saving Jane Austen

by Robert Reginald
Time travelers Jake Lawson, Patricia Wardon, and their small entourage travel to 1801 England to observe young Jane Austen, who to Jake seems incredibly unimpressive while Patty observes that she is full of sentimental claptrap. Things, however, are not always what they seem.
This is the fourth timestep I’ve made, and I can never quite get used to arriving downtime with nary a stitch in place. I know the engineers have explained the scientific reasons why this must be so, something about biostatic energy not being transferable to inert objects, but if that’s the case, why don’t we also lose our teeth, our nails, and hair at the same time?
“Saving Jane Austen” by Robert Reginald, in Katydid & Other Critters, edited by Robert Reginald (Ariadne Press, June 2001).

Time Squad

by Dave Wasson
In a utopian future, the past starts to unravel and it’s up to Otto, a ten-year-old 21st century orphan, and the rest of the Time Squad to patch things back together.
That’s the History Instability Alarm! It’s time for another mission!
Time Squad by Dave Wasson (8 June 2001).

Qwerty Stevens 1

The Edison Mystery

by Dan Gutman
The Edison Mystery by Dan Gutman (Simon and Schuster, July 2001).

Star Trek Voyager Novel

Endgame

by Diane Carey
Endgame by Diane Carey (Pocket Books, July 2001).

Grandpa?

by Edward M. Lerner
Professor Thaddeus Fitch gives a practical demonstration of the grandfather paradox to his physics classes.
Imagine that I had the technology with which to visit my grandfather in his youth. Once there, what is to stop me from killing him before he’d had the opportunity to reproduce? But if I did succeed, who was it who had travelled backward. . .
“Grandpa?” by Edward M. Lerner, in Analog, July/August 2001.

劇場版ポケットモンスター セレビィ 時を越えた遭遇（であい

Gekijoban pokettomonsuta serebyi toki o koeta sogu English release: Pokemon 4Ever: Celebi—Voice of the Forest Literal: Pokemon Celebi encounter over time: The movie

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A tiny Pokémon Celebi and his boy are chased into the future by a Pokémon hunter.
They say there’s a sound you can hear when the spirit that protects the forest is time traveling.
[ex=bare]劇場版ポケットモンスター セレビィ 時を越えた遭遇（であい | Pokemon Celebi encounter over time: The movie | Gekijoban pokettomonsuta serebyi toki o koeta sogu[/ex] |pending byline| (7 July 2001).

Planet of the Apes VI

Planet of the Apes

by William Broyles, Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal, directed by Tim Burton
I found two redeeming features in this melodramatic complete remake of the first Planet of the Apes film: Helena Bonham Carter and a time-travel twist at the end that was beyond my understanding.
— Michael Main
In this temple as in the hearts of the apes for whom he saved the planet the memory of General Thade is enshrined forever
Planet of the Apes by William Broyles, Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal, directed by Tim Burton (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 July 2001).

The Chronoliths

by Robert Charles Wilson
The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, August 2001).

T.E.A. and Koumiss

by Steven C. Raine
Time-travel agent Germaine returns to the time of Ghengis Khan along with telepath bimbo Elena, intent on stopping Vlad from installing a millennia-long Russian utopia.
Vladimir zipped back in time to change the past. With his background, our psych reckons with 90 percent probability that his goal will be to make medieval Russia supreme through guiding the Great Prince here.
“T.E.A. and Koumiss” by Steven C. Raine, in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVII, edited by Algis Budrys (Bridge Publications, August 2001).

Time Out of Mind

by Everett S. Jacobs
Thomas Randall, young and single, lives in a world that is besotted by bubbles that shift acres from one time to another.
The rotting carcass of an apatosaurus blocked the intersection of Highway 9 and Needham Road.
“Time Out of Mind” by Everett S. Jacobs, in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVII, edited by Algis Budrys (Bridge Publications, August 2001).

Samurai Jack

by Genndy Tartakovsky
When the evil Aku returns to threaten the empire, a young prince trains for years to eventually fight and defeat him, but before Aku can be fully vanquished, he sends the prince into the future where he battles through threat after threat (with stories told in pictures more than words) in his quest to return to his own time.
I thought once like you, but the sword is only a tool. What power has it compared to that of the hand that wields it?
Samurai Jack by Genndy Tartakovsky (10 August 2001).

Invader Zim

by Jhonen Vasquez
Tim showed me the one Zim time-travel episode (“Big, Bad Rubber Piggy”) on Christmas Day in 2010. The would-be alien invader Zim plans to send a terminator robot back to kill is nemesis Dib, but the time-travel portal will accept only rubber piggies, which Zim manages to make do with.
You could prevent Walton Chunky from ever inventing Breakfast Chunks by using temporal object replacement technology!
Invader Zim by Jhonen Vasquez (24 August 2001).

Love and Glass

by Michael Scott Bricker
Stranded at the end of the world, Wells’s Traveller has only one companion, a Morlock descendant whom the Traveller dubs George, until others appear, including the predator called The Queen of Hearts.
The Time Traveller asked him whether he was the last of his kind, George touched his shoulder, and within that look passed understanding.
“Love and Glass” by Michael Scott Bricker, in Bones of the World (SFF Net, September 2001).

The Poof Point

by Stu Krieger, directed by Neal Israel
Eddie and Marie’s parents are merely aging backward; there is no actual time travel.
— Michael Main
The Poof Point by Stu Krieger, directed by Neal Israel (Disney Channel, USA, 14 September 2001).

Star Trek: Enterprise

by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga
You must watch the whole of Enterprise to grok the full arc of the Temporal Cold War with 13 episodes that were more temporal than others:
Old T’Pol: There’s a human expression: Follow your heart.
Young T’Pol: What if my heart doesn’t know what it wants?
Old T’Pol: It will, in time, it will.
Star Trek: Enterprise by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga (26 September 2001).

Blood Trail

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Detective Wheldon, the top man in NYPD Homicide is approached by two FBI agents who offer to let him go back in time two weeks to observe the 4th killing by a serial killer.

This is the first story in Future Imperfect, a 2001 anthology of 12 original time-travel stories, co-edited by the prolific anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) who was also a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

— Michael Main
When it became clear that time travel was even a remote possibility, the government bought a lot of scientists. Those who didn’t play got discredited.
“Blood Trail” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Convolution

by James P. Hogan
Professor Alymer Arbuthnot Abercrombie is on the verge of completing eight years of work to build a time machine when all of his vital notes are stolen.
— Michael Main
How can he tell you what you’ll do, like some kind of robot executing a program? You’re a human being with free will, for heaven’s sake. What happens if you plumb decide you’re not going to do it?
“Convolution” by James P. Hogan, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Doing Time

by Robin Wayne Bailey
Samuel Enderby, Director and Chief Researcher of the Enderby Institute for Temporal Studies (and the inventor of the time machine) accidently finds himself stranded in 10,000,000 AD where the only other occupants are criminals who have been launched uptime using his technology.

— Michael Main
A marvelous tool for research has been abused and twisted to a vicious purpose.
“Doing Time” by Robin Wayne Bailey, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

The Gift of a Dream

by Dean Wesley Smith
At top speeds, Trans-Galactic flight regressed a human body, so for quick T-G jumps to the outer limits of the Earth Protection League borders, they had to use old people to start.
“The Gift of a Dream” by Dean Wesley Smith, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

In the Company of Heroes

by Diane Duane
A Swiss clockmaker offers billionaire Rob Willingden the chance to go back to his boyhood to stop the theft of his prized collection of Captain Thunder comics.

In 1987, Marvel’s own Roy Thomas was one of the founders of Hero Comics which sported a title called Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt, but the 1960s timing for the comic book of this story makes it more likely to be modeled after The Mighty Thor who premiered in Journey Into Mystery 83 (Aug 1962).

— Michael Main
This is a repair I think you must make. It is irresponsible to leave something broken when it can be fixed—
“In the Company of Heroes” by Diane Duane, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Iterations

by William H. Keith, Jr.
An accident near a black hole has seemingly doomed Kevyn Shalamarn along with her copilot and her AI, until they are pulled into a far future that could have been inspired by Frank Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology. The trip to the future seems to be in the domain of relativistic time dilation rather than time travel, and it’s unclear whether the trip back is actual time travel or some form of quantum physics mashed up with simulations.
— Michael Main
The goal of this device is nothing less than complete knowledge, knowledge of everything that ever has been, that ever will be, that ever could be.
“Iterations” by William H. Keith, Jr., in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Jeff’s Best Joke

by Jane Lindskold
When a crazy old man calling himself Coyote shows up at an archaeological dig in New Mexico claiming that the Anasazi disappeared into time, Jeff knows that the only way to convince the world of Coyote’s truth is to play a colossal joke on his co-director Jimmy.
— Michael Main
Time even passes differently at the top of a high building than at its base.
“Jeff’s Best Joke” by Jane Lindskold, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Mint Condition

by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Sissy is an experienced agent for CollectorCorps, but she always gets stuck with a male chauvinist rookie for her partner in trips to retrieve highly collectable items from the past.

As you can tell from the comic book image, I’d say that the comic book Sissy was after in this trip was based on Giant-Size X-Men 1.

— Michael Main
Autographed copies of Minus Men 121? Practically nonexistent in 2059, at least until we got home with some.
“Mint Condition” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Oven, Witch and Wardrobe

by Tom Sweeney
Siobhan hopes to advance in the time-travelers' hierarchy by successfully transferring plague-doomed children from 1410 Europe to Colonial America.
It had seemed such an easy thing to do. Beguile hungry children with food, ship their dirty young butts off to colonial America and return to the twenty-third century to become the first researcher ever to use time travel for humanitarian purposes.
“Oven, Witch and Wardrobe” by Tom Sweeney, in Analog, October 2001.

Theory of Relativity

by Jody Lynn Nye
Dr. Rachel Fenstone takes her time machine from her universe to a parallel universe (both of which contain the Marx Brothers) where she meets an analog of herself so that together they can figure out where their histories diverged and visit that moment in their mutual pasts.
— Michael Main
In June’s reality her grandfather was an inventor, too, but his parents settled in New York, where the boys grew up in the tenements not far from where the Marx Brothers were born.
“Theory of Relativity” by Jody Lynn Nye, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

A Touch through Time

by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch
Dr. Connor Robins uses his time machine to grab extinct animals who are about to die anyway (since things break down if he tries to alter the past), and he also a young actress who died in a 1920s fire.

Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, an avid geologist and writer, died of breast cancer shortly after this story was published.

— Michael Main
You could steal all the cells you wanted to use in cloning, or some sperm and ova. Anything, provided that the interaction changed nothing about their time-stream. We could even pull some of the bodies forward.
“A Touch Through Time” by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

Halloweentown II

Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge

by Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson, directed by Mary Lambert
Teenage witch Marnie Piper has a mom (who doesn’t want her to carry on in the witch tradition), a grandma (Debbie Reynolds, who wants to take her on as an apprentice), and Kal (a cute guy hanging around who turns out to be the son of the family nemesis). When Marnie gets trapped by Kal in the dimension of Halloweentown, she and her troll friend Luke use time travel to escape; later they use a black-holeish “timeline” to get back to the present and save the day.
— Michael Main
You know that looks just like a Stephen Hawking description of a non-stellar black hole.
Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge by Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson, directed by Mary Lambert (Disney Channel, USA, 12 October 2001).

Timestorm

by Steve Bowkett
Danny and his partner in soldiering are at ground zero when a storm of refugees from a devastated future begins to arrive.
— Michael Main
Nobody really knew much about that devastation—The Catastrophe, as it had been called. It had happened—would happen, from Danny’s perspective—almost a million years in the future, or so the Time Techs believed.
“Timestorm” by Steve Bowkett, in The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories, edited by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, November 2001).

The One

by Glen Morgan and James Wong, directed by James Wong
Alternate universes, but no time travel.
— Michael Main
There is not one universe. There are many: A multiverse. We have the technology to travel between universes, but travel is highly restricted and policed. There is not one you. There are many. Each of us exists in present time, in parallel universes.
The One by Glen Morgan and James Wong, directed by James Wong (at movie theaters, USA, 2 November 2001).

Vanilla Sky

written and directed by Cameron Crowe
Vanilla Sky written and directed by Cameron Crowe (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 10 December 2001).

Kate & Leopold

by James Mangold and Steven Rogers, directed by James Mangold
Leopold, a 19th century blueblood, awakens in 21st century New York where he meets and confounds adwoman Kate.
— Michael Main
Time, it has been proposed, is the fourth dimension. And yet, for mortal man, time has no dimension at all. We are like horses with blinders, seeing only what lies before us, forever guessing the future and fabricating the past.
Kate and Leopold by James Mangold and Steven Rogers, directed by James Mangold (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 11 December 2001).

The New John Connor Chronicles 1

Dark Futures

by Russell Blackford
Dark Futures by Russell Blackford (ibooks, 2002).

JumpMan Rule 1

Don’t Touch Anything

by James Valentine
Don’t Touch Anything by James Valentine (Random House, 2002).

Timestorm 1

The Gift

by Anthony James
The Gift by Anthony James (TimeStorm Books, 2002).

Timestorm 3

The Oracle

by Anthony James
The Oracle by Anthony James (TimeStorm Books, 2002).

The Fairly OddParents

by Butch Hartman
Young Timmy Turner has two fairly odd fairy parents who can grant wishes, but are always creating problems for Timmy to fix, including at least twice when he had to wish himself back in time: to the Old West (“Old, Old West”) and to a pirate ship (“Odd Pirates”).
Safety’s for yellow bellies.
The Fairly OddParents by Butch Hartman (26 January 2002).

Othon ou l’aurore immobile

Literal: Othon or the immobile dawn

by Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves
Othon ou l’aurore immobile by Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves (Les Belles Lettres, February 2002).

Time Bleeds

by Andrew Humphrey
“Time Bleeds” by Andrew Humphrey, in Open the Box and Other Stories, edited by Andrew Humphrey (Elastic Press, February 2002).

Commander Halley 2

Time Past

by Maxine McArthur
Time Past by Maxine McArthur (Bantam Books, February 2002).

Bones of the Earth

by Michael Swanwick
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (Eos, March 2002).

Clockstoppers

by Rob Hedden and Andy Hedden
According to the book’s preface, the novel was written by brothers Rob and Andy Hedden based on an idea from Rob’s son Ryan. The story was turned into a movie of the same name in 2002, and the book appear at roughly the same time. We’re listing the book as a novelization of the movie (rather than the movie being an adaptation of the novel) because that’s how it’s described on the book’s cover.
— Michael Main
The large clock appeared to be broken, its second hand stopped at thirteen seconds past the hour.
“Clockstoppers” by Rob Hedden and Andy Hedden (Simon Pulse, March 2002).

Ransom

by Albert E. Cowdrey
Time travel agent Maks Hamilton is told by mysterious kidnappers that if he ever wants to see his own son again, he must travel back three centuries—just before the Troubles—to abduct another boy.

Despite the characters’ belief that they can change history, up in the ITTDB Citadel we all agreed that the characters are an unreliable source and this story actually lives in a carefully crafted single static timeline along with a nice bootstrap paradox.

— Michael Main
I want you to bring someone from the past to the present—someone who would otherwise die only a few hours afterward. Surely that’s possible.
“Ransom” by Albert E. Cowdrey, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2002.

Baseball Card Adventures 4

Shoeless Joe & Me

by Dan Gutman
Shoeless Joe & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, March 2002).

The Time Machine

by John Logan and Mike Collins
Nicely done, giveaway comic with a 10-page teaser for the movie on slick paper.
Will Mara be rescued? Will Alexander recover the time machine? Will he ever prevent Emma’s death and return to 1903? For the answers, see “The Time Machine”—opening March 8—only in theaters!
“The Time Machine” by John Logan and Mike Collins (March 2002).

The Time Machine

by John Logan, directed by Simon Wells
This version (definitely not your grandfather’s time machine) has imaginative settings, but for me, the refactored plot was all dramatic music and no substance.
— Michael Main
You built your time machine because of Emma’s death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. You have your answer. Now go.
The Time Machine by John Logan, directed by Simon Wells (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 4 March 2002).

The Tomorrow Man

written and directed by Doug Campbell
Bryon, a murderer in the present day, steals a time-travel device from a cop in a secret government program so that he can go back to rescue his ten-year-old self from an abusive father. The kidnap plan succeeds, but the father gloms onto the pursuing cop as she returns to the future, and together they chase after Byron (old) and Byron (young) with lots of gunslinging.
— Michael Main
He’s kidnapped himself, his younger self. It’s difficult to understand, but crap like this happens.
The Tomorrow Man written and directed by Doug Campbell (direct-to-video, Netherlands, 5 March 2002).

Clockstoppers

by Rob Hedden, J. David Stern, and David N. Weiss, directed by Jonathan Frakes
Teenager Zak Gibbs and his pals must protect a metabolism-speeding device from falling into the wrong hands and rescue Zak’s dad as well.
— based on Wikipedia
Zak: My dad consults on these super-secret projects, and I think this is one of them.
Francesca: So your watch stops time?
Clockstoppers by Rob Hedden, J. David Stern, and David N. Weiss, directed by Jonathan Frakes (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 17 March 2002).

The Chronology Protection Case

by Mark Shanahan et al.
An enjoyable script based on the short story of the same name.
But if you come across something you know to be true, one thing is certain: you can never go back to not knowing.
The Chronology Protection Case by Mark Shanahan et al. (Fall 2002).

The Chronology Protection Case

written and directed by Jay Kensinger
Stilted acting and hokey science, but still an enjoyable, low-budget adaptation of Paul Levinson’s story with a fine version of D’Amato.
— Michael Main
Everything is related to each other on some level, and people have discovered that the deeper you go, the more you find that totally different things are made of the same thing.
The Chronology Protection Case written and directed by Jay Kensinger (I-Con, Stony Brook, NY, 20 April 2002).

Hot Tip

by Billy Bruce Winkles
Obscure physicist John Suttle receives a phone call from the future with information about his eventual fate.
As I said, I’m calling you from the twenty-fifth century. I am also a physicist. In fact, I’m the leader of a research group that’s studying space-time contortion phenomena. Recently, we discovered a way to make phone calls into the past.
“Hot Tip” by Billy Bruce Winkles, in Analog, May 2002.

When Bertie Met Mary

by John Morressy
A time traveler seeks Dr. Frankenstein.
The time traveler—for so I must call him—emerged from his laboratory with a small wooden box cradled in his hands.
“When Bertie Met Mary” by John Morressy, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 2002.

Minority Report

by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen, directed by Steven Spielberg
Police use precognition (but no clear-cut time travel) to fight crime.
— Michael Main
I have no idea! I’ve never heard of him! But I’m supposed to kill him in less than thirty-six hours.
Minority Report by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen, directed by Steven Spielberg (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 17 June 2002).

Odyssey 5

by Manny Coto
Five shuttle astronauts in orbit watch the mysterious destruction of the Earth, after which an alien offers to send their consciousnesses back in time five years to solve the mystery and save the earth. For me, it was the melodramatic music, weak scientific concepts and weaker dialog that fated this show to one season, although they did take on some interesting questions about how the crew’s actions may alter time.
I. . . have it in my power. . . to project you back.
Odyssey 5 by Manny Coto (21 June 2002).

Terminator 2

T2: Rising Storm

by S. M. Stirling
T2: Rising Storm by S. M. Stirling (Gollancz, July 2002).

Veritas

by Robert Reed
Jonathon Colfax, Emperor of the Roman Empire, tells the story of his travel back from the 21st century and the intrigues of his rise to power.

Robert Reed is my favorite prolific short story author from around the turn of the millennium.

What we should do is gather up a group of people, and train them, and then travel back in time and conquer the Roman Empire.
“Veritas” by Robert Reed, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2002.

An Angel for May

by Peter Milligan, directed by Harley Cokeliss
An Angel for May by Peter Milligan, directed by Harley Cokeliss (Giffoni Film Festival, Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy, late July 2002).

Some Other Time

by Ray Vukcevich
“Some Other Time” by Ray Vukcevich, in Sci Fiction, 17 July 2002.

Trancers IS VI

Trancers 6

by C. Courtney Joyner, directed by Jay Woelfel
Trancers 6 by C. Courtney Joyner, directed by Jay Woelfel (direct-to-video, USA, 23 July 2002).

Cube²: Hypercube

by Sean Hood, Ernie Barbarash, and Lauren McLaughlin, directed by Andrzej Sekula
A cast of thousands nine (it just seems like thousands) is trapped in the Cube, sometimes called the Tesseract, where time and space are distorted. Time travel may be involved, since we see at least two characters meet themselves, but it’s too surreal for me to know for sure.
— Michael Main
If any of these numbers are prime, then the room is trapped!
Cube²: Hypercube by Sean Hood, Ernie Barbarash, and Lauren McLaughlin, directed by Andrzej Sekula (München Fantasy Filmfest, 29 July 2002).

Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells

by Nicola Cuti et al.
Eureka publishers have released a series of Graphic Classics trade paperbacks, each issue of which collects together comic book versions of stories, usually from a single classic author such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, and more. And, yes, the series includes an H.G. Wells issue (#3) which has undergone three editions, each of which has presented new black and white Time Machine material.

My favorite is the Wilson version (3rd edition), which has a steampunkish Eerie Comics feel and an extended stand-alone version with ten additional pages. My

I cannot help but wonder. Will he return? It may be he was swept back into the past. Or did he go forward into one of the nearer ages, when men are still men, but with the wearisome problems of our own age solved? I may never know.
“Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells” by Nicola Cuti et al., in Graphic Classics 3 (1st Edition, August 2002).

Time and Again

by Betsy Gallup
Some years after Cassie has given up her career to be a full-time mom, it occurs to her that she might use the beta version of her mother’s invention, the Redux 3000, to make life a little different.
Her mom had spent a lifetime researching time travel and The Redux bracelet was the result. Cassie was one of several test subjects asked to test the new technology.
“Time and Again” by Betsy Gallup, in Revolution SF, 8 August 2002.

Megas XLR

by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic
In the pilot show (called “Lowbrow” and aired on a Cartoon Network Weekend Summerfest), two video-game gearheads (Coop and Jamie) find a time-traveling robot in a junkyard and trick him out with a new engine, some new body work, a 671 Jimmy Huffer, and an eight-ball gear shift before realizing that they (along with the redhead, Kiva, from the future) must now protect present-day Earth from the evil aliens who enslaved the planet in the future and are now tracking the Megas back through time.

After the pilot, the Cartoon Network picked up the show for 26 new episodes.

Listen! We need Megas to avert an alien invasion in the far future. He wasn’t meant to be a toy for a prehistoric yahoo and his pet monkey thing!
Megas XLR by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic (23 August 2002).

¡Mucha Lucha!

by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin
Just one time-travel episode (“Woulda Coulda Hasbeena”) in this forgettable series when the three kids’ teacher heads back to the land-of-disco to right-a-wrong in his past, and the kids follow.
Traveling back in time to change the outcome of a wresting match is so against the code of Mas Wrestling that it will rip our world apart at the seams!
¡Mucha Lucha! by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin (31 August 2002).

リターナー

Ritaanaa Literal: Returner

by 平田研也and 山崎貴, directed by 山崎貴
[ex=bare]リターナー | Returner | Ritaanaa[/ex] by 平田研也and 山崎貴, directed by 山崎貴 (at movie theaters, Japan, 31 August 2002).

Operation Timewarp

by Kate Reid
Operation Timewarp by Kate Reid (Dolphin, September 2002).

Qwerty Stevens 2

Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin

by Dan Gutman
Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin by Dan Gutman (Turtleback Books, September 2002).

The Merchant Prince 2

Outrageous Fortune

by Armin Shimerman
Outrageous Fortune by Armin Shimerman (Pocket Books, October 2002).

The Time Telephone

by Adam Roberts
A pregnant woman calls her future daughter at age sixteen (at a cost of nearly 18,000 euros) to find out whether the daughter was glad she was born—and she’s not the only one calling into different times.
This is a call from the past, my darling.
“The Time Telephone” by Adam Roberts, in Infinity Plus, October 2002.

At Dorado

by Geoffrey A. Landis
Cheena’s husband comes back to the port around the wormhole—dead, though the death is in the future, and she doesn’t bother to tell him.
The wormholes were the port’s very reason for existing, the center of Cheena’s universe.
“At Dorado” by Geoffrey A. Landis, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2002.

Time Changer

written and directed by Rich Christiano
Nineteenth-century biblical scholar Russell Carlisle is sent forward 100 years to see what will become of people’s morals if they are allowed to accept or reject Christianity willy-nilly.
— Michael Main
Stop the movie! You must stop this movie! The man on the screen just blasphemed the name of the lord!
Time Changer written and directed by Rich Christiano (at limited movie theaters, USA, 25 October 2002).

Atlantis Endgame

by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith
When one of Eveleen Riordan’s earrings is found on the island that once was Atlantis, she and her hubby Ross Murdock (plus Gordon Ashe, a few Russians, and a new agent or two) must investigate—and of course, clash with the Baldies.
I put the variables together, wondering if you might be part of the equation, and last winter when I uncovered that earring in a place that had been sealed under volcanic ash since 1628 B.C. and saw that modern jeweler’s mark, I decided that maybe it was time to try again to dig you up.
Atlantis Endgame by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith, in Time Traders III (Science Fiction Book Club, November 2002).

The Trinity Paradox

by R. A. Jetter
“The Trinity Paradox” by R. A. Jetter, in Thirteen Stories, December 2002.

Walk to the Full Moon

by Sean McMullen
Undergraduate linguist Carlos helps his uncle try to understand a pre-Neanderthal girl who has appeared in present-day Spain.
On a monitor screen was a girl in a walled garden. Crouching in a corner, she had a fearful, hunted look about her. I could see that she wore a blanket, that her skin was olive-brown, and that her features were bold and heavy. Oddly enough, it took a while for me to notice the most remarkable about her: she had no forehead!
“Walk to the Full Moon” by Sean McMullen, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2002.

Das Jesus Video

English release: The Hunt for the Hidden Relic Literal: The Jesus video

by Martin Ritzenhoff and Sebastian Niemann, directed by Sebastian Niemann
Stephen Vogt, an archaeology student, uncovers a 2000-year-old skeleton and a man’s notes purporting to have taken a video of Jesus Christ on a camera that doesn’t yet exist. The result is a 3-hour. blood-filled, melodramatic chase that, for me, detracted from the more interesting religious questions that the premise might have addressed.

The two-part German TV movie was based on the book Jesus Video by Andreas Eschbach with some significant changes to the ending. It was released in the US with a quality English dubbing in 2006.

— Michael Main
Gentlemen, sleep well tonight. And don’t forget that we are scientists and not science fiction writers.
Das Jesus Video by Martin Ritzenhoff and Sebastian Niemann, directed by Sebastian Niemann (ProSieben, Germany, 5 December 2002).

Time Loop

by Sam Hughes
I first encountered Sam Hughes while desperately trying to figure out the ending to the remake of Planet of the Apes; in addition to excellent speculation on that count, he had this short-short story about a time loop (later made into a fun YouTube video by Andrew Hookway).
I am your future self, and I just traveled back in time to meet you.
“Time Loop” by Sam Hughes, qntm.org, 14 December 2002 (web site).

The New John Connor Chronicles 2

An Evil Hour

by Russell Blackford
An Evil Hour by Russell Blackford (ibooks, 2003).

Baseball Card Adventures 5

Mickey & Me

by Dan Gutman
Mickey & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, 2003).

The New John Connor Chronicles 3

Times of Trouble

by Russell Blackford
Times of Trouble by Russell Blackford (ibooks, 2003).

Train of Events

by James L. Cambias
Jeremy Calder has been told by time travelers that he will cause the release of a deadly virus. No one is allowed to stop him—for he hasn’t done anything yet—and he seems to accept his fate without believing that he can change future history.
Since the history books all agreed that he was going to kill six hundred people on June 25, 2038, Jeremy Calder was careful to get up early that day.
“Train of Events” by James L. Cambias, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2003.

Knight Errant #2

Lady Robyn

by R. Garcia y Robertson
Lady Robyn by R. Garcia y Robertson (Forge Books, February 2003).

Emma

by Kyle Kirkland
You keep saying I’m Emma. But Emma’s long gone. You say that you’ve replicated Emma from all those records or something.
“Emma” by Kyle Kirkland, in Analog, April 2003.

Legions in Time

by Michael Swanwick
Ellie Voigt’s job is to sit and watch a door, until one day she gets angry enough at Mr. Tarblecko that she steps through the door into a time war.
One man with a sunstroker can be overwhelmed by savages equipped with nothing more than neutron bombs—if there are enough of them, and they don’t mind dying!
“Legions in Time” by Michael Swanwick, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2003.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Susan Shilliday, directed by John Kent Harrison
I’m sorry, but apart from the fact that instantaneous travel through space always implies time travel, I didn’t see a lick of time travel in this version of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic.
— Michael Main
We’re mostly just ordinary.
A Wrinkle in Time by Susan Shilliday, directed by John Kent Harrison (Toronto International Film Festival for Children, 25 April 2003).

The Day the Track Stood Still

by John C. Bodin and Ron Collins
Did I spot a smidgen of time travel in this delightful story of a race where Babs the car is certainly in love with the driver and vice versa, all in the tense context of knowing that if the race is lost, then the car will be forfeited?
I tried not to think about what was at stake. The pressure was bad enough without telling her this was for all the marbles: if we lost this Indy 500, she was gone. Sayonara muchacha. Hasta la bye-bye, and good night, Babs. That’s the way it is when you race the B’arada. They put up a piece of tech, you put up a piece of tech. Winner takes all, Indy 500 style.
“The Day the Track Stood Still” by John C. Bodin and Ron Collins, in Analog, May 2003.

Get Me to the Job on Time

by Ian Randal Strock
A man tells the story of his coworker who had a rather mundane use for his discovery of time travel.
Wally didn’t need to see the pyramids getting built, or sail with Columbus, or even watch JFK’s assassination. What Wally wanted to do, more than anything, was get to work on time.
“Get Me to the Job on Time” by Ian Randal Strock, in Analog, May 2003.

The Low Budget Time Machine

by Buddy Barnett, Kathe Duba-Barnett, and Chuck Williams, directed by Duba-Barnett
Dr. Ballard (played by Patrick Macnee) kicks off this 46-minute film by telling us about his theory of time travel, though I never did figure out what all that had to do with the subsequent story of a professor who owes big money to the mob. The professor’s solution is to send three patsies into the future to bring something back that will end all his monetary troubles. As it turns out, the future has ethereal, never-been-kissed babes from outer space with excellent bowling balls (no, not a euphemism), at least one two-headed mutant, and a monster named Gary. Eventually, they all make it back to the present (except for Two-Head) where they form a rock band that Howard Stern would approve of.
— Michael Main
First I should explain in layman’s terms the way time travel works. If you create an instrument that generates five billion electomagnetic transit vibrations per second—faster than the speed of light—one can hypothetically travel through time and space.
The Low Budget Time Machine by Buddy Barnett, Kathe Duba-Barnett, and Chuck Williams, directed by Duba-Barnett (unknown release details, May 2003).

3rd Corinthians

by Michael F. Flynn
This is the second Michael F. Flynn time-travel story that I’ve read set in O Daugherty’s Irish pub. This time, amidst philosophical discussion, Father McGinnity tells of a third letter from Paul to the Corinthians that simply couldn’t be genuine.
Oh, the Bible is true, only it may not always be factual.
“3rd Corinthians” by Michael F. Flynn, in Analog, June 2003.

Static Shock

by Dwayne McDuffie and Michael Davis
Based on the DC comic book, fourteen-year-old superhero Virgil Hawkins, aka Static, has power over electromagnetism, but it’s his friend Nina, aka Time-Zone, who takes him and another hero through time in their first trek through time, trying to save Virgil’s mother.
She can rewind herself through time like a tape through a VCR!
Static Shock by Dwayne McDuffie and Michael Davis (7 June 2003).

Terminator 3

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, directed by Jonathan Mostow
If they can’t get John Connor, then the machines from 2029 will send a T-X terminator for his lieutenants in 2004. Seems like a good play, but they don’t count on John sending back another T-800 to lend a hand to John and his future wife Kate.
— Michael Main
John Connor to Kate Brewster while fleeing the T-X: Get in! Do you wanna live?! Come on!
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, directed by Jonathan Mostow (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 30 June 2003).

Terminator 2

T2: The Future War

by S. M. Stirling
T2: The Future War by S. M. Stirling (Gollancz, July 2003).

Terminator 3

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

by David Hagberg
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines by David Hagberg (Tor, July 2003).

Timeblazers

by Wilson Coneybeare
When Shakira or Alex ask questions about life of yore, Sam and Jen take them back to see for themselves.
And now they take me back in time to find out what life in the past was really like.
Timeblazers by Wilson Coneybeare (5 July 2003).

ぽぽたん

Popotan English release: Popotan Literal: Liondandy

by Jukki Hanada
Three young sisters—Ai, Mai and Mii—and their maid find themselves continually jumping from place to place and time to time.
Why do we have to keep moving, over and over again? It’s so unfair!
[ex=bare]ぽぽたん | Liondandi | Popotan[/ex] by Jukki Hanada (17 July 2003).

Code Lyoko

English release: Code Lyoko Literal: Code Lyoko

by Tania Palumbo and Thomas Romain
As you watch the first few episodes of this French nearly-anime cartoon (dubbed in English), there’s a challenge in working out exactly what’s what in the group of young friends at a boarding school where the resident genius (Jeremy Belpois) interacts with a girl (Aelita) who's trapped in a virtual world which is terrorized by the evil Xana. I suspect I may have missed a few episodes at the start (I started with “Teddygozila”), but it seems that at the end of each successful adventure in the virtual world, the supercomputer take the adventurers back in time to a point of their choosing. It’s kind of cool that things aren’tfully explained, so I hope I don’t later run into the origin episode!
Ready for a trip into the past, Yumi?
[ex=bare]Code Lyoko | Code Lyoko[/ex] by Tania Palumbo and Thomas Romain (3 September 2003).

Timecop II

Timecop: The Berlin Decision

by Gary Scott Thompson, directed by Steve Boyum
Time Enforcement Commission agent (and martial arts expert) Ryan Chang chases through time after rogue agent Brandon Miller who’s off killing ancestors of other agents so there’ll be nobody to stop him from what he sees as a moral obligation to right the wrongs of past timelines (but no obligation to fill the holes in the current plotline).

Despite my reservations, fellow-indexer Tandy, a martial arts afficionada, enjoyed the movie a lot (only partly because she’s in love with Jason Scott Lee), and it is true that even my favorite time-travel movies have some of the same plot holes as this one. In the end, it was a fun romp even for me.

— Michael Main
Drop the gun or your timeline is over.
Timecop: The Berlin Decision by Gary Scott Thompson, directed by Steve Boyum (direct-to-video, USA, 30 September 2003).

Moment Universe Stories 4

It’s All True

by John Kessel
About five years after the first two Moment Universe stories, time traveling talent scount Det Gruber heads to 1942 in hopes of recruiting young, bitter Orson Welles to accompany him back to the future.
— Michael Main
Welles clenched his fists. When he spoke it was in a lower tone. “Life is dark.”
“It’s All True” by John Kessel, in Sci Fiction, 5 November 2003.

Timeline

by Jeff Maguire and George Nolfi, directed by Richard Donner
Michael Crichton’s book, on which this was based, was interminably slow, and so was the movie—and I’m not only talking about the battle scenes in 1357 France. The actual time-travel mechanism is cool, though.
— Michael Main
It means the camera was taking pictures in the wilderness near Castlegard, France, in the year 1357.
Timeline by Jeff Maguire and George Nolfi, directed by Richard Donner (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 19 November 2003).

The Merchant Prince 3

Capital Offense

by Armin Shimerman
Capital Offense by Armin Shimerman (Pocket Star Books, December 2003).

Xeelee short story

The Chop Line

by Stephen Baxter
In the future wars between man and Xeelee, Ensign Daxx meets the time-traveling future Captain Dakk who must try the younger Dakk for the future crime of disobeying orders in a combat situation.
I don’t know many captains, but she immediately recognized me.
“The Chop Line” by Stephen Baxter, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2003.

JumpMan Rule 2

Don’t Even Think About It

by James Valentine
Don’t Even Think About It by James Valentine (Random House, December 2003).

Dragon’s Kin

by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
Oh, the sad life of the underappreciated watch-whers, the minor-league cousins of the mighty dragons of Pern. Still, they have their story, too, and like dragons, they can travel between places. The story also includes minor time travel, although the lowly watch-whers have to leave that to the big lizards in this tale.
“Watch-whers don’t go between,” Nuella declared.

“Yes, they do, I saw Dask do it,” Kindan corrected.

Dragon’s Kin by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, December 2003).

Crosstime Traffic 1

Gunpowder Empire

by Harry Turtledove
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove (Tor, December 2003).

Terminator 3

Terminator 3: Terminator Dreams

by Aaron Allston
Terminator 3: Terminator Dreams by Aaron Allston (Tor, December 2003).

Paycheck

by Dean Georgaris, directed by John Woo
Unlike Philip K. Dick’s story of the same name, the film has only viewing the future rather than physical time travel such as the story’s time scoop’s retrieval capability. Also, the film omits Dick’s dystopian police state and his theme of fate via what appears (in the story) to be a single static timeline. On the other side of the coin, the filmmakers made an epic car chase scene, took Jenning’s female sidekick off the sidelines, and attempted to massively raise the stakes via some questionable choices by Jennings.
— Michael Main
Shorty: Look, if we know anything, we know that time travel's not possible. Einstein proved that. Right?
Michael: Time travel, yes. But Einstein was very clear that he believed time viewing, theoretically, could be accomplished.
Paycheck by Dean Georgaris, directed by John Woo (at movie theaters, USA, 25 December 2003).

A Place in Time

by Gary Blinco
A Place in Time by Gary Blinco (Zeus Publications, 2004).

JumpMan Rule 3

See Rule One!!!

by James Valentine
See Rule One!!! by James Valentine (Random House, 2004).

Tune Out of Time

by Philip E. High
Philip E. High was a prolific author, although not well known in the states. This story, first published when he was 89, tells the tale of the miraculous Mottram’s organ, which unexpectedly sends Alan Stapleton to the past (or is it the future?) on an obscure fragment of matter called Earth—and he may find himself in several other locations before he finds his way home.
I deduce that this device was locked on the past—who’s past, yours or ours? Time is relative, our future could be in your past or vice versa.
“Tune Out of Time” by Philip E. High, in Step to the Stars, edited by Philip E. High (Cosmos Books, 2004).

A Time Odyssey 1

Time’s Eye

by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
And she was continually amazed at how easily everyone else accepted their situation, the blunt, apparently undeniable reality of the time slips, across a hundred and fifty years in her case, perhaps a million years or more for the wretched pithecine and her infant in their net cage.
Time’s Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Del Rey, January 2004).

Decisions

by Michael A. Burstein
Astronaut gets put in a time loop by aliens.
Aaron snorted. “I remember that conversation from over six months ago.”

Gabe shook his head. “It happened this morning.”

“Decisions” by Michael A. Burstein, in Analog, January/February 2004.

The Dragon Wore Trousers

by Bob Buckley
A dinosaur scientist time travels to the middle ages.
The bizarre beast that rounded the bend in the road made Maker’s mouth drop in surprise. It was like nothing he had ever seen before, a top-heavy, lopsided creature having four legs, a narrow head atop a long neck, and a huge shiny lump on its back.
“The Dragon Wore Trousers” by Bob Buckley, in Analog, January/February 2004.

Primer

written and directed by Shane Carruth
Some guys invent a time machine and use it to go back in time to prevent the artsy author of this film from ever writing a coherent plot.
— Michael Main
I haven’t eaten since later this afternoon.
Primer written and directed by Shane Carruth (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 16 January 2004).

The Butterfly Effect I

The Butterfly Effect

written and directed by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress
Scary, dark, disturbing, sick and violent—but captivating—psychological thriller about how things keep going further and further astray when Evan tries to fix things by changing key moments involving the sociopaths and child molesters of his troubled childhood.
— Michael Main
Hey man, I’d think twice about what you’re doing. You could wake up a lot more fucked up than you are now.
The Butterfly Effect written and directed by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 17 January 2004).

Scout’s Honor

by Terry Bisson
An autistic paleontologist receives a series of messages from a time traveler who is studying a band of Neanderthals in prehistoric Europe, although his one friend, Ron, thinks that the messages are an amateur sf story.
Heading down for the NT site. More later.
“Scout’s Honor” by Terry Bisson, in Sci Fiction, 28 January 2004.

Suske en Wiske: De duistere diamant

English release: The Dark Diamond Literal: Suske en Wiske: The dark diamond

by Patricia Beysens, Ilse Somers, and Rudi Van Den Bossche, directed by Van Den Bossche
Suske en Wiske: De duistere diamant by Patricia Beysens, Ilse Somers, and Rudi Van Den Bossche, directed by Van Den Bossche (at movie theaters, Belgium, 18 February 2004).

Cowl

by Neal Asher
Cowl by Neal Asher (Tor, March 2004).

Draft Dodger’s Rag

by Jeff Hecht
Time travelers come back to 1969 Berkeley to help Tom, a Vietnam draft dodger.
They want to be heroes. They think war brings glory and makes them men. I think they’re crazy. Our society up then thinks they’re crazier than your society thinks you are.
“Draft Dodger’s Rag” by Jeff Hecht, in Analog, March 2004.

Tripping the Rift

by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen
What if Star Trek/Wars were an adult cartoon with time travel on demand, including travel back to the start of the universe in the broadcast pilot, “God is Our Pilot”?
Chode: Hey, you know what the best part of being able to go back to the beginning of time means?
Whip: Yeah. Not having to remember what you did yesterday.
Chode: Yeah, that. And we’re gonna know once and for all how the universe was created.
Tripping the Rift by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen (4 March 2004).

The Aztec Supremacist

by Sheralyn Schofield Belyeu
Dr. Harvey takes a posse back to 1492 to pursue an Aztec descendant who plans to stop Columbus’s voyage.
Gentlemen, this person tells me that in many years, the Almighty will allow men to journey through time. He says that he has come from the far future with a message for me.
“The Aztec Supremacist” by Sheralyn Schofield Belyeu, in Analog, April 2004.

This Tragic Glass

by Elizabeth Bear
In a world where time travel can retrieve past historical figures, Dr. Satyavati Brahmaptura (now a colleague of poet John Keats) receives permission from the History Department to nab Christopher Marlowe in order to prove that he was really a she.
The genderbot still thinks Kit Marlowe was a girl. I reentered everything.
“This Tragic Glass” by Elizabeth Bear, in Sci Fiction, 7 April 2004.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter
After failing as part of a 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Harvey Birdman is revived as an attorney whose clients are typically other hard-done-by Hanna-Barbera characters, including at least one episode where the Jetsons travel from the far future (that’d be 2002) to the present (2004), but my favorite is when Harvey has to defend Quick Draw “Eastwood” McGraw’s 2nd Amendment rights.
Ah, that’s okay, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddad.
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter (16 May 2004).

Time Ablaze

by Michael A. Burstein
Lucas Schmidt, time-traveler, goes back to 1904 to witness New York City’s most deadly tragedy: a ship full of German Americans on fire.
A small piece of paper fell out of the book and onto the table. Adele picked it up and examined it. It bore one line: “http://www.general-slocum.com.” She had no idea what it meant; “http” was clearly not a word, although she presumed she knew what the “general-slocum” part referred to.
“Time Ablaze” by Michael A. Burstein, in Analog, June 2004.

Axis of Time 1

Weapons of Choice

by John Birmingham
Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (Del Rey, June 2004).

5ive Days to Midnight

by Robert Zappia et. al., directed by Michael Watkins
In this SciFi Channel miniseries, J.T. Neumeyer (physics professor, widower, and single dad) receives a briefcase from decades in the future containing a police file with the details of his murder five days hence. Once he accepts it as real, he has some success at changing fate by saving a woman from an accident—and then fate starts pushing back by killing her in a different accident, putting J.T. is on a track to meet his own fate.
The future is not immutable—you can print that!
5ive Days to Midnight by Robert Zappia et. al., directed by Michael Watkins (7 June 2004).

Phil of the Future

by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber
Phil Duffy and his family, on vacation from the 22nd century in a rented time machine, are keeping it together just as best as they can now that they’ve ended up trapped right here in our time zone.
♫Meet a boy named Phil and his family
On vacation from the 22nd century
They got a rented time machine and they’re on their way
To a time way, way, way back in the day♫
Phil of the Future by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber (18 June 2004).

Throg

by Dana Lee and Matthew T. Power, directed by Matthew T. Power
Medieval boy Throg becomes immortal after Urshag the Destroyer chops off his arms and Hades gives him the power of regeneration, after which he lives a long time through badly written Monty Python imitations until the touching end. Granted that immortality is not time travel, but Hades does manage a moment of time travel for Throg along the way.
— Michael Main
Get that fire started yet, boy?
Throg by Dana Lee and Matthew T. Power, directed by Matthew T. Power (Boston International Film Festival, 26 June 2004).

Terminator 2

Hour of the Wolf

by Mark W. Tiedemann
Hour of the Wolf by Mark W. Tiedemann (ibooks, July 2004).

To Emily on the Ecliptic

by Thomas R. Dulski
As part of a therapy to overcome writer’s block, poet Maleus Taub uses an alien artifact Healing Chair to visit Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson.
We don’t know how it works. Or even what its energy source is. When the field is on we’ve detected minor fluctuations in certain astronomical objects.
“To Emily on the Ecliptic” by Thomas R. Dulski, in Analog, July/August 2004.

The 4400

by René Echevarria and Scott Peters
Over the years, people of all ages and walks of life have been abducted. Now, 4400 of them have returned to a glen outside of Seattle, all at the same time and without any aging or memory of where—or when—they’ve been. We get to see how they fit back in or don’t, how they react to hostilities, how they use their powers such as young Maia Skouris who sees the future, 17-year-old bio-phenom Shawn Farrell who now has an eye for Nikki (not so young any more), and Richard who no longer has his life threatened for loving a white woman whom he’s managed to impregnate without sex.
History tells us this is where the path to oblivion began.
The 4400 by René Echevarria and Scott Peters (11 July 2004).

Het Kronosproject

Literal: The Kronos project

by Johan Vandevelde
Het Kronosproject by Johan Vandevelde (Clavis, August 2004).

The Hat Thing

by Matthew Hughes
A nameless man tells another how to spot time travelers.
— Michael Main
Sure. Researchers. Tourists. Criminals altering their present by manipulating the past. Religious pilgrims. Collectors. Who knows what motivates people in a million years from now?
“The Hat Thing” by Matthew Hughes, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2004.

Crosstime Traffic 2

Curious Notions

by Harry Turtledove
Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove (Tor, October 2004).

Retrograde

by Tom Reeve and Gianluca Curti, directed by Christopher Kulikowski
Two centuries after a meteor lands in Antarctica, the deadly bacterial plague that it brought has spread around the world and threatens to wipe out all life. The solution: Go back in time and stop the meteor from ever being dug up. But John Foster, the leader of the expedition, will have to cope with his traveling companion’s vices as well as ice and bacteria.

I suppose the military uniforms of 2204 all look like Axis Powers uniforms because the movie was originally made in Italy. It was first released in Russia in 2004 and made it to the states by 2009. Of course, none of that explains why the timeship looks like a 1978 Battlestar Galactica castoff.

— Michael Main
Under your command, you will pilot the Porsifol back 200 years and track the cutter’s movement to the meteor field. Alter the timeline. Eradicate the scourge.
Retrograde by Tom Reeve and Gianluca Curti, directed by Christopher Kulikowski (direct-to-video, Russia, 2 November 2004).

Time’s Swell

by Victoria Somogyi and Kathleen Chamberlain
When a woman awakes with no memory, she finds herself being taken care of by another woman who says that they have come from the future and cannot get back, so they prostitute themselves in various forms to make money and hesitantly take each other as lovers.
And then there are the days when she tells me that we’ve traveled through time, that we have come from the future and are trapped here. She tells me that she was a temporal scientist, that I was her project. That I am modified and enhanced for survival, for time travel, for perfection. Those are the bad days.
“Time’s Swell” by Victoria Somogyi and Kathleen Chamberlain, in Strange Horizons, 15 November 2004.

Small Moments in Time

by John G. Hemry
A time traveler seeking lost seeds in the past finds a man who may have started the worst influenza of the 20th century.
The odd truth of working as a temporal interventionist is that some there-and-thens are better than others.
“Small Moments in Time” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, December 2004.

Terminator 3

Terminator 3: Terminator Hunt

by Aaron Allston
Terminator 3: Terminator Hunt by Aaron Allston (Tor, December 2004).

The Destruction of Sennacherib

by Bryn Sparks
Lady Ada Lovelace, who has traveled through time via a Wells-type machine in a steampunk world, tells her story to an enamored compatriot who is 50 years older than when they last shared a conversation.
It seemed the original analytical engine, the mechanical computer designed and built by my friend and mentor, the great Charles Babbage in the 1830s, had a lethal configuration that could lock up an entire engine if it were ever presented with the right sequence of calculations. The article went on to describe how all the miniaturized analytical engines at the heart of the empire’s technology were just small versions of the original analytical engine. No one had ever changed the fundamental arrangement of cogs and gears and drive trains and clutches. They had just been made smaller and linked together in greater numbers, so here at the turn of the century, I could be driven in a cab by a man whose very thoughts were determined by the workings of beings of microscopic versions of Babbage’s original design, all operating in parallel.
“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Bryn Sparks, in Robots and Time, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia, 2005).

Lady with an Alien: An Encounter with Leonardo da Vinci

by Mike Resnick
Lady with an Alien: An Encounter with Leonardo da Vinci by Mike Resnick (Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005).

Dragonsblood

by Todd McCaffrey
Two sick fire-lizards—the progenitors of Pern’s dragons—fall from the sky where the geneticist Wind Blossom and her protégé set out to cure them and in the process determine that they are from the future.
“Don’t do it!” the first M’hall shouted to the other.

Somber M’hall startled at the sound of his own voice coming to him. “You’re from the future?”

Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, January 2005).

Blast to the Past 1

Lincoln’s Legacy

by Rhody Cohon
Lincoln’s Legacy by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 2005).

The Time Hackers

by Gary Paulsen
Twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman lives in a future where viewing the past is commonplace, but he and his friend Frank are being unpredictably pulled into the past!

Janet found this for me at the library in 2010.

They might see a vision of a dinosaur one time and on the second try get an image of a man who might be Julius Caesar getting ready for a bath, or Anne Boleyn getting her head chopped off.
The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen (Wendy Lamb Books, January 2005).

A Few Good Men

by Richard A. Lovett
Time travelers from a future without many men come back to our time to import what they need most, but they accidentally snatch Tiffany Richardson as well.
There were eight good prospects back there, and I’d have had them all if this bitch hadn’t shown up.
“A Few Good Men” by Richard A. Lovett, in Analog, January/February 2005.

Slipstream

by Phillip Badger, directed by David van Eyssen
Stuart Conway plans to use his 10-minute time machine to repeatedly withdraw the same money from a bank teller that he’s chatting up, but a violent gang of other bank robbers throws a wrench into his plan.
— Michael Main
Did you ever wish you could keep doing the same thing over and over again?
Slipstream by Phillip Badger, directed by David van Eyssen (London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, 3 February 2005).

Baseball Card Adventures 6

Abner & Me

by Dan Gutman
Abner & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, March 2005).

Stitching Time

by Stephanie Burgis
“Stitching Time” by Stephanie Burgis, in The Fortean Bureau, March 2005.

A Time Odyssey 2

Sunstorm

by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Del Rey, March 2005).

Letters of Transit

by Brian Plante
A scientist on the first near-lightspeed ship to Centauri A exchanges letters with his underage girlfriend back on Earth through a wormhole for which time passes at the same rate on both ends. When the ship returns to Earth with its end of the wormhole, the hole will act as a time machine for messages, but the clichéd paradox police won’t let scientist send girlfriend any information about the future.
You wouldn’t want to cause any of those nasty paradoxes, would you?
“Letters of Transit” by Brian Plante, in Analog, April 2005.

Message in a Bottle

by Nalo Hopkinson
An artist named Greg, who never wanted to have children, becomes close to Kamla, an adopted daughter of a friend; the situation works out fine, even when Greg does have an unexpected child with his girlfriend, and even when Kamla turns out to be one of the thousands of children with extremely slow-growing bodies and minds from the future.
I'm from the Future, Says Bobble-Headed Boy.
“Message in a Bottle” by Nalo Hopkinson, in Futureways, edited by Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen (Arsenal Pulp Press, April 2005).

The Apotheosis of Martin Padway

by S. M. Stirling
Some 50 years after Martin Padway was thrown back to Byzantine times, a group of holy men and scientists travel back to the supposed date when the Great Man ascended to godhood.
“It’s definitely a past with Martinus of Padua in it. There are no other lines within several hundred chronospace-years that show a scientific-industrial revolution this early. Quantum factors make it difficult”—fucking meaningless—“to say if it’s precisely the line that led to us.”
“The Apotheosis of Martin Padway” by S. M. Stirling, in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L. Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).

Blast to the Past 2

Disney’s Dream

by Rhody Cohon
Disney’s Dream by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, May 2005).

Reggie Rivers homage story

Gun, Not for Dinosaur

by Chris Bunch
Chris Bunch’s story gave a nod to the Reggie Rivers stories, and the result was published as part of the L. Sprague de Camp tribute anthology. The narrator, who isn’t named, tells the story of how Peter Kilgrew nearly wiped out humanity in an indirect fashion during a time safari to the Jurassic.
The stupid git was trying to wipe out all of humanity, though he was too stupid to realize it.
“Gun, Not for Dinosaur” by Chris Bunch, in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L. Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).

Mammoth

by John Varley
Mammoth by John Varley (Easton Press, May 2005).

Terminós

by Dean Francis Alfar
“Terminós” by Dean Francis Alfar, in Rabid Transit: Menagerie, edited by Christopher Barzak et al. (Rabid Transit Press, May 2005).

Working on Borrowed Time

by John G. Hemry
Tom and his implanted AI Jeannie (from “Small Moments in Time”) are back again, this time trying to stop future Nazis from destroying Edwardian London.
What? The British Empire started coming apart in the 1920s?
“Working on Borrowed Time” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, June 2005.

The Starry Night

by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
A visage of the universe exploding bounces back and forth between a space-faring priest, an epileptic six-year-old in our day, and Vincent Van Gogh.
For the first time she is a little scared. She wishes that she were in her room, not in this space car with the stars glowing and exploding like the stars in Mr. Gogh’s painting.
“The Starry Night” by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann, in Sci Fiction, 22 June 2005.

Perfect

by Dyan Sheldon
Perfect by Dyan Sheldon (Macmillan Children’s Books, July 2005).

The Time Traveler’s Wife

by Scott William Carter
No, we’re not talking about that wife; we’re talking about Scott William Carter’s version—Yolanda Green, an even-keeled, mostly content wife of a university professor time traveler—and the story of what she does when he goes off into the future, failing to return for dinner.
“We’ve done it,” he said. “Three times with a mouse and five times with a monkey. The university has approved my request for a manned test run. We’re going into the future!
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Scott William Carter, in Analog, July/August 2005.

Summer Time Machine Blues

English release: Summer Time Machine Blues

by 上田誠, directed by 本広克行
Summer Time Machine Blues by 上田誠, directed by 本広克行 (at movie theaters, Japan, 3 July 2005).

What’s Expected Of Us

by Ted Chiang
A warning comes from the future about a toy that flashes a green led exactly one second before you press a button. I wonder whether it’s powered by thiotimoline.
The heart of the Predictor is a circuit with a negative time delay—it sends a signal back in time.
“What’s Expected Of Us” by Ted Chiang, in Nature, 7 July 2005.

Time Warp Trio

by Kathy Waugh et al.
Ten-year-old Joe and his two mates Fred and Sam travel back and forth in time in these 22-minute Discovery Kids cartoons based on Jon Scieszka’s story series.
Ever wonder how three kids from Brooklyn got their hands on a time-traveling book?
Time Warp Trio by Kathy Waugh et al. (9 July 2005).

Gauging Moonlight

by E. Catherine Tobler
The alien narrator loves Alice Oxbridge, although the word love does not capture the feeling any more accurately than space travel captures climbing into a vehicle capable of carrying you off-planet. And our narrator has the power to erase the moments of tragedy in Alice’s life, but he cannot do so without breaking his one unbreakable tenet and becoming the prime example of sentient idiocy.
Alice’s was not the first birth I witnessed, nor even the most unusual. The first time I saw Alice’s birth, I bypassed the event, skimming ahead to the advent of the automobile. Gears fascinated me more. But on reflection, something drew me back to Alice in the garden, newborn on the rain-wet grass. The world seemed to move beneath her.
“Gauging Moonlight” by E. Catherine Tobler, in Sci Fiction, 20 July 2005.

Fleet of Ages

by Jared Axelrod
Axelrod is one of the founders of 365 Tomorrows, which presents a piece of flash fiction every day of the year. This was their first time travel story, a story in which ships bring items from the future with unpredictable consequences.
I used to think that, more than any man, I understood the consequences of what those ships were supposed to bring back.
“Fleet of Ages” by Jared Axelrod, 365 Tomorrows, 5 August 2005 [webzine].

The Strange Desserts of Professor Natalie Doom

by Kat Beyer
For Natalie, it isn’t easy growing up as the only human creation of a mad scientist (including a time machine, of course) and his gorgeous, shapely wife—especially when you have the name of Natalie Doom and a leaning toward feminism).
Apparently I inherited Mama’s looks and Papa’s brains. Again and again in my life I’ve gotten the best of a bad bargain.
“The Strange Desserts of Professor Natalie Doom” by Kat Beyer, in Strange Horizons, 22 August 2005.

A Sound of Thunder

by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Gregory Poirier, directed by Peter Hyams
Bradbury’s time safari story is not improved by 90 minutes of melodramatic nonsense.
— Michael Main
A butterfly caused all this?
Sound of Thunder by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Gregory Poirier, directed by Peter Hyams (at movie theaters, Spain, 26 August 2005).

11:59

by Jamin Winans, directed by Winans
11:59 by Jamin Winans, directed by Winans (Montreal World Film Festival, 31 August 2005).

Blast to the Past 3

Bell’s Breakthrough

by Rhody Cohon
Bell’s Breakthrough by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, September 2005).

Das Cusanus-Spiel

English release: The Cusanus Game Literal: The Cusanus game

by Wolfgang Jaschke
In an alternate Europe where isolationism is enforced by towering walls and the world is crumbling around them, a secret project aims to save the present by harvesting the past.
Only on the basis of his theoretical work and predictions did Folkert Jensma and Koos van Laere the following year at the Christian Huygens Institute in the Hague prove the existence of so-called time solitons, which Thilawuntha had predicted. These disturbances traverse the flow of time in both directions, that is, they bring about with their passage momentary damming and acceleration in the temporal dimension. They thereby deform the structure of space-time, but are eo ipso not directly detectable by an observer situated within this strugture—that is, within our universe. Their existence can, however, be indirectly demonstrated, because their passage is accompanied by gravitational waves of various strength.
[ex=bare]Das Cusanus-Spiel | The Cusanus game[/ex] by Wolfgang Jaschke (Droemer Knaur, September 2005).

Axis of Time 2

Designated Targets

by John Birmingham
Designated Targets by John Birmingham (Macmillan, September 2005).

Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law

by Kevin J. Anderson
Marty Paramus and his partner specialize in legal nuances arising from the new time-travel technology.
So you figured that if you kept Franklin’s biological mother and father from meeting, he would never have been born, your parents’ marriage would have remained happy, and your life would have remained wonderful.
“Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law” by Kevin J. Anderson, in Analog, September 2005.

Triceratops Summer

by Michael Swanwick
An incident at the Institute for Advanced Physics brings a herd of Triceratops to present-day Vermont, which is certainly a worry, but according to Everett McCoughlan of the Institute, that will be the least of our worries by the end of the summer.
Everything ends eventually. But after all is said and done, it’s waht we do in the meantime that matters, isn’t it?
“Triceratops Summer” by Michael Swanwick (Amazon Shorts, September 2005 [e-book]).

Who Forever Belongs To

by Jared Axelrod
In his second time-travel story, 365 Tomorrows founder Jared Axelrod has a rummage sale aficionado stumble across a time machine and philosophically discuss why the owner would let it go for five dollars.
So when I unearthed the device from under a seriously disturbing collection of polyester sweaters, I knew it was something to treasure. I just didn’t know what.
“Who Forever Belongs To” by Jared Axelrod, 365 Tomorrows, 4 October 2005 [webzine].

The Aquanauts

by John Lunn
The Aquanauts by John Lunn (Tundra Books, November 2005).

Understanding Space and Time

by Alastair Reynolds
“Understanding Space and Time” by Alastair Reynolds, in Novacon 35 Program, November 2005.

Zathura: A Space Adventure

by David Koepp and John Kamps, directed by Jon Favreau
Zathura: A Space Adventure by David Koepp and John Kamps, directed by Jon Favreau (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 6 November 2005).

Broken Infinities 1

Continuity Slip

by Till Noever
Continuity Slip by Till Noever (Lulu.com, December 2005).

Diving Universe 1A

Diving into the Wreck

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The first story in the Diving Universe series finds the captain (a.k.a. “Boss”) of Nobody’s Business and her motley crew of five wreck divers grappling with a five-thousand-year-old derelict spaceship that’s farther from Earth than it has any right to be. Their own spaceship has an FTL Drive, which always implies time travel, and there are suggestions that the old ship has areas of differing time rates based on interdimensional, parallel universe hand-waving, but the confirmation of actual time travel doesn’t occur until later in the Diving Universe series.
— Michael Main
A few documents, smuggled to the colonies on Earth’s Moon, suggested that stealth tech was based on interdimensional science—that the ships didn’t vanish off radar because of a “cloak” but because they traveled, briefly, into another world—a parallel universe that’s similar to our own.

I recognized the theory—it’s the one on which time travel is based, even though we’ve never discovered time travel, at least not in any useful way, and researchers all over the universe discourage experimentation in it. They prefer the other theory of time travel, the one that says time is not linear, that we only perceive it as linear, and to actually time travel would be to alter the human brain.

But what Squishy is telling me is that it’s possible to time travel, it’s possible to open small windows in other dimensions, and bend them to our will.

“Diving into the Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2005.

Blast to the Past 4

King’s Courage

by Rhody Cohon
King’s Courage by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, December 2005).

Patsy Ann 3

The Golden Boy

by Beverley Wood
The Golden Boy by Beverley Wood (Raincoast Books, 2006).

Baseball Card Adventures 7

Satch & Me

by Dan Gutman
Satch & Me by Dan Gutman (Amistad, January 2006).

Walking on the Moon

by Susan Sizemore
Walking on the Moon by Susan Sizemore (Cerridwen Press, January 2006).

Written in Plaster

by Rajnar Vajra
Thirteen-year-old Danny Levan is a bullied, half-Jewish boy in 1938 Surrey when he discovers strangely colored bits of plaster that can reform into what can only be described as his own protective time-traveling golem.
A pack of chips was constantly pursuing and reuniting with the giant, but moonlight glinted off of one largish piece that seemed in danger of being left behind, lodged in a groove between cobblestones.

“Wait,” Danny called out soFTLy and although the creature was obviously too far off to hear, and lacked ears besides, it immediately paused long enough for the chip to free itself and join the others.

“Written in Plaster” by Rajnar Vajra, in Analog, January/February 2006.

Dreamland

by Tom Willett, directed by Jason Matzner
Meghan and Dylan stop at a desert diner near Area 51 where they hear UFO and time travel stories. On the road again, their radio starts picking up Patsy Cline songs, they get separated, and Meghan has various scary encounters including one with a spooky 8-year-old girl and another with newspaper clippings about top secret time travel experiments in the 60s.

I watched to the end (where there is about five minutes of song that tries to explain it all), but I won’t claim to understand the movie. One reviewer says that the spooky girl was abducted and subjected to government time travel experiments, and that the movie is populated by characters who are only in her mind as she travels through time (possibly people from the clippings). If so, then perhaps Meghan is the little girl’s imaginings of her own older self.

— Michael Main
Don’t you get it? There’s no such thing as time, there’s no such thing as this place, and there’s no such thing as you. Meghan is a figment of her own imagination.
Dreamland by Tom Willett, directed by Jason Matzner (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 23 January 2006).

Sierra Waters 1

The Plot to Save Socrates

by Paul Levinson
Young doctoral student Sierra chases back to ancient Alexandria after her professor who seems to be chasing after a time traveler who is trying to get Socrates to abandon Athenian death row for the future.

Although I haven’t seen a second novel, a sequel novella called “Unburning Alexandria” featured Sierra chasing around 410 A.D. Alexandria.

If I, today, had finished constructing a device, in this room, which allowed you to travel even a day into the past, and you used it to travel into the past to kill or otherwise distract me from completing the device, how would you have been able to travel in the first place into the past, with no device then constructed?
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson (Tor Books, February 2006).

Felix 2: Der Hase und die verflixte Zeitmachine

Literal: Felix 2: The rabbit and the darn time machine

by John Paisley et al., directed by Giuseppe Laganà
Felix 2: Der Hase und die verflixte Zeitmachine by John Paisley et al., directed by Giuseppe Laganà (at movie theaters, Switzerland, 9 February 2006).

Patsy Ann 2

Jack’s Knife

by Beverley Wood
Jack’s Knife by Beverley Wood (Polesta, March 2006).

Doraemon #26

映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 2006

Gekijoban Doraemon: Nobita no kyoryu 2006 English release: Doraemon: Nobita’s Dinosaur 2006 Literal: Doraemon the movie: Nobita’s dinosaur 2006

by 渡辺歩 and 楠葉宏三, directed by 渡辺歩
[ex=bare]映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 2006 | Doraemon the movie: Nobita’s dinosaur 2006 | Gekijoban Doraemon Nobitas dinosaur 2006[/ex] by 渡辺歩 and 楠葉宏三, directed by 渡辺歩 (at movie theaters, Japan, 4 March 2006).

Doxies

by Brandon Alspaugh
Angela’s mother takes her to a support group—Children of the Post-Contemporary, aka the Doxies—where the children reluctantly talk about what it’s like to have various futuristic features and a father from the future.
She was a walking paradox, her mother said. And she must never make waves, never draw attention, never accomplish something or participate or pop her head out, for even a second. If she changed the future, her father might not exist, and neither would she.
“Doxies” by Brandon Alspaugh, in Apex, Fall 2006.

Dropping a Pebble in a Dry Well

by Kathy Kachelries
Demetri Thornwick is pissed by the D- he received on a term paper that computes the MDZC for changes made even when DT>200 years.
The arguments always center on the Maximum Disruption with Zero Consequences (MDZC). You know, what’s the most I can change without screwing up the primary timeline.
“Dropping a Pebble in a Dry Well” by Kathy Kachelries, 365 Tomorrows, 13 April 2006 [webzine].

xkcd

by Randall Munroe
Nerdy Randall Munroe’s quirky stick figures don’t shy away from the difficult time-travel tropes.
Why are you so obsessed with this Hitler guy?
“xkcd” by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com 103, 15 May 2006.

Southland Tales

written and directed by Richard Kelly
After terrorists destroy Abilene and El Paso with nuclear bombs, the Patriot Act dominates the U.S. and the world is engulfed in World War III. Unfortunately, the U.S. seems to be more engulfed in the next presidential election and finding an alternative to oil, which somehow (don’t ask me how) combine to create a rift in space-time that doesn’t really play much of a role in the self-important plot, but does serve to send two monkeys (or maybe two of the movie’s characters) back in time 69 minutes.

You’d think by now that I would have learned not to rent movies where the director and writer are one and the same, but I keep holding out hope.

— Michael Main
And what did we do when we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched monkeys into it.
Southland Tales written and directed by Richard Kelly (Cannes Film Festival, 21 May 2006).

Suspension of Disbelief

by B. York
According to young Aaron’s buddy Hamel, once people get time machines, there’s no telling which descendants are going to bite the dust.
If, forty years ago, some madman had come and swiped our parents, neither of us would be around. So forty years ago, we could stop existing.
“Suspension of Disbelief” by B. York, 365 Tomorrows, 31 May 2006 [webzine].

Always Will

written and directed by Michael Sammaciccia
Will, a high school senior, discovers how to use a stolen time capsule to go back in time and relive moments over and over until he gets it right.
— Michael Main
Seriously, it lets me, like, revisit a moment in the past.
Always Will written and directed by Michael Sammaciccia (Dances with Films Festival, Late July 2006).

Environmental Friendship Fossle

by Ian Stewart
A contract investigator who tracks down crimes against endangered species finds a mammoth tusk that’s only 30 years old according to radiocarbon dating.
“Mammoth ivory,” the old man said, as if it was a proposition put up for debate. “I have hunt mammoth.”
“Environmental Friendship Fossle” by Ian Stewart, in Analog, July/August 2006.

The Teller of Time

by Carl Frederick
You get one guess what happens when you juxtapose these circumstances:
  1. As a boy, Kip Wolverton’s best friend is crushed in a tragic accident in a bell tower.
  2. Then, because Kip is too shy to ever approach the bell-ringer of his dreams, the girl goes and marries his other best friend, so Kip goes off to America to drown his sorrows and become an expert physicist studying time.
  3. Finally, 25 years later, Kip returns to England to do time experiments in bell towers where he finds girl grown and unhappily married.
“Research money is difficult to come by these days,” said Neville. “There is a lot of good science lanuishing because more meretricious projects get the funds.”
“The Teller of Time” by Carl Frederick, in Analog, July/August 2006.

Dragon’s Fire

by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
Two sick fire-lizards—the progenitors of Pern’s dragons—fall from the sky where the geneticist Wind Blossom and her protégé set out to cure them and in the process determine that they are from the future.
“Don’t do it!” the first M’hall shouted to the other.

Somber M’hall startled at the sound of his own voice coming to him. “You’re from the future?”

Dragon’s Fire by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, August 2006).

The Girl Who Leapt through Time #2

時をかける少女

Toki o Kakeru Shōjo English release: The Girl Who Leapt through Time Literal: Time-soaring girl

by 奥寺佐渡子, directed by 細田守
In this loose anime adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s story, young Makoto Konno is thrown into a train crossing on her bike and unintentionally travels back in time to avoid being hit; that leads her to experiment with her ability—yes, with teenaged concerns, but still with charm.
— Michael Main
And then, when you came to, you’d gone back a few minutes in time.
[ex=bare]時をかける少女 | Time-soaring girl | Toki o kakeru shojo[/ex] by 奥寺佐渡子, directed by 細田守 (at movie theaters, Japan, 15 July 2006).

Panic Time

written and directed by John Carstarphen
Elisa figures time travel can provide the perfect alibi for murdering her scumbag husband. Sadly, though, if you watch this movie with another person, neither one of you will have an alibi for those lost seventy minutes, since you’ll both be asleep.
— Michael Main
The police said that the killer left behind no evidence at all.
Panic Time written and directed by John Carstarphen (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Dallas, 25 July 2006).

Axis of Time 3

Final Impact

by John Birmingham
Final Impact by John Birmingham (Macmillan, August 2006).

The Butterfly Effect II

The Butterfly Effect 2

by Michael D. Weiss, directed by John R. Leonetti
There’s this entire other version of my life without you. I went through this whole year of my life believing you were dead.
The Butterfly Effect 2 by Michael D. Weiss, directed by John R. Leonetti (at movie theaters, Israel, 10 August 2006).

American Dragon

by Jeff Goode
Like all American teens, Asian-American Jake Long skateboards—oh, and he’s also the wise-cracking American Dragon, guardian of all magical creatures. In one episode (“Hero of the Hourglass”), Jake travels back to when his dad was a teen in order to get his mom to reveal the truth about magic and dragons.
Or, I can change things for the better. . . ooh, there’s a whole side of my family that my dad doesn’t doesn't know about. I have the chance to change that, the chance to reverse the last twenty years and redo everything without the lies, the secrets, the being grounded every other week.
American Dragon by Jeff Goode (12 August 2006).

Tartan of Thyme 1

Justin Thyme

by Panama Oxridge
Justin Thyme by Panama Oxridge (Interrobang Books, September 2006).

Variable Star

by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson (Tor Books, September 2006).

Idiocracy

written and directed by Mike Judge
Five centuries of suspended animation for an “average couple,” but no real time travel.
— Michael Main
Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets, desperate for help, but the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts.
Idiocracy written and directed by Mike Judge (at limited movie theaters, USA, 1 September 2006).

The Fountain

by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel, directed by Darren Aronofsky
An immortality serum, possible reincarnation, and three intertwined, surreal stories spread over a millennium, but no explicit time travel that I can see.
— Michael Main
Together we will live forever!
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel, directed by Darren Aronofsky (Venice Film Festival, 4 September 2006).

No Time for Nuts

by Chris Renaud, directed by Renaud and Mike Thurmeier
Each time the machine of an unfortunate time traveler zaps Scrat’s Precious into an unknown time, the famed ice-age rat faithfully follows.

As for the quote “Here stood . . .,” you’ll have to watch the cartoon yourself to find out what stood there, ’cause we’re not spoiling it.

— Michael Main
Here stood . . .
No Time for Nuts by Chris Renaud, directed by Renaud and Mike Thurmeier (at movie theaters, New Zealand, 14 September 2006).

Heroes

by Tim Kring
Hiro Nakamura reads comic books, wants to be a hero, and believes that his will power is enough to move him through time and space (and, yes, it is).

I enjoyed talking about this show with my friend John Kennedy before he died of cancer on 18 Mar 2009.

Save the cheerleader, save the world.
Heroes by Tim Kring (25 September 2006).

Blast to the Past 6

Ben Franklin’s Fame

by Rhody Cohon
Ben Franklin’s Fame by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 2006).

Prevenge

by Mike Resnick and Kevin J. Anderson
Kyle Bain, a member of the Knights Temporal, goes on a mission to prevent a murder in the past because that’s what the Knights do—regardless of whether the murder may be just or not.
Thou shalt UN-kill, whenever possible.
“Prevenge” by Mike Resnick and Kevin J. Anderson, in Analog, November 2006.

Crusade in Jeans

by Bill Haney, directed by Ben Sombogaart
Crusade in Jeans by Bill Haney, directed by Ben Sombogaart (at movie theaters, Antwerp, Belgium, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, 12 November 2006).

Day Break

by Paul Zbyszewski
Detective Brett Hopper keeps waking up at the same time on the same day, but each day he learns more about who's trying to frame him.
Maybe. We’ll see how the day goes.
Day Break by Paul Zbyszewski (15 November 2006).

Déjà Vu

by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, directed by Tony Scott
While investigating the burning death of a young woman who washed up on shore a few minutes before a bomb demolished a New Orleans ferry, ATF Agent Doug Carlin gets pulled into an FBI investigation that can view happenings four days and six hours into the past.

Oh, who’s kidding whom? We all know these scientists never stop at mere viewing. I would have given more personal stars to this action movie if I could have figured out how Doug could live in a world where after the girl washes up dead, she is there to bandage him and answer the phone.

— Michael Main
Danny: Whatever you did, you did it already. Whether you send this note or you don’t, it doesn’t matter. You cannot change the past. It’s physically impossible.
Agent Carlin: What if there’s more than physics?
Déjà Vu by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, directed by Tony Scott (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 20 November 2006).

Happy Tree Friends

by Aubrey Ankrum et al.
Cute forest animals mutilate and maim each other with at least one time machine in “Blast from the Past” where Sniffles vainly tries to save his friends from playground death and mayhem.
Cartoon Violence: Not recommended for small children or big babies
Happy Tree Friends by Aubrey Ankrum et al. (20 November 2006).

Wonder Pets

by Josh Selig
When the kindergarteners leave for the day, three kindergarten pets—a hamster, a duck and a turtle, of course—save various different animals from perils, including one episode when the trio traveled into a classroom poster to save a trapped triceratops.
Look! There’s there are dinosaurs in that poster! Let’s go there!
Wonder Pets by Josh Selig (“Save the Dinosaur”, 6 December 2006).

American Dad!

by Seth MacFarlane et al.
Typical patriotic American family fare with Dad, Mom, two kids, an alien, a man trapped in a goldfish body, and the occasional romp through time.
Getting Scorsese off drugs means he never did all the cocaine that fueled him to make Taxi Driver, which means he never cast Jodie Foster, which means John Hinkley never obsessed over her, and he never tried to impress her by shooting President Reagan, which means Reagan was never empowered by surviving an assassination attempt—he must have lost to Mondale in ’84. Bingo! Forty-seven days into his presidency, Mondale handed complete control of the U.S. over to the Soviet Union.
American Dad! by Seth MacFarlane et al. (17 December 2006).

Blast to the Past 8

Betsy Ross’s Star

by Rhody Cohon
Betsy Ross’s Star by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, 2007).

Missives from Possible Futures #1

by John Scalzi
“Missives from Possible Futures #1” by John Scalzi, in Subterranean Press, Winter 2007.

Sweep Me to My Revenge!

by Darrell Schweitzer
An aging English professor has had it once and for all with the young Professor Cranchberger, so he borrows his brother’s time machine to disprove the upstart’s ridiculous theory that Edward De Vere wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
It’s at times like this when I have to either sell my soul to the Devil or go see my brother Francis. I chose the latter because he was closer. He worked at the same university, just across campus, in the Physics Department. I walked into his office and said without any formalities, “I want to borrow your time machine.”
“Sweep Me to My Revenge!” by Darrell Schweitzer, in Talebones, Summer 2007.

Blast to the Past 7

Washington’s War

by Rhody Cohon
Washington’s War by Rhody Cohon (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 2007).

The Last Mimzy

by Bruce Joel Rubin and Toby Emmerich, directed by Robert Shaye
The people of the future are dying, so they send time-traveling dolls back to 2007 where they can communicate only with sappy Seattle children.
— Michael Main
They’ve been sending other Mimzies to the past to look for it, but none of them have come back.
The Last Mimzy by Bruce Joel Rubin and Toby Emmerich, directed by Robert Shaye (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 23 January 2007).

The Metaphorical Car for the New Generation

by Idan Cohen
—I want that car!
“The Metaphorical Car for the New Generation” by Idan Cohen, 365 Tomorrows, 28 January 2007 [webzine].

Termination Point

by Peter Sullivan, directed by Jason Bourque
A scientist at a top-secret weapons facility creates a weapon that he then regrets. So he steals it and gets on a plane to Mexico with the head security agent’s family, hoping that having the family along will restrict the agent’s options. But the response is out of the agent’s hands when the president orders the plane shot down. Fortunately, the scientist activates the weapon just before the missiles strike the plane—well, partly fortunate: One copy of the plane and most of the passengers are blown into yesterday, while the scientist and the agent’s family survive in a null space that will first eat all of California and then the rest of the universe.

So, why were the dead passengers and one copy of the plane blown into yesterday? I never did figure that out; it had no bearing on the movie, except perhaps the filmmakers were Donnie Darko wannabes, and it provided a cheap wrap-up at the end.

— Michael Main
Hunky Farm Boy at the Beginning of the Movie: What’s the date today?
Curvaceous Farm Girl: September second. Why?
H.F.B.: This [crashed] plane boarded tomorrow!
Termination Point by Peter Sullivan, directed by Jason Bourque (unknown release details, February 2007).

Primeval

by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines
A time anomaly is allowing beasties from the past and future into present-day England. Oh, and Professor Cutter goes through the anomaly, too, because he’s searching for his lost wifey.
Miss, oh Miss!! There’s a dinosaur on the playground.
Primeval by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines (10 February 2007).

Temponaut

by Duncan Shields
—drunken scientists travels forward
“Temponaut” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 14 February 2007 [webzine].

Relative

by T.J. Moore
—travel to abandoned world
“Relative” by T.J. Moore, 365 Tomorrows, 22 February 2007 [webzine].

Domine

by Rjurik Davidson
“Domine” by Rjurik Davidson, in Aurealis, March 2007.

Time Runners 1

Freeze-Framed

by Justin Richards
Freeze-Framed by Justin Richards (Simon and Schuster, March 2007).

A Perfect Alibi

by J. S. Kachelries
—rivals at a temporal physics conference
“A Perfect Alibi” by J. S. Kachelries, 365 Tomorrows, 11 March 2007 [webzine].

Meet the Robinsons

by Jon Bernstein et al. , directed by Stephen J. Anderson
Twelve-year-old orphan genius Lewis along with his 13-year-old buddy Wilbur Robinson from the future mangle every known time-travel trope while fighting a clichéd villain with a clever hat.
— Michael Main
Remember, I’ve got a time machine. You mess up again, and I’ll just keep coming back ’til you get it right.
Meet the Robinsons by Jon Bernstein et al. , directed by Stephen J. Anderson (at movie theaters, UK, 23 March 2007).

The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains

by Gerard Brown and Lea Henry
♫ This is the theme song of Teddy P. Brains!
Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop, Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop!
In the little town of Metroville,
There’s a brainy boy with a peculiar skill.
With a magical diploma—yeah!
He flies far away from home-ah—huh?
’Jumpin’ through time and over boys
With the help of the Pedagogical Order of Boundless Exploration—what?!
And a little imagination
And a lotta determinaaaaation! ’He’s Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop, Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop!
Traveling through history, to unravel mysteries,
He’s Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop, Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop!
“P” is his middle name, adventure is his game. His mom plays hoops,
His dad plays jazz ♫♫♫
They gave him a diploma for razzmatazz!
It’s a family tradition—right?!
So Teddy goes on the mission—whoo!
With his cousin Tempest and his dog D’artagnan
To the Grand Ole Opry or the Grand Canyon
Or an ancient civilization—whoa!—or a future destination—whoo!—or a sticky situation! ’

He’s Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop, Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop!
Traveling through history, to unravel mysteries,
He’s Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop, Teddy P. Brains, bop-bop-bop!
“P” is his middle name, adventure is his game.
He’s Teddy P Brains . . . ♫

The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains by Gerard Brown and Lea Henry, direct-to-video, 24 April 2007.

Next

by Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Paul Bernbaum, directed by Lee Tamahori
Cris Johnson is a precog—usually seeing two minutes ahead, except for that time he saw a woman in a diner at 8:09—but he’s not a time traveler.
— Michael Main
No mega-jackpots, no long shots. The idea is to go unnoticed: That way I can keep coming back.
Next by Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Paul Bernbaum, directed by Lee Tamahori (at movie theaters, Belgium and France, 25 April 2007).

11 Minutes Ago

written and directed by Bob Gebert
11 Minutes Ago written and directed by Bob Gebert (WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 26 April 2007).

Stuck in the 70’s

by D. L. Garfinkle
Stuck in the 70’s by D. L. Garfinkle (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, May 2007).

A Zoo in the Jungle

by Carl Frederick
Arthur Davidson decided to become an astronaut when his father disappeared on the moon twenty years ago. Now, Arthur and a cosmonaut are exploring the very crater where the father disappeared when they come across an alien-built planetarium that may have the power to reunite Arthur with his father.
A planetarium on the Moon. It’s like a zoo in the jungle, or building a swimming pool under water. What’s the point?
“A Zoo in the Jungle” by Carl Frederick, in Analog, June 2007.

The Man from Earth

by Jerome Bixby [exn](Richard Schenkman
Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth by Jerome Bixby [exn](Richard Schenkman (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, San Francisco, 10 June 2007).

Transformers I

Transformers

by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, directed by Michael Bay
Megatron stays frozen in the Arctic for 12,000 years, but there’s no actual time travel for the mega-transformer or anyone else.
— Michael Main
Let me tell you something, son: A driver don’t pick the cars, the cars pick the driver.
Transformers by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, directed by Michael Bay (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Sydney, 12 June 2007).

Sex and Death 101

written and directed by Daniel Waters
Roderick Blac doesn’t realize what he’s in for when he receives a list of all the women he’s had—or will have—sex with. Alas, the list is calculated by an oracle known as “the machine,” so there is no real time travel.
— Michael Main
Lose the list: Burn it, bury it, whatever you need to do. If you let the list into your life, it will infect every fiber of your being.
Sex and Death 101 written and directed by Daniel Waters (Seattle International Film Festival, 15 June 2007).

Before the Storm 1

Before the Storm

by Sean McMullen
Before the Storm by Sean McMullen (Ford Street Publishing, July 2007).

Darwin’s Suitcase

by Elisabeth Malartre
In the 22nd century, Sister Solange uses a time viewer to watch the forbidden Charles Darwin who, much to Solange’s surprise, has an encounter with a less-devout 22nd century man.
He looked ordinary enough for such an evil man.

She wondered what he was thinking. Was he plotting his terrible attack on the Church?

“Darwin’s Suitcase” by Elisabeth Malartre, in Jim Baen’s Universe, July 2007.

Discipline

by Paco Ahlgren
Ahlgren melds the multiverse, quantum mechanics, the mysticism of the East, horror worthy of Stephen King, a little “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” and the violence of addition into a skillfully woven story of young Douglas Cole: his dog dies, he loses his family and moves to Texas, his friend kills himself, and his girlfriend leaves him (though, admittedly, the dog came back to life), all before reaching a time-travel-infused turning point.

Many small things were just that little bit off for me, such as the initial introduction of the uncertainty principle.

Unfortunately, while I was becoming more adept at making the business decisions that repeatedly benefited my shareholders, I had also been informed by my mentors and closest friends that the proliferating global acts of terrorism—along with the economic catastrophe which had ended only a few years earlier—had been engineered by a power-hungry madman whose sole objective was to become a diety, thereby ruling the entirety of space and time.
Discipline by Paco Ahlgren (Greenleaf Book Group, July 2007).

The Time Machine

by Joeming Dunn and Ben Dunn
The Dunns present a 26-page comic book adaptation of the classic with large, block-colored panels and a blonde Weena with an anime look.
That was three years ago. I wait every day for the return of the time traveler.
“The Time Machine” by Joeming Dunn and Ben Dunn (1 July 2007).

The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman
A faulty part changes a calibration device into a time machine that takes dropout student Matt Fuller further and further into the future including a theocracy of 2252 (where Martha, a sexually spontaneous vestal virgin, joins the adventure) and an AI-tocracy some 24,000 years later.
So he had to plan. The next time he pushed the button—if the simple linear relationship held true—the thing would be gone for over three days. Next time, over a month; then over a year. Then fifteen years, and way into the future after that.
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman (Ace Books, August 2007).

Time Runners 2

Rewind Assassin

by Justin Richards
Rewind Assassin by Justin Richards (Simon and Schuster, August 2007).

Hirsute

written and directed by A. J. Bond
Some guy invents a time machine and uses it to go back in time to make a 14-minute, half-hairy, half-gory, half-funny film.
— Michael Main
If I can make this work, I’ll just come back here right . . . right now: seven forty-two P.M., Friday, June 13, 2008.
Hirsute written and directed by A. J. Bond (Toronto International Film Festival, 9 September 2007).

Ctrl Z

written and directed by Robert Kirbyson
Nerd’s revenge with a keyboard, including ctrl-z which takes him back in time.
— Michael Main
Lizzy: Just hit control-z.
Stu: Yeah, I know how to undo things. Thanks.
Ctrl Z written and directed by Robert Kirbyson (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, 10 September 2007).

Los cronocrímenes

English release: Timecrimes Literal: Timecrimes

written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo
Cuando Héctor sigue una chica desnuda en el bosque, entre en un silo y un cientifico le envía ¡en el pasado!

No, I won’t attempt writing any more one-sentence summaries in Spanish, but I wanted to practice. In English, I’ll tell you that this movie is full of wonderful contortions, horror and fatalism.

— Michael Main
Has viajado en el tiempo.
You have traveled in time.
English
Los cronocrímenes written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo (Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas, 20 September 2007).

Time Enough for a Wedding

by Grady Hendrix
—time traveler misses own wedding
“Time Enough for a Wedding by Grady Hendrix” by Grady Hendrix, 365 Tomorrows, 26 September 2007 [webzine].

Countdown to Armageddon

by Edward M. Lerner
Einstein showed that gravity is only a manifestation of mass, a curvature of the space-time continuum caused by the presense of mass. No mass, no gravity. Time is similar—it passes only in relationship to. . . stuff. Each astronomical object, each planet, has a single achievable time transfer influenced by—and that can be calculated from—net local gravitation effects. That interval depends on its own mass, its sun’s, and the galaxy’s.
Countdown to Armageddon by Edward M. Lerner, serialized in Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2007 to October 2008.

In the Beginning, Nothing Lasts

by Mike Strahan
“In the Beginning, Nothing Lasts” by Mike Strahan, in Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2007.

Wikihistory

by Desmond Warzel
The time-travel bulletin board has a recurring problem.
Haven’t you noobs read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler?!
“Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel, in Abyss and Apex, October 2007.

Afar

by Simon Petrie
A man with an Ethiopian alias plans a seemingly impossible time travel escapade in humanity’s far past.
Anyone wanted to change the past, badly, far enough back, things shift so that person didn’t exist, or time travel hadn’t been invented.
“Afar” by Simon Petrie, 365 Tomorrows, 21 October 2007 [webzine].

Ping-Pong Ambition

by Larry Hodges
Larry is a never-ending fount of ideas. He and I shared an apartment at The Never-Ending Odyssey workshop in 2016. We had a productive and enjoyable time, and somehow I avoided a drubbing from Larry in table tennis.
“Ping-Pong Ambition” by Larry Hodges, in Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, edited by Karen A. Romanko (Raven Electrick Ink, November 2007).

Before the Previous Crunch

by Patricia Stewart
—to before the big bang
“Before the Previous Crunch” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 5 November 2007 [webzine].

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score

by Ken Keeler, directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill
The oddest thing about the Futurama movie is that in the end all the back and forth in time by Bender and Fry very nearly holds together without paradox, even the origin of the time travel code.
— Michael Main
What’s the secret of time travel doing on Fry’s ass?
Futurama: Bender’s Big Score by Ken Keeler, directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill (direct-to-video, USA, 27 November 2007).

Anything Would Be Worth It

by Lesley L. Smith
Physics grad student Abigail thinks that because waves go back through time in one interpretation of quantum physics, she might be able to go back in time, too.
I just went back in time to save Sophia’s girls, so I should be able to save my girls! I concentrated with all my might on waves that went back in time, and then I felt a Herculean wrench.
“Anything Would Be Worth It” by Lesley L. Smith, in Analog, December 2007.

Dragon Harper

by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
Another epidemic hits Pern right smack in the middle of Kindan’s coming of age at Harper Hall. Meanwhile, J’lantir’s riders claim he told them something that he very well knows he did not—a definite harbinger of time travel in the dragon series.
“Where were you all this time?” J’lantir growled. K’nad dropped his head, shaking it slowly. ’lantir pursed his lips sourly and peered along the rest of the line of men that comprised his missing wing. “Where were all of you?”

He scanned the line, looking for someone who might answer.

“We were on an important mission,’ J’trel said finally. The others looked at him and nodded in relief.

“Very important,” K’nad added with a confirming nod.

“So important that I didn’t know about it?” J’lantir asked in scathing tones.

K’nad gave him a confused look and was about to answer when J’trel nudged him, shaking his head.

“He said he wouldn’t believe us, remember?” J’trel whispered to K’nad in a voice not so quiet that J’lantir didn’t hear him.

Dragon Harper by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, December 2007).

Kelmscott Manor: In the Attics

by Adele Gardner
The noble Englishman William Morris travels through time hoping to finally set the world right for socialism via the time machine of his friend Bertie.
— Michael Main
I suppose you remember that young writer, H.G. Wells—Bertie, we called him—who used to come to Hammersmith for the meetings of the old Socialist League. He seemed quite taken with News from Nowhere, my vision of the future.
“Kelmscott Manor: In the Attics” by Adele Gardner, in Challenging Destiny, December 2007.

Salvation

by Jerry Oltion
Physicist William Winters asks the church for money to build a time machine to take him and the Reverend Billy back to the time of Jesus.
“I’m talking time travel,” William went on. “You could go back in time and meet Jesus. Assuming he existed.”
“Salvation” by Jerry Oltion, in Analog, December 2007.

Moore’s Law

by Gavin L. Perri
—an old man tells how it used to be
“Moore’s Law” by Gavin L. Perri, 365 Tomorrows, 30 December 2007 [webzine].

The Time Machine

by Lewis Helfand and Rajesh Nagalukonda
Campfire Graphic Novels, based in New Delhi, is producing an adventurous series of long graphic adaptations of classic novels with vivid colors and striking artwork. Nagalukonda’s work on “The Time Machine” jumps out at you with an exaggerated perspective and an original interpretation of the Eloi and the Morlocks.
We did not know the man standing before us, but he spoke with much excitement and passion. Over time, we came to know him as the Time Traveler.
“The Time Machine” by Lewis Helfand and Rajesh Nagalukonda (2008).

Chilly Beach: The World Is Hot Enough

by Daniel Hawes and Doug Sinclair, directed by Edin Ibric
When Dale’s attempt to warm up Chilly Beach lead to an environmental disaster, he and his pal Frank go back in time to set things right, hopefully without destroying all the hilarious stereotypes of Canadians and Americans. Bonus points if you can guess what kind of vehicle the time machine is. Hint: Not a Delorean.
Even now, while millions of Amercans are tannin in the warm sunshine of Calfornia and Texas, millions more in the snows of Minnesota and Alaska must pay for artificial tannin machines and synthetic foul-smellin creme to achieve a similar but not entirely convincing effect. I feel your pain.
Chilly Beach: The World Is Hot Enough by Daniel Hawes and Doug Sinclair, directed by Edin Ibric, serialized at an unknown website, Jan 2008.

A Time Odyssey 3

Firstborn

by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Del Rey, January 2008).

Baseball Card Adventures 8

Jim & Me

by Dan Gutman
Jim & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, January 2008).

Chronolicide, She Wrote

by J. S. Kachelries
—Angela Lansburyfield time-travel murder
“Chronolicide, She Wrote” by J. S. Kachelries, 365 Tomorrows, 8 January 2008 [webzine].

The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie

by Phil Vischer, directed by Mike Nawrocki
This movie loses a full star for the line “Why would a blind guy come to the dinner theater anyway?” The three main vegetables in the movie are cabin boys (i.e., servers)—Ellit, Sedgewick and George—at the aforementioned dinner theater, when a magic ball comes to take them back in time to rescue another vegetable, Eloise, from the pirate Robert the Terrible.
— Michael Main
Now we’re headed someplace. We’ve got a metal ball.
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie by Phil Vischer, directed by Mike Nawrocki (at movie theaters, USA, 11 January 2008).

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

by Josh Friedman
After the events of the second movie, Sarah and teenaged John are trying to lay low when Cameron, a beautiful young terminator, arrives from 2027 and tries to take them away from their problems with a jump to 2007; other terminators follow and violence ensues.
Come with me if you wanna live.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles by Josh Friedman (13 January 2008).

Minutemen

by John Killoran, directed by Lev L. Spiro
When 14-year-old Charlie invents a time machine, he gets together with his nerdy friend and the school biker to fix the many social embarrassments that have been inflicited upon fellow outcasts.
— Michael Main
Stop! [Flashes badge] Bureau of Weights and Measurements!
Minutemen by John Killoran, directed by Lev L. Spiro (Disney Channel, USA, 25 January 2008).

Inside the Box

by Edward M. Lerner
After foiling a murder attempt by his time-traveling grandson, Professor Thaddeus Fitch tries to explain Schrödinger’s cat to his class of undergraduates.
Some assert that the realm of quantum mechanics is so removed from the realm of our senses we’re unequipped to judge.
“Inside the Box” by Edward M. Lerner, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008.

Time Runners 3

Past Forward

by Justin Richards
Past Forward by Justin Richards (Simon and Schuster, February 2008).

The Yellow Room

by Seth Koproski
—time-travel philosophy
“The Yellow Room” by Seth Koproski, 365 Tomorrows, 2 February 2008 [webzine].

Turok: Son of Stone

by Tony Bedard, directed by Curt Geda, Dan Riba, and Frank Squillace
Knowing that Turok would likely face dinosaurs, I had hoped for some time travel in this animated adaptation. Turok and dinosaurs did indeed cross paths, but only in the Lost Land, which appears to be a part of Turok’s world in the same way that Edgar Rice Burroughs hid The Land That Time Forgot in our own world. no actual time travel occurs.
— Michael Main
I don’t think those are buffalo
Turok: Son of Stone by Tony Bedard, directed by Curt Geda, Dan Riba, and Frank Squillace (direct-to-video, USA, 5 February 2008).

Knot Your Grandfather’s Knot

by Howard V. Hendrix
While sorting through the attic, elderly Mike Sakler finds a note from himself detailing how he must go back in time to save his grandfather from a mugging near the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Indeed the notes from that page on were most curious. “Planck energy for opening gap in spacetime fabric = 1019 billion electron volts,” read one, but then that was crossed out with a large X as the writer of the notes took a different tack.
“Knot Your Grandfather’s Knot” by Howard V. Hendrix, in Analog, March 2008.

The Spacetime Pool

by Catherine Asaro
“The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2008.

Phineas and Ferb

by Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh
Stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher foil their sister Candace and undertake grand projects during their summer vacation, including some travel through time.
Mom, it’s me, Candace from the past. I came here in a time machine that Phineas and Ferb borrowed from a museum. You’ve gotta bust them!
Phineas and Ferb by Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh (1 March 2008).

Tripping the Rift: The Movie

by Mark Amato et al., directed by Bernie Denk
A mash-up of third season cartoon episodes (hence, all the writer credits) including the Terminator parody.
— Michael Main
So, it’s agreed: You and Babette travel back, decline the invitation to Chode’s party, and Bernice will shut down the Arnie-1000.
Tripping the Rift: The Movie by Mark Amato et al., directed by Bernie Denk (direct-to-video, USA, 25 March 2008).

The Beethoven Affair

by Donald Moffitt
In a world where music companies use time travel to plumb the past for new pop hits, junior account executive Lester Krieg (no relation to my favorite Seattle Seahawk quarterback) comes up with the idea of getting Beethoven to write a tenth symphony—regardless of the cost.
Everybody and his brother Jake knows that Beethoven wrote nine symphonies and stopped there. And even the dimmest of music lovers has wish fulfillment fantasies about what a tenth would have sounded like.
“The Beethoven Affair” by Donald Moffitt, in Analog, April 2008.

The Missing 1

Found

by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon and Schuster, April 2008).

Lost Continent

by Greg Egan
In the north of Khurosan—not part of our world—lies the site of a bloody battle between the Warriors and the Scholars, both of whom have come through time to take Islamic boys and turn them into soldiers in their war, but one boy’s uncle gives him to a man who promises to take him to a safe place or possibly a safe time.
I haven’t just been to Mecca. I’ve been there in the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
“Lost Continent” by Greg Egan, in The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Viking, April 2008).

Diving Universe 1B

The Room of Lost Souls

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
This time around, “Boss” puts together a crew to dive into the central part of an age-old abandoned space station where many have entered but, apparently, only Boss (long ago, as a young girl) has ever returned. The universe is largely unchanged from the first Diving Universe story, replete with mysterious interdimensional ambiguities and timey-wimey goings-on, but still no actual time travel.
— Michael Main
The exterior parts of the station move in a slower time frame. The interior part, nearest the stealth tech itself, is moving at an accelerated pace.
“Diving into the Shipwreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2008.

Lost Time

by Susan Maupin Schmid
Lost Time by Susan Maupin Schmid (Philomel Books, May 2008).

The 1632-Verse

Time Spike

by Eric Flint
Time Spike by Eric Flint (Baen, May 2008).

Chemical Wedding

by Bruce Dickinson and Julian Doyle, directed by Julian Doyle
Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickinson and Julian Doyle, directed by Julian Doyle (Sci-Fi London, 4 May 2008).

100 Million BC

by Paul Bales, directed by Griff Furst
After discovering a 64-million-year-old message written on a cave wall, Dr. Frank Reno, a scientist on the original Philadelphia Experiment, leads a group of modern-day Navy SEALs back to the Cretaceous to rescue those who were lost back in that 1949 experiment. The consequences? Machine-guns-vs-dinosaurs, a T. rex in Los Angeles, and potential paradoxes for the original travelers.
— Michael Main
FRANK IT WASN’T YOUR FAULT
100 Million BC by Paul Bales, directed by Griff Furst (direct-to-video, UK, 12 May 2008).

Vis Insita

by Asher Wismer
Professor Rudnicki sits in a bar, bemoaning the particular mode of failure of his latest time travel.
Time is relative to our senses, space doubly so. What we perceive to be real is in fact the simple accumulation of expectation; we expect the glass to hold the whiskey, and we expect the whiskey to get us drunk, but only AFTER we drink it.
“Vis Insita” by Asher Wismer, 365 Tomorrows, 17 May 2008 [webzine].

Back

by Susan Forest
Alan and Victor are carrying out a careful sequence of time-travel experiments with slips of paper, flatworms, stray cats, a potted palm and chimps, with the only problem being getting the time traveler back from the past.
It was while Alan and Victor were touring the warehouse with the real estate agent tht a slip of paper bearing the words, “It worked,&rdqup; materialized on a desk in the office.
“Back” by Susan Forest, in Analog, June 2008.

Finalizing History

by Richard K. Lyon
In early 1960, Perry Mason author Earl (not Erle) Stanley Gardner and his wife host John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Edward Teller, Ronald Reagan, Douglas MacArthur and Jackie Kennedy to discuss a shared dream in which a time-traveling alien requires them to pick one person to eliminate from history as a prerequisite to a final revision of mankind’s history.
— Michael Main
If one of these people dies young, that will pay your debt.
“Finalizing History” by Richard K. Lyon, in Analog, June 2008.

9th Wonders!

by Isaac Mendez
You, too, can read some of these fictional comics from Heroes in the two volumes published in pleasant hardback books (transcribed by mortal artist Tim Sale).
I did it!
“9th Wonders!” by Isaac Mendez (10 June 2008).

Artemis Fowl, Book #6

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

by Eoin Colfer
When fourteen-year-old genius Artemis Fowl realizes that the only cure for his mother’s case of Spelltropy lies in a species of lemur that Artemis made extinct eight years ago, there is only one solution: Grab your 80-year-old, elfin-police-captain-friend Holly Short and trick her into traveling back in time to stop your formerly evil, ten-year-old self from killing off the last of the all-cure lemurs.

Author Eoin Colfer does a masterful job presenting a single nonbranching, static timeline, complete with three consistent causal loops (further described in our tag notes for this story). But really, Eoin, you missed the shuttle on “the kiss”! With the help of N°1, Artemis can time travel, so if you're intent on his first romantic kiss coming from Holly Short, couldn’t N°1 have brought Holly’s actual fourteen-year-old self into the story? Might have even presented an opportunity for a fourth causal loop: Fourteen-year-old Holly kissees fourteen-year-old Artemis, but only because fifteen-year-old Artemis had already told thirteen-year-old Holly that they would enjoy it.

— Michael Main
Oh, bless my bum-flap. You’re time travelers.
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion Books for Children, July 2008).

City at the End of Time

by Greg Bear
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (Gollancz, July 2008).

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The Valley-Westside War

by Harry Turtledove
The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove (Tor, July 2008).

The Incomprehensible Being

by Cal Glover-Wessel
—free movement thru time only
“The Incomprehensible Being” by Cal Glover-Wessel, 365 Tomorrows, 20 July 2008 [webzine].

Stargate: Continuum

by Brad Wright, directed by Martin Wood
The Stargate crew (including Captain O’Neill, of course) have tracked down the last of the clones of the infamous Goa’uld System Lords and are ready to kill him off to make the many universes safe, but in his last words, he reveals the original Lord still lives. Indeed, he does! And he has traveled back to 1939 to sink the ship that was bringing the artifact that created the Stargate program in the first place. Even though his plan doesn’t fully succeed, various crew in the present start disappearing while others end up back in 1939 where they are rescued by a Stargateless Captain O’Neill from the future.

That’s just for starters. Yet to come are changes to the past and subsequent changes to change those changes back, all with no sensible model of time travel.

— Michael Main
Samantha: Guys, I hate to interrupt, but the temperature’s falling. We just passed minus forty.
Daniel: Celcius or Fahrenheit?
Stargate: Continuum by Brad Wright, directed by Martin Wood (direct-to-video, USA, 29 July 2008).

Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait

by K. A. Bedford
In the first half of the twenty-first century, time machine repairman Spider Webb meets a ready-to-blow time machine with a dead body inside, so naturally he isolates it in the Bat Cave—i.e., a little walled-off universe where nothing can affect the real universe. I wonder how that worked out.
That’s why we need the Bat Cave. We put the unit in there, and we stand outside, teleporting various tools, and if the thing does explode, nobody gets hurt.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K. A. Bedford (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, August 2008).

Unforeseen Consequences

by Luke Chmelik
—AIs and time machines don’t mix
“Unforeseen Consequences” by Luke Chmelik, 365 Tomorrows, 16 August 2008 [webzine].

Eureka

by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia
Sheriff Jack Carter is not the brainiest person in the top-secret government enclave of Eureka (though his daughter Zoe might be), but even so, he gets his share of solutions to the zany science project problems that arise, including bouts with a time-loop wedding (“I Do Over” on 18 Aug 2008), a trip to 1947 (“Founder's Day”), a series-ending anomaly for Jack and Zoe (“Just Another Day” on 16 Jul 2012), and other time anomalies.
Zoe: Dad, did you just see. . .?
Carter[/rom]: Yeah, I’ll deal with that tomorrow.
Eureka by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia (19 August 2008).

Time and Space

by Rayne Adams
—thief to ancient Egypt
“Time and Space” by Rayne Adams, 365 Tomorrows, 4 September 2008 [webzine].

A Study in Logic

by Patricia Stewart
—Homes and Wattson
“A Study in Logic” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 29 September 2008 [webzine].

The Old Man and the Sea Redux

by Andy Bolt
—crowdsourcing the classics
“The Old Man and the Sea Redux” by Andy Bolt, 365 Tomorrows, 30 September 2008 [webzine].

The Tomorrow Code

by Brian Falkner
Australian teenager Tane Williams and his best friend (and genius) Rebecca Richards use university lab equipment to detect messages from the future which include a lottery number and a possible route to change Rebecca’s tragic past.
“Try to think logically,” Rebecca said firmly but not unkindly. “How could you transport a live human being through a pinhole of any kind?”
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner (October 2008).

Greenwich Nasty Time

by Carl Frederick
An experiment causes Great Britain to swap with a century-old version of itself, but fortunately, physics student Paul and his girlfriend Vicki were with their bicycles on the nearby Isle of Wight, so they make the crossing back to the main island and pedal to the rescue.
The experiment could result in an alternate Great Britain being swapped with ours—one displaced backward in time from the instant of the experiment.
“Greenwich Nasty Time” by Carl Frederick, in Analog, November 2008.

Time Messenger

by F. Jay Falone
Time Messenger by F. Jay Falone (Tate Publishing and Enterprises, November 2008).

Dragonheart

by Todd McCaffrey
You’d think that the people of Pern had suffered enough plagues—but no!—the dragons must now face an infection as well. You’d also think that the people of Pern would eventually catch on and start quickly realizing whenever time travel might be a help. But no! It seems to come as a complete revelation each time.
K’lior’s face grew ashen. “Fort is lucky. We don’t have another Threadfall in the next three sevendays. We’ll probably be able to fight that,” he answered, adding a shake of his head, “but I can’t say about next Fall.”

The despair that gripped the Weyrleader was palpable. Egremer looked for some words of encouragement to give him but could find none. It was K’lior who spoke next, pulling himself erect and willing a smile back on to his face.

“We’ll find a way, Lord Egremer,’ he declared with forced cheer. “We’re dragonriders, we always find a way.” He nodded firmly and then said to Egremer, “Now, if you’ll excuse me. . .”

“Certainly!” Egremer replied. “I’ll see you out. And don’t worry about those weyrlings, if it’s too much bother. Having them would only save us time.”

K’lior stopped so suddenly that Egremer had to swerve to avoid bumping into him.

“Time!” K’lior shouted exultantly.

Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, November 2008).

Fringe

by J. J. Abrams et al.
When smart and beautiful FBI Agent Olivia Dunham is recruited by Homeland Security to investigate strange happenings on the fringe of science, she’s given free rein to choose any colleagues she wishes, which leads her to the slightly mad (but kindly) scientist Walter Bishop and his jaded son Peter.

I didn’t get around to watching this until it appeared on Amazon Prime after the series finale. It’s a little too violent for my taste, but the three main characters have become favorites of mine just as much as Myca, Pete and Artie on that other show; and as I watched into the first half of season 3, it became more and more addictive. By the time it reached the middle of season 4, it became my favorite long love story ever.

The first glimpse of time travel was in Episode 10, when Walter tells of the time travel machine that he built to save Peter as a boy, although that episode didn’t see any actual traveling.

After all, I was the scientist; and my only son was dying and I couldn’t do anything about it. . . I became consumed with saving you, conquering the disease. In my research, I discovered a doctor, Alfred Gross—Swiss, brillant physician, he’s the only man that had ever successfully cured a case of heppia. But there was a problem: he had died in 1936. And so, I designed a device intended to reach back into time, to cross the time-space continuum, and retrieve Alfred Gross.
Fringe by J. J. Abrams et al. (2 December 2008).

The Collector

by Tom Manzenec
—sliding sideways and forward in time
“The Collector” by Tom Manzenec, 365 Tomorrows, 7 December 2008 [webzine].

Sufficiently Advanced

by Sam Clough
A man’s time machine takes him to the far future where he’s given the choice of which of four collectors to ally with.
My instruments detected his arrival—he’s mine by right.
“Sufficiently Advanced” by Sam Clough, 365 Tomorrows, 14 December 2008 [webzine].

The Vortex of Youth

by Patricia Stewart
“The Vortex of Youth” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 17 December 2008 [webzine].

The Time Traveller

by Gavin Raine
—miscalculation going forward
“The Time Traveller” by Gavin Raine, 365 Tomorrows, 18 December 2008 [webzine].

Transition

by Iain M. Banks
Transition by Iain M. Banks (Little, Brown, 2009).

The Butterfly Effect III

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations

by Holly Brix, directed by Seth Grossman
Lots of blood and gore in this third of the butterfly horror movies, wherein Sam Reide uses his time travel ability to pose as a psychic for police, all of which is fine until he breaks the rules to try to prevent the murder of his first girlfriend.
— Michael Main
There’s two big rules: You never jump back to alter your own past, and you never jump unsupervised.
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations by Holly Brix, directed by Seth Grossman (After Dark Horrorfest, showings across the USA, 9 January 2009).

Greetings from Kampala

by Angela Ambroz
“Greetings from Kampala” by Angela Ambroz, in Strange Horizons, 12 January 2009.

Visits

by Duncan Shields
—visits from a future self
“Visits” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 12 January 2009 [webzine].

This Must Be the Place

by Elly Bangs
At a bar, Andrea meets a loopy man who seems to already know her; he leaves a mysterious message on a napkin, which turns out to be a hint about their next meeting where the man is younger and no longer knows her.
— Michael Main
If I had the power to decide never to meet him again, I reasoned, surely I had the power to change the course of the relationship for the better.
“This Must Be the Place” by Elly Bangs, in Strange Horizons, 2 February 2009.

Time’s Arrow

by Geeoff Hart
A physicist with a dead girlfriend experiences various precognition episodes leading up to his attempt to travel to the past to undead the girlfriend, or at least plant the seeds for the precognition.
— Michael Main
I’m certain I didn’t send myself any mail recently, but then again, I have plans to do so in the near future—or near past, I suppose.
“Time’s Arrow” by Geeoff Hart, in Short Stories by Geoff Hart (no specified publisher, added 10 February 2009) [ongoing e-collection at www.geoff-hart.com/fiction/short-stories/, accessed 20 December 2021[/d[/ex].

FAQ about Time Travel

by Jamie Mathieson, directed by Gareth Carrivick
In a pub, nerd Ray meets beautiful time traveler Cassie who fawns over him before departing with a kiss. Of course Ray’s mates Toby and Pete don’t believe a word of it until Pete finds himself thrown through a time leak as he emerges from the loo.
— Michael Main
How many times . . . it’s not sci-fi, it’s science fiction or sf, which can also stand for speculative fiction.
FAQ about Time Travel by Jamie Mathieson, directed by Gareth Carrivick (Dublin Film Festival, 16 February 2009).

Caesar’s Secret Weapon

by Greg R. Fishbone
A Roman general tests a maxim propounded by a time traveler.
Your gods have abandoned you, Romanus. Your weapon has no power against us.
“Caesar’s Secret Weapon” by Greg R. Fishbone, 365 Tomorrows, 23 February 2009 [webzine].

Terminator Salvation

From the Ashes

by Timothy Zahn
From the Ashes by Timothy Zahn (Titan Books, March 2009).

I, Lensman

by Adam Zabell
A science-fiction-reading pilot of a time ship doesn’t mind that a lot of missions end up in the early-mid 1900 CE.
They know I read golden age sci-fi and they think my Fix is interstellar travel, so they won’t assign me to anything after 2500CE.
“I, Lensman” by Adam Zabell (15 March 2009).

We Haven’t Got There Yet

by Harry Turtledove
Some 360 years before Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead was first performed in Edinburgh, Will Shakespeare himself attends a performance.
His mind races faster than a horse galloping downhill. Try as he will, he can’t mistake her meaning. If Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is dead itself—a century dead!—then Hamlet must be older yet. But his head had only a little more hair, and that only a little less gray, when he wrote it. An impossibility—an impossibility he has just seen staged.
“We Haven’t Got There Yet” by Harry Turtledove, Tor.com Original Fiction, 19 March 2009 [webzine].

Grandfather Paradox

by Katherine Mankiller
Ann, who was abused by her father as a child, uses a time machine to break the cycle.
“You may have free will,” Ann said, “but not me. I am a product of causal determinism.”
“Grandfather Paradox” by Katherine Mankiller, in Electric Velocipede, Spring 2009.

Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run

by Tom Angleberger
Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run by Tom Angleberger (Dial Books, April 2009).

Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization

by Alan Dean Foster
Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster (Titan Books, April 2009).

Caveat Time Traveller

by Mack Reynolds
Benford notes that his 2009 story must have come from a childhood memory of Mack Reynolds’ nearly identical 1952 story, “The Business, As Usual.”
Yes, I learned that later. I must’ve read it as a kid (was 11 then).

I must look it up sometime. I knew Mack, too, visited him in Mexico in 1966. Odd how the mind works.

“Caveat Time Traveller” by Mack Reynolds, in Nature, 2 April 2009.

Star Trek XI

Star Trek

by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, directed by J. J. Abrams
Young Kirk and Spock meet future Ambassador Spock who has come back in time to stop Nero from destroying Vulcan.

Tim and I saw this reboot in the theater on opening day.

— Michael Main
You know, coming back in time, changing history . . . that’s cheating.
Star Trek by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, directed by J. J. Abrams (Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas, 6 April 2009).

Temp Agency

by Paul Starkey
—working temp jobs in past
“Temp Agency” by Paul Starkey, 365 Tomorrows, 12 April 2009 [webzine].

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Herbert’s Wormhole

by Peter Nelson
Herbert’s Wormhole by Peter Nelson (HarperCollins, May 2009).

The Time Traveler

by Nathan Whitcomb and Alejandro Alvarez, directed by Nathan Whitcomb
This short black-and-white homage to The Twilight Zone of the 60s finds Cold-War-era test pilot Carter Cartwright’s as a stressed-out Air Force time traveler whose marriage has frayed to the point where his wife is ready to leave. Naturally, he takes matters into his own hands with one last trip that’s designed to set things right with Bonnie. I didn’t follow what happened in that trip, although do I have one idea involving a self-defeating act)—but I’m not confident enough in my interpretation to do anything but let you come to your own conclusions.

The cinematographer, Dillon Morris, posted the film on his Vimeo channel in May of 2009 and indicated that it was his senior thesis project at Chapman University.

— Michael Main
My, my: time travel, satellites, technicolor. What will these screwy scientists think of next?
The Time Traveler by Nathan Whitcomb and Alejandro Alvarez, directed by Nathan Whitcomb (VImeo: Dillon Morris Channel, May 2009).

Presque Vu

by Debbie Mac Rory
—escape artists exiled in time
“Presque Vu” by Debbie Mac Rory, 365 Tomorrows, 2 May 2009 [webzine].

Trains

by Jacob Lothyan
—ancient telegram warns time traveler
“Trains” by Jacob Lothyan, 365 Tomorrows, 11 May 2009 [webzine].

Darko Family II

S. Darko

by Nate Atkins, directed by Chris Fisher
Seven years after Donnie Darko’s death, his sister has new adventures in death and time travel, even more artsy than Donnie’s.
— Michael Main
It’s like everybody knows everything about me, but I’m invisible at the same time.
S. Darko by Nate Atkins, directed by Chris Fisher (direct-to-video, USA, 12 May 2009).

Terminator 4

Terminator Salvation

by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, directed by McG
The entire Terminator franchise is infused with time travel, but no time travel™ occurs in this pure Future War film.
— Michael Main
Kyle to John after stringing up a Terminator: Come with me if you wanna live.
Terminator Salvation by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, directed by McG (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 May 2009).

The Affair of the Phlegmish Master

by Donald Moffitt
Given the title, I figured I might run into comedy or puns, but that wasn’t the case for this story of Dutch historian and translator Peter Van Gaas who travels back to an alternative timeline with a billionaire to commission a Vermeer portrait of the billionaire’s wife while trying not to run afoul of the thug hired by those who have a financial interest in not seeing more works of art from past masters.
Harry’s going to upset a multibillion dollar applecart. I don’t know what strings he pulled to get an import license for a priceless artifact from another timeline, but it’s not going to be worth what he thinks.
“The Affair of the Phlegmish Master” by Donald Moffitt, in Analog, June 2009.

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Day of the Assassins

by Johnny O’Brien
Day of the Assassins by Johnny O’Brien (Templar Publishing, June 2009).

In the Cracks of Time

by David M. Alexander
Mark needs to travel 1000 years into the future because he is the only one capable of ensuring a successful restart of the human race after a millennium-long plan to exterminate the alien, invading Ants. But the only way to make that trip is for him to spend 1000 (non-aging) years in various alternate history pasts, after which he can head back to his own future.
Mark had been supplied with a thousand names and bank account numbers, identities of organizations and individuals throughout the Twentieth Century together with details of various winning lottery numbers, sporting events and stock market fluctuations plus a handful of gold coins. Luckily the field was strong enough to encompass his clothes and a few personal effects. Mark often fantasized about how much more difficult his life would have been had he been forced to arrive naked like the time travelers in the Terminator movies.
“In the Cracks of Time” by David M. Alexander, in Sci Fi Stories Vol. 4 (Smashwords, June 2009).

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Laughing Wolf

by Nicholas Maes
Laughing Wolf by Nicholas Maes (Dundurn Press, June 2009).

Contraband

by Ian Rennie
A Chronology Enforcement agent is after archaeologist Lloyd Fry for bringing something other than his body back to a pre-unity time.

I wish that it had been clear at the end whether Lloyd remembered anything of the encounter, but even without that, there were pieces I enjoyed.

And I wanted to get a hologram of the eiffel tower before it was wrecked by the earthquake. My mother asked me to.
“Contraband” by Ian Rennie, 365 Tomorrows, 5 June 2009 [webzine].

Land of the Lost

by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas, directed by Brad Silberling
The 70s TV show (which had no actual time travel, but did have dinosaurs from another dimension) is updated as paleontologist Rick Marshall propounds time warps, as embodied by his tachyon amplifier, as the solution to today’s energy problems. Even though everyone else thinks he’s crazy, one graduate student, Holly Cantrell, encourages him to finish the device (her confidence coming from a fossil of a 265-million-year-old cigarette lighter, and together with souvenir hawker Will, they set off to “another dimension where past, present and future all meet.”

The movie has a high enough silliness quotient that it can only be truly appreciated en español (especially preferable if you are not a Spanish speaker).

— Michael Main
Rick: It’s the only real solution to solving this fossil fuel crisis we’re experiencing, and it boils down to two simple words.
Matt Lauer: Renewable biofuels.
Rick: Close . . .: time warps.
Land of the Lost by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas, directed by Brad Silberling (at movie theaters, Canada and USA, 5 June 2009).

Instruments of War and Peace

by John Logan
—preventing the human scourge
“Instruments of War and Peace” by John Logan, 365 Tomorrows, 13 June 2009 [webzine].

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Lost in the Snow

by Frieda Wishinsky
Lost in the Snow by Frieda Wishinsky (Maple Tree Press, July 2009).

Palimpsest

by Charles Stross
As much as I love Asimov’s The End of Eternity, I’ve also always wondered about the logistics of Eternity’s access to the different centuries. Stross stated that his story, which begins with a clever hazing ritual for Agent Pierce to join the Stasis organization, was a rewrite of Asimov’s story, and I’d hoped that it would address the questions in the back of my mind. Did it? No, although it did take the ideas to a trillion-year span of history hacking and solar system engineering.
They’ll have no one to remember their lives but you; and all because you will believe the recruiters when they tell you that to join the organizaton you must kill your own grandfather, and that if you do not join the organization, you will die.

(It’s an antinepotism measure, they’ll tell you, nodding, not unkindly. And a test of your ruthlessness and determination. And besides, we all did it when it was our turn.)

“Palimpsest” by Charles Stross, in Wireless (Ace Books, July 2009).

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead
Miranda has an odd friend named Marcus who knows a lot about time machines, another friend named Sal who has stopped hanging out with her, and a man—not really a friend—who sleeps under the mailbox out front. And then there are those mysterious notes from someone who seems to know quite a lot, but also needs her to write about everything that’s happening in her twelve-year-old life.
— Michael Main
So if they had gotten home five minutes before they left, like those ladies promised they would, then they would have seen themselves get back. Before they left.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, July 2009).

Turning the Grain

by Barry B. Longyear
By the halfway point of the story, Gordon Redcliff (angry, jaded ex-military sniper and bodyguard) is stranded in a primitive civilization 140,000 years in the past, and he must face the question of whether the widow he’s falling in love with is enough motivation to violate his directive to not interfere with “one hell of a disaster coming in just a matter of a few months.”
Three weeks in prehistory, Mr. Redcliff. Aren’t you excited?
“Turning the Grain” by Barry B. Longyear, in Analog, July/August to September 2009.

P is for . . .

by Steven Odhner
—I don’t know what P is for
“P is for . . .” by Steven Odhner, 365 Tomorrows, 12 July 2009 [webzine].

The Future Was What We Made It

by Adam Zabell
—time-travel lecture
“The Future Was What We Made It” by Adam Zabell, 365 Tomorrows, 21 July 2009 [webzine].

Dragongirl

by Todd McCaffrey
At the end of Dragonheart, Fiona took a band of merry dragons and their riders back in time to train for the next Threadfall. Now it is time for their return, but even with their addition, there are not enough dragons to fight the fall.
“Because there wasn’t time,” Fiona said. He glared at her. “I had just enough time to realize that I would have to time it myself, not enough time to explain.”
Dragongirl by Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, August 2009).

Galileo’s Dream

by Kim Stanley Robinson
Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager, August 2009).

The Egg

by Andy Weir
After a man dies, he meets God, upon which he doesn’t find out the meaning of life, but he does discover something about time and the meaning of the universe.
Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?
English
“The Egg” by Andy Weir, in Creative Writings of Andy Weir (Galactanet, added 15 August 2009) [ongoing e-collection].

The Jump

by Apollyn
—time travel/bungee cord analogy
“The Jump” by Apollyn, 365 Tomorrows, 15 August 2009 [webzine].

First Flight

by Mary Robinette Kowal
When time travelers want to create a film of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, their only choice is to send Louise because she’s the only living person who speaks English and was also alive in 1905.
Louise hesitated. “The Good Book promises us free will.”
“First Flight” by Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor.com Original Fiction, 25 August 2009 [webzine].

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Golden Girl

by Henry Melton
Golden Girl by Henry Melton (Wire Rim Books, September 2009).

Nix Nix

by Paul E. Holt
Sra and Cork travel from five centuries in the future back to 1963 where they hope to be the first to succeed in actually changing history for the better despite the Fillagian principle. Ah, you think, must be presidential history that they’ve set their hearts on, and you wouldn’t be entirely wrong.

And speaking of long periods of time, more than a quarter century passed between this Paul Holt time-travel story and his previous one in a 1983 issue of Asimov’s, which is a feat that deserves high congratulations!

She was strectched out on one of the deck chairs on the balcony of their apartment. They had rented it temporarily until they could cash in a few more diamonds, pretty much worthless in their own time but extremely valuable here, and buy a house. They were rich of course. Why would they come back poor?

Cork was standing at the railing pointing at his bell bottoms. “People are looking at me funny,” he said. “Nobody else is wearing these.” Their pre-migration research indicated people did, but they could have been a couple of years off.

“Nix Nix” by Paul E. Holt, in Aoife’s Kiss, September 2009.

The Solid Men

by C. J. Henderson
Somebody is using Gravity Wells to steal people’s souls from the past, which creates a dire threat to Proven Time (or sometimes Perfect Time). Time Patrol agent Rick Rambler is determined to bring the murderous thievies to a halt.
I mean, the first thing they all want you to do is explain Proven Time, as if anyone could. The accident that set man’s sight on the One True Timeline from which all others spring was no blessing.
“The Solid Men” by C. J. Henderson, in Nth Degree, September/October 2009.

Dinosaur Train

by Craig Bartlett
Buddy, a tyrannosaurus rex, is being raised by a pteranodon family who has access to a dinosaur train that can travel through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
See kids, in the Jurassic period, there’s no grass or flowers.
Dinosaur Train by Craig Bartlett (7 September 2009).

Mr. Nobody

written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Mr. Nobody written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael (Venice Film Festival, 11 September 2009).

The Accident

by Iva K.
—time-travel bigwig and guide get stuck
“The Accident” by Iva K., 365 Tomorrows, 13 September 2009 [webzine].

Please Pick Up Your Bread Crumbs

by J. E. Moskowitz
—time cops to Biblical times
“Please Pick Up Your Bread Crumbs” by J. E. Moskowitz, 365 Tomorrows, 16 September 2009 [webzine].

Terminator Salvation

Cold War

by Greg Cox
Cold War by Greg Cox (Titan Books, October 2009).

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The Time Cavern

by Todd A. Fonseca
The Time Cavern by Todd A. Fonseca (Ridan Publishing, October 2009).

Time Net

by Duncan Shields
—a net to catch time meddlers
“Time Net” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 8 October 2009 [webzine].

Spotted

by Ryon Moody
—old man finds traveler
“Spotted” by Ryon Moody, 365 Tomorrows, 17 October 2009 [webzine].

Through the Hoop

by Duncan Shields
—time machine with no receiver
“Through the Hoop” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 26 October 2009 [webzine].

Archived

by Bryan Mulholland
—archivist interviews scientists
“Archived” by Bryan Mulholland, 365 Tomorrows, 31 October 2009 [webzine].

An Arrangement of Atoms

by Jackie Hill
An Arrangement of Atoms by Jackie Hill (Spinetinglers Publishing, November 2009).

Joan

by John G. Hemry
It’s comforting to know that when you open a science fiction story named “Joan,” your expectations will be met—as in this story of our heroine Kate, time travel, and Joan of Arc.
I realize I may seem a little obsessive, but is it so wrong to wish I could have saved her from being burned? She was such a remarkable person and it was such a horrible fate.
“Joan” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, November 2009.

The Practice Room

by Susan Zeidler
The Practice Room by Susan Zeidler (Wasteland Press, November 2009).

Time Travelers Never Die

by Jack McDevitt
Early in the novelization of the story, Shel has a conversation with his dad about the chronological integrity principle. There is only one timestream, and if we try to do anything to change what is already known about the stream, then time will stop us. On the other hand, if we can arrange for an event to happen that meets the known facts without being quite what we thought it was. . .
What did you try to do? Post somebody at the Texas School Book Depository?
Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt (Ace Books, November 2009).

Cogito, ergo sum.

by Jacob Lothyan
—mind travelers . . . or not?
“Cogito, ergo sum.” by Jacob Lothyan, 365 Tomorrows, 1 November 2009 [webzine].

Misfits

by Howard Overman
Five teens, trapped in a freak storm, acquire superpowers, including Curtis who can rewind time. More graphic and less intense than Heroes (season One)—and nobody can fly.

Later, in season 2, another of the misfits travels back from the future.

There's always someone who can fly.
Misfits by Howard Overman (12 November 2009).

Turtles Forever

by Rob David et al., directed by Roy Burdine and Lloyd Goldfine
Some goofier-than-the-real-turtles turtle-bodies seem to be impersonating the real Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and what’s more they seem younger than today’s turtles, young enough to have come from 1987.

The younger shellheads come from an alternate 1987—the original incarnation of the cartoon—but I figure it’s still the past. In addition, perhaps all the turtle universes are splinters from the original Turtle Prime which that bad guy targets.

I’ve already got four turtles to worry about. These are. . . superfluous.
Turtles Forever by Rob David et al., directed by Roy Burdine and Lloyd Goldfine (21 November 2009).

Paradox

by Lizzie Mickery and Mark Greig, directed by Simon Cellan Jones and Omar Madha
D.I. Rebecca Flint quickly realizes that the mysterious photos downloading themselves to Dr. Christian King’s lab must be depicting future crimes and other calamities that only Rebecca and her team can stop.
— Michael Main
Gada: Think of the implications if we do stop something . . . mess with things that we don’t understand.
Flint: You wouldn’t say that if we’d stopped the tanker.
Gada: Perhaps the tanker was meant to crash. It wasn’t our place to . . .
Flint: . . . Save lives?
Paradox by Lizzie Mickery and Mark Greig, directed by Simon Cellan Jones and Omar Madha (BBC One, 24 November to 22 December 2009).

The Time Traveler

written and directed by Richard Story
According to [urlx="https://www.metro.us
ews/race-against-time/tmWigu---f3Y81ti098j9E"]Ian Johnson at metro.us[/urlx], a young woman is sent from an infertile AD 3012 to 21st-century Toronto to find the key to saving the future, but the short clip I saw suggests that she’s only made things worse.
— Michael Main
Nikki, we have a situation here. People are dying—thousands—we don’t know why. It’s possible that your trip back created this event.
The Time Traveler written and directed by Richard Story (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Canada, 24 November 2009).

Die Tür

by Jan Berger, directed by Anno Saul
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
— from publicity material
Die Tür by Jan Berger, directed by Anno Saul (Hamburg Film Festival, 26 November 2009).

A Flash of Lightning

by Robert Scherrer
High school student Terri Bradbury and her high school class take a field trip to the distant past where Mr. Schoenfield sets off a nuclear explosion to experimentally study three theories of time travel’s effect on the future.
We’ll discuss the ethics of time travel in the spring semester.
“A Flash of Lightning” by Robert Scherrer, in Analog, December 2009.

Inside Time

by Tim Sullivan
On returning from the future via the Arrowhead mechanism that he invented, Herel Jablov finds himself trapped in a small station between universes along with a pretty woman named Mae and a criminal named Conway.
This is going to sound odd to you, Herel, but the reason for the blank spot in your memory is that you’ve just come from the future.
“Inside Time” by Tim Sullivan, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2009.

Note from the Future

by Ray Vukcevich
“Note from the Future” by Ray Vukcevich, in Flash Fiction Online, December 2009 [webzine].

The Secret Life of Suckers

by Juanma Sanchez-Cervantes
The eponymous suckers of this 13-episode no-dialog Spanish cartoon are the beasties who live on car windows with suckers for hands and feet. Each episode shows snippets of the life of one such beastie (Travis), including a gag in the 12th episode where he visits caveman days and spaceman days, and various Travises keep appearing next to each other.
Travis: drinking milk from the baby bottle from his own baby self) Berurrrrp!
The Secret Life of Suckers by Juanma Sanchez-Cervantes (circa 2009).

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

by Charles Yu
Holy Heinlein! Jim Curry kindly gave me this book as a retirement gift. It is more of a lit’ry work than a science fiction novel, and as such, I wish it had more deeply explored the question of free will.
I’m saying: you are stuck in a time loop. If you take that call, then you always took that call. You always take that call. It’s got to be self-consistent with the rest of this. If you pick up that phone, it’s just one more thing that we’ll have to do again. And who knows what complications it leads to.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon Books, September 2010).

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Blackout

by Connie Willis
Blackout by Connie Willis (Spectra, January 2010).

Time Machine Diorama

by Joe Laudati
Who doesn’t want their very own Time Machine diorama complete with Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, a Morlock (standing), and another Morlock (lying in repose)?
Above average model skills recommended. 1:8 scale.
Time Machine Diorama by Joe Laudati (January 2010).

Chronomechanic

by Duncan Shields
Duncan Shields is one of the more prolific writers at 365 Tomorrows—quite possibly producing 365 time travelers on his own—and for me, this is one of his better stories.

Normally, I don’t like suicides in stories because I feel that the topic is often approached in a shallow manner, but in this case, Shields’s hero has a hobby of tracking and trying to understand teen suicides while he philosophizes about the alternate universes created by time travel.

I suppose as hobbies go, it’s a little dark. Whatever. It keeps me humble, rooted in the now, happy to be alive, and aware of death.
“Chronomechanic” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 1 January 2010 [webzine].

Married Life Is Strange

by Kathy Kachelries
I love the cavalier attitude of this woman whose sweetheart invents things. Must be a metaphor for something.
I knocked on the door to the garage. “There is a Frenchman in my kitchen,” I said.
“Married Life Is Strange” by Kathy Kachelries, 365 Tomorrows, 12 January 2010 [webzine].

Cretaceous on Ice

by K. C. Ball
Sheriff Lyle, daydreaming of his retirement just outside of Bozeman, spots his brainiac buddy Pete and his egghead nephew Jimmy chasing a Deinonychus full-speed down the highway in their stretch-cab Ram pickup—and it’s not the only one on the loose.
“Lookee here, it’s good you know what this thing is, but where in hell did it come from?”

“The early Cretaceous. One hundred twenty million years ago,” Peter said.

Sometimes real smart people can be a little dense.

“Cretaceous on Ice” by K. C. Ball, in Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities (Hydra House, February 2010).

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Roberto & Me

by Dan Gutman
Roberto & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, February 2010).

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TimeRiders

by Alex Scarrow
TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2010).

The Times That Bleed Together

by Paige Gardner
With the help of a little man in a grey suit, Luke Russell thinks that he can fix a horrific event of the past.
“It’s a time machine,” Luke says. ”I’m going to fix it.”
“The Times That Bleed Together” by Paige Gardner, in Flash Fiction Online, February 2010 [webzine].

The Trophy Saga 1

Trophy

by Paul M. Schofield
Trophy by Paul M. Schofield (Galactic Publishers, February 2010).

Lunopolis

written and directed by Matthew Avant
Lunopolis written and directed by Matthew Avant (Boston SciFi Film Festival, 12 February 2010).

Abacus

by Chris McGowan
Abacus by Chris McGowan (Euphausia Press, March 2010).

Three Go Back

by Tom Johnson
Three Go Back by Tom Johnson (Night to Dawn, March 2010).

The Girl Who Leapt through Time #3

時をかける少女

Toki o Kakeru Shojo English release: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt through Time Literal: Time-soaring girl

by 菅野友恵, directed by 谷口正晃
In this second sequel to Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1965 novel 時をかける少女 em]The Girl Who Leapt through Time[/em, Naka Riisa plays the daughter, Akari, of a grown-up Kazuko (the original “girl who leapt through time”). Akari tries to leap back to the time of her mother’s first love, Kazuo, in hopes that he can bring her mom out of a coma induced by a car accident.

The actress Naka Riisa has another connection to time-leaping girls: In the first sequel to the original novel, , a 2006 anime adaptation, Riisa voiced the lead character, Makoto, who was Kazuko’s niece. So if I have this right: The original leaper is Kazuko; Kazuko’s niece Makoto is the leaper in the 2006 anime; and Kazuko’s daughter Akari is the leaper in the 2010 live-action movie. So in some sense, Riisa is her own cousin.

— Michael Main
So you believe me? You’re an SF geek, right?
[ex=bare]時をかける少女 | Time-soaring girl | Toki o kakeru shojo[/ex] by 菅野友恵, directed by 谷口正晃 (at movie theaters, Japan, 13 March 2010).

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Hot Tub Time Machine

by Josh Heald, Sean Anders, and John Morris, directed by Steve Pink
Three middle-aged losers (along with a nephew) head back to their teenaged bodies at a ski resort twenty years earlier.
— Michael Main
Yes, exactly. You step on a bug and the fucking Internet is never invented.
Hot Tub Time Machine by Josh Heald, Sean Anders, and John Morris, directed by Steve Pink (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 17 March 2010).

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Heaven’s Jewel

by J. H. Sweet
Heaven’s Jewel by J. H. Sweet (Westin Hills Books, April 2010).

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SOS! Titanic!

by Frieda Wishinsky
SOS! Titanic! by Frieda Wishinsky (Maple Tree Press, April 2010).

Nick McIver 2

The Time Pirate

by Ted Bell
The Time Pirate by Ted Bell (St. Martin’s Griffin, April 2010).

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Will Solvit and the T-Rex Terror

by Eleanor Hawken
Will Solvit and the T-Rex Terror by Eleanor Hawken (Parragon, April 2010).

Grandfather Paradox

by Ian Stewart
I didn’t understand the logic of this short story, which is part of Nature’s Futures series of short, short sf stories. The grandfather, Hubert, is traveling forward in time, begging his grandson to kill him so that he won’t invent a time machine that he’s already invented—but I can’t see how killing him after the fact will do any good. Please explain it to me!

In any case, thank you to the kind librarian at the Norlin Library who made an electronic copy for me when we couldn’ttrack down a hard copy of the journal.

With its logical basis wrecked, the Universe would resolve the paradox by excising the time machine, and snap back to a consistent history in which Hubert married Rosie, with all of its consequences.
“Grandfather Paradox” by Ian Stewart, in Nature, 29 April 2010.

The Janus Project

by Brad Anderson
The Janus Project by Brad Anderson (Outskirts Press, May 2010).

Living Outside the Lines

by Lesley Choyce
Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, May 2010).

My Name Is Memory

by Ann Brashares
My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares (Riverhead Books, June 2010).

Adam

by Clint Wilson
—android wonders about origin of life
“Adam” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 11 June 2010 [webzine].

The Toles Cartoons

by Tom Toles
Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles has an astute solution to the problem of global warming.
No! That’s the great thing about this technology!
“The Toles Cartoons” by Tom Toles, in The Washington Post, 19 June 2010.

On the Bus

by William Grewe-Mullins
A man on a bus gives advice to his younger self.
— Michael Main
You’re going to need a lot of dog food.
“On the Bus” by William Grewe-Mullins, in Black is the New Black, 28 June 2010.

The First Degree

by David Wayne Hillery
The First Degree by David Wayne Hillery (Dorrance Publishing, July 2010).

Murder in Metachronopolis

by John C. Wright
“Murder in Metachronopolis” by John C. Wright, in Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen (Norilana Books, July 2010).

Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer

by Tim Champlin
Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer by Tim Champlin (Pill Hill Press, July 2010).

How the Future Got Better

by Eric Schaller
Images from the past: not time travel. Precognition of the future: not time travel. But images from the future: yes, time travel. (I know the rules can be difficult to grasp, but it will come to you.) In this case, the whole family, plus the Willards from next door, gather ’round to see the first broadcast of their own future.
In the future, I got a beer.
“How the Future Got Better” by Eric Schaller, in Sybil’s Garage, 7 July 2010.

The Battle of Little Big Science

by Pamela Rentz
A council of Native American elders has been funding Agnes Wilder’s project to view the past, but now they’re ready to cancel the shoestring budget because they haven’t yet seen a demonstration of the technology.
When can you make the machine work?
“The Battle of Little Big Science” by Pamela Rentz, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2010.

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Day of the Predator

by Alex Scarrow
Day of the Predator by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, August 2010).

Superluminosity

by Alan Wall
After Jack Reynolds, a historical phenomenologist, has an affair, Fiona demands that he use the time machine he stole from a shut-down program to retrieve a fancy handbag from the early 1900s.
Prove it then. Prove it by doing something for me. Something special.
“Superluminosity” by Alan Wall, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2010.

Terminator Salvation

Trial by Fire

by Timothy Zahn
Trial by Fire by Timothy Zahn (Titan Books, August 2010).

And Happiness Everlasting

by Gerald Warfield
“And Happiness Everlasting” by Gerald Warfield, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Backlash

by Nancy Fulda
Counter-terrorist agent Eugene Gutierrez, who suffers from flashbacks of his wife’s death, is contacted by a young time-travel agent from his own future with a plea to stop Gutierrez’s own daughter from setting off a chain of terrorist events.
It is possible to create a set of coherent relationships between individual tachyons, similar to quantum entanglement.
“Backlash” by Nancy Fulda, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2010.

By His Sacrifice

by Daliso Chopanda
In a hidden underground compound, a group of scientists raise nineteen children including Saul Baron, who years ago warned us of the coming nuclear disaster and saved the world.
The man chuckled at himself because of the bewilderment on Saul’s face. “The fuckin’ messiah and you don’t even know it.”
“By His Sacrifice” by Daliso Chopanda, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Conditional Perfect

by Jason Palmer
Like all the other yahoo teens, Paitin and his buddies head to an alternate past for a Friday night of violent hunting whomever they happen to spot from their hovercrafts. But unlike the others, Paitin plans to stay behind to be with unReal Sandra.
Paitin shook his head. Civics 101: conditional perfects are neither citizens nor their ancestors. Therefore, they are not real.
“Conditional Perfect” by Jason Palmer, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Correspondence

by Ruthanna Emrys
Dena Feinberg, a psychology grad student who dreams of being a hard scientist and/or a Victorian time traveler, writes a compelling message on a stone table for future time travelers.
The hard part was figuring out what to say. I needed something that would matter enough to the inventors of time travel that they would want to come visit me, right along with Jesus and Galileo and Heinlein.
“Correspondence” by Ruthanna Emrys, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

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Day of Deliverance

by Johnny O’Brien
Day of Deliverance by Johnny O’Brien (Templar Publishing, September 2010).

The End of the Experiment

by Peter Clines
In the twenty-first century, on the very spot in London where Wells’s Traveller first had his dinner party, physics student Jon has a similar party with his own friends and his own tiny model of a time machine.
At the heart of it was a small seat carved from wood, almost a saddle, and before it was a console, barely two inches across, decorated with levers of what looked like glass and bone.
“The End of the Experiment” by Peter Clines, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Time Entity Trilogy 2

The Eternity Stone

by J. H. Sweet
The Eternity Stone by J. H. Sweet (Westin Hills Books, September 2010).

Midnight at the End of the Universe

by Eric Ian Steele
Wanting to see the end of time, Matheson travels forward in his quaint machine only to be greeted by the athletic and immortal telepath, Rococzky Saint-Germain, who is somewhat disdainful of time travelers. Together, they watch the universe collapse.
Even so, he grew nervous each time he left the pod—ever since that encounter with the Fascist Government of Greater Britannia in the twenty-second century. Not to mention the alligator population that plagued London after the Great Flood in the twenty-third. That had caught him completely unawares.
“Midnight at the End of the Universe” by Eric Ian Steele, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

One One Thousand

by Willaim R. D. Wood
When Dr. Heller’s scientific contraption goes awry and threatens the universe, it’s fortunate that the machine is also a time machine to take Aaron back one day, albeit in a manner where his time rate is a thousand times faster than (most of) those around him.
Static past. Unmoving. Like wandering around in an old, overexposed photograph.
“One One Thousand” by Willaim R. D. Wood, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Perpetual Motion Blues

by Harper Hull
In a future world being evacuated by spaceships, four travelers try over and over again to get to the evac point, each time with all of them being slightly older versions of themselves.
What this mean, Howard explained, was that the traveler could only jump to a time and place where they had previously existed. The traveling version of the person would take the place in the world of the old version, with all the knowledge they had gained since that time kept intact.
“Perpetual Motion Blues” by Harper Hull, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding

by Jacob Edwards
In a series of flashbacks over Professor Figwort’s eighty-year life, we learn of his first love letter (the failure of which prompted his discovery of time travel) and his three subsequent great discoveries.
It was then that he devined a solution to his new-found problems: he would travel back in time and stop himself from disturbing Miss Bonsoir in the first place—on any level, molecular or otherwise. Yes, that ought to do it. While he was there, he might even return those now-overdue library books.
“Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding” by Jacob Edwards, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Red Letter Day

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Without completely forbidding it, the government allows limited time travel: Each person may send a single letter from himself or herself at age 50 back to age 18 with information about a single event, though not everyone sends the letter and not everyone approves of the procedure. Our narrator did not receive the letter when she was young, and now she approaches 50 as a counselor for others who do not receive a letter.
You know the arguments: If God had wanted us to travel through time, the devout claim, he would have given us the ability to do so. If God had wanted us to travel through time, the scientists say, he would have given us the ability to understand time travel—and oh! Look! He’s done that.
“Red Letter Day” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Analog, September 2010.

Rocking My Dreamboat

by Victorya Chase
Jameson is a jerk. He pretends to love his mother, with whom he shares a house. He discovers time travel via a Legoland Time Machine and uses it to destroy women who “dumped” him. Yep, this guy is a real “winner.”
— Tandy Ringoringo
He looked at the sole red logo and decided it was the on button. He thought about where he’d like to be, and pushed.
“Rocking My Dreamboat” by Victorya Chase, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Spree

by John Medaille
An unnamed man who can shoot supersonic baseballs and bullets through time starts his time travel agenda by assassinating Hitler. And so on.
The Time Traveler tinkers with the pitcher, increasing the torque and velocity of its engine and by the little, sickly hours of the early morning he is finally able to successfully launch three Major League regulation baseballs into the late Mesozoic Era.
“Spree” by John Medaille, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Sunlight and Shadows

by John Sunseri
“Sunlight and Shadows” by John Sunseri, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

The Time Traveler

by Vincent L. Scarsella
“The Time Traveler” by Vincent L. Scarsella, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Time’s Cruel Geometry

by Mark Onspaugh
We learn what really happened after the Time Traveller left his 1895 London house for the final time, and along the way we also learn the answer to what happens should he meet himself.
In those trials he saw her die more than a dozen times, and it nearly drove him mad. If he was not sure he could rescue her, he might have set the controls for the far distant future when the sun would engulf the Earth.
“Time’s Cruel Geometry” by Mark Onspaugh, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

The Woman Who Came to the Paradox

by Derek J. Goodman
Reggie heads to 19th century Austria to kill baby Hitler, but once there he runs into Reggie-B (among others).
“When you stopped me from stopping me,” Reggie-B said, “you ceased to exist because I never became you. But if I never became you then you never existed to stop me from stopping me.
“The Woman Who Came to the Paradox” by Derek J. Goodman, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

Written by the Winners

by Matthew Johnson
Dave Lawson’s job is sifting through artifacts—e.g. old episodes of Family Ties, LPs from the 80s, etc.—for snippets that no longer fit the officially approved timeline, but his decidedly more dangerous, clandestine avocation is preserving those very anomalies.

I found the idea of how time travel changes the timeline in a piecemeal manner, leaving behind inconsistencies, to be thought-provoking, although for me, the story’s ending was incomplete.

The device that had changed time was more like a shotgun than a scalpel: It had established the present its makers wanted through hundreds of different changes to the timeline, some contradicting others. The result was a porous, makeshift new history that made little sense, but the old one had been thoroughly smashed to bits. It was those bits that remained that he and his department were tasked by the new history’s makers with finding and erasing.
“Written by the Winners” by Matthew Johnson, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

XMAS

by Douglas Hutcheson
In a world where Japan won World War II and went on to conquer the world, a father (amidst pesky attacks) recounts history (including the roles played by time travel) to his two spoiled children.
I thought you were old enough for big-kid toys.
“XMAS” by Douglas Hutcheson, in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September 2010).

A Rip through Time: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device

by Chris F. Holm et al.
This series of stories (available in a 2013 e-book collection) follows pulp hero Simon Rip through time as he first takes care of problems caused by H.G. Wells’s Traveller and then searches for Dr. Berlin, a later inventor of time travel.
But to my way of thinking, all of the events of existence have already happened, and are therefore immutable. Thus, there are no so-called ‘time paradoxes.’
“A Rip Through Time: The Dame, the Doctor,and the Device” by Chris F. Holm et al., in Beat to a Pulp 90, 3 September 2010.

Fiddle

by Tim Pratt
Fiddles had not yet been invented during Nero’s time. So just how did that rumor get started?
— Tandy Ringoringo
At any rate, ready your cameras and make sure your bows are rosined.
“Fiddle” by Tim Pratt, Daily Science Fiction, 6 September 2010 [webzine].

Warehouse 13

by Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote
The secret service does more than just protect the president: Agents Myka Bering and Peter Lattimer (under the guidance of Artie, not to mention the help of girl genius sidekick Claudia and slightly psychic landlord Leena) also gather and protect remarkable scientific artifacts from throughout history. H.G. Wells shows up at the start of season 2, but time travel didn’t appear until episode 10 of that season, when Myka and Pete head to 1961. Later, in the first episode of season 4, after the deaths of all and sundry (not to mention the demolition of the warehouse), Artie goes back in time again (at great expense to himself). I was expecting more time travel in season 5 and was not disappointed when our favorite agents follow the evil Paracelsus back to 1541 (“Endless Terror”) to prevent the creation of a warehouse of horrible human experimentation; plus there’s a smidgen of 1942 time travel in the mushy (in a good way) series finale.
Pete: I’m not gonna remember. . .
Artie: Remember what?
Pete: Remember dying.
Artie: No. No, Pete, you won’t remember. [Pete dies.] But I will. . ., I will.
Warehouse 13 by Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote (7 September 2010).

The Time Traveller

by Celestial Elf
Using the Four Winds Sims animation packet and pieces of the Radio Theatre Group’s audio play of The Time Machine (based on the 1948 Escape radio program), Celestial Elf produced an eight-minute animation. Looks like they had fun.
with grateful thanks to H.G. Wells for his Inspiration & to Koshari Mahana for use of Four Winds
The Time Traveller by Celestial Elf (26 September 2010).

The Time Traveller: Voyage across the Four Winds

by Irving Ravetch, [director unknown]
Using the Four Winds Sims animation packet and pieces of the Radio Theatre Group’s audio play of The Time Machine (based on the 1948 Escape radio program), Celestial Elf produced an eight-minute animation. Looks like they had fun.
— Michael Main
with grateful thanks to H.G. Wells for his Inspiration & to Koshari Mahana for use of Four Winds
The Time Traveller: Voyage across the Four Winds by Irving Ravetch, [director unknown] (Vimeo: Celectial Elf Channel, 26 September 2010).

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All Clear

by Connie Willis
All Clear by Connie Willis (Spectra, October 2010).

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Moonbase Crisis

by Kevin J. Anderson
Moonbase Crisis by Kevin J. Anderson (Catalyst Press, October 2010).

The Termite Queen of Tallulah County

by Felicity Shoulders
When Lacey Tidwell’s dad has an attack that leaves him unable to communicate, she completely takes over the family exterminator business including the occasional time-travel trip to delete the origins of various bug problems. I enjoyed the story, but was annoyed that Shoulders brings up the paradoxes without offering any solution.
Termite Trouble? You Can Turn Back Time!
“The Termite Queen of Tallulah County” by Felicity Shoulders, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2010.

Return to Sender

by Dennis Gray
—accidental retrieval of past dignitary
“Return to Sender” by Dennis Gray, 365 Tomorrows, 7 October 2010 [webzine].

Time Crossing

by Adena Brons
A young couple waits in line 45 days so that they can emigrate to the 14th century.
The Public Release, 47 years ago, had created a wave of emigration as other times were suddenly opened to those seeking other lives.
“Time Crossing” by Adena Brons, 365 Tomorrows, 9 October 2010 [webzine].

Flipping the Switch

by Michael Vella
A scientist building a time machine regrets never spending time with his understanding wife and Preschooler.
I just had an intense déjà vu. . .
“Flipping the Switch” by Michael Vella, Daily Science Fiction, 29 October 2010 [webzine].

Over Tea

by T. M. Thomas
An accidental time-traveler in the times of the American Revolution has tea and a philosophical discussion with a much older time traveler.
And I’ve been trying to figure it out for forty-seven years. I’m going to solve it now, so you know.
“Over Tea” by T. M. Thomas, Daily Science Fiction, 2 November 2010 [webzine].

Regular Show

by J. G. Quintel
Two park groundskeepers, Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon), live out a surreal sit-com life twelve minutes at a time, including some encounters with time travel such as the do-over that Mordecai wishes for after a bad first kiss with a red bird named Margaret.
All I know is guys from the future lie.
Regular Show by J. G. Quintel (2 November 2010).

The Value of Folding Space

by Tim Patterson
“The Value of Folding Space” by Tim Patterson, Daily Science Fiction, 3 November 2010 [webzine].

Action Replayy

by आतिश कपाड़िया and सुरेश नायर, directed by विपुल अमृतलाल शाह
A son tries to revive his parents’ lifeless marriage by traveling back in time to the 70s when their romance was budding.
— from publicity material
Action Replayy by आतिश कपाड़िया and सुरेश नायर, directed by विपुल अमृतलाल शाह (at movie theaters, India and elsewhere, 5 November 2010).

The End: Five Queer Kids Save The World

by Nora Olsen
The End: Five Queer Kids Save The World by Nora Olsen (Prizm Books, December 2010).

The Man from Downstream

by Shane Tourtellotte
Americus, a despondent time traveler, comes to the 1st century Roman Empire (726 AUC) to introduce clocks, steam engines and other marvels.

The original publication of this story is followed by a Shane Tourtellotte article, “Tips for the Budget Time-Traveler,” about the economics of trading through time.

He argued to the scribes that they were naturals for typesetting jobs: literate, intelligent, good at fine work and at avoiding mistakes.
“Most of us </i>thought<i> we knew. There were many congenial mealtime arguments about which overarching theory of time travel was the true one. I had my ideas, but they dismissed them. I wasn’t one of them; I didn’t understand.” He ounded a fist into his thigh, a startling burst of violence. “But their theories were such violations of common sense!”
English
“The Man from Downstream” by Shane Tourtellotte, in Analog, December 2010.

Uncle E

by Carol Emshwiller
Twelve-year-old Sarah decides to keep her mother’s death quiet so that the kids can all stay together, but somehow the previously unknown Uncle E gets wind of the happening.
We have a hard time getting to sleep—except for Elliot.
“Uncle E” by Carol Emshwiller, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2010.

The Great Leap Ahead

by Matt Matlo
—leaping ahead a few millennia
“The Great Leap Ahead” by Matt Matlo, 365 Tomorrows, 1 December 2010 [webzine].

The Sound/Fury Variable

by Steven Odhner
A mad scientist wants to travel back to meet God before He destroyed Himself to create the universe we live in.
I have one shot for this, one chance to meet my maker.
“The Sound/Fury Variable” by Steven Odhner, 365 Tomorrows, 15 December 2010 [webzine].

Future Saviors

by Duncan Shields
—making best possible world
“Future Saviors” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 25 December 2010 [webzine].

Palindrome

by William Arthur
Mike, a time patrol type of character, finds himself in a yoyo of a time loop.
Of all the types of time snags Mike had seen since joining Timeguard—recursive, crablike, anagrammatic—palindromic was the worst.
“Palindrome” by William Arthur, Daily Science Fiction, 28 December 2010 [webzine].

The Plum Pudding Paradox

by Jay Werkheiser
H.G. Well’s Traveller goes back in time to persuade J.J. Thomson to not allow Rutherford to observe the nucleus of an atom.
Rutherford’s work will lead to a new theory called quantum mechanics. It’s nearly an inverse of your model, a central positive nucleus surrounded by a negatively charged cloud.
“The Plum Pudding Paradox” by Jay Werkheiser, Daily Science Fiction, 29 December 2010 [webzine].

The Richards’ Trust Manuscripts 1

Bow Tie

by W. J. Cherf
Bow Tie by W. J. Cherf (CreateSpace, January 2011).

Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln

by Patricia Polacco
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln by Patricia Polacco (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, January 2011).

After Cilmeri 4

Prince of Time

by Sarah Woodbury
Prince of Time by Sarah Woodbury (Unknown publisher, January 2011 [e-book].

12:02 P.M.

by Richard A. Lupoff
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.
“12:02 P.M.” by Richard A. Lupoff, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2011.

A Snitch in Time

by Donald Moffitt
In the same world as the Beethoven and Vermeer affairs, rogue policeman Francis Patrick Delehanty uses his own resources to travel back to the scene of the first homicide that he dealt with as a rookie cop.
Have you thought this through, Lieutenant? You see a murder in progress. You’re a cop. Do you try to stop it? But you’re not a cop in that timeline, are you? Your lieutenant’s badge is no good there. Are you acting extra-legally? The only badge around belongs to a rookie cop name Delehanty who doesn’t have a clue about what’s going down. And what if you don’t try to stop it? Are you culpable? In that timeline or this one?
“A Snitch in Time” by Donald Moffitt, in Analog, January/February 2011.

Ticking Clock

by John Turman, directed by Ernie Barbarash
Investigative reporter Lewis Hicks, who doesn’t trust cops, pursues a gory time-traveling serial murderer who’s tracking down all those people whom he thinks did him wrong in life.

I’m surprised that this movie never made it to the theaters in the states. It generated good tension for a Fugitive-type police-don’t-the-protagonist type of story. On the other hand, the ending shows zero comprehension of the grandfather paradox or universes that split upon time travel, but never mind.

— Michael Main
Lewis: What if you could kill Hitler or Manson when they were a child?
Polly: No way. They’re children. They’re not Hilter or Manson, not yet. No.
Ticking Clock by John Turman, directed by Ernie Barbarash (direct-to-video, USA, 4 January 2011).

Relatively Safe

by J. D. Rice
“Relatively Safe” by J. D. Rice, 365 Tomorrows, 16 January 2011 [webzine].

Timeriders 3

The Doomsday Code

by Alex Scarrow
The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2011).

The Victorian Time Traveller

by James D. Quinton
The Victorian Time Traveller by James D. Quinton (Xplosive Books, February 2011).

The Third Millennium

by Laura E. Bradford
—teen time travelers
“The Third Millennium” by Laura E. Bradford, 365 Tomorrows, 1 February 2011 [webzine].

The Adjustment Bureau

written and directed by George Nolfi
The Adjustment Bureau written and directed by George Nolfi (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 14 February 2011).

Flashback

by Brendan Jackson Rogers and Will Phillips, directed by Brendan Jackson Rogers
I can’t believe I watched this long enough to verify that Flashback, a future movie studio that robotically remasters the classics, uses time travel to retrieve props from the past.
— Michael Main
Now pretend that this urinal cake is me, alright?
Flashback by Brendan Jackson Rogers and Will Phillips, directed by Brendan Jackson Rogers (Vanguard Cinema Film Festival, 15 February 2011).

No One Ever Considers the Unforeseen Consequences

by Patricia Stewart
—killing a despot’s ancestor
“No One Ever Considers the Unforeseen Consequences” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 16 February 2011 [webzine].

Time Travel

by Duncan Shields
—amateur time traveler
“Time Travel” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 22 February 2011 [webzine].

Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms

by John G. Hemry
Ninety-year-old Jim Jones is sent back into his 15-year-old body in 1964 to help Betty Knox (who is already back in her 15-year-old body and doesn’t expect him) because all the time-travel agents (sent back to that time to avert the world’s toxin disasters) have disappeared with no discernable effect on history.
And I know that after Johnson, Richard Nixon is elected president. Then comes Ford. Who comes next?
“Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, March 2011.

Verona 1

The Lens and the Looker

by Lory S. Kaufman
The Lens and the Looker by Lory S. Kaufman (Fiction Studio, March 2011).

The Most Important Thing in the World

by Steve Bein
But Ernie understands the long and the short of it well enough. The bottom line is the kid and his professor at school found a way to make these lumps spend some of their own future in the present.
“The Most Important Thing in the World” by Steve Bein, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011.

The Terminus

by Oliver Eade
The Terminus by Oliver Eade (Little Acorn Press, March 2011).

Time Travel Tales

by Jay Dubya
Jay Dubya notes that these 21 stories share similar anachronistic plots and themes dealing with movements or shifts in time. I read the first one—“The Music Disk”—about the nostalgic music experts Chad and Jeremy who long for the 50s and find themselves taken to the times sung about in the war songs on a CD from Satan Records. Two of the stories (“The Music Disk” and “Batsto Village”) are part of the free Kindle sample at Amazon.
“And look! There’s an abnormal fog cloud up ahead right near the entrance to Atlantic Blueberry’s packing house!” the history teacher alerted the already distressed and bewildered driver.
“Time Travel Tales” by Jay Dubya, in Time Travel Tales, (Bookstand Publishing, March 2011).

Source Code

by Ben Ripley, directed by Duncan Jones
I usually try to keep my spoilers mild, but I am irresistibly drawn to spoil Source Code, since the inventor of The Source Code in the movie explicitly says, “Source Code is not time travel. Rather, Source Code is time reassignment. It gives us access to a parallel reality.” But what does the inventor know? Go watch the movie (which I enjoyed) before passing your mouse over my take!

A common form of time travel is when the traveler goes back in time and a new reality branches off. That’s the form of time travel I see in Source Code, and from my reading of an interview, perhaps the director sees it that way, too. This view fits better than the parallel worlds postulate of the inventor, because each time the captain goes back, he is in exactly the same moment, with the same passengers, same comment coming from future girlfriend, same woman about to spill coffee, etc. If he were shifting to a parallel universe, then perhaps some things would differ before he arrives. So, I see it as branching-worlds time travel, with the twist that the mechanism to do the time travel is to pop the traveler’s consciousness inside the head of a dead person at about eight minutes before the death. I believe that the original world where the traveler came from (and usually returns to) continues along its original path (as evinced by the fact that after one return in which he saved girlfriend, there was no record of her being saved).

— Michael Main
What is The Source Code?
Source Code by Ben Ripley, directed by Duncan Jones (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas, 11 March 2011).

Traveler

by Duncan Shields
—traveler emerges from alley
“Traveler” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 17 March 2011 [webzine].

Meet Me at the Grassy Knoll

by Lou Antonelli
A man pays $20 million to a Russian to be taken back in time to discover who was really on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas that day in November 1963.
You can’t change anything. You certainly can’t tell anyone.
“Meet Me at the Grassy Knoll” by Lou Antonelli, in 4 Star Stories, Spring 2011.

Time Entity Trilogy 3

Futures Sown

by J. H. Sweet
Futures Sown by J. H. Sweet (self-published, April 2011).

Goodbye Milky Way

by Dan Makaon
Goodbye Milky Way by Dan Makaon (eFfusion Publishing Group LLC, April 2011).

Ian’s Ions and Eons

by Paul Levinson
In the first story (“Ian’s Ions and Eons”), a man travels back to December 2000, hoping to alter the momentous Supreme Court decision of that month.

Ian and his cohorts have a reprise in “Ian, Isaac and John” (Nov 2011), where a descendant of David Bowe comes back to 1975, purportedly to improve the mix on a Bowe track, but quite possibly with additional motives involving John Lennon. And there are more stories to come, all in Analog.

The Supreme Court will announce its decision the day after tomorrow. Gore’s people want the recount to proceed in Florida. Bush’s do not.
“Ian’s Ions and Eons” by Paul Levinson, in Analog, April 2011.

My Future Boyfriend

by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank, directed by Michael Lange
From a utopian world without love or passion, 497 goes back to 21st century New Orleans to learn of these things from romance writer Elizabeth Barrett.
— Michael Main
I really shouldn’t be telling you this, 497, but ancient legends have it that this love condition was like some kind of virus which apparently made people act in strange and illogical ways bordering in some extreme cases on obsessive dementia. It is now also thought to be one of the root causes of all the suffering in the world.
My Future Boyfriend by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank, directed by Michael Lange (ABC Family, USA, 10 April 2011).

TJ and the Time Stumblers 2

Aaaargh!!!

by Bill Myers
Aaaargh!!! by Bill Myers (Tyndale Kids, May 2011).

TJ and the Time Stumblers 1

New Kid Catastrophes

by Bill Myers
New Kid Catastrophes by Bill Myers (Tyndale Kids, May 2011).

Department of Temporal Investigations 1

Watching the Clock

by Christopher L. Bennett
Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett (Pocket Books, May 2011).

Unveiled

by Ron S. Friedman
Itami invents the first time machine.
If time travel is possible, then why didn’t we see tourists from the future taking pictures of Neil Armstrong on July 20th 1969, when he took his first step on the Moon?
“Unveiled” by Ron S. Friedman, Daily Science Fiction, 9 May 2011 [webzine].

Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order

by Damien Broderick
This time, Bobby and Moira are in 2073 Melbourne with a mission that could get Bobby arrested, but will save millions if successful.
On the tram, I had a different kind of hassle, the usual sort. Other passengers stared at me with surprise, disdain or derision. You couldn’t blame them. For obvious reasons, we’d found no reliable records in 2099 or later of the fashions in 2073.
“Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order” by Damien Broderick, Tor.com Original Fiction, 25 May 2011 [webzine].

Serial Killer

by Duncan Shields
—serial killer targets travelers
“Serial Killer” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 26 May 2011 [webzine].

The Mighty Peculiar Incident at Muddy Creek

by Ian Thomas Healy
In the Old West town of Muddy Creek, Sheriff Jesse Hawkins and the hastily deputized barber Angus come across a train that’s frozen in the midst of a robbery by a strangely dressed man and woman.
How could ye make time stop?
“The Mighty Peculiar Incident at Muddy Creek” by Ian Thomas Healy (Local Hero Press, May 2011).

Just Enough Time

by Douglas K. Beagley
A guy and his 20-something Friends are visited in a coffee shop by a time traveler with limited time to tell them about the futility of fusion, how to cure autism, the solution to cancer, and other things that they are not so interested in.
Just listen, please—peanut allergies are a virus.
“Just Enough Time” by Douglas K. Beagley, Daily Science Fiction, 31 May 2011 [webzine].

Arcan

by Manuel Vilas
“Arcan” by Manuel Vilas, in Prospectivas: Antología del cuento de ciencia ficción española actual, edited by Fernando Ángel Moreno (Salto de Página, June 2011).

Verona 2

The Bronze and the Brimstone

by Lory S. Kaufman
The Bronze and the Brimstone by Lory S. Kaufman (Fiction Studio Books, June 2011).

Hourglass 1

Hourglass

by Myra McEntire
Hourglass by Myra McEntire (Egmont USA, June 2011).

Timecaster 1

Timecaster

by J. A. Konrath
Timecaster by J. A. Konrath (Ace Books, June 2011).

Apology

by Sam Ferree
A 26-year-old redheaded woman comes back in time to kill the one man in all history who has no effect on anything.
“At no point in the past or future will your life have any bearing on anything, at all,” the redheaded, twenty-something time traveler with a sleeve of tattoos tells me. “That’s why it’s okay to kill you.”
“Apology” by Sam Ferree, Daily Science Fiction, 3 June 2011 [webzine].

Time Machines: An End of the World Inventory

by Ginger Weil
I found it hard to tell exactly what happened in this flash piece, but it may be that a scientist has brought a zombie plague back in time.
The scientist who brought it here is dead. His grave was the first one you dug behind your house.
“Time Machines: An End of the World Inventory” by Ginger Weil, Daily Science Fiction, 11 June 2011 [webzine].

Coincidences

by K. Clarke
—Why so many travelers at my house?
“Coincidences” by K. Clarke, 365 Tomorrows, 23 June 2011 [webzine].

Love at the Corner of Time and Space

by Annie Bellet
The boyfriend of a time traveler finds himself stranded in a nevertime after yet another minor argument with his girlfriend.
But he knew that in a long-term relationship with a Time Traveler, things got sticky on occasion.
“Love at the Corner of Time and Space” by Annie Bellet, Daily Science Fiction, 23 June 2011 [webzine].

Something Famous

by Samantha L. Barrett
Dan can’t figure out why dozens of people are staring at him during the month that scientists announce the discovery of time travel.
Was I on America’s Most Wanted or something?
“Something Famous” by Samantha L. Barrett, 365 Tomorrows, 29 June 2011 [webzine].

Stealing Time

by Michael Tucker and Alex Calleros, directed by Alex Calleros
It irks me when an otherwise fun time-travel plot is hijacked by a waving-of-the-hands explanation of how, during the time-travel, the Earth continued to rotate or orbit the sun or orbit the Milky Way or whatever, but never mind: The emphasis is on the word “fun” in this 17-minute short that was written based on the following constraints submitted by the filmmakers’ fans (but—dammit!—where’s Dinosaur Kid?):
[list]
[*] Cannot take place entirely in one location.[/*]
[*] Someone must say the words “time travel.”[/*]
[*] Two characters must have a long-standing rivalry.[/*]
[*] When one character was a kid, he/she used to wish he/she could travel back in time to see real-life dinosaurs.[/*]
[*] One character is a wine lover and is very picky/elitist about their wine.[/*]
[*] One character prefers bubble baths to showers.[/*]
[*] Someone has to say: “I have to go back.”[/*]
[/list]
— Michael Main
Howard: (looking at dead self) What happened? What did you do?
Jim: I didn’t do anything. You disappeared, two more of you burst in, one of you shot the other one, then you jumped in the box and disappeared again.
Stealing Time by Michael Tucker and Alex Calleros, directed by Alex Calleros (Youtube: Finite Films Channel, 30 June 2011).

Before the Storm 2

Changing Yesterday

by Sean McMullen
Changing Yesterday by Sean McMullen (Ford Street Publishing, July 2011).

Cudweed 1

Cudweed’s Birthday

by Marcus Sedgwick
Cudweed’s Birthday by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children’s Books, July 2011).

Eleven Minutes

by Gareth L. Powell
“Eleven Minutes” by Gareth L. Powell, in Interzone, July 2011.

Timeriders 4

The Eternal War

by Alex Scarrow
The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, July 2011).

The Messenger

by Bruce McAllister
Fifty-year-old Tim goes back to the time before he was born with two important questions for the woman who would become his mother.
If you actually wanted to change things—say, to tell your mother lies about your father so she’d marry someone else, so you wouldn’t be born because you hate your life in the present—you wouldn’t be able to do it.
“The Messenger” by Bruce McAllister, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2011.

Deathbed

by Caroline M. Yoachim
I don’t always consider living life backward to be time travel. It depends on whether or not the person in question is experiencing time in a normal forward fashion—which is not the case in this time travel story.
I could save my past self some trouble if I told him the ingredients, but I cherish those early memories of failed soup, and I worry that giving him the recipe would change the past.
“Deathbed” by Caroline M. Yoachim, Daily Science Fiction, 18 July 2011 [webzine].

Time Again

by Ray Karwell, Carla Karwell, and Debbie Glovin, directed by Ray Karwell
When Sam (the good sister) fills in for waitress Marlo (the not-so-good sister) at the diner, a bad guy leaves a tip of ancient coins that end up getting Sam killed by the bad guy’s even badder boss, but fortunately 70-year-old Agnes also has some of the coins which repeatedly let Marlo go back to try to change things.
— Michael Main
Man Customer: Relativity’s the best.
Woman Customer: I’m sorry, but Time’s Arrow is much better.
Time Again by Ray Karwell, Carla Karwell, and Debbie Glovin, directed by Ray Karwell (Action on Film International Film Festival, Pasadena, California, 26 July 2011).

Spy Kids IV

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D Aroma-Scope

written and directed by Robert Rodriguez
Perhaps this would have been better had I smelled it in aroma-vision at the cinema. As it was, though, retired spy Marissa Wilson and her family chasing the evil Timekeeper didn't grab or hold my interest.
— Michael Main
At this rate, we’ll be out of time in no time.
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D Aroma-Scope written and directed by Robert Rodriguez (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 31 July 2011).

Mark Storm 2

La guerre du temps

Literal: The time war

by Cendrine N. William
La guerre du temps by Cendrine N. William (Editions Voy’el, August 2011).

The Jewel and the Key

by Louise Spiegler
The Jewel and the Key by Louise Spiegler (Clarion Books, August 2011).

No Time

by Andrew Bale
A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.
You get attacked, you have no backup, so you become your own.
“No Time” by Andrew Bale, 365 Tomorrows, 13 August 2011 [webzine].

Restoring the Great Library of Georgia

by Patricia Stewart
Anthony and Lamar travel back to find copies of Stephen Hawking’s lost papers
That’s why the government gave us the two trillion dollar grant, so we could travel back in time and get hard copies of the monumental technical papers, and rebuild the database from the ground up, similar to what the Greeks did for the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
“Restoring the Great Library of Georgia” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 15 August 2011 [webzine].

So the Guy at the Bar Turns to Me and Says . . .

by David Macpherson
—dead authors sign books
“So the Guy at the Bar Turns to Me and Says . . .” by David Macpherson, 365 Tomorrows, 23 August 2011 [webzine].

The Chess Master’s Violin

by Jennifer Willows
The Chess Master’s Violin by Jennifer Willows (Koehler Books, September 2011).

TJ and the Time Stumblers 4

Ho-Ho-NOOO!

by Bill Myers
Ho-Ho-NOOO! by Bill Myers (Tyndale House Publishers, September 2011).

The Observation Post

by Allen M. Steele
In 1962, Ensign Floyd Moore is the communications officer for the blimp Centurion patrolling the Caribbean for Russian shipments of nuclear missiles to Cuba. But what he and his lieutenant stumble upon on the larger Inagua island couldn’tpossibly be Russian technology.
The world was on the brink of nuclear war, and no one knew it yet. Almost no one that, is.
“The Observation Post” by Allen M. Steele, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2011.

TJ and the Time Stumblers 3

Oops!

by Bill Myers
Oops! by Bill Myers (Tyndale House Publishers, September 2011).

Timepiece 2

Rose of No Man’s Land

by Anne Perry
Rose of No Man’s Land by Anne Perry (Barrington Stoke, September 2011).

Shadow Angel

by Erick Melton
No, I won’t vouch for this one having time travel, but it might—I just never fully understood what was happening to pilot Emil as he tries to steer(?) his dive-dreamship through a wormhole(?) while being haunted by his ex and being pulled back and forth by different possible futures vying for their existence.
“There are several futures, Emil,” Real Haneul said. ”Each one is trying to reach back to shape the past so it can be.”
“Shadow Angel” by Erick Melton, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2011.

Thief of Futures

by D. Thomas Minton
“Thief of Futures” by D. Thomas Minton, in Lightspeed, September 2011.

Timepiece 1

Tudor Rose

by Anne Perry
Tudor Rose by Anne Perry (Barrington Stoke, September 2011).

Thirty Seconds from Now

by John Chu
“Thirty Seconds from Now” by John Chu, in Boston Review, 1 September 2011.

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

by William Butler and Muffy Bolding, directed by William Butler
This girl is an absolute megolithic throwback.
Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver by William Butler and Muffy Bolding, directed by William Butler (direct-to-video, USA, 13 September 2011).

Spiral

by Sarah Stasik
Nadia wishes for more time from a man with a silver finger, and she gets it in a way that causes her to relive her past in a confusing pattern.
Time is only a line, a curve, a wave of the hand, and its course is moved.
“Spiral” by Sarah Stasik, Daily Science Fiction, 14 September 2011 [webzine].

Dimensions

by Antony Neely, directed by Sloan U’Ren
Imagine you’re a young boy in 1921 Cambridge when your equally young first love dies in a deep well. What would you do? Naturally, you’d vow to become a great scientist in an artsy movie so you could go back in time to alter the tragic event.

Apparently, people in early 20th-century Cambridge espouse many wise thoughts about time, parallel universes that encompass every possible combination of events again and again, and something about every decision every made creating a branch point. In the end, it's difficult to make a cohesive model of time from the plotline of Dimensions, but we tried our best to do so in our plot notes.

— Michael Main
Annie: Are you ready to leave?
Stephen: Yes.
Annie: How long will it take?
Stephen: I don’t know: seconds, decades, an eternity.
Annie: An eternity? For a few moments together?
Stephen: Yes.
Dimensions by Antony Neely, directed by Sloan U’Ren (Cambridge Film Festival, 21 September 2011).

Terra Nova

by Kelly Marcel and Craig Silverstein
I finally had a free Saturday morning, so I Hulued the pilot, but couldn’t get through the melodramatic story of a family from 2149 that goes back to an alternate prehistoric time stream as part of the 10th pilgrimage.
That wasn’t a very nice dinosaur.
Terra Nova by Kelly Marcel and Craig Silverstein (26 September 2011).

Regret Incorporated

by Andy Astruc and RJ Astruc
Marcus hopes that the time-travel office will see his application as having a low-risk of creating a major change so that he can go back and make things right with his choice of a career.
Reason for traveling back in time: He had heard this was the big one. That if you didn’t get this one right it was all over.
“Regret Incorporated” by Andy Astruc and RJ Astruc, Daily Science Fiction, 27 September 2011 [webzine].

The Little Bear

by Justina Robson
“The Little Bear” by Justina Robson, in Lightspeed, October 2011.

The Sock Problem

by Alastair Mayer
The narrator’s explanation to his preteen son pretty much sums it up.
Okay, a spacetime warp. It’s formed by the interaction of the complicated magnetic field from the motor, and the rotation of the drum. The metal drum picks up an induced field and right in the center, a spacetime vortex forms. Any sock falling through disappears.
“The Sock Problem” by Alastair Mayer, in Analog, October 2011.

Tartan of Thyme 2

Thyme Running Out

by Panama Oxridge
Thyme Running Out by Panama Oxridge (Inside Pocket Publishing, October 2011).

Tim Hartwell 1

Tim Hartwell and the Magical Galon of Wales

by Aeneas Middleton
Tim Hartwell and the Magical Galon of Wales by Aeneas Middleton (self-published, October 2011).

Time Ship

by Gary Cottrell
I was excited when I read that the book was intended to “challenge the reader to consider the difficult subject of predestination and free will,” but the story itself (of two time-machine-making scientists, one of whom as a boy watched to murder of his parent) was too bogged down in exposition and repetition for me to recommend.
Just think of it—time travel! If we pull this off, it will mean the Nobel Prize for sure!
Time Ship by Gary Cottrell (MDC Press, October 2011 [e-book].

Zero Time

by T. W. Fendley
Zero Time by T. W. Fendley (L and L Dreamspell, October 2011).

This Petty Pace

by Jason K. Chapman
Theoretical physicist Kyle Preston is getting garbled visitations from a hologramish future descendant who carries dire warnings, which Kyle wishes did more for him and his girlfriend Anna.
It’s like Schroedinger’s Subway Rider. He’s both here and twenty minutes away at the same time and you don’t know which until he meets his girlfriend.
“This Petty Pace” by Jason K. Chapman, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011.

Some Fortunate Future Day

by Cassandra Clare
In a war-torn, fable-like, Victorian kind of world, Rose’s father goes off to war leaving her various inventions: talking dolls, a garden robot, a mechanical cook, and a time device that comes in handy when a wounded soldier makes his way to her doorstep.
When he said that, he looked at Rose’s mother’s portrait, hanging over their fireplace mantel. He had invented his time device only a few short months after she had died. It had always been one of his greatest regrets in life, though Rose sometimes wondered whether he could have invented it at all without the all-consuming power of grief to drive him. Most of his other inventions did not work nearly as well. The garden robot often digs up flowers instead of weeds. The mechanical cook can make only one kind of soup. And the talking dolls never tell Rose what she wants to hear.
“Some Fortunate Future Day” by Cassandra Clare, in Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, edited by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link (Candlewick Press, October 2011).

The Dead Gentleman

by Matthew Cody
The Dead Gentleman by Matthew Cody (Alfred A. Knopf, November 2011).

11/23/1963

by Stephen King
Jake Epping's dying friend Al points him toward a rabbit hole that always leads to the same moment in 1958, so what can he do other than live in the Land of Ago, fall in love with Sadie, stalk Oswald and become America’s hero?
Save him, okay? Save Kennedy and everything changes.
11/23/63 by Stephen King (Scribner, November 2011).

Into the Ether

by Andrew Whitehead
Into the Ether by Andrew Whitehead (Raider Publishing International, November 2011).

Aaron and Jake Time Travel 2

The Inverted Cavern

by Todd A. Fonseca
The Inverted Cavern by Todd A. Fonseca (Ridan Publishing, November 2011).

Parry Pretty and the Eight Realms: Caught in the Slipstream of Time

by S. J. Musgraves
Parry Pretty and the Eight Realms: Caught in the Slipstream of Time by S. J. Musgraves (Snappy Turtle Publishing, November 2011).

Shall I Tell You the Trouble with Time Travel?

by Adam Roberts
Professor Hermann Bradley has managed to have his time travel device last seventeen seconds in various past times before spectacularly exploding. Now he’s on the verge of cracking that seventeen second barrier (and, according to the narrator, possibly the wiping out of the dinosaurs as well as hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tunguska), but the damnable Professor Notkin is blocking him, claiming that Bradley has committed crimes against humanity (and perhaps against dinosaurity).
He steps through into a room and his beaming, grinning, smiling, happy-o jolly-o face shouts to the world: “We’ve done it, we’ve cracked it—thirteen seconds!”
“Shall I Tell You the Trouble with Time Travel?” by Adam Roberts, in Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, edited by Ian Whates (Solaris, November 2011).

These are the Times

by John G. Hemry
Temporal Interventionist Tom and his implanted assistant Jeannie are at the start of the American Revolution, a decidedly TI-crowded time, when they run into Tom’s love interest Pam, another TI from Tom’s future who is trying to figure out who fired the first shot.
The steath-suited TI leveled a weapon, then droped as a stun charge hit. Moments later the other TI weo’d fired the stun charge fell, then two more TIs appeared and took out whoever had nailed the second TI. But then the stealth-suited TI reappeared, having recovered somewhen in the future and jumped back to try to finish the job.
“These are the Times” by John G. Hemry, in Analog, November 2011.

Time Breaking

by Barbara Spencer
Time Breaking by Barbara Spencer (Matador, November 2011).

Fifties Chix 1

Travel to Tomorrow

by Angela Sage Larsen
Travel to Tomorrow by Angela Sage Larsen (FastPencil Premiere, November 2011).

Time to Go

by Erin M. Hartshorn
The title and opening lines made us hope that there would be time travel for Grandma, but alas, no.
— Michael Main
Sally patted her grandmother’s shoulder. “It’s time to go.”
“Time to Go” by Erin M. Hartshorn, Daily Science Fiction, 3 November 2011 [webzine].

Juko’s Time Machine

written and directed by Kai Barry
When the wife of Juko’s lifelong friend Jed gets fed up with Juko living in their garage, Jed comes up with his best plan yet, to build a time machine so Juko can go back in time and win the heart of the girl whom he's waited twenty years for, even if Juko isn’t cool like her finance is.

Lauren Struck, one of the producers, sent me a press kit and an invitation to stream the film in May of 2012, precisely 35 years after my first press-kit-and-invitation-to-a-fan-to-see-an-sf-movie-preview—that other one being from a little-known producer named George something, of course, so Lauren is in excellent company. (Thank you, Lauren.)

— Michael Main
Jed? Are you Jed Four? I think you’re Jed Four.
Juko’s Time Machine written and directed by Kai Barry (Costa Rica Film Festival, 10 November 2011).

T.U.F.F. Puppy

by Butch Hartman
Dudley Puppy, a dog and a spy, together with his cat friend keep Petropolis safe from various baddies such as Snaptrap who, in one episode (“Watch Dog”), becomes ruler of Petropolis—now Snaptrapolis—when Dudley and his time watch inadvertently change the past in an attempt to snag the last chocolate donut away from Kitty.
Or, I could set this watch back one minute and risk horribly altering reality to beat Kitty to that donut.
T.U.F.F. Puppy by Butch Hartman (15 November 2011).

Introdus

by Duncan Shields
—700,000 burning time travelers
“Introdus” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 16 November 2011 [webzine].

Strawberry Birdies

by Pamela Sargent
Maerleen Loegins travels back to the 1950s where she becomes a physics student and live-in help for a family where both parents are overwhelmed by young Addie, an even younger autistic Cyril, and two newborn twins.
The reason her parents had put an ad in the paper offering free room and board and a small stipend to a college student was to have someone around to look after their children, especially Cyril, who wouldn’t be ready to go to school that fall, not even to kindergarten, and might never be.
“Strawberry Birdies” by Pamela Sargent, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2011.

Tempest 0.1

Tomorrow Is Today

by Julie Cross
Tomorrow Is Today by Julie Cross (St. Martin’s Griffin, December 2011).

A Time to Kill

by Melanie Rees
Jonah sometimes gets too close to the targets that he must kill for the good of the timeline.
The Time Agency knows what they’re doing. Future terrorists, dictators. . . it’s justified.
“A Time to Kill” by Melanie Rees, Daily Science Fiction, 12 December 2011 [webzine].

A Stitch in Space-Time

by Nicky Drayden
“A Stitch in Space-Time” by Nicky Drayden, Daily Science Fiction, 14 December 2011 [webzine].

Grandfather Clock

by Duncan Shields
—grandfather paradox twist
“Grandfather Clock” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 19 December 2011 [webzine].

Tempest 1

Tempest

by Julie Cross
Tempest by Julie Cross (St. Martin’s Press, January 2012).

Dating Rules [.s1]

Dating Rules from My Future Self I: Lucy

by Wendy Weiner and Sallie Patrick, directed by Elizabeth Allen
Nice and nerdy Lucy gets romantic advice from her future self via text messages.

Fellow ITTDB indexer Janet found this one on the web, and we watched a daily installment with tea during my first September up in the ITTDB Citadel.

— Michael Main
Lucy: tell me who this is.
Unknown: I’m u 10 years in the future.
Dating Rules from My Future Self I: Lucy by Wendy Weiner and Sallie Patrick, directed by Elizabeth Allen (Youtube: Alloy Channel, 9 January 2012 to 27 January 2012 [9 parts]).

Safety Not Guaranteed

by Derek Connolly, directed by Colin Trevorrow
Shy Darius, an intern at Seattle Magazine, goes to investigate an awkward guy who placed an ad calling for a companion for a time travel adventure.

Janet and I saw this for our 32nd anniversary. What a wife!

— Michael Main
Stormtoopers don’t know anything about lasers or time travel. They’re blue collar workers.
Safety Not Guaranteed by Derek Connolly, directed by Colin Trevorrow (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 22 January 2012).

Auburn Tresses

by Roi R. Czechvala
Dr. David Jansen travels back to the late 1960s, falls in love with a beautiful redhead, and promises to return.
One sandaled foot was outthrust. The caption below the figure admonished the viewer to “Keep on Truckin’”
“Auburn Tresses” by Roi R. Czechvala, 365 Tomorrows, 23 January 2012 [webzine].

Timepiece 3

Blood Red Rose

by Anne Perry
Blood Red Rose by Anne Perry (Barrington Stoke, February 2012).

Timeriders 5

Gates of Rome

by Alex Scarrow
Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2012).

Valkeryn Chronicles 1

Return of the Ancients

by Greig Beck
Return of the Ancients by Greig Beck (Momentum, February 2012).

TJ and the Time Stumblers 5

Switched!

by Bill Myers
Switched! by Bill Myers (Tyndale House Publishers, February 2012).

Tim Hartwell 2

Tim Hartwell and the Brutus of Troy

by Aeneas Middleton
Tim Hartwell and the Brutus of Troy by Aeneas Middleton (self-published, February 2012).

The Trophy Saga 2

Trophy: Rescue

by Paul M. Schofield
Trophy: Rescue by Paul M. Schofield (Galactic Publishers, February 2012).

TJ and the Time Stumblers 6

Yikes!!!

by Bill Myers
Yikes!!! by Bill Myers (Tyndale House Publishers, February 2012).

Life and Death and Bongo Drums

by Larry Hodges
Life and Death argue over the fate of a time traveler.
“You are a problem,” Death finally said. “You were scheduled to die seventy years ago, during World War II, but since you hadn’t yet been born, I skipped the appointment.”
“Life and Death and Bongo Drums” by Larry Hodges, in Every Day Fiction, 20 February 2012.

Max Pierson-Takahashi 1

Chronal Engine

by Greg Leitich Smith
Chronal Engine by Greg Leitich Smith (Clarion Books, March 2012).

The Kirov Saga 1

Kirov

by John Schettler
Kirov by John Schettler (Writing Shop, March 2012).

Mrs. Hatcher’s Evaluation

by James Van Pelt
Perhaps you know how much I enjoy being deeply dragged into an engaging story, and then, only after some time, realizing that it’s a time travel story. If you haven’t yet read this story, then I apologize for depriving you of that pleasure. Now go read it now and find out about why Mrs. Hatcher’s teaching methods are indeed ”best practices.”
What happened in Hatcher’s room?
“Mrs. Hatcher’s Evaluation” by James Van Pelt, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2012.

Baseball Card Adventures 11

Ted & Me

by Dan Gutman
Ted & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, March 2012).

Time Camera

by Simon Rose
Time Camera by Simon Rose (Tradewind Books, March 2012).

Time Snatchers 1

Time Snatchers

by Richard Ungar
Time Snatchers by Richard Ungar (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, March 2012).

The Man Who Murdered Mozart

by Robert Walton and Barry N. Malzberg
In the late 21st century, frustrated violin player Howard Beasley and his six friends make a plan to kidnap Mozart from his death bed, so that Beasley can get him to finish his Requiem and thereby ride the crest of the ensuing admiration to becoming the head of the world.
That question is beyond me. Try asking Mozart.
“The Man Who Murdered Mozart” by Robert Walton and Barry N. Malzberg, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2012.

Twember

by Steve Rasnic Tem
On the plains of eastern Colorado, Will Cotton and his family deal resignedly with the great escarpments sweeping through the world, like the wall of an enormous time-al wave, lifting artifacts and flashes of people from one era to another in a way that is a metaphor for shifting perspectives as you age.

Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem were the writers-in-residence at the 2014 Odyssey Writers Workshop which I attended with many wonderful students and two remarkable writers-in-residence. Melanie died the following spring, and we all miss her wisdom and kindness greatly.

Trapped in most of these layers were visible figures—some of them blurred, but some of them so clear and vivid that when they were looking in his direction, as if from a wide window in the side of a building, he attempted to gain their attention by waving. None responded in any definitive way, although here and there the possibility that they might have seen him certainly seemed to be there.

The vast majority of these figures appeared to be ordinary people engaged in ordinary activities—fixing or eating dinner, housecleaning, working in offices, factories, on farms—but occasionally he’d see something indicating that an unusual event was occurring or had recently occurred. A man lying on his back, people gathered around, some attending to the fallen figure but most bearing witness. A couple being chased by a crowd. A woman in obvious anguish, screaming in a foreign language. A blurred figure in freefall from a tall building.

“Twember” by Steve Rasnic Tem, in Interzone, March/April 2012.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

by Lauren Faust
Not until the fourth reincarnation of the My Little Pony cartoons did Twilight Sparkle dabble in time travel by receiving a dire warning from her future self in “It’s About Time” (s02e20).
Who are you? I mean, you’re me, but I’m me, too. How can there be two me’s? It’s not scientifically possible. You are not scientifically possible!
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by Lauren Faust (10 March 2012).

Memories of My Mother

by Ken Liu
“Memories of My Mother” by Ken Liu, Daily Science Fiction, 19 March 2012 [webzine].

Paradox Resolution

by K. A. Bedford
Time machine repairman and ex-cop Spider Webb has another case of a time machine gone astray: This time it’s his boss’s souped-up time machine that’s been stolen, and of course it must not fall into the wrong hands.
Now Spider’s new boss, Mr. J.K. Patel, wanted him to figure out how to bring in more business by offering a paradox resolution service as well.
Paradox Resolution by K. A. Bedford (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, March 2012).

The Shadow Out of Time

written and directed by Richard Svensson and Daniel Lenneér
A short adaptation of Lovecraft’s story, but just narration over video and some still-shot animation with no dramatization (not that the story was particularly dramatic to begin with).
— Michael Main
his is the story of the nightmare that took hold of my life.
The Shadow Out of Time written and directed by Richard Svensson and Daniel Lenneér (Youtube: Bluworm Channel, 30 March 2012).

The Joshua Files 5

Apocalypse Moon

by M. G. Harris
Apocalypse Moon by M. G. Harris (Scholastic, April 2012).

The Klaatu Diskos 1

The Obsidian Blade

by Pete Hautman
The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press, April 2012).

Herbert’s Wormhole 2

The Rise and Fall of El Solo Libre

by Peter Nelson
The Rise and Fall of El Solo Libre by Peter Nelson (HarperCollins, April 2012).

Living in the Eighties

by David Ira Cleary
Living in Minneapolis, fifty-something Bob Marshall and his cult-band friend Clayton discover a website that can move them through time: Bob back to the eighties where he longs to save his long-dead girlfriend Gretchen from his younger self; Clayton to the future where he seeks a diabetes cure.
“This web site, Bob,” he said to me, shaking the snow off his black beret, sitting down beside me at the bar, ”it’s a time travel site. Time travel?”
“Living in the Eighties” by David Ira Cleary, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2012.

Moe Berg

by Rick Wilber
At the end of Wilber’s first Moe Berg story, Moe himself admits that he doesn’t know what’s going on, and I admit that I’m in the same boat—but I can tell you that that was the first story that I read in the Moe Berg subgenre of time travel stories. In this case, Red Sox catcher Moe Berg travels (as he did in real life) to Zurich with the mission to kill Heisenberg, but this is only one of many Moe Berg lives; in many of those lives he interacts with a beautiful young woman and seeming time-travel agent who only sometimes encourages him to kill Heisenberg. You can also read about Moe in one other of Wilber’s alternate history stories and at least one independently conceived story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
But I have to admit I’m not real sure what’s going on here.
“Moe Berg” by Rick Wilber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2012.

Older, Wiser, Time Traveler

by M. Bennardo
Time machines are useful after you commit a crime, especially a crime of passion.
It doesn’t need to be anything fancy—one of those ones from the kits in the back of Popular Mechanics will do fine. But the point is that you need one. If you don’t have one, then forget about it. There’s nothing you can do.
“Older, Wiser, Time Traveler” by M. Bennardo, Daily Science Fiction, April 9. 2012 [webzine].

from The Fourth Dimension

Chronoeye

by Aleksey Fedorchenko, Oleg Loevskiy, and Yaroslava Pulinovich, directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko
Chronoeye is the second of three segments in the anthology film The Fourth Dimension.
— Michael Main
Chronoeye by Aleksey Fedorchenko, Oleg Loevskiy, and Yaroslava Pulinovich, directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko, segment of The Fourth Dimension (Off Plus Camera, Krakow, Poland, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, 20 April 2012).

Department of Temporal Investigations 2

Forgotten History

by Christopher L. Bennett
Forgotten History by Christopher L. Bennett (Pocket Books, May 2012).

The 25th Reich

by Stephen Amis, Serge De Nardo, and David Richardson, directed by Stephen Amis
The 25th Reich by Stephen Amis, Serge De Nardo, and David Richardson, directed by Stephen Amis (unknown release details, 10 May 2012).

Men in Black 3

by Etan Cohen, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
When Boris the Animal escapes from lunar prison and returns to 1969 to kill Agent K and expose Earth to attack, Agent J must follow to save Agent K and all of Earth!

Tim and I saw this on Fathers Day Eve in 2012.

— Michael Main
This is now my new favorite moment in human history.
Men in Black 3 by Etan Cohen, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Berlin, 14 May 2012).

Continuum

by Simon Barry
Policewoman Kiera Cameron is sucked into a time transporter when a group of seven terrorists escape from 2077 to 2012. For me, the main drawback is the stereotyped terrorists whom Kiera fights; I felt that they didn’t need to be pure evil, particularly when the governments of the future have all be overtaken by corporations.
Time traveler—hello?
Continuum by Simon Barry (27 May 2012).

僕だけがいない街

Boku dake ga inai machi English release: Erased Literal: The city where only I am missing

by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn]
From time-to-time, Satoru Fijinuma, a 29-year-old hopeful manga artist, finds himself propeled through time in order to prevent tragedies. Usually, these are short trips in time, but when his mother is murdered, Satoru finds himself back at age ten where he must change things to prevent the far-future murder of his mother and the present-day murders of his classmates.

The eight-volume English version of the manga appeared in 2017-18 with the title Erased.

I'm afraid. . . of digging deeper into myself.
[ex=bare]僕だけがいない街 | The city where only I am missing | Boku dake ga inai machi[/ex] by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn], in Young Ace, Jun 2012 to March 2016.

Redshirts

by John Scalzi
Redshirts by John Scalzi (Tor, June 2012).

Hourglass 2

Timepiece

by Myra McEntire
Timepiece by Myra McEntire (Egmont USA, June 2012).

The Last Musketeer 2

Traitor’s Chase

by Stuart Gibbs
Traitor’s Chase by Stuart Gibbs (HarperCollins, June 2012).

The Widdershins Clock

by Kali Wallace
I didn’t understand the significance of the title clock in this story, told from the point of view of Marta who could have been a brilliant mathematician, but such was not allowed in 1950s America, so instead we hear of Marta’s grandmother’s clock and a search for the missing grandmother, meeting (along the way) at least one old woman who seems out of time.
Grandma and I have a theory about how John Carter found his way to Mars. We think we can explain it with Schrödinger’s equation.
“The Widdershins Clock” by Kali Wallace, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2012.

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee

by John Hambrock
Young Edison Lee is Danny Dunn (from my childhood) crossed with Bill Watterson’s Calvin (from my kids’ childhood), complete with a time machine (which both Danny and Calvin also had). The first appearance I saw was in 2012, although it wasn’t until 2014 that the real travelin’ seemed to start, with a trip back to 1972.

Even then, though, I almost put the whole thing into the it’s-only-in-his-imagination category, but what could possibly be more real than a kid’s imagination?

Edison Lee: So do me a favor. In forty-two years don’t let me “borrow” your tools without your knowledge to build this stupid time machine.
1972 Dad: I’m such a horrible father.
Edison Lee: And buy more chocolate milk.
“The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” by John Hambrock (3 June 2012).

Black Web

written and directed by Tim Connery
Black Web written and directed by Tim Connery (Seattle International Film Festival, 8 June 2012).

Causality

by Duncan Shields
—branching universes suck
“Causality” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 25 June 2012 [webzine].

Joey Dakota

by Bert V. Royal, directed by Allan Arkush
Joey Dakota was a proposed pilot for a 2012 romantic time-travel musicl TV show based on the Israeli show Danny Hollywood. Sadly, The CW didn’t pick it up for the fall season, and I’m not sure whether it ever aired as a TV movie. However, here’s what Vincent Terrace had to say about the fated pilot in his Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945–2018:
Maya Beaumont is a young woman who works as a documentary film maker. When she is assigned to a project involving Joey Dakota, a 1990s music superstar, she is mysteriously transported back in time where she meets and later falls in love with the subject of her film. However, just as mysteriously as she was propelled back in time, she is whisked back to the present where, during her absence, she learns that Joey has been killed in a car accident. The pilot, which incorporates flashbacks to the 1990s, follows Maya as she seeks a way to return to the past and rewrite history to save Joey’s life in the future.
— Michael Main
Joey Dakota by Bert V. Royal, directed by Allan Arkush (The CW Television Network, USA, Mid-2012).

Cudweed 2

Cudweed in Outer Space

by Marcus Sedgwick
Cudweed in Outer Space by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children’s Books, July 2012).

The Montauk Project 1

So Close to You

by Rachel Carter
So Close to You by Rachel Carter (HarperTeen, July 2012).

Time Vandals

by Craig Cormick
Time Vandals by Craig Cormick (Omnibus Books, July 2012).

Zip

by Steven Utley
Three time travelers—Chernikowski, Plant, and the narrator—keep going further and further back in time to escape the wave of destruction that’s seemingly following their time machine.
I do not have to be a physicist, and I certainly am not one, to recall Einstein’s words: “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion.”
“Zip” by Steven Utley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2012.

41

written and directed by Glenn Triggs
41 written and directed by Glenn Triggs (Las Vegas Film Festival, 20 July 2012).

The Philadelphia Experiment

by Andy Briggs, directed by Paul Ziller
The Philadelphia Experiment by Andy Briggs, directed by Paul Ziller (SyFy, USA, 28 July 2012).

Timeriders 6

City of Shadows

by Alex Scarrow
City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, August 2012).

Erasing Time 1

Erasing Time

by Janette Rallison
Erasing Time by Janette Rallison (Katherine Tegen Books, August 2012).

Every So Often

by Rich Larson
Victor is one of the many protectors of the timeline from rogue rewinders. In his case, his five-year mission is to protect a small dark-haired boy in 1894 Austria.
— Michael Main
“I’m maintaining the Quo,” he says simply.
“Every So Often” by Rich Larson, in Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction [e-book] (Rich Larson, August 2012).

Hand and Space

by Dean Wesley Smith
“Hand and Space” by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 2012).

The Morcai Battalion 3

The Morcai Battalion: Invictus

by Diana Palmer
The Morcai Battalion: Invictus by Diana Palmer (Luna, August 2012).

Infinity Ring 1

A Mutiny in Time

by James Dashner
This first book of the multi-author series tells of how teens Dak (a history buff and odd duck), Sera (a science nerd), and Riq (a member of the secret Hystorians society) end up as the only ones who can save the world by fixing breaks in time that changed what was meant to be. Their first mission—saving Columbus from a mutiny that was meant to fail—is a disquieting choice that I would not choose as an introduction of history to children. For starters, they are choosing to save the man who brought genocide to the Americas. And to boot, in the broken world where the mutiny succeeded, his three ships still completed their voyage with no noticable change to subsequent centuries (apart from Columbus resting at the bottom of the Atlantic).
— Michael Main
Time had gone wrong—this is what the Hystorians believed. And if things were beyond fixing now, there was only one hope left . . . to go back in time and fix the past instead.
“A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner (Scholastic, August 2012).

William Westerleigh and the Secret Time Tunnel

by Teagan Ridgeway
William Westerleigh and the Secret Time Tunnel by Teagan Ridgeway (Moonset Creative, August 2012).

Dating Rules [.s2]

Dating Rules from My Future Self II: Chloe

by Leah Rachel, directed by Tripp Reed and Shiri Appleby
In the second season, our heroine switches to lovely and lonely Chloe (Candice Accola). Now, if we can only get writer Sallie Patrick to slip some time travel into the other show she works on, Revenge.
— Michael Main
Chloe, you have to believe me. I’m here to help you help me . . . help us!
Dating Rules from My Future Self II: Chloe by Leah Rachel, directed by Tripp Reed and Shiri Appleby (Youtube: Alloy Channel, 1 August 2012 to 20 August 2012 [6 parts]).

Marvin

by Tom Armstrong
Precocious little Marvin Miller was a baby/toddler for all of his comic strip life until, on his thirtieth anniversary, grown-up Marvin came back in time to take the tyke to see his future. The process of time traveling had the side effect of aging the baby to an adult, but worry not: Marvin reverts to his tiny self on the return trip.
It’s just that I was kind of hoping that when I grew up I’d look like Brad Pitt, not Opie.
“Marvin” by Tom Armstrong (2 August 2012).

Faster Gun

by Elizabeth Bear
“Faster Gun” by Elizabeth Bear, Tor.com Original Fiction, 8 August 2012 [webzine].

Final Effect

by Desmund Hussey
—mention of tachyons
“Final Effect” by Desmund Hussey, 365 Tomorrows, 12 August 2012 [webzine].

Drunken Paper Dolls

by Clint Wilson
—time machine in copy mode
“Drunken Paper Dolls” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 30 August 2012 [webzine].

Timepiece 4

A Rose between Two Thorns

by Anne Perry
A Rose between Two Thorns by Anne Perry (Barrington Stoke, September 2012).

The Time-Traveling Fashionista 2

The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette

by Bianca Turetsky
The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette by Bianca Turetsky (Poppy, September 2012).

12:03 P.M.

by Richard A. Lupoff
After the events of “12:02 P.M.,” Myron Castleman finds that he can jump back to different times, not just 12:01 P.M., and that he can make small changes that have big consequences—although it’s still nearly impossible to get anyone to believe his story, except, perhaps, for Dolores.
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.
“12:03 P.M.” by Richard A. Lupoff, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 2012.

Yesterday 1

Yesterday

by C. K. Kelly Martin
Yesterday by C. K. Kelly Martin (Random House, September 2012).

D.N.E.: Do Not Erase

by Rudy Jahchan and Brian F. Otting, directed by Matthew Campagna
After Brian’s girlfriend walks out on him and he invents time travel, a parade of future Brians shows up with one dire warning after another.

If you have a nice girlfriend or boyfriend and you are trying to crack time travel, please take this short film as a warning.

— Michael Main
Brian: I am on the verge . . .
Sophie: . . . of cracking time travel, I know. Maybe when you do, we can go back in time and actually have all of the dates that you canceled.
D.N.E.: Do Not Erase by Rudy Jahchan and Brian F. Otting, directed by Matthew Campagna (DragonCon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1 September 2012).

Ghost of Christmas Future

by Duncan Shields
—janitor visits himself
“Ghost of Christmas Future” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 5 September 2012 [webzine].

Looper

written and directed by Rian Johnson
Too much exorcist and not enough consistent time travelin’ for my taste; even so, I enjoyed this story of a future where gangsters send inconvenient people back in time to be killed by hitmen in the past, and eventually each hitman is sent back to be killed by himself.
— Michael Main
If I hurt myself, it changes your body; so, does what I do now change your memory?
Looper written and directed by Rian Johnson (Toronto International Film Festival, 6 September 2012).

The Garfield Show

by Jim Davis
At least one episode of our favorite cat’s cartoon show (’It’s About Time.” written by Mark Evanier) includes a time machine in which a jealous Nermal goes back in time to replace Garfield at the pet shop when he was first adopted by Jon. After that, Garfield still has his Jon-centric memories, but nobody at Jon’s house recognizes the lasagna-eating cat.
Interviewer: Professor Bonkers, is it true you’ve invented a time machine?
Professor: That is correct.
Interviewer: How long did it take you?
Professor: The rest of my life. I actually finished it 47 years from now, and then when I was done, I jumped into my time machine and came back here to today in it.
The Garfield Show by Jim Davis (18 September 2012).

Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester’s Time Machine

by Julian Mortimer Smith
Each time professor Magda-Chichester invents her time machine, it turns out that someone else has already beaten her to the punch.
And yet it didn’t happen like that.
“Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester’s Time Machine” by Julian Mortimer Smith, Daily Science Fiction, 19 September 2012 [webzine].

The Mongolian Book of the Dead

by Alan Smale
When the Chinese invade Mongolia, a wandering American named Tanner is taken by four Mongols because he has a critical role to play for Khulan and her shaman sister Dzoldzaya.
To her all times are one, all distances are one.
“The Mongolian Book of the Dead” by Alan Smale, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2012.

Time Travelers

written and directed by Joseph Christiana
Time Travelers written and directed by Joseph Christiana (NewFilmmakers Fall Fest, New York City, 4 October 2012).

The Number Two Rule

by Lesley L. Smith
What happens when a time-travel agent completes her mission in the past but the recall mechanism fails?
We didn’t have any other rules, just the two.
“The Number Two Rule” by Lesley L. Smith, Daily Science Fiction, 23 October 2012 [webzine].

Glass Future

by Deborah Walker
“Glass Future” by Deborah Walker, in Nature, 25 October 2012.

Infinity Ring 2

Divide and Conquer

by Carrie Ryan
Divide and Conquer by Carrie Ryan (Scholastic, November 2012).

The Man in the Pink Shirt

by Larry Niven
Hanny Sindros, a writer, travels back to meet John W. Campbell, Jr., and talk about whether the Nazis might gain something from Cleve Cartmill’s atomic power stories.
What if these German spies see that Astounding has suddenly stopped publishing anything about atomic bombs? What would they do? They’d think we were hiding something.
“The Man in the Pink Shirt” by Larry Niven, in Analog, November 2012.

Tech Support

by Richard A. Lovett
Still uncertain about what to call his new device to transmit voice over wires, young Alec receives a call from a troubled man who can only be from the future.
Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you.
“Tech Support” by Richard A. Lovett, in Analog, November 2012.

And Yet, It Moves

by Susan Nance Carhart
Solberg—a rich, individualist inventor—insists on using his time machine without having it vetted by his staff, and he thereby falls into a trap. Perhaps I have just read too much time travel (blasphemy!), but I feel that Carhart fell into the same trap as her protagonist: For me, the story needed to be vetted by someone who could say how much this particular idea needs a new twist if it’s to work.
You have a team to vet your ideas. Bring them in on this!
“And Yet, It Moves” by Susan Nance Carhart, 365 Tomorrows, 6 November 2012 [webzine].

Bravest Warriors

by Pendleton Ward and Breehn Burns
In the year 3085, the four children of the Courageous Battlers (who died) form a new team to right wrongs (such as that time loop in the first regular episode, “Time Slime”) across the universe using the power of their emotions and other moop.
Repair the time loop! Save Glendale!
Bravest Warriors by Pendleton Ward and Breehn Burns (8 November 2012).

Stranded

by Suzann Dodd
—traveler not picked up
“Stranded” by Suzann Dodd, 365 Tomorrows, 10 November 2012 [webzine].

The Mouse Ran Down

by Adrian Tchaikovsky
John, Ellie and Marcus have a spot in late 16th century London where they live nine months of the year to escape the destruction of the Now, but even the future of that space is uncertain as the enemy hunts them.
Living space is tough to find, though—there just aren’t many places in any city of any time that will stay overlooked for the duration. The invisible spaces of Babylon in 1700BC would already be staked out and claimed by whoever was taking refuge there.
“The Mouse Ran Down” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, in Carnage: After the End, Volume 2 (edited by Gloria Bobrowicz. Sirens Call Publications, November 2012. ).

The Loneliness of Time Travel

by George R. Shirer
A twist on how meeting yourself for coffee interacts with how time travel works in your universe.
— Michael Main
You have no idea how many of my younger selves freak out when I show up.
“The Loneliness of Time Travel” by George R. Shirer, 365 Tomorrows, 25 November 2012 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 2

Cauldron of Fire

by John Schettler
Cauldron of Fire by John Schettler (Writing Shop, December 2012).

Ripped

by Shelly Dickson Carr
Ripped by Shelly Dickson Carr (New Book Partners, December 2012).

He Could Be Ambrose Bierce

by Shannon Kelly Garrity
Mona, who works as a file clerk in the modern-day Wisconsin office of the Time Displacement Bureau, suspects that her new neighbor may be a displaced time traveler or time terrorist, but her awkwardness prevents her from effectively find out out more.
Skirmishes with Purity were no laughing matter, and any traveler who showed the slightest inclination toward interfering with the past would find his or her license permanently removed.

But it made for a good story.

“He Could Be Ambrose Bierce” by Shannon Kelly Garrity, Daily Science Fiction, 11 December 2012 [webzine].

B4

by Matthew Stedman, directed by Matthew Stedman
B4 by Matthew Stedman, directed by Matthew Stedman (unknown release details, 14 December 2012).

The New Yorker

|pending byline|
I’d wager there have been many New Yorker cartoons with time machines, but the first one I saw came to me from my high school friend Jim Martin, written and drawn by Tom Toro in the 17 Dec 2012 issue (I think) and reprinted in a Readers’ Favorites contest in 2013.
You invented a time machine to come back and. . .
“The New Yorker” |pending byline| (17 December 2012).

The Ghosts of Christmas

by Paul Cornell
A depressed, pregnant scientist is the first to try her own machine that takes her backward and forward into her own body on a myriad of Christmas Days.
If I stopped now, I was thinking, the rest of my life would be a tragedy, I would be forever anticipating what was written, or trying. . . hopelessly, yes, there was nothing in the research then that said I had any hope. . . to change it. I would be living without hope. I could do that. But the important thing was what that burden would do to Alice. . . If I was going to be allowed to keep Alice, after what I’d seen.
“The Ghosts of Christmas” by Paul Cornell, Tor.com Original Fiction, 19 December 2012 [webzine].

7 Against Chaos

by Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick’s exquisitely detailed and dynamic art illustrates Harlan Ellison’s story of a band of seven resilient misfits from across the solar system who are led by the deeply scarred Roack, hoping to bring an end to the time chaos that plagues Earth.

The work comes across as dated, but still, I enjoyed seeing the latest work from my childhood friend, Paul Chadwick.

The crisis computers say the structure of Earth’s local field of time itself is collapsing. Eras are mixing.
“7 Against Chaos” by Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick (Jun 7, 2013).

Boomerang

by Russell James
When Robbie’s tenure comes to an end as a historical researcher at the Bridenbaugh Institute, he’s offered the chance to actually study the Great Depression in person—but only because another wacko has gone back to change history.
Yes, but to do it, you are letting a kidnapper brutally murder a child. There’s a moral case for Akako’s actions.
“Boomerang” by Russell James, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].

The Chronic Argonauts

by Jason Quinn and Russ Leach
Writer Jason Quinn and artist Russ Leach render Wells’s Time Machine precursor as a graphics novel, expanding the story to include an alien invasion (could it be War of the Worlds?) two millennia in the future.
They’ve got no manners, those English.
“The Chronic Argonauts” by Jason Quinn and Russ Leach, ebook (July 10, 2013).

Chrononauts

by Andrew Looney
Although I don’t usually put time-travel games in the list, it is my list and I can do what I want, such as listing this card game that Hannah and Paul gave to me on our ferry trip to Victoria. Each character in the game has the goal of adjusting the timeline back to their original home settings; and each character’s card includes a super-quick flash story, which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with the character, but is fun nonetheless.
The Time Traveler swiped Shakespeare’s still-warm corpse (replacing it with a synthetic replica) and restored his health using 23rd-century medical technology. “Now write!” he commanded.
Chrononauts by Andrew Looney (2013).

El último pasajero

English release: The Last Passenger Literal: The last passenger

by Manel Loureiro
Reporter Cataline Soto, aka Kate, takes an assignment covering wealthy Isaac Feldman’s attempt to recreate the exact situation that led to him being discovered as the only survivor on a Nazi cruise ghost ship in 1939.
If they can go back in time, they’ll be able to help Hitler avoid making the same mistakes that led to his defeat. Stalingrad. Normandy. None of it will have ever happened.
[ex=bare]El último pasajero | The last passenger[/ex] by Manel Loureiro (Editorial Planeta, May 2013).

The Paths We Choose

by Paul Siluch
A janitor in a physics lab uses the lab’s time travel cage to go back in time and alter the outcome of abusive moments that made him who he is.
Intelligence was a wind blowing humanity faster and faster. But a man can hide from the wind, he thought. Even change its direction for a moment.
“The Paths We Choose” by Paul Siluch, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].

A Thousand Different Copies

by Janet Guy
Lieutenant Kyuoko Morioka travels seventy years into the past to bring the inventor of time travel to her day because strange anomalies are appearing in the time stream.
I’m from seventy years in the future, and we need you to save us all.
“A Thousand Different Copies” by Janet Guy, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].

Unfillable Void

by Teresa Robeson
Cindy Lau’s mother died when Cindy was young, motivating adult Cindy to invent time travel in order to spend as much time as possible with her mother before the death.
Nobody thought Cindy would devote her life to studying the nature of time solely to fill the hold in her heart, even as she immersed herself in the subject during the last year of her undergrad degree. Nobody believed she would succeed when the mechanics of temporal movement had eluded some of the greatest minds in physics.
“Unfillable Void” by Teresa Robeson, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].

The Widow in the Woods

by Kelly Horn
Grad student Max has just four hours to find his shady his shady friend's brother who's been lost in time at an old archaeological dig site.
I didn't lose him in the woods. I lost him in time.
“The Widow in the Woods” by Kelly Horn, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].

Planet Amazon 1

The Rebirth

by Crystal Dawn
The Rebirth by Crystal Dawn (Xlibris Corporation, January 2013).

Tempest 2

Vortex

by Julie Cross
Vortex by Julie Cross (Macmillan Children’s Books, January 2013).

Time Out

by Edward M. Lerner
Ex-felon Peter Bitner jumps at the chance for a steady job with Dr. Jonas Gorski, only to end up debating time-travel paradoxes and ethics with the disgraced scientist who keeps building bigger and bigger time machines.
Stop Hitler and what else do you alter? Millions of lives saved, sure, but billions of lives changed.
“Time Out” by Edward M. Lerner, in Analog, January/February 2013.

The Woman Who Cried Corpse

by Rajnar Vajra
Ali Campbell-Lopez’s mother dies and comes out of a coma for the fourth time under circumstances that imply Ali has powers that will interest various national security agencies and enemy spies, prompting a violent assault on Ali and her teenage daughter, soon followed by the appearance of a much younger, time-traveling version of her mother.
You wanted to build a time machine to go back and save my grandfather!
“The Woman Who Cried Corpse” by Rajnar Vajra, in Analog, January/February 2013.

Be Patient, Brethren

by Patricia Stewart
—astronaut repeated tossed back
“Be Patient, Brethren” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 16 January 2013 [webzine].

Robot Chicken

by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich
Claymation Doc Brown and his somewhat faulty time machine comes to Robot Chicken in “Eaten by Cats” (s06e16). Unlike Claymation Marty, I kinda like the Weinermobile version. Bonuses in this episode: Thor’s hammer and Cap’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow, and Hulk’s catheter, and possibly Nick Fury’s gun.
If I’m gonna build a time machine, it’s got to be iconic. I’m not gonna use a Honda f-bleep-ing Civic!
Robot Chicken by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich (20 January 2013).

John Dies at the End

written and directed by Don Coscarelli
Dave’s friend John takes a psychedelic drug (given to him by Bob Marley—no, not that Bob Marley) that endows him with a distorted sense of time and pitches him into an interdimensional battle with leech monsters. It’s possible that there’s time travel, too, or at least a time telephone.
— Michael Main
You know what I think? You’re going to be getting phone calls from me for, like, the next eight or nine years, all from tonight.
John Dies at the End written and directed by Don Coscarelli (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 23 January 2013).

The Accidental Time Traveller 1

The Accidental Time Traveller

by Janis Mackay
The Accidental Time Traveller by Janis Mackay (Kelpies, February 2013).

The Golden Age of Story

by Robert Reed
“The Golden Age of Story” by Robert Reed, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013.

Jacob Wonderbar 3

Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp

by Nathan Bransford
Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp by Nathan Bransford (Dial Books, February 2013).

Verona 3

The Loved and the Lost

by Lory S. Kaufman
The Loved and the Lost by Lory S. Kaufman (Fiction Studio Books, February 2013).

Man in the Empty Suit

by Sean Ferrell
After inventing a time sled at age 18, Sean Ferrell’s hero treks through history, periodically returning to a post-apocalypse party that he holds for only himself in an abandoned New York hotel. It seems like the perfect party with the perfect company until at age 38 he takes pity on a younger self, stopping the Youngster from breaking his nose in a fall and setting off a chain of untetherings wherein the past lives of his many selves are no longer following the same path—especially that of his 39- and 40-year-old selves, the Elder of which is murdered.
“You would know.’
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell (Soho Press, February 2013).

The Kirov Saga 3

Pacific Storm

by John Schettler
Pacific Storm by John Schettler (Writing Shop, February 2013).

Timeriders 7

The Pirate Kings

by Alex Scarrow
The Pirate Kings by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2013).

Time Portal

by David Erik Nelson
In the first story, Taylor, the orientation guy from HR in a fabrication company tells us how his company brings in workers from other times because they’re cheaper than contemporary labor.

In the fun second story, Travis, an HR man for the company that imports laborers from other times, begins recruiting radicals throughout time—such as Suze and her gang in 1995 Nebraska—but he and Suze soon discover that avoiding The Sound of Thunder is more difficult than killing Hitler.

Anyway, we tried, me and Deke. I personally tried four different times. But Hitler is a really charismatic baby.
“Time Portal” by David Erik Nelson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013.

Infinity Ring 3

The Trap Door

by Lisa McMann
The Trap Door by Lisa McMann (Scholastic, February 2013).

Uncertainty

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For me, the main story of time-travel agent Leah wandering from one World War II encounter with Heisenberg to another did not have a clear notion of time travel, and the ties to the uncertainty principle were not germane to the story. The exposition of the uncertainty principle itself was also confused, conflating it with the observer effect and not correctly representing the fact that a particle cannot simultaneously possess both a sharply localized position and a sharply localized momentum. On the other hand, I did enjoy the opening scene with Moe Berg, and the mix-ups are partly from his layman’s point-of-view.
Werner Heisenberg’s controversial uncertainty principle was one of the cornerstones of quantum physics. Heisenberg postulated that it was possible to know a particle’s position or that it was possible to know how fast the particle moved, but no one could know both the position and movement of the particle at the same time. Berg had spent quite a bit of time in Oxford, talking with leading scientists as he prepared for this job, and one of them used a description that moved away from particles into theory, which Berg appreciated. That scientist had told Berg that at its core, Heisenberg’s principle meant this: The act of observing changes the thing being observed.
“Uncertainty” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013.

Hyperfutura

written and directed by James O’Brien
In the future, when a worker loses his job, he has little choice but to participate in medical experiments, such as the experiment that Adam Leben undertakes to become a new type of human who will be sent back in time to seed the Earth.
— Michael Main
I’ve got a few kinks I’ve got to work out. You see . . . see, it fragments the personality right now, and there’s . . . no return.
Hyperfutura written and directed by James O’Brien (unknown release details, 1 February 2013).

Martha Speaks (”Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur“)

by Ken Scarborough
Martha Speaks </i>(”Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur“)<i> by Ken Scarborough (1 February 2013).

The Time Travel Device

by James Van Pelt
One of my rules is that time travel must involve interaction, which this story—of a literary engineer visiting deaths of his literary heroes—might not have, but I like James Van Pelt enough that I wanted to list the story anyway (and mark my first visit to Daily Science Fiction).
Time travel existed, but I could not interact with the past or the future.
“The Time Travel Device” by James Van Pelt, Daily Science Fiction, 7 February 2013 [webzine].

Pioneers

by Bob Newbell
When the crew of the Tsiolkovsky took off on a 100-year hibernation journey to Alpha Centauri, they didn’t fully realize what their legacy as pioneers would be.
Starship Tsiolkovsky, this is the Haven Space Station calling. Please respond.
“Pioneers” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 14 February 2013 [webzine].

Destination: Planet Negro!

written and directed by Kevin Willmott
Destination: Planet Negro! written and directed by Kevin Willmott (at limited movie theaters, Lawrence, KS, 16 February 2013).

Time

written and directed by Liam Connor
In this 7-minute short, Australian schoolboy Jimmy tells his three mates about the special thing his future self left for him to find.
— Michael Main
If time travel became possible within our lifetime, and one of us was able to use it and, perhaps, go back and leave a message or an object for ourselves to find—what would that be? It could be anything, anywhere: a note on your wedding day, a super-powerful ray gun, even some weird perpetual motion machine.
Time written and directed by Liam Connor (Tropfest Film Festival, Sydney, 17 February 2013).

Dinner with the Morlocks

by David Barber
—blood-suckers from the future
“Dinner with the Morlocks” by David Barber, 365 Tomorrows, 24 February 2013 [webzine].

Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter: Land of Legends

by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter: Land of Legends by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Delabarre Publishing, March 2013).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 2

Ambush at Cisco Swamp

by Jack Wells
Ambush at Cisco Swamp by Jack Wells (Random House, March 2013).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 3

Armoured Defence

by Jack Wells
Armoured Defence by Jack Wells (Random House, March 2013).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 5

Call of the Wild

by Jack Wells
Call of the Wild by Jack Wells (Random House, March 2013).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 4

The Dinosaur Feather

by Jack Wells
The Dinosaur Feather by Jack Wells (Random House, March 2013).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 1

The Discovery

by Jack Wells
The Discovery by Jack Wells (Random House, March 2013).

The Last Musketeer 3

Double Cross

by Stuart Gibbs
Double Cross by Stuart Gibbs (HarperCollins, March 2013).

Cragbridge Hall 1

The Inventor’s Secret

by Chad Morris
The Inventor’s Secret by Chad Morris (Shadow Mountain, March 2013).

The Kirov Saga 4

Men of War

by John Schettler
Men of War by John Schettler (Writing Shop, March 2013).

Pre-Pirates

by Don D’ammassa
Somewhat lazy computer science graduate Teresa Grant has the power to see written words before they are written, whereupon she publishes the best on her website.
Could you steal something that didn’t exist yet?
“Pre-Pirates” by Don D’ammassa, in Analog, March 2013.

Time in

by Tim Filewod
Time in by Tim Filewod (Matador, March 2013).

Ghost in the Machine

by Clint Wilson
—observe but don’t be observed
“Ghost in the Machine” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 7 March 2013 [webzine].

Steampunk

by David Stephenson
—time machine blueprints are found
“Steampunk” by David Stephenson, 365 Tomorrows, 10 March 2013 [webzine].

The Penguins of Madagascar

by Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell
In one episode (“It’s About Time”), Kowalski invents the chronotron (“So why not just call it a time machine?,” asks Skipper.)
So while we’re at it, why not just call the Great Wall a “fence,” Mona Lisa a “doodle,” and Albert Einstein “Mr. Smarty-Pants”?
The Penguins of Madagascar by Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell (13 March 2013).

Traveller’s Mistake

by Duncan Shields
—jokester time traveler
“Traveller’s Mistake” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 13 March 2013 [webzine].

1001 Nights

by Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei
In the one time travel episode (“The Man Who Went Back in Time”) of this Canadian cartoon, Shahrazad tells of a ne’er do well man who complains that he could been a contender had he only had the same breaks as his neighbor.
That coulda been me. I coulda been rich and successful. But no. . .
1001 Nights by Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei (26 March 2013).

Incident 1

The Far Time Incident

by Neve Maslakovic
The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic (47North, April 2013).

W.A.R.P. #1

The Reluctant Assassin

by Eoin Colfer
When fourteen-year-old Victorian waif Riley shows up in the 21st century on seventeen-year-old FBI Agent Chevie Savano’s watch, the two of them pair up and head back to the late 19th century to escape Riley’s evil pursuer.

Although the book involves wormholes and scientists, it’s really a quantum fantasy, wherein an ordinary fantasy has the word “quantum” scattered throughout in key places, typically before the word magic, magician, or wormhole. Nevertheless, we’ve listed it as science fiction to match its publicity material.

— Michael Main
He discovered that Einstein’s quantum theory was essentially correct and that he could stabilize a traversable wormhole through space-time using exotic matter with negative energy density.
The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, April 2013).

The Wall

by Naomi Kritzer
In 1989, a college freshman named Meghan receives a visit from her future self who encourages her to investigate the fall of the Berlin Wall later that year.
I’m you. You from the future.
“The Wall” by Naomi Kritzer, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2013.

Leaving Home

by Kurt Pankau
Agents of the Temporal Response Bureau—a.k.a. Eraser-Men—protect the timeline, but given what happened to her husband, Grace does not approve when her own 17-year-old son applies to become an agent and is accepted.
Last summer I applied to join the Temporal Response Bureau.
“Leaving Home” by Kurt Pankau, Daily Science Fiction, 8 April 2013 [webzine].

Ahead of His Time

by Ian Anderson
That rabbit is inside a time field fractionally ahead of time from us. So no matter how fast you throw a block, it will see it coming in slow motion such that it has plenty of time to avoid it.
“Ahead of His Time” by Ian Anderson, in Tales of Hope and Time, unknown publisher, 20 April 2013 [e-book].

For Fleur

by Ian Anderson
As John Elliot’s wife lies dying of a malignant lymphoma, his technology gathers information about cures from the future.
Fleur’s type of lymphoma was very malignant. The specialists told them that there would be a fifty percent chance of a ’cure’. He felt helpless in the doctors hands and as a scientist he knew enough to be very frightened, but he dare not show it.
“For Fleur” by Ian Anderson, in Tales of Hope and Time, unknown publisher, 20 April 2013 [e-book].

Grief in the Strange Loop

by Rhonda Eikamp
A ten-year-old boy manages to first lose his sister in 11th-century Britain (via his father’s time machine) and then lose his Pop somewhere in the 9th-century Bulgarian Empire. The sister is found fairly quickly, but not until thirty years later does an archeology colleague bring a clue as to exactly where his father might be.
When he’d left the room for a moment Sis dared me to send her somewhere.
“Grief in the Strange Loop” by Rhonda Eikamp, Daily Science Fiction, 23 April 2013 [webzine].

Star Trek XII

Star Trek: Into Darkness

by Roberto Orci, directed by J. J. Abrams
There’s a little-known rule that says that any time Spock Prime gets to talk to new Spock, the movie is counted as possessing time travel under a grandfather clause, even if said movie contained no actual new time travel.

For me, the dark aspects of the movie were nothing but forced melodrama, although it did have great special effects, terrific casting of the principles, and fun Trekker jokes. Those positives, though, weren’t enough to cover up the plot holes and Kirk’s questionable decisions. Good grief, just blast the bad guy with a photon torpedo rather than blasting your way through a bunch of Klingons (who never harmed you) to give the guy a fair trial. And if you don’t do that, at least blast him to bits on the bridge of that dreadnaught.

— Michael Main
As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk and yours alone.
Star Trek: Into Darkness by Roberto Orci, directed by J. J. Abrams (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Sydney, 23 April 2013).

The Kirov Saga 5

9 Days Falling

by John Schettler
9 Days Falling by John Schettler (Writing Shop, May 2013).

Herbert’s Wormhole 3

AeroStar and the 3 1/2-Point Plan of Vengeance

by Peter Nelson
AeroStar and the 3 1/2-Point Plan of Vengeance by Peter Nelson (HarperCollins, May 2013).

The Klaatu Diskos 2

The Cydonian Pyramid

by Pete Hautman
The Cydonian Pyramid by Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press, May 2013).

Doing Emily

by Joe Haldeman
“Doing Emily” by Joe Haldeman, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2013.

Effect and Cause

by Ken Liu
A pilot on a one-man ship in a space battle repeatedly lives backward through fifteen seconds and then forward again with the chance to do things differently each time.
— Michael Main
Ignoring this, I sit down at the table to pick up a cup and spit calding hot coffee into it. Then I proceed to vomit food onto my plate so I can sculpt it with a knife and fork into peas, carrots, and omelette.
“Effect and Cause” by Ken Liu, in Galaxy’s Edge #2, May 2013 [print · e-zine · webzine].

Le théâtre quantique

Literal: The quantum theater

by Alain Connes, Danye Chéreau, and Jacques Dixmier
In his book L’ordine del tempo, Carlo Rovelli describes the protagonist of this curious, short novel as being able to “see the world directly, beyond time.” Rovelli suggests that the novel is a metapher for time and space emerging from more basic phenomena in the field of quantum gravity, but that is the limit of my understanding. And I don’t know whether the novel involves actual time travel.
— Michael Main
J’ai eu cette chance inouïe d’expérimenter une perception globale de mon être, non plus à un moment particular de son existence, mais comme un « tout ». J’ai pu comparer sa finitude dans l’espace contre laquelle personne ne s’insurge et sa finitude dans le temps qui nos pose problème.
I have had the unheard-of good fortune of experiencing a global vision of my being—not of a particular moment, but of my existence “as a whole.” I was able to compare its finite nature in space, against which no one protests, with its finite nature in time, which is instead the source of so much outrage.
English
[ex=bare]Le théâtre quantique | Quantum Theater[/ex] by Alain Connes, Danye Chéreau, and Jacques Dixmier (Odile Jacob, May 2013).

Change Storm

by Rand B. Lee
For some reason, the world has splintered into a multitude of pockets from different times and different timelines. Who ya gonna call? Whitsun: Pocketbuster.
But nobody had any explanations to proffer concerning why the Storm had splintered the world into probability-zones, replacing slices of the known, familiar present with slices of past, future, or alternative presents more or less probable.
“Change Storm” by Rand B. Lee, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2013.

A Swirl of Chocolate

by K. Esta
Charlie may be at a playground, but this is no laughing matter. People have disappeared.
— Tandy Ringoringo
. . . dragging space-time with it like a swirl of chocolate being stirred into a bowl of cream.
“A Swirl of Chocolate” by K. Esta, 365 Tomorrows, 11 May 2013 [webzine].

Private Memories

by Michael Haynes
The narrator loops over the same stretch of a few minutes over and over in order to talk you out of suicide, and then a second set of loops, and. . .
I watch you commit suicide for the fourth time. This time I almost have you talked out of it.
“Private Memories” by Michael Haynes, Daily Science Fiction, 20 May 2013 [webzine].

The Palindrome Paradox

written and directed by Henry Burroughs
Story checks out. We played the film backward and it’s identical to running it forward. And a form of time travel where one of the characters experiences time running backward. We won’t spoil things by telling you which character.
— Michael Main
Inim-nordah redilloc eht dehsinif ev’uoy. Wow!
The Palindrome Paradox written and directed by Henry Burroughs (Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, Ireland, 23 May 2013).

Infinity Ring 4

Curse of the Ancients

by Matt de la Peña
Curse of the Ancients by Matt de la Peña (Scholastic, June 2013).

The Grande Complication

by Christopher Reynaga
“The Grande Complication” by Christopher Reynaga, in Writers of the Future XXIX, edited by Dave Wolverton (Galaxy Press, June 2013).

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s 1

Just One Damned Thing after Another

by Jodi Taylor
Fresh from finishing her Ph.D., Madeline Maxwell (aka Max) runs into her high school mentor who encourages her to apply for a position with a cloistered group of historians called St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research.
— Michael Main
Think of History as a living organism, with its own defence mechanisms. History will not permit anything to change events that have already taken place. If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus. Or historian, as we like to call them.
Just One Damned Thing after Another by Jodi Taylor (Accent Press, June 2013).

Karina Who Kissed Spacetime

by Indrapramit Das
“Karina Who Kissed Spacetime” by Indrapramit Das, Apex Magazine #49, June 2013 [e-zine].

Try, Try Again

by John Gregory Betancourt
After Dr. Keith O’Conner sends a message back in time to save his dead son, it seems that there is always one more message that needs sending.
It was a matter of life and death for Dr. Keith O’Conner. Not his life, but the life of his son. That’s why he had invented time travel. . . the transmission of electrically charged impulses back through the years to a human brain. . . his brain, to be precise.
“Try, Try Again” by John Gregory Betancourt, in The Time Travel Megapack, edited by John Betancourt et al., Wildside Press LLC, June 2013 [e-book].

Jinki and the Paradox

by Sathya Stone
Mathematical beings called the Rathki set up three experimental human colonies, one of which includes Jinki, a child made of light, and Mr. Quest, a trickster whose job is to generate random errors. Jinki would rather talk with Mr. Quest than anyone else, because he talks of interesting things such as Alice in Wonderland, the dangers of recursive wishes on falling stars, walking through Time, and (most importantly) avoiding pa-ra-dox!
There’s many a reason a light baby mustn’t walk through Time. You shouldn’t, Jinki, because you’re tied with the human timeline, you’d cause a thing, a great big knot of a thing like a briar-rose patch, called a paradox. A pa-ra-dox!
“Jinki and the Paradox” by Sathya Stone, in Strange Horizons, 3 June 2013.

The Time Goblin

by Clint Wilson
Wilson tells of a unique being who waits at wormholes to gobble time travelers.
His kind has known of time travel since before ninety-five percent of all time traveling species in the known galaxy.
“The Time Goblin” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 3 June 2013 [webzine].

Note to Self

by Hans Hergot
Thomas meets a messenger from the future who brings him six words.
I am from the future. You won a contest, in the future, to send a message to your younger self.
“Note to Self” by Hans Hergot, Daily Science Fiction, 4 June 2013 [webzine].

True Love

by Alex Shvartsman
Molly goes back in time to try to experience the true love of Helen of Troy of Cleopatra, but she is disappointed that she can only observe. Based on that, I was about to relegate the story to the no-time-travel pile, when I spotted something that changed my mind.
We can only be spectators of the past. Passengers, along for the ride.
“True Love” by Alex Shvartsman, Daily Science Fiction, 6 June 2013 [webzine].

It All Makes a Difference

by James McGrath
—to 1066
“It All Makes a Difference” by James McGrath, 365 Tomorrows, 8 June 2013 [webzine].

Rewind Agency #1

15 Minutes

by Jill Cooper
In a world where highly regulated time travel permits only observation, teenager Lara Crane Montgomery discovers that she can interact with the past. So, she becomes determined to use her fifteen minutes in the past to prevent her mother’s murder, not knowing that those actions would lead to her father’s conviction for attempted murder (and to a series of follow-up books)
“When you go back in time, you’re a hologram. You know that, so how can you change the past?” Rick says.

I swallow hard. “When I went back on my birthday. . . I touched stuff while I was there. I helped people. I know I can do this. I know.” I shrug. “I think I’m special.”

15 Minutes by Jill Cooper (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 2013).

Party for Two

by Kevin Richards
—Hawking’s time travel party
“Party for Two” by Kevin Richards, 365 Tomorrows, 20 June 2013 [webzine].

Without You

by Craig Allen
In a Big Brother world, Eric is supposed to be working on eavesdropping technology for the government, but instead he builds a secret time machine to rescue Anna, a young singer who is repeatedly killed in various violent mishaps.
No!

No, damn it! It couldn’t be.

But it was, and her young life ended like that.

But only in one timeline.

“Without You” by Craig Allen (Unknown publisher, June 2013 [e-book].

After Eden 1

After Eden

by Helen Douglas
After Eden by Helen Douglas (Bloomsbury, July 2013).

Time-Tripping Faradays 1

The Alchemist War

by John Seven
The Alchemist War by John Seven (Time-Tripping Faradays, July 2013).

Cudweed 3

Cudweed’s Time Machine

by Marcus Sedgwick
Cudweed’s Time Machine by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children’s Books, July 2013).

Dear Tomorrow

by Simon Clark
Among the myriad of sad stories of people who desperately wish to turn back the clock—John Salvin who loses his wife and child in a vanished plane, Kamana Banerjee who loses her husband to a random bullet—a reality TV program, Impossible, Isn’t It?, plans to archive the most heart-wrenching of the stories for future time travelers who may respond to those pleas by coming back to appear on the program and providing solace.
What’s more, it’s my personal belief that time machines will be invented one day; that’s why I’m inviting time-travelling viewers from the distant future to visit us at our rendezvous point on Mount Snowden in North Wales, on the tenth of July—
“Dear Tomorrow” by Simon Clark, in The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, edited by Mike Ashley (Robinson, July 2013).

Time-Tripping Faradays 2

The Dragon of Rome

by John Seven
The Dragon of Rome by John Seven (Time-Tripping Faradays, July 2013).

The Kirov Saga 6

Fallen Angels: 9 Days Falling: Volume II

by John Schettler
Fallen Angels: 9 Days Falling: Volume II by John Schettler (Writing Shop, July 2013).

Just in Time 1

The Rescue Begins in Delaware

by Cheri Pray Earl
The Rescue Begins in Delaware by Cheri Pray Earl (Familius, July 2013).

Star Kissed

by Lizzy Ford
Star Kissed by Lizzy Ford (Guerrilla Wordfare, July 2013).

Just in Time 2

Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania

by Cheri Pray Earl
Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania by Cheri Pray Earl (Familius, July 2013).

The Trophy Saga 3

Trophy: Decision

by Paul M. Schofield
Trophy: Decision by Paul M. Schofield (Galactic Publishers, July 2013).

Viral Nation 1

Viral Nation

by Shaunta Grimes
Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes (Berkley Books, July 2013).

Dino-Mating

by Rosemary Claire Smith
Marty Zuber, a lovesick time-ship pilot and bodyguard on Dr. Derek Dill’s trip to the late Cretaceous, is sulky because the girl he’s dating keeps making eyes at Dill in the t-mail messages.

Two later stories continue the love triangle.

Can you comment on the rumors that you’re secretely planning on launching missiles to knock the comet off course and save the dinosaurs?
“Dino-Mating” by Rosemary Claire Smith, in Analog, July/August 2013.

Not with a Bang

by Rosemary Claire Smith
Marty Zuber, a lovesick time-ship pilot and bodyguard on Dr. Derek Dill’s trip to the late Cretaceous, is sulky because the girl he’s dating keeps making eyes at Dill in the t-mail messages.

Later stories in the series continue the love triangle.

Can you comment on the rumors that you’re secretely planning on launching missiles to knock the comet off course and save the dinosaurs?
“Not with a Bang” by Rosemary Claire Smith, in Analog, July/August 2013.

Flux

by J. D. Rice
—robot from the future
“Flux” by J. D. Rice, 365 Tomorrows, 10 July 2013 [webzine].

Diamond Doubles

by Eric Brown
A novel writer from the fourth millennium is trapped in the 1960s and subjecting a contemporary editor to his work.
I have first-hand experience of life in the fourth millennium as I hail from that era.
“Diamond Doubles” by Eric Brown, Daily Science Fiction, 16 July 2013 [webzine].

Old Dead Futures

by Tina Connolly
“Old Dead Futures” by Tina Connolly, Tor.com Original Fiction, 17 July 2013 [webzine].

Join Our Team of Time Travel Professionals

by Sarah Pinsker
Magda lands a job that many people would jump at: watching after time-travel tourists to make sure they don’t screw up the time line, but who watches the watchers?
Manhattan in 1985 didn’t have jawbone communications, but it did have plenty of bag ladies who talked to themselves. Magda was temporarily one of them.
“Join Our Team of Time Travel Professionals” by Sarah Pinsker, Daily Science Fiction, 18 July 2013 [webzine].

Historicity

by Bob Newbell
In the moments before a jump, a traveler muses over the realities of time travel.
— Michael Main
That's a much nicer narrative device than having to find the right kind of black hole orbiting the right kind of star and then build a machine around both of them.
“Historicity” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 24 July 2013 [webzine].

Sticks and Stones

by Kevin Pickett
A man returns to the school where he was bullied as a child.
The little boy crouched defensively, making a smaller target for their cruelty, but knowing their aim was good.
“Sticks and Stones” by Kevin Pickett, Daily Science Fiction, 24 July 2013 [webzine].

Timeless Bore

by Peter Wood
A none-too-wealthy time traveler insists on passing the time of day in Mac’s two-pump filling station in Perdue, North Carolina.
As the man from the future droned on and on, Mac immersed himself in the paper. He grunted every so often to feign interest.
“Timeless Bore” by Peter Wood, in Stupefying Stories Showcase, 26 July 2013.

I’ll Follow You Down

written and directed by Richie Mehta
What would you do if your wormhole-physicist father took a trip to Princeton and never came back? The obvious answer for 9-year-old Erol is to grow up to be a wormhole-physicist yourself so that you can go back in time and prevent Dad’s disappearance.
— Michael Main
The first move is pawn-5 to pawn-3.
I’ll Follow You Down written and directed by Richie Mehta (Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, 28 July 2013).

Pulped

by Bob Newbell
—Dr. Sinistral’s evil time machine
“Pulped” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 29 July 2013 [webzine].

All Our Yesterdays

by Cristin Terrill
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (Bloomsbury, August 2013).

Infinity Ring 5

Cave of Wonders

by Matthew J. Kirby
Cave of Wonders by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, August 2013).

The Kirov Saga 7

Devil’s Garden: 9 Days Falling, Volume III

by John Schettler
Devil’s Garden: 9 Days Falling, Volume III by John Schettler (Writing Shop, August 2013).

Star Trek TOS Books

From History’s Shadow

by Dayton Ward
From History’s Shadow by Dayton Ward (Pocket Books, August 2013).

Hourglass 3

Infinityglass

by Myra McEntire
Infinityglass by Myra McEntire (Egmont USA, August 2013).

Timeriders 8

The Mayan Prophecy

by Alex Scarrow
The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, August 2013).

Yesterday 2

Tomorrow

by C. K. Kelly Martin
Tomorrow by C. K. Kelly Martin (CreateSpace, August 2013).

Hiking in My Head

by Gareth D Jones
“Hiking in My Head” by Gareth D Jones, Daily Science Fiction, 12 August 2013 [webzine].

Intentional Paradox

by Clint Wilson
—early humans receive tools
“Intentional Paradox” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 20 August 2013 [webzine].

MicroTime

written and directed by Nir Yaniv
MicroTime written and directed by Nir Yaniv (Action on Film International Film Festival, Monrovia, California, 20 August 2013).

Rewind

by Justin Marks
For this rejected-series pilot, mega-hand-waving went into creating a setting where a government team could send people back to change the past in a way that the team and the travelers can remember the original timeline and observe the effect of any changes—somewhat like Seven Days but without the charm of Lt. Frank Parker. My thought is that one particular plot device totally missed the boat: The team has a technology that allows them to confidently predict the outcome of any proposed change before enacting it. Imagine how boring The Butterfly Effect would have been had Evan had such a technology in his pocket. Even so, I would have watched this series if it had ever made it into full production.
Basically, Charlie can show us how an action in the past creates ripples in the present.
Rewind by Justin Marks (26 August 2013).

Flip Side

by Chip Houser
The story follows a woman in the moments after a traffic accident.
Look before you cross, Tommy!
“Flip Side” by Chip Houser, Daily Science Fiction, 29 August 2013 [webzine].

Eternity and the Devil

by Larry Hodges
Dr. Virgil Nordlinger makes a deal with the devil in which Nordlinger will formulate the Grand Unified Theory of physics, live on this Earth for another fifty years, and spend the rest of eternity in hell.
After solving GUT, I moved on to temporal studies.
“Eternity and the Devil” by Larry Hodges, in The Haunts and Horrors Megapack, edited by John Betancourt et al., Wildside Press LLC, September 2013 [e-book].

Gazing into the Carnauba Wax Eyes of the Future

by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
“Gazing Into the Carnauba Wax Eyes of the Future” by Keffy R. M. Kehrli, in What Fates Impose, edited by Nayad A. Monroe (Alliteration Ink, September 2013).

Portal 24

by Meredith Stroud
Portal 24 by Meredith Stroud (Hot Key Books, September 2013).

Time Snatchers 2

Time Trapped

by Richard Ungar
Time Trapped by Richard Ungar (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, September 2013).

Timeholes

by Toby Williams and Paul F. Taylor, directed by Ben Mallaby
What will happen when time travel becomes as commonplace as hopping on a bus? This short film tells us in just two minutes.
— Michael Main
The nearest booth’s down there, on the left.
Timeholes by Toby Williams and Paul F. Taylor, directed by Ben Mallaby (The Smalls Film Festival, London, Early September 2013).

Affirmative Auction

by James Morrow
A Plutonian captain in the Pangalactic Virtue Patrol brings his time-traveling spaceship to a South Carolina slave auction in 1801 for a muddled morality lesson.
. . . we have journeyed here from our mutual sun’s ninth body to rectify an anomaly that for over two centuries has corrupted your civilization.
“Affirmative Auction” by James Morrow, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2013,.

The Time Travelers

written and directed by Ryan Kruger
The Time Travelers written and directed by Ryan Kruger (Youtube: Ryan Kruger Channel, 3 September 2013).

Trancers IS (1.5)

Trancers: City of Lost Angels

by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, directed by Charles Band
Trancers: City of Lost Angels by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, directed by Charles Band (Full Moon Streaming, 6 September 2013).

Sleepy Hollow

by Alex Kurtzman et al.
Sleepy Hollow by Alex Kurtzman et al. (16 September 2013).

Timecasting

by Duncan Shields
—the first time traveler
“Timecasting” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 22 September 2013 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 8

Armageddon

by John Schettler
Armageddon by John Schettler (Writing Shop, October 2013).

Backward Glass

by David Lomax
Backward Glass by David Lomax (Flux, October 2013).

Galactic Academy 1

The Vicious Case of the Viral Vaccine

by Roberta Baxter
The Vicious Case of the Viral Vaccine by Roberta Baxter (Tumblehome Learning, October 2013).

No Others Are Genuine

by Greg Frost
“No Others Are Genuine” by Greg Frost, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2013.

The Time Travel Club

by Charlie Jane Anders
At Lydia’s second time at the Time Travel Club, she tells them of her pirate activities in the past and her solar sail demolition races in the future, which is all well and good until the outlandish Madame Alberta shows up and asks them all to help her with ethical questions of building a real time machine, not to mention figuring out a rather strange use for the thing.
They already have warrantless wiretaps and indefinite detention. Imagine if they could go back in time and spy on you in the past. Or kill people as little children.
“The Time Travel Club” by Charlie Jane Anders, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2013.

Chronology of Heartbreak

by Rich Larson
Jack heartlessly breaks up with Kristine in a restaurant.                                                                                    
The professor was idling the time machine.
“Chronology of Heartbreak” by Rich Larson, Daily Science Fiction, 10 October 2013 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 9

Altered States

by John Schettler
Altered States by John Schettler (Writing Shop, November 2013).

Bacardi Through Time

|pending byline|
Bacardi Through Time |pending byline| (November 2013).

Infinity Ring 6

Behind Enemy Lines

by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Behind Enemy Lines by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic, November 2013).

The Lost Imperials 1

Extracted

by Sherry D. Ficklin
Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin (Spencer Hill Press, November 2013).

Thunder Mountain 1

Thunder Mountain

by Dean Wesley Smith
Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith, in Smith’s Monthly 2, November 2013.

Life Itself

by Richard Halcomb
—to Primal Earth
“Life Itself” by Richard Halcomb, 365 Tomorrows, 2 November 2013 [webzine].

In Times Like These

by Nathan Van Coop
Athletic, twenty-something Ben Travers chases through time along with none other than a scientist’s beautiful daughter in this adventure series.
Next thing we know, they’ll be rolling out a Delorean.
In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coop (13 November 2013).

Unsolved Logistical Problems in Time Travel: Spring Semester

by Marissa Lingen
The instructor of a laboratory/field practicum in time travel presents project ideas.
2. Queueing theory for assassination tourism: If a dozen time travelers show up to assassinate Hitler in the chaos after the Beer Hall Putsch, who gets precedence?
“Unsolved Logistical Problems in Time Travel: Spring Semester” by Marissa Lingen, in Nature, 21 November 2013.

Get a Horse!

|pending byline|
Out on a 2-D black-and-white hayride, Mickey and the gang run afoul of Peg-Leg Pete, who knocks Mickey into a 3-D color future.
I’m gonna knock you right inta next week!
Get a Horse! |pending byline| (27 November 2013).

The Chorus Line

by Daniel Hatch
Billionaire Mr. Croesus thinks Eric Cunningham faked the 4-million-year-old images of our ancestors dancing that made such a hit on YouTube recently, and he intends to prove it.
The concensus is that butterflies don’t know anything about regression analysis. Things tend to return to their mean over time
“The Chorus Line” by Daniel Hatch, in Analog, December 2013.

Erasing Time 2

Echo in Time

by Janette Rallison
Echo in Time by Janette Rallison (Katherine Tegen Books, December 2013).

The Time-Traveling Fashionista 3

The Time-Traveling Fashionista and Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

by Bianca Turetsky
The Time-Traveling Fashionista and Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile by Bianca Turetsky (Poppy, December 2013).

Images of Undiluted Love

by Joanna Kavenna
“Images of Undiluted Love” by Joanna Kavenna, in New Scientist, 17 December 2013.

The Longest Distance

by Aaron Koelker
—a long distance relationship
“The Longest Distance” by Aaron Koelker, 365 Tomorrows, 18 December 2013 [webzine].

The Carl Paradox

by Steve Rasnic Tem
Future Carl informs Carl that the life he’s leading is the only one that’s insignificant enough that no paradox or disaster can possibly occur as a result of his time travel.
The only difference, apparently, is the major dressing used on a roast beef club sandwich at a place called Garalfalo’s.
“The Carl Paradox” by Steve Rasnic Tem, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2014.

The Dark Age

by Jason Gurley
“The Dark Age” by Jason Gurley (Jason Gurley, January 2014).

The Kirov Saga 10

Darkest Hour: Altered States, Volume II

by John Schettler
Darkest Hour: Altered States, Volume II by John Schettler (Writing Shop, January 2014).

Infinity Ring 7

The Iron Empire

by James Dashner
The Iron Empire by James Dashner (Scholastic, January 2014).

Thunder Mountain 2

Monumental Summit

by Dean Wesley Smith
Monumental Summit by Dean Wesley Smith, in Smith’s Monthly 4, January 2014.

The Chronos Files 1

Timebound

by Rysa Walker
Timebound by Rysa Walker (Skyscape, January 2014).

The Chronos Files

by Rysa Walker
The first book in Rysa Walker’s Chronos Files series, Timebound, won the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The book follows 16-year-old Prudence “Kate” Pierce-Keller to 1893 where a murder risks wiping out everything she knows, including herself.

The rest of the series has two more novels and two interregnum novellas.

I was feeling very shaky on my feet. I’d never had any sort of hallucination, and the sounds and images had seemed so real, like I was actually experiencing them firsthand.
The Chronos Files by Rysa Walker (1 January 2014).

The Future Faire

by Dustin Adams
When people from the future put on a faire outside of Portland, Tyler and his parents are among the first in line to visit. As a reader, I’m hoping that deaf Tyler will come away cured, despite the prominent sign announcing: NO TECHNOLOGY IS TO LEAVE THE FAIREGROUNDS!
I’m curious why people from the future would need cash, but my father says, “Business is business, no matter when you’re from.”
“The Future Faire” by Dustin Adams, Daily Science Fiction, 21 January 2014 [webzine].

The Cartography of Sudden Death

by Charlie Jane Anders
In a future Earth with an mixture of space colonies and a rigid caste system on Earth, retainer Ythna witnesses a peculiarly dressed red-haired woman emerge from nowhere at the very moment of Ythna’s mistress’s sudden death.
“No, I swear I had nothing to do with her death,” the woman said sadly. “Except that it created a door for me to step through.”
“The Cartography of Sudden Death” by Charlie Jane Anders, Tor.com Original Fiction, 22 January 2014 [webzine].

Incident 2

The Runestone Incident

by Neve Maslakovic
The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic (47North, February 2014).

Schools of Clay

by Derek Künsken
“Schools of Clay” by Derek Künsken, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2014.

Trapped in Time 1

The Time Takers

by Saxon Andrew
The Time Takers by Saxon Andrew (self-published, February 2014).

Tomorrow

by Keith Brooke
Tomorrow by Keith Brooke (infinite press, February 2014).

The Unintentional Time Traveler

by Everett Maroon
The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon (Booktrope Editions, February 2014).

Doritos Time Machine

|pending byline|
Doritos Time Machine |pending byline| (Super Bowl XLVIII, 1 February 2014).

Uncle Grandpa

by Peter Browngardt
When the main character of a TV show is the uncle/grandpa/brother/dad of every person in the world (including, presumably, himself), you have to expect time travel sooner or later. In this case, I think the first time travel was when a future Uncle Grandpa delivered a future pizza. The only time traveling that I’ve seen, however, involved the wayward pants that Christopher Columbus refused to return
If I don’t get my pants back by the end of the day, ’m calling the time police.
Uncle Grandpa by Peter Browngardt (18 February 2014).

2101

by Clayton Seager, directed by Kyle Misak
2101 by Clayton Seager, directed by Kyle Misak (unknown release details, 23 February 2014).

Time Was

by Roger Dale Trexler
—physicist visits movie star
“Time Was” by Roger Dale Trexler, 365 Tomorrows, 23 February 2014 [webzine].

Cragbridge Hall 2

The Avatar Battle

by Chad Morris
The Avatar Battle by Chad Morris (Shadow Mountain, March 2014).

Drink in a Small Town

by Peter Wood
A down-on-his-luck physicist who’s invented a faster-than-light drive stops to watch the first manned Mars landing in a small-town Georgia diner. This is one of the few stories I’ve seen that ties together FTL with time travel.
And you’ll discover something else when you’re tinkering with that drive.
“Drink in a Small Town” by Peter Wood, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2014.

The Kirov Saga 11

Hinge of Fate: Altered States, Volume III

by John Schettler
Hinge of Fate: Altered States, Volume III by John Schettler (Writing Shop, March 2014).

Mrs. Darwin Has Visitors

by David Barber
This is the first time-travel story that I ran across in the enjoyable monthly, Flash Fiction Online. Among others, Andrew J. Salt from the Creation Museum of Petersburg, Kentucky, has an interest in getting by Charles Darwin’s gatekeeper.
It seemed Mr Salt had completed a difficult journey today and was impatient. He was in possession of a powerful new idea that must be brought to Mr Darwin’s notice.
“Mrs. Darwin Has Visitors” by David Barber, in Flash Fiction Online, March 2014 [webzine].

Star Trek TOS Books

No Time Like the Past

by Greg Cox
No Time Like the Past by Greg Cox (Pocket Books, March 2014).

Cosmic Colin 2

Sneezy Alien Attack

by Tim Collins
Sneezy Alien Attack by Tim Collins (Buster Books, March 2014).

Cosmic Colin 1

Stinky Space Race

by Tim Collins
Stinky Space Race by Tim Collins (Buster Books, March 2014).

Through Portal

by Dominica Phetteplace
During a picnic on a planet under study, eight-year-old Emmy wanders away and through a portal that is only partly a time machine.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34,. . .
“Through Portal” by Dominica Phetteplace, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2014.

The Uncertain Past

by Ted White
JFK-viewers are clichéd in time travel, but Ted White—a favorite of mine from his time as Amazing and Fantastic editor—has a new twist as every observer sees a different version of the assassination attempt. 
Kennedy wasn’t hit. Neither was Connally. I didn’t bother sticking around after that.
“The Uncertain Past” by Ted White, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2014.

Love Beatrice

by Clint Wilson
—phone call to the past
“Love Beatrice” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 5 March 2014 [webzine].

The Infinite Man

written and directed by Hugh Sullivan
The Infinite Man written and directed by Hugh Sullivan (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas, 7 March 2014).

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

|pending byline|
The movie had some good one-liners and even some good (albeit worn) puns in the style of the original cartoon, but for me, the plot lacked even enough structure to hold the attention of a child and the writer was writing down to his audience so much so that not even Patrick Warburton’s voice in a small part was sufficient to rescue the story from the fast-forward button.
Very well, then: If a boy can adopt a dog, the I see no reason why a dog can’t adopt a boy.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman |pending byline| (7 March 2014).

Running Late

by S. L. Gilbow
The traveling companion of a reluctant time-travel tourist is running late again.
Time machines, after all, run on a tight schedule.
“Running Late” by S. L. Gilbow, 365 Tomorrows, 7 March 2014 [webzine].

Predestination

written and directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
I was so disappointed with this movie that I’m going to have to write a spoiler. So if you don’t want to be spoiled, please don't hover your mouse over the following:

Here’s the problem: Heinlein’s story “—All You Zombies—” was the last word on one specific kind of time travel story: The story is which there is but one timeline. If you travel to the past and do something, it is because you traveled to the past and did that thing. But the Spierig brothers completely missed this point by introducing an older version of the Unmarried Mother who has newspaper clippings of other timelines that he has changed. The nice closed sexual loop is still present in the movie, but that wasn’t enough to stop my disappointment at the drubbing that the central story idea took. I wasn’t so hot on the music either (except for “I’m My Own Grandpa”), but the relationship between the Barkeep and the Unmarried Mother was spot on as was the depiction of time travel and the foreshadowing.

— Michael Main
Unmarried Mother: So I can do this, I can change my past?
Barkeep: Yes, you can.
U.M.: Have you ever thought about changing yours?
BK: I never deviate from the mission.
U.M.: Never?
BK: Never. . . . Look, I’ll pick you up when you’re done, all right?
U.M.: No, whoa, where are you going?
BK: Don’t worry. I’ll be around, trust me.
U.M.: Do I? . . . Do I have a choice?
BK: Of course. You always have a choice.
Predestination written and directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas, 8 March 2014).

The Sentence Is Always Death

by Brian Hirt and Ken Gerber
Forty-three-year-old Paul Beaumont, who used to switch places with his twin brother Thomas, faces sentencing in a court where the sentence is always death and the worst death option involves government time-traveling executioners—although the universe will allow the sentence to be carried out only after the condemned no longer has a future contribution of importance.
“I order death from category K.” Somehow these words sound less insidious than the proper name. There is only one type of death in this category. It's called “Erasure.”
“The Sentence Is Always Death” by Brian Hirt and Ken Gerber, Daily Science Fiction, 14 March 2014.

Lookback

by George Zebrowski
A man enjoys dropping into the life of his own younger self to spend time with his own lover’s younger self while his younger self is not at home.
I always prepared by losing a pound or two, colouring my hair a bit and exercising, even using make-up to look younger than my late 60s, so that she would notnotice in the dim light of the apartment at night. Nearsighted and in bed, it would help that she would not be wearing glasses.
“Lookback” by George Zebrowski, in Nature, 27 March 2014.

One-Minute Time Machine

by Sean Crouch, directed by Devon Avery
James takes his one-minute time machine to a park bench to try to pick up quantum physicist Rachel.

The gang up in the ITTDB Citadel showed this five-minute film to me on my first prime birthday of the 2010 decade.

— Michael Main
Rachel: What’s that?
James: Huh? Oh, nothing.
Rachel: Sure it’s not a One-Minute Time Machine?
One-Minute Time Machine by Sean Crouch, directed by Devon Avery (Vail Film Festival, 29 March 2014).

The Here and Now

by Ann Brashares
Teenager Prenna James and her mother are two of the survivors of a future plague who return to the early 21st century to live out a quiet life under strict non-interference rules.
— Michael Main
“And then I’ll be a proper early-twenty-first-century girl?” I ask. I feel like crying. I don’t want to be set.”
The Here and Now by Ann Brashares (Delacorte Press, April 2014) [print · e-book].

It’s Not ‘The Lady or the Tiger’, It’s ‘Which Tiger?’

by Ian Randal Strock
When searching for a long-lost ancestor (possibly depressed) whose actions literally gave you a good life, a time traveler would be well advised to frequent said ancestor’s watering holes.
I came back to offer you comfort, love, happiness, a life of ease.
“It’s Not ‘The Lady or the Tiger’, It’s ‘Which Tiger?’” by Ian Randal Strock, in Analog, April 2014.

The Klaatu Diskos 3

The Klaatu Terminus

by Pete Hautman
The Klaatu Terminus by Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press, April 2014).

Momentum

English release: Momentum Literal: Momentum

written and directed by Svend Plough Johansen
Anna, a young scientist, uses a yellow time-travel cloak to come back in time ten minutes to stop herself from carrying out a tragic act.
— Michael Main
Jeg fik den af mig selv, ligesom du får den af mig nu.
Listen, I don’t know how the cloak has been made to work—because it was me who gave it to myself.
English
Momentum written and directed by Svend Plough Johansen (CPH PIX Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 April 2014).

Prometheus . . . ?

by Mark Jacobsen
A pair of time travelers try to learn the old skills such as starting a fire from rubbing sticks.
You know, I’ve seen this in books, but never in real life.
“Prometheus . . . ?” by Mark Jacobsen, 365 Tomorrows, 13 April 2014 [webzine].

Time Lapse

by Bradley King and BP Cooper, directed by Bradley King
Three friends stumble across a camera that produces pictures from 24 hours in the future. That no-good Jasper thinks to use it to make a fortune with his bookie, while painter Finn is happy to see a painting that he’s going to paint, resulting in a nice example of the artist paradox. And Callie has her own agenda going on. From there, the plot turns into a gory thriller where whatever the photos show, the three friends must make happen or they will die as Mr. B. did, all while the bookie’s henchmen threaten them all.
— Michael Main
Mr. B. invented a camera that takes pictures of the future.
Time Lapse by Bradley King and BP Cooper, directed by Bradley King (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, 19 April 2014).

Zits

by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Strangely enough, on Saturday, April 19, my friend Jim Martin sent me a copy of the Sunday, April 20, Zits comic strip, which was the first one that I’ve noticed with time travel.
Ignoring the space/time continuum helped.
“Zits” by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman (20 April 2014).

Brewster Rockit, Space Guy

by Tim Rickard
I’m not a regular reader of the funnies any more, so I can’t tell you when Dr. Mel in the Brewster Rockit strip first made use of his time machine, but my friend Jim (see Zits, above) also showed me the doctor’s use of his time machine to avoid having a late taxes penalty.
Dr. Mel, you forgot to file your taxes last week! You missed the tax deadline!
“Brewster Rockit, Space Guy” by Tim Rickard (21 April 2014).

Corrections

by Susan Kaye Quinn
Dr. Ian Webb works in criminal corrections, traveling back in time to stop murders that were committed by remorseful murderers such as Owen—but now Owen has gone back to his story of innocence.
The blue spider-web hologram springs to life, surrounding Owen’s head with a neural net. It’s the final piece in the technology puzzle, the part that allows me access to Owen’s mind, once he relaxes enough to let me in.
“Corrections” by Susan Kaye Quinn, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

Time Detectives [Woolf] 1

The Disappearance of Danny Doyle

by Alex Woolf
The Disappearance of Danny Doyle by Alex Woolf (ReadZone Books Limited, May 2014).

Annum Guard 1

The Eighth Guardian

by Meredith McCardle
The Eighth Guardian by Meredith McCardle (Skyscape, May 2014).

The First Cut

by Edward W. Robertson
Fresh from graduation (last in his class at the time travel cop academy), Blake Din is assigned to Senior Agent Mara Riesling (not much older than him) for field training.
I wasn’t overjoyed about running solo through a strange city where every other one of the barbarians was carrying a gun, but that was the job. The job I’d been working toward for six years of secondary school and another three years in the Academy.
“The First Cut” by Edward W. Robertson, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

The Laurasians

by Isaac Hooke
Middle-aged paleontologist Horatio Horace and his student Megan tag along with the military boys on a trip to the time of the dinosaurs.
He hoped to put to rest the debate on protofeathers—or “dinofuzz” as some of his lesser-esteemed colleagues dubbed them—and to prove exactly which species, at least in this time period, had them.
“The Laurasians” by Isaac Hooke, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

Time Detectives [Woolf] 2

The Mystery of Maddie Musgrove

by Alex Woolf
The Mystery of Maddie Musgrove by Alex Woolf (ReadZone Books Limited, May 2014).

Pleistocene Junior High

by Dwight R. Decker
Pleistocene Junior High by Dwight R. Decker (Vesper Press, May 2014).

Reentry Window

by Eric Tozzi
Brett Lockwood, first astronaut on Earth, finds himself inexplicably out of contact with the rest of the mission astronauts and with Earth.
It was the Mars atmospheric anomaly that resurrected the planetary and deep-space exploration programs from the ashes of oblivian.
“Reentry Window” by Eric Tozzi, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

The River

by Jennifer Ellis
Ironman runner and trainer Sarah steals a personal time machine from physicist and running partner Paul in order to fix the past mistake that killed her own daughter.

Although I enjoyed the romantic parts of the story and the adult being back in her childhood body, I felt that the walking through of well-trod genre ground didn’t display full understanding of the grandfather paradox: The paradox is presented as being the problem that the time-traveling grandfather-killer cannot return to his own future because he won’t exist. The actual paradox is deeper than that.

Just stole a time device from the hottest guy ever.
“The River” by Jennifer Ellis, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

The Santa Anna Gold

by Michael Bunker
In addition to the audio/text version on Third Scribe (nicely formatted with images of the area, Jack Finney, and Einstein), this story also appeared as the first story in the Synchronic anthology (22 May 2014). The story follows an off-the-grid man who helps his son, Rick, track down the legendary Santa Anna gold stash by traveling to the past in a Jack-Finney-manner.
“History’s about finding out what happened and what’s true,” and that was that as far as he was concerned.
“The Santa Anna Gold” by Michael Bunker, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

The Swimming Pool of the Universe

by Nick Cole
Private Dexter Keith, a soldier fighting aliens on an asteroid, is caught in the blast of a time bomb that sends his mind back through his own lifetime.
You got to understand, a phase grenade messes with your mind, grunt.
“The Swimming Pool of the Universe” by Nick Cole, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

The Kirov Saga 12

Three Kings

by John Schettler
Three Kings by John Schettler (Writing Shop, May 2014).

Just in Time 3

The Wizard of Menlo Park, New Jersey

by Cheri Pray Earl
The Wizard of Menlo Park, New Jersey by Cheri Pray Earl (Familius, May 2014).

A Word in Pompey’s Ear

by Christopher Nuttall
After a history graduate student has her research proposal dismissed by her professor, she runs into a woman who offers to put her ideas about Pompey the Great and the Roman Civil War to a real-world test.
And then I told her that if I had been there, I could have steered Pompey toward saving the Republic.
“A Word in Pompey’s Ear” by Christopher Nuttall, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.

Missed Connections

by Tyler Hawkins
—not-very-accurate time machine
“Missed Connections” by Tyler Hawkins, 365 Tomorrows, 11 May 2014 [webzine].

Edge of Tomorrow

by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, directed by Doug Liman
Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day.
— Michael Main
Come find me when you wake up.
Edge of Tomorrow by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, directed by Doug Liman (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City etc., 28 May 2014).

All of Our Past Places

by Kat Howard
“All of Our Past Places” by Kat Howard, in Journal of Unlikely Cartography, June 2014.

After Eden 2

Chasing Stars

by Helen Douglas
Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, June 2014).

Compton Valance 1

Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe

by Matt Brown
Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe by Matt Brown (Usborne, June 2014).

WARP 2

The Hangman’s Revolution

by Eoin Colfer
The Hangman’s Revolution by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion, June 2014).

Sidewalk at 12:10 P.M.

by Nancy Kress
Sarah, now living on Mars at age 110, uses new technology to revisit the day when she thought life couldn’t possibly be worth living. Be sure to take the quote below with a grain of salt.
No. No travel is involved. A user cannot affect anything that has happened, ever. All the Chrono does is show on a screen what is already there, was there, will always be there.
“Sidewalk at 12:10 P.M.” by Nancy Kress, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2014.

Saurus Street 1

Tyrannosaurus in the Veggie Patch

by Nick Falk
Tyrannosaurus in the Veggie Patch by Nick Falk (Random House, June 2014).

Update

by Duncan Shields
—time traveler meets future tech
“Update” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 24 June 2014 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 13

Grand Alliance

by John Schettler
Grand Alliance by John Schettler (CreateSpace, July 2014).

How Do I Get to Last Summer from Here?

by M. Bennardo
This story has a method of time travel that’s reminiscent of that in Janet’s favorite time travel novel, Time and Again by Jack Finney, but it’s also tied in with the time in your life that you most long for.
You can’t go back there, no matter how much you pay.
“How Do I Get to Last Summer from Here?” by M. Bennardo, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2014.

Warrior Heroes 1

The Knight’s Enemies

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Knight’s Enemies by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (A and C Black, July 2014).

Time-Tripping Faradays 4

The Outlaw of Sherwood Forest

by John Seven
The Outlaw of Sherwood Forest by John Seven (Capstone Young Readers, July 2014).

Viral Nation 2

Rebel Nation

by Shaunta Grimes
Rebel Nation by Shaunta Grimes (Berkley Books, July 2014).

Time-Tripping Faradays 3

The Terror of the Tengu

by John Seven
The Terror of the Tengu by John Seven (Capstone Young Readers, July 2014).

Warrior Heroes 2

The Viking’s Revenge

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Viking’s Revenge by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (A and C Black, July 2014).

The LevoGyre

by Wendy Wheeler
The narrator of the story is the test subject for an experiment in gravitational time dilation that instead causes time travel and reveals the meaning of everything.
Then my theories are correct. The mind is the eternal constant.
“The LevoGyre” by Wendy Wheeler, Daily Science Fiction, 8 July 2014 [webzine].

Lucy

written and directed by Luc Besson
Lucy written and directed by Luc Besson (at movie theaters, Canada and USA, 25 July 2014).

Cleanup Crew

by Jae Miles
Two paleontologists discover a fossilized mammal in an impossible location.
We’re going to be famous!
“Cleanup Crew” by Jae Miles, 365 Tomorrows, 29 July 2014 [webzine].

I’m You, Dickhead

by Larry Boxshall, directed by Lucas Testro
Richard visits a time travel agency so that he can go back in time and confront his ten-year-old self to make him learn the guitar for an ulterior reason. There are two useful side effects of time travel in this universe, one of which solves the Two-Yous Paradox and the other of which solves the annoying problem in time travel movies of not being able to tell one-self from another.
— Michael Main
Other Time Traveler: And you?
Richard[/smallcaps: I want to confront myself as a ten-year-old boy and make him learn the guitar so I can get laid in the future.
I’m You, Dickhead by Larry Boxshall, directed by Lucas Testro (Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, 31 July 2014).

Infinity Ring 8

Eternity

by Matt de la Peña
Eternity by Matt de la Peña (Scholastic, August 2014).

Of All Possible Worlds

by Jay O’Connell
When Costas Regas bonds with his 90-year-old landlord, Mr. Hieronymus, and discovers that the old man is editing the 20th century, that’s a fairly cool idea on its own, even without the possible smidgen of backward time travel that occurs when Costas writes poetry.
Contained within the poem was a way to close a loop of time, pinch it off, and discard it. I’d broken time.
“Of All Possible Worlds” by Jay O’Connell, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2014.

The Accidental Time Traveller 2

The Reluctant Time Traveller

by Janis Mackay
The Reluctant Time Traveller by Janis Mackay (Kelpies, August 2014).

6 Attempts at Winning Jennifer’s Heart

by James Aquilone
An assistant to the brilliant Dr. Tomokats hijacks various of the doctor’s technology for purposes of the heart.
Note: Time travel solves nothing.
“6 Attempts at Winning Jennifer’s Heart” by James Aquilone, in Flash Fiction Online, August 2014 [webzine].

Trapped in Time 2

Taming a Planet

by Saxon Andrew
Taming a Planet by Saxon Andrew (self-published, August 2014).

2035: Forbidden Dimensions

written and directed by Christopher James Miller
I get that somebody (Jack Slade) has come back from a dystopic, mutant-filled future to stop the events that led to the aliens creating such a future—but the movie was unwatchable for me.
— Michael Main
My name is Detective Giger . . . I’m contacting you from the year 2035. Dr. Shector has taken over society with a toxic drug made from the flesh of alien beings . . . 
2035: Forbidden Dimensions written and directed by Christopher James Miller (direct-to-video, USA, 5 August 2014).

1:40 AM

by Eliza Victoria
Peter, a worker at the science institute, is stuck babysitting “John” in the middle of the night when a gunman enters and a time loop ensues.
Is there something in your past that you want to change? An action you want to reverse? A death you want to prevent?
“1:40 AM” by Eliza Victoria, Daily Science Fiction, 8 August 2014 [webzine].

Timespace

written and directed by Daniel Ziegler
Timespace written and directed by Daniel Ziegler (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Phoenix, 14 August 2014).

Futures Market

by Mitchell Edgeworth
A man travels back in time with stock tips for himself every ten years.
You’re going to buy stocks in these companies. Biogen. Kansas City Southern. Middleby Corp. . .
“Futures Market” by Mitchell Edgeworth, Daily Science Fiction, 21 August 2014 [webzine].

Changing the Past

by Barton Paul Levenson
A traveler from the 29th century returns to 11/22/63 to change the course of Lee Oswald’s actions.
You know what happened on November 22nd, 1963, and the results.
“Changing the Past” by Barton Paul Levenson, Daily Science Fiction, 27 August 2014 [webzine].

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Catherine Webb
Harry August is living his life over and over again, always born to the same mother in the same time and place, but living in a world that’s altered each time because of the actions of the others who are also reliving their lives. The world Claire North (aka Cat Webb) built has a rich, interlocking structure: The repetitions are synchronous in that the entire life of the universe plays out before restarting from the beginning for everyone, but only a handful, such as Harry, remember the previous time around. Those who do remember have formed a society whose overriding purpose is to keep the status quo because once a change is made and a person is not born during a cycle of the universe, that person will never again be born. The society also arranges a system to send messages back through the generations by having young reborn children contact older society members who are near death. From time to time, changes in the universe cause new members to be born, and thus, Harry appears just in time to become embroiled in a vicious plot to change everything.

I was fortunate to meet Cat Webb at the 2015 Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, where she cheerfully talked to me and Rob Maslen about anything and everything during the week leading up to the announcement of Harry August as the winner of the 2015 Campbell Award for the best novel of the year. Yay, Cat (and yay for your friendliness and wry sense of humor)!

My first life, for all it lacked any real direction, had about it a kind of happiness, if ignorance is innocence, and loneliness is a separation of care. But my new life, with its knowledge of all that had come before, could not be lived the same. It wasn’t merely awareness of events yet to come, but rather a new perception of the truths around me, which, being a child raised to them in my first life, I had not even considered to be lies.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb (Orbit, April 2014).

Cattail Hearts

by Kate Heartfield
After spending five years in the late 19th century at the Indian Industrial School for Native American children who were taken from their families, a young girl’s teacher tells her about her future in Manitoba. As with so many stories of grandfather paradoxes, it deals with only half the paradox that it brings up, although I did like the twist.
If someone peeled all of me away bit by bit, what would be left would be you.
“Cattail Hearts” by Kate Heartfield, Daily Science Fiction, 29 August 2014 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 14

Hammer of God

by John Schettler
Hammer of God by John Schettler (CreateSpace, September 2014).

Interview with a Time Traveler

by Peter Rowley, directed by Ashley Cooper
A nameless man from the Republic of Cascadia in AD 2689 spends an evening with Paul to talk about past travels—Einstein, Jesus, Tesla, Oppenheimer—and about Paul’s past .
— Michael Main
You sent these to me days—weeks, months!—before you could have possibly known about it.
Interview with a Time Traveler by Peter Rowley, directed by Ashley Cooper (Vimeo: Ashley Cooper Channel, 2 September 2014).

Steven Universe

by Rebecca Sugar
With the help of three aliens, Steven discovers the magical powers that he inherited from his alien mother. In one episode (“Steven and the Stevens”), the boy time travels with the help of a magic hourglass, whereupon he attempts to divert a disaster at his dad’s carwash but only makes things worse. Eventually, though, he forms a singing group with other versions of himself.
Don’t make me hurt me, Steven!
Steven Universe by Rebecca Sugar (4 September 2014).

Guardian Angel

by Elijah Goering
—man visits himself repeatedly
“Guardian Angel” by Elijah Goering, 365 Tomorrows, 7 September 2014 [webzine].

The Copernicus Legacy

by Tony Abbott
Chased by a secret order, thirteen-year-old Wade Kaplan (plus step-brother, cousin, and cousin’s best friend) traverses the globe searching for parts of an age-old astrolabe that doubles as a time machine—although in the first book (The Forbidden Stone), an actual spanning of time is limited. There is a second book (The Serpent’s Curse) and a collection of novellas (The Copernicus Archives).
After their arrival at a local hospital, the students, aged 7 to 14, and teachers on the bus claimed that it entered the south side of the Somosierra Tunnel and was immediately struck by. . .
The Copernicus Legacy by Tony Abbott (9 September 2014).

The Hero of Time

by Glenn Leung
—time-traveling superhero appears today
“The Hero of Time” by Glenn Leung, 365 Tomorrows, 26 September 2014 [webzine].

Dinosaur Island

written and directed by Matt Drummond
Dinosaur Island written and directed by Matt Drummond (direct-to-video, UK, 29 September 2014).

Galactic Academy 2

The Baffling Case of the Battered Brain

by Pendred Noyce
The Baffling Case of the Battered Brain by Pendred Noyce (Tumblehome Learning, October 2014).

Galactic Academy 3

The Cryptic Case of the Coded Fair

by Pendred Noyce
The Cryptic Case of the Coded Fair by Pendred Noyce (Tumblehome Learning, October 2014).

Just in Time 4

A Dangerous Day in Georgia

by Cheri Pray Earl
A Dangerous Day in Georgia by Cheri Pray Earl (Familius, October 2014).

Timesplash 3

Foresight

by Graham Storrs
Foresight by Graham Storrs (Momentum, October 2014).

Bree Bennis 1

Loop

by Karen Akins
Loop by Karen Akins (St. Martin’s Griffin, October 2014).

Galactic Academy 4

The Perilous Case of the Zombie Potion

by Pendred Noyce
The Perilous Case of the Zombie Potion by Pendred Noyce (Tumblehome Learning, October 2014).

Compton Valance 2

The Time-Travelling Sandwich Bites Back

by Matt Brown
The Time-Travelling Sandwich Bites Back by Matt Brown (Usborne, October 2014).

Timebomb Trilogy 1

Timebomb

by Scott Andrews
Timebomb by Scott Andrews (Hodder and Stoughton, October 2014).

The Chronos Files 2

Time’s Edge

by Rysa Walker
Time’s Edge by Rysa Walker (Skyscape, October 2014).

Mind Dimensions

by Dima Zales
Mind Dimensions by Dima Zales (2 October 2014).

The Recent Future

by Dani Ripley
Two sixth-graders, Scout and her genius best friend Billy, build a time machine to go back and save Billy’s dad who was “blown up in Iraq.”
He surprised everyone by declaring his intention to build a time machine so he could go back and save his dad.
“The Recent Future” by Dani Ripley, Daily Science Fiction, 7 October 2014 [webzine].

B4

by Patrick Ryder and James Hamblin, directed by Patrick Ryder
After Rupert Shaw’s wife dies, he starts receiving phone calls from a man who claims to be Rupert himself and claims that his wife is still alive.
— Michael Main
We can’t meet. Seeing each other physically . . . You have no idea what that would cause.
B4 by Patrick Ryder and James Hamblin, directed by Patrick Ryder (at limited movie theaters, UK, 24 October 2014).

Interstellar

by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan
On a future Earth that’s fast succumbing to worldwide drought and poltergeists in bedrooms, farmer-girl Murph’s father and a professor’s daughter lead a mission through a wormhole to a possible new home for mankind.
— Michael Main
Time is relative. It can stretch, it can squeeze, but it can’t run backwards. It simply just can’t.
Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 26 October 2014).

Blake Takes a Case

by Belinda Whitney
Loquat T. Blake, time detective, takes the case of one Mrs. Kate Alston’s niece who disappeared from the face of the Earth back in 2037 at a location that could just create the biggest time paradox this side of John Wilkes Booth’s pistol.
I thought the Time Agency was going to be fun when I joined. I didn’t expect them to be a bunch of old fogies, petrified of time paradoxes, with red tape up the wazoo for every trip they made. So I “borrowed” some of their old equipment from storage and struck out on my own under-the-radar business.
“Blake Takes a Case” by Belinda Whitney, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].

Conroyverse 12

Calendrical Regression

by Lawrence M. Schoen
I stumbled across one of the Amazing Buffalito and Conroy stories, and it seemed that Buffalito Reggie (a cute miniature bison that eats anything and farts oxygen) just had to be living in a universe with time travel. In “Trial of the Century,” Reggie's companion Conroy (the billionaire ex-CEO turned spacefaring on-stage hypnotist) has a time-travel gag in his act; and in the first novel, Buffalito Destiny, the entire ex-state of Texas has differing time rates from one spot to another. But I just had to know for sure whether the amusing pair ever ran into real time travel, so I wrote to Lawrence Schoen, and he quickly and happily pointed me toward the novella Calendrical Regression, wherein Conroy brings a Mayan high priest to the present day from 89 generations in the past.
— Michael Main
. . .and fed all of it to my buffalito . . .
Calendrical Regression by Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press, November 2014).

The Kirov Saga 15

Crescendo of Doom

by John Schettler
Crescendo of Doom by John Schettler (CreateSpace, November 2014).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 6

Dino Champions

by Jack Wells
Dino Champions by Jack Wells, in The Wilderness Collection (vandom HouseMay 2014, November 2014).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 7

Dinosaur Cove

by Jack Wells
Dinosaur Cove by Jack Wells, in The Wilderness Collection (vandom HouseOctober 2014, November 2014).

Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 8

Eruption!

by Jack Wells
Eruption! by Jack Wells, in The Wilderness Collection (vandom HouseNovember 2014, November 2014).

Timeriders 9

The Infinity Cage

by Alex Scarrow
The Infinity Cage by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, November 2014).

Nativity

by John C. Wright
“Nativity” by John C. Wright, in The Book of Feasts & Seasons (Castalia House, November 2014).

Occupational Hazard

by Teresa Robeson
Ex-temporal emissary Bernard Rolfe finds himself slipping in and out of past and future times, a sad symptom of Dirac’s Syndrome—no, not that Dirac, but rather Alexa Dirac, the freckled, first-known sufferer of the syndrome.
That changed when he was plucked out of bed and plopped in the Pleistocene ice age, where he found himself, with nothing on but his pajamas, facing the tusked end of a wooly mammoth. He decided then that he sould let the Agency know before something carnivrous made a meal of him, or, worse, died from weather exposure.
“Occupational Hazard” by Teresa Robeson, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].

Of Time and Treasure

by Kelly Horn
Anthony Corbin remembers little of his life as a young boy before being adopted by a wealthy time-traveling philanthropist who is now dead.
“But in her younger days, before she married Jonathan, she was an accomplished academic. She was a brilliant woman.” Harris stopped and cleared his throat. “She built a time machine.”
“Of Time and Treasure” by Kelly Horn, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].

The Tether

by Janet Guy
Carnival barker Richard Hunt and his assistant Lana strap the tourists into The Tether day after day, launching them into the future and bringing them back—but only if they use preapproved safe coordinates of future events.
The colossal, the stupendous, the first ride in the world to bring you back from the future, The Tether. I’m your conductor, Richard Hunt, but you can call me Mister Richie.
“The Tether” by Janet Guy, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].

Sci Hi 3

Time Jump

by Timothy J. Bradley
Time Jump by Timothy J. Bradley (Teacher Created Materials, November 2014).

To Dream of Future Yesterdays

by Paul Siluch
After quantum theoretician Ben Hill’s time travel/wormhole project is shut down by the frugal government, he realizes where it all might have gone awry, which triggers one iteration after another of better and better (or maybe darker and darker) lives.
I bought the qubit microscope. It was just sitting there, forgotten after the inquiries started. I scanned my own brain and noticed the telltale quantum irregularities we had only seen in the hart of the collider. Which meant the crazies on the internet were right: our brains are quantum computers.

It also meant something else very, very important. If we used quantum particles to think, we must be entangled with quantum particles somewhere else. Of somewhen else. Suddenly the whole doomed Project offered up a small ray of hope, but in an entirely new direction. We would never be able to send a person back in time, but I might be able to send information back.

“To Dream of Future Yesterdays” by Paul Siluch, in Still Out of Time, by Janet Guy et al., Unknown Publisher, November 2014 [e-book].

Time Trap

written and directed by Michael Shanks
After a spaceman crashes on a barren Earth with no available minerals to power his ship, he uses his Portable Time Bubble Generator (for the eight minutes of this short film) to determine whether anything in the past might be useful for fixing his damaged ship.
— Michael Main
collision approaching
correct
course
manual override required
Time Trap written and directed by Michael Shanks (A Night of Horror International Film Festival, Sydney, late November 2014).

The Bomb-Thing

by K. J. Kabza
Blaine’s high school buddy Mason wants to get into the pants of a visiting hottie from Cal Tech, so naturally Blaine and Mason help her break into the physics lab at the local university where the bomb-thing they find takes them back to the sixties.
Phyllis pointed at something on a table. It looked, no joke, like a bomb: kinda half-finished, with wires and plugs everywhere, and blinking lights and a countdown clock that said 03 10:11 02 05 1968.
“The Bomb-Thing” by K. J. Kabza, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2014.

I’ll Follow the Sun

by Paul Di Filippo
A Paul Di Filippo time travel story imbued with Steve Ditko and Robert Heinlein seems like it should be right up my alley, but I was sadly disappointed by the lack of time travel complications as college math student Dan Wishcup travels from his home time (and mine) of 1964 back to 1914 and forward to 2014.
Dan expected some weighty math tomes, but the books disclosed themselves as a Signet paperback and a larger one from City Lights Press. The pamphlet proved to be a comic book! Specifically, Strange Tales No. 126, just out last month.
“I’ll Follow the Sun” by Paul Di Filippo, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2014.

Letting Go

by Alex Shvartsman
When your girlfriend heads into space on a journey that will age her only two years while you age sixteen, you do the only logical thing.
Because it amuses you and—more importantly—because you know it would make her laugh, you design the time machine prototype to look like a blue phone booth.
“Letting Go” by Alex Shvartsman, Daily Science Fiction, 3 November 2014 [webzine].

The Prisoner

by Roger Dale Trexler
A time-travel researcher awakens as an ape-like mammal in the Jurassic where he meets at least one other modern animal.
The plants, he thought. They’ve been extinct for a million years.
“The Prisoner” by Roger Dale Trexler, 365 Tomorrows, 13 November 2014 [webzine].

Making Time for the Kids

by Julion J. Soto
The story (about a man who goes back in time to a school shooting) promises to say something interesting about time-travel paradoxes and the butterfly effect, but the promise is never fulfilled.
I didn’t know, nobody did, but I was going to find out about time paradoxes and the butterfly effect in one fell swoop.
“Making Time for the Kids” by Julion J. Soto, Daily Science Fiction, 20 November 2014 [webzine].

Dino Mate

by Rosemary Claire Smith
The love triangle between Marty Zuber, his arch-nemesis Dr. Derek Dill, and Julianna Carlson continues as they study the mating habits of the kentrosarus in the Jurassic.
“What do we want?”

“The present!”

“When do we want it?”

“NOW!”

“Dino Mate” by Rosemary Claire Smith, in Analog, December 2014.

Static

by David Austin
“Static” by David Austin, in Crossed Genres Magazine, December 2014.

The Theta Prophecy

by Chris Dietzel
The treasure at Oak Island. JFK’s assassination. A tyrannous regime’s inner-workings. Welcome to The Theta Prophecy, where alternate history meets modern dystopian.
— based on publicity material
The Theta Prophecy by Chris Dietzel (Watch the World End Publications, December 2014) [print · e-book].

Theta Timeline 1

The Theta Timeline

by Chris Dietzel
Freedom wasn’t stolen overnight, but gradually chipped away through a campaign of war and terror. People were told new laws and restrictions were for their own good. But the reality was a monstrous regime bent on controlling its subjects. Now, there is only one way to stop the Tyranny: go back in time and prevent it from ever starting.
— based on publicity material
“The Theta Timeline” by Chris Dietzel (Watch the World End Publications, December 2014) [print · e-book].

Videoville

by Christopher East
In late 1986, geek Tim Stanek (he prefers the term “nerd”) and his high-school buddy Louis are approached one night by an unheard-of sort of person: a sensitive and inclusive football jock who asks them to come with him on a mission that needs their particular kind of resourcefulness.
— Michael Main
AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, NFLX
“Videoville” by Christopher East, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2014.

Calvera

by Rachel Barber
“Calvera” by Rachel Barber, Daily Science Fiction, 9 December 2014 [webzine].

Paradox for Dinner

by Burke Lerch
Why time travel at all? Dinner!
Arguably the best patty melt anyone had ever had, unless someone else out there was so inspired by a sandwich that they had also built a time machine just to eat the same patty melt again, again, and yet again.
“Paradox for Dinner” by Burke Lerch, 365 Tomorrows, 22 December 2014 [webzine].

Möebius

written and directed by Jordan Montreuil
Möebius written and directed by Jordan Montreuil (unknown release details, circa 2014).

Annum Guard 2

Blackout

by Meredith McCardle
Blackout by Meredith McCardle (Skyscape, January 2015).

Galactic Academy of Science

The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis

by Owen R. Liu
The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis by Owen R. Liu (Tumblehome Learning, January 2015).

Warrior Heroes 3

The Gladiator’s Victory

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Gladiator’s Victory by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (Bloomsbury, January 2015).

The Left Behinds 1

The iPhone That Saved George Washington

by David Potter
The iPhone That Saved George Washington by David Potter (Crown Books for Young Readers, January 2015).

Warrior Heroes 4

The Samurai’s Assassin

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Samurai’s Assassin by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (Bloomsbury, January 2015).

Zuze and the Star

by Vicki C. Hayes
Zuze and the Star by Vicki C. Hayes (Turtleback Books, January 2015).

History’s Best Places to Kiss

by Nik Houser
Rather than continue with a messy divorce, Ray Fox and Karen Jameson-Pfiffer-Browning go back in time to prevent themselves from ever marrying each other.
A word of advice: never read Philip K. Dick before going on vacation through time.
“History’s Best Places to Kiss” by Nik Houser, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2015.

Samsara and Ice

by Andy Dudak
“Samsara and Ice” by Andy Dudak, in Analog, January/February 2015.

Walk-In Bistro

by Rick Tobin
—short-term waitress time travels
“Walk-In Bistro” by Rick Tobin, 365 Tomorrows, 6 January 2015 [webzine].

Perfectly Justified Response

by Peter A. Schaefer
Nome’s lab partner has a time machine, and she’s considering sending various objects back 30 years or possibly back to the time when the Earth first formed through planetary accretion.
Did you know the Earth formed through planetary accretion during the formation of the Solar System approximately four-point-five billion years ago?
“Perfectly Justified Response” by Peter A. Schaefer, Daily Science Fiction, 13 January 2015 [webzine].

12 Monkeys, Season 1

written by Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett, et al., directed by multiple people
Same pandemic backstory as the movie, similar names for the characters, no Bruce Willis, and a mishmash of time-travel tropes along with tuneless minor-key chords in place of actual tension and slowly spoken clichéd dialogue in place of actual plot. Random discussions of fate brush shoulders with an admixture of possible time travel models from narrative time (when a wound sprouts on old JC’s shoulder while watching young JC get shot), to skeleton timelines (JC thinks that his timeline will vanish if he succeeds), to a fascination with a single static timeline (you’ll see it in Chechnya) and time itself has an agenda. Primarily, we’d say that the story follows narrative time from Cole’s point of view.

By the end of the first season, one principal character has seemingly been trapped in the 2043, and Cole is stuck in 2015, having just gone against fate in a major way, but with a third principal character poised to spread the virus via a jet plane.

P.S. Whatever you do, whether in narrative time or elsewhen, don’t bring up this adaptation as dinnertime conversation with Terry Gilliam (but do watch it if you can set aside angst over a lack of a consistent model and just go with Cole’s flow).

— Michael Main
About four years from now, most of the human race will be wiped out by a plague, a virus. We know it’s because of a man named Leland Frost. I have to find him.

—from “Splinter” [s01e01]

12 Monkeys, Season 1 written by Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett, et al., directed by multiple people (SyFy, USA, 16 January 2015 to 10 April 2015).

For Lost Time

by Therese Arkenberg
“For Lost Time” by Therese Arkenberg, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 22 January 2015.

Synchronicity

written and directed by Jacob Gentry
Jim Beale manages to open the portal on one end of a time machine, but he needs help from a capitalist to open the other end. It wouldn’t hurt to also have the help of the beautiful woman who just showed up, even though his best friend tells him to stay away from her.
— Michael Main
What you have to do to traverse a wormhole is have two openings. What we did tonight is open one end of it.
Synchronicity written and directed by Jacob Gentry (Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, 22 January 2015).

World of Tomorrow

written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Young Emily is contacted by a third-generation clone of herself from the far future.
— Michael Main
Oh. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh my God. Holy Mother of God. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh God.
World of Tomorrow written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt (Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 22 January 2015).

Project Almanac

by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman, directed by Dean Israelite
When teenage genius David Raskin and his sister Chris are rummaging through the attic, they discover a video tape made by their father on the day of his death ten years ago. The tape seems to show current-age David in the background, which leads David, Chris, and their three friends to build a time machine.

Based on the trailer, I thought it was a fun premise with promise, but in the execution, the movie couldn’t decide what it wanted to be: David Raskin, Boy Genius (and scientific hand-waver), or Ferris Bueller and the Time Machine, or The Blair Time Travel Project, or maybe The Butterfly Effect IV. Whichever it was, none of the different directions could support a plot for me, none had a consistently worked-out model of time travel, and none had reliable continuity in the filmmaking.

— Michael Main
Did you see the tape at your seventh birthday? I think we already did build it.
Project Almanac by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman, directed by Dean Israelite (at movie theaters, Trindad and Tobago, 28 January 2015).

Trapped in Time 3

Extinction

by Saxon Andrew
Extinction by Saxon Andrew (self-published, February 2015).

I Remember You

by Cathleen Davitt Bell
I Remember You by Cathleen Davitt Bell (Alfred A. Knopf, February 2015).

Time Loop 1

A Loop in Time

by Clark Graham
A Loop in Time by Clark Graham (self-published, February 2015).

Afternoon Break

by Gregg Chamberlain
On an afternoon during his first week of vacation, a journalist stops by a tavern for a half-pint.
“Quick,” he shouted. “What year is this?”
“Afternoon Break” by Gregg Chamberlain, Daily Science Fiction, 5 February 2015 [webzine].

The Time We’re In

written and directed by Damon Stout
The Time We’re In written and directed by Damon Stout (Boston SciFi Film Festival, 7 February 2015).

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

by Josh Heald, directed by Steve Pink
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 by Josh Heald, directed by Steve Pink (at movie theaters, USA etc., 20 February 2015).

Incident 3

The Bellbottom Incident

by Neve Maslakovic
The Bellbottom Incident by Neve Maslakovic (Westmarch Publishing, March 2015).

The Kirov Saga 17

Doppelganger

by John Schettler
Doppelganger by John Schettler (CreateSpace, March 2015).

Cragbridge Hall 3

The Impossible Race

by Chad Morris
The Impossible Race by Chad Morris (Shadow Mountain, March 2015).

Baseball Card Adventures 12

Willie & Me

by Dan Gutman
Willie & Me by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, March 2015).

A Small Diversion on the Road to Hell

by Jonathan L. Howard
A time traveler comes to the Helix bar where he’s flabbergasted to discover that the Great War on Earth from nineteen fourteen to eighteen was still started in exactly the same manner as before his trip in time. And that’s not the only chrono-intervention gone awry.
He looks at me, looks at my look, looks at his bag, opens his bag, looks in his bag, takes out a gun. He does not look as if he is about to use it. Instead, he breaks it open. “Look!” he says, and I am looking already. “It hasn’t been fired! How can Princip have laid his hands on another gun so quickly? The car went by thirty seconds after I stole this from his pocket. He didn’t have time! How is it possible?
“A Small Diversion on the Road to Hell” by Jonathan L. Howard, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015.

A User’s Guide to Increments of Time

by Kat Howard
“A User’s Guide to Increments of Time” by Kat Howard, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015.

The Shape of My Name

by Nino Cipri
In 2076 a teenaged transgender son—genetically female in a family where the ability to time travel is passed from mother to child via mitochondrial DNA—lives with an aunt in the house where his mother abandoned their family more than a century in the past by traveling to a limit point in 2321 where their time machine can reach but not return.

I noticed that the time machine’s name, anachronopede, is nearly that of El Anacronópete, so I wrote to Nino Cipri to ask whether Gaspar’s novel was an inspiration. It was, said Nino, writing to me: “It is indeed a reference to El Anacronópete. I was researching time travel in fiction while writing that story, and it was the earliest mention of a time machine I could find. Plus, the name is so great.”

I picture you standing in the kitchen downstairs, over a century ago. I imagine that you’re staring out through the little window above the sink, your eyes traveling down the path that leads from the back door and splits at the creek; one trail leads to the pond, and the other leads to the shelter and the anachronopede, with its rows of capsules and blinking lights.
“The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri, Tor.com Original Fiction, 4 March 2015 [webzine].

Small Mercies

by David Atos
—a merciful time traveler
“Small Mercies” by David Atos, 365 Tomorrows, 10 March 2015 [webzine].

The Diabolical

by Alistair Legrand and Luke Harvis, directed by Alistair Legrand
The Diabolical by Alistair Legrand and Luke Harvis, directed by Alistair Legrand (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas, 16 March 2015).

Magnetic

by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein, directed by Sophia Cacciola
Magnetic by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein, directed by Sophia Cacciola (Boston Underground Film Festival, 29 March 2015).

World of Tomorrow

written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Young Emily is contacted by a third-generation clone of herself from the far future.
Oh. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh my God. Holy Mother of God. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh God.
World of Tomorrow written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt (31 March 2015).

Stuck in the Past

by Michael Donoghue
A man, distraught over the fact that Emily left him for a guy with money, ignores a warning from his future self and places a Craigslist ad pleading for someone in the future to send him tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers.

Although there were some science terminology slips, the story was enjoyable for me, particularly the second half when the writing was more about the story and less about amusing interactions with your older self. On the other hand, Emily’s notion of what it meant to “make something of yourself” didn’t ring true to me.

I didn’t turn around. Who wants to see an older, uglier version of himself?
“Stuck in the Past” by Michael Donoghue, in Abyss & Apex, Second Quarter 2015.

The Book That Proves Time Travel Happens

by Henry Clark
The Book That Proves Time Travel Happens by Henry Clark (Little, Brown, April 2015).

Lifespan of Starlight 1

Lifespan of Starlight

by Thalia Kalkipsakis
Lifespan of Starlight by Thalia Kalkipsakis (Hardie Grant Egmont, April 2015).

A Long Time Until Now 1

A Long Time Until Now

by Michael Z. Williamson
A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z. Williamson (Baen, April 2015).

Star’s End

by Dale Aycock
Star’s End by Dale Aycock (Inkling Press, April 2015).

Bree Bennis 2

Twist

by Karen Akins
Twist by Karen Akins (St. Martin’s Griffin, April 2015).

Infini

by Shane Abbess and Brian Cachia, directed by Abbess
Infini by Shane Abbess and Brian Cachia, directed by Abbess (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, 11 April 2015).

The Jump

written and directed by Christopher Ashton
The Jump written and directed by Christopher Ashton (Youtube: Christopher Ashton Channel, 15 April 2015).

Time EMT

by R. A. Reikki
A thought-provoking story of an ambulance that goes back to the time before the accident.
We scanned her I.D. and it showed she had medical insurance. Otherwise, the rule is that we treat you for the injuries, but there’s no swap.
“Time EMT” by R. A. Reikki, 365 Tomorrows, 30 April 2015 [webzine].

Galactic Academy 6

The Contaminated Case of the Cooking Contest

by Peter Y. Wong
The Contaminated Case of the Cooking Contest by Peter Y. Wong (Tumblehome Learning, May 2015).

The Lost Imperials 2

Prodigal

by Sherry D. Ficklin
Prodigal by Sherry D. Ficklin, in Prodigal and Riven (Clean Teen Publishing, May 2015).

The Lost Imperials 3

Riven

by Sherry D. Ficklin
Riven by Sherry D. Ficklin, in Prodigal and Riven (Clean Teen Publishing, May 2015).

In the Time of Love

by Amy Sterling Casil
“In the Time of Love” by Amy Sterling Casil, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015.

Trapping the Pleistocene

by James Sarafin
Jack Morgan and his wife, whose ten-year-old daughter recently fell through the winter ice and drowned, are two of the rare beings who live in an agrarian enclave in the new Ohio wilderness, tending their livestock and working with tools rather than living in the anthill-like sterile towers full of webbed-together people. But now the towers need Jack’s help in rescuing a friend in the Pleistocene and track down a specimen of Castoroides ohioensis along the way.
Okay. But to get to the point, Castoroides ohioensis was a giant species of beaver that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. It’s been extinct for at least ten thousand years. Our project requires sending an animal-capture expert to the late Pleistocene to catch an ohioensis and bring back tissue samples.
“Trapping the Pleistocene” by James Sarafin, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015.

A Turkey with Egg on His Face

by Rob Chilson
Shy Georgie Plunkett of St. Clair County, Missouri, has a crush on Chloey Carew—but just how could he possibly compete with brash, outgoing, egotistical Harry Markesan for her attentions? Eenie meenie, time machine-ie.
Not entirely true. Georgie had traveled, two-three times to Kansas City. Hadn’t liked it much: fair enough. It hadn’t liked him, either. Been to Joplin a couple times to visit a sister; to Fort Scott once, to have a special piece of metal crafted for his time machine. That was it.
“A Turkey with Egg on His Face” by Rob Chilson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015.

Tomorrowland

by Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird, directed by Brad Bird
Tomorrowland by Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird, directed by Brad Bird (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Anaheim, California, 9 May 2015).

Back to the Fuhrer

by Chris Pearson, directed by Michael Shlain
Back to the Fuhrer by Chris Pearson, directed by Michael Shlain (Funny or Die, 23 May 2015).

Auld Lang Syne

written and directed by Bradley Porter
Auld Lang Syne written and directed by Bradley Porter (Vimeo: Bradley Porter Channel, 25 May 2015).

The Edge of Forever 1

The Edge of Forever

by Melissa E. Hurst
The Edge of Forever by Melissa E. Hurst (Sky Pony Press, June 2015).

WARP 3

The Forever Man

by Eoin Colfer
The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, June 2015).

Compton Valance 3

Super F.A.R.T.s versus the Master of Time

by Matt Brown
Super F.A.R.T.s versus the Master of Time by Matt Brown (Usborne, June 2015).

Apologies to Mr. Hawking

by J. D. Rice
A time-traveler sends his regrets for being unable to attend the widely announced reception that Stephen Hawking threw with an open invitation to all time travelers.
I regret to inform you that I will not be attending your reception, scheduled for 12:00 UT, 28 June 2009.
“Apologies to Mr. Hawking” by J. D. Rice, 365 Tomorrows, 4 June 2015 [webzine].

5 Questions To Ask Before You Time Travel

written and directed by Jeremy Eisener
5 Questions To Ask Before You Time Travel written and directed by Jeremy Eisener (Youtube: Jeremy Eisener Channel, 14 June 2015).

Narcopolis

written and directed by Justin Trefgarne
Narcopolis written and directed by Justin Trefgarne (Edinburgh International Film Festival, 19 June 2015).

Terminator 5

Terminator Genisys

by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, directed by Alan Taylor
  1. Watch The Terminator.
  2. [optional, but recommended] Watch T2.
  3. Suspend all questions about how various timelines can mesh.
  4. Enjoy Genisys.
  5. Bonus points if you can identify the other excellent time-travel movie with a main character named “Pops”! Answer: It Happened Tomorrow
— Michael Main
Sarah to Kyle: Come with me if you wanna live!
Terminator Genisys by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, directed by Alan Taylor (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Berlin, 21 June 2015).

Time Enough for Hate

by Edward D. Thompson
—time-machine wife revenge
“Time Enough for Hate” by Edward D. Thompson, 365 Tomorrows, 22 June 2015 [webzine].

The Color of Paradox

by A. M. Dellamonica
The Allies, facing the inevitable end of the world at the hands of the Russo-German Axis in the second Great War, send a young man back to 1920 Seattle where he hopes to enlist the aid of Agent Sixteen and change the course of the next three decades provided, of course, that he can overcome the psychological-horror-story side effects from the time travel.

Alyx Dellamonica says that this story is just the start of a longer work that she originally conceived but hasn’t yet developed. I would like to see the longer piece and have a better understanding of the psychological effects of time travel in Dellamonica’s universe.

My stomach cramped and I was, all at once, brimming with fury. I had an urge to chase her out of the room, to smash her head against the banister until her blood ran between my knuckles. To lick, drink. . . I touched my tongue to the notch between my clenched index and middle fingers, imagining salt, and saw a flash of color. . .
“The Color of Paradox” by A. M. Dellamonica, Tor.com Original Fiction, 25 June 2015 [webzine].

The Chronocar

by Steve Bellinger
The Chronocar by Steve Bellinger (Barking Rain Press, July 2015).

Future Ratboy 1

Future Ratboy and the Attack of the Killer Robot Grannies

by Jim Smith
Future Ratboy and the Attack of the Killer Robot Grannies by Jim Smith (Jelly Pie, July 2015).

Guaranteed Tenure

by H. B. Fyfe
In the year 2052, Inspector Johnny Keeler tells the story of why he’s now on the skids due to that alien Qualu who’s set up a time-travel business with a myriad of strict rules, the strictest of which is that he’s always available to the highest bidder (namely Joe Balton, the city’s crime boss).

Horace Browne Fyfe, Jr., was a prolific author, one of Campbell’s stable from 1940 (at age 22) through 1967. He died in 1997, so it would be interesting to hear how the editors of the Megapack ebooks tracked down this story of his, which is listed in the third time travel Megapack as previously unpublished.

“You see, Inspector,” he says, looking me up and down like I was dressed up for Halloween, “we are not permitted to adjust local-time affairs, for the simple reason that laws vary with time. The legal or moral, I am sure you understand, is a matter not only of place but also of time.”
“Guaranteed Tenure” by H. B. Fyfe, in The Third Time Travel Megapack, edited by John Betancourt et al., Wildside Press LLC, July 2015 [e-book].

Missing! City of Gold

by James Reasoner
Missing! City of Gold by James Reasoner (Tornado Alley Publications, July 2015).

Pollen from a Future Harvest

by Derek Künsken
A breeze of pollen from intelligent alien vegetation continually blows into one artificial wormhole and out another eleven years earlier, which gets Major Okonkwo’s government het up about using it to repeatedly send back research results while Okonkwo and her team try to figure out how and where the rival government is spying on things and why the pollen stream has stopped. All the while, there are discussions of how careful everyone must be to avoid grandfather paradoxes.

For me, Künsken’s earlier novella of aliens and time dilation (“Schools of Clay”) was a realistic, character-driven, multi-layered story worthy of a Hugo, but this second novella was less engaging, even though it does involve actual time travel.

On their way, the Force had discovered the time gates, a pair of artificial wormholes connected across eleven years of time. All the ancient wormholes were incalcuably valuable; their possession was the defining feature of the patron nations. Finding a wormhole was the Union’s chance to slip from beneath the yoke of the Congregate.
“Pollen from a Future Harvest” by Derek Künsken, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2015.

Time Salvager

by Wesley Chu
In a future where mankind’s civilization is collapsing in every corner of the solar system, ex-criminal James Griffin-Mars is one of the Chronmen who mines the past—from a space-opera 22nd century to a Big Brother autocracy to Nazi Germany—for whatever scrap might rescue humanity.
Then he pulled out the recently engraved Time Law Charter and lingered on it, his fingers brushing the inscriptions. He had found what he was looking for.
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (Tor Books, July 2015).

Dixon’s Road

by Rucgard Chwedyk
“Dixon’s Road” by Rucgard Chwedyk, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015.

Research Authorization

by David Atos
—strict rules exist on changing the past
“Research Authorization” by David Atos, 365 Tomorrows, 10 July 2015 [webzine].

Rick and Morty

by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon
Some might argue that Rick and Morty engage in mere time shenanigans—such as that whole time freeze thing and the parallel timelines—with no time travel. But the fourth-dimensional being with a testicle for a head does travel in time, most notably with that E = mc² bit at the end.
Okay, listen you two: We froze time for a pretty long time, so when I unfreeze it, the world’s time is gonna be fine, but our time is gonna need a little time to, you know, stabilize.
Rick and Morty by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (“A Rickle in Time,” 26 July 2015).

Blondie

by Chic Young
Did the Bumsteads ever run into a time machine back in Chic Young’s day? Whether they did or not, the modern version managed to combine a time machine and a sandwich in a way that will be compelling to everyone.
Well, maybe not everyone.
“Blondie” by Chic Young (30 July 2015).

Time Machine

English release: Time Machine

by Arati Kadav and Zain Matcheswalla, directed by Arati Kadav
Time Machine by Arati Kadav and Zain Matcheswalla, directed by Arati Kadav (Youtube: ShortFilmWindow Channel, 30 July 2015).

The First Step

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Divorced, workaholic professor Harvey DeLeo’s time machine is finally ready to test on a human, and against everyone’s advice he himself takes that first journey back to a time when he was still married to his beautiful wife and their son was but a toddler.
This day, the next hour, were the reasons he had built the device. Not so that graduate students in religion could travel back to Christ’s cruxifixion to see if it really happened as the Bible said. Not so that historians could add to their dissertations by actually speaking to Thomas Jefferson. Not so that techs could fruitlessly try to modify the device so that someone could finally shoot Hitler.
“The First Step” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2015.

Split Second 1

Split Second

by Douglas E. Richards
Split Second by Douglas E. Richards (Paragon Press, August 2015).

Regular Show: The Movie

by J. G. Quintel and Sean Szeles, directed by J. G. Quintel
Regular Show: The Movie by J. G. Quintel and Sean Szeles, directed by J. G. Quintel (at limited movie theaters, USA, 14 August 2015).

Doomsday

written and directed by Neil Johnson
Doomsday written and directed by Neil Johnson (unknown release details, 19 August 2015).

Unraveled

by Bob Newbell
—restoring the original timeline
“Unraveled” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 19 August 2015 [webzine].

Maze

by Gio Clairval
Professor Talbot puts a stray white rat in its maze, and she briefly hears the rat calling out to her for help. Then, after the rodent bites her, she finds herself as a sea captain serving at the pleasure of King George II (and perhaps also at the pleasure of a drowning rat).
She’s wearing a cocked hat of beaver fur over a red waistcoat. Her boat just arrived at a northern city on the Baltic, under a sky of zinc marred by sooty clouds.
“Maze” by Gio Clairval, Daily Science Fiction, 26 August 2015 [webzine].

Dinosaur Man

by Rhys Thomas
A nameless reporter in the future tells us how the discovery of a 70-million-year-old human fossil destroys science as we know it, leaving only one small colony of outcast scientists.
They became to society as pagans are to us. Considered mad but harmless they were left to their own devices, forgotten for over a century.
“Dinosaur Man” by Rhys Thomas, Daily Science Fiction, 31 August 2015 [webzine].

Arcadia

by Iain Pears
Arcadia by Iain Pears (Faber and Faber, September 2015).

Felix Frost Time Detective 1

Roman Riddle

by Eleanor Hawken
Roman Riddle by Eleanor Hawken (Quercus, September 2015).

Searching for Commander Parsec

by Peter Wood
Young Brian, who lives with his mother and idolizes his deadbeat father, listens to a long-gone, space opera radio show that’s still being picked up on his boombox—but it’s more than the radio signals that are time traveling!
This Commander Parsec show is pretty ridiculous. The commander is always rescuing bimbos and defeating the bad guys all over the Galaxy.
“Searching for Commander Parsec” by Peter Wood, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2015.

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World

by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” by Caroline M. Yoachim, in Lightspeed, September 2015.

The Theta Patient

by Chris Dietzel
After receiving three new patients at the mental institution he runs, Dr. Bradburn is immediately visited by an agent of the Tyranny who insists one of the men is a radical. Only by asking each patient a series of questions will the supposed threat be identified. But the questions Dr. Bradburn is told to ask—all about time travel!—will make him rethink everything he knows about the world around him.
— based on publicity material
“The Theta Patient” by Chris Dietzel (Watch the World End Publications, September 2015) [print · e-book].

Time Flies

by Carie Juettner
“Time Flies” by Carie Juettner, in Nature, 3 September 2015.

Miraculous Ladybug

by Thomas Astruc
Parisian teens Marinette Dupain-Cheng (aka Ladybug) and Adrien Agreste (aka Cat Noir) are classmates in school and partners in superheroing, although neither of them know the other’s secret identity. One of their friends, Alix Kubdel (aka Timebreaker), can travel through time when she rollerblades at just the right speed, although when she does so, she also becomes evilized (aka akumatized) courtesy of the series bad guy (aka Hawk Moth).
Uh, I really don’t have time to explain right now, but I’m you from just a few minutes in the future.
Miraculous Ladybug by Thomas Astruc (“Timebreaker,” 22 September 2015).

Heroes Reborn

by Tim Kring
The Heroes are back! Including time traveler Hiro! Unfortunately, neither Hiro nor a pair of Noahs could save the plotline of this miniseries (or save the cheerleader for that matter) during the first seven episodes. Matters pick up in Episode Eight, but head downhill again with Hiro out of the picture.
What’s time travel like? Where’s Hiro?
Heroes Reborn by Tim Kring (24 September 2015).

RWD

by Adam Hartley and Matt Stuertz, directed by Adam Hartley
RWD by Adam Hartley and Matt Stuertz, directed by Adam Hartley, Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tucson, Arizona, 25 September 2015.

Extra Life

by Derek Nikitas
Extra Life by Derek Nikitas (Polis Books, October 2015).

Get Back

by Donovan Day
Seventeen-year-old time traveler and Beatles junkie Lenny Funk hangs out with the Beatles in their early days and faces the ultimate time traveler’s dilemma: Do I warn John of his fate?
What will become of me?
Get Back by Donovan Day (Park Slope Publishing, October 2015).

Dewey Decimal Adventures / Aiden Pike 1

On the Sourdough Trail

by Mary C. Ryan
On the Sourdough Trail by Mary C. Ryan (Dragonseed Press, October 2015).

The Chronos Files 3

Time’s Divide

by Rysa Walker
Time’s Divide by Rysa Walker (Skyscape, October 2015).

The Citidel of Weeping Pearls

by Aliette de Bodard
Amidst royal intrigue and military escalation, in a place far from Earth and a time thirty years after a princess and heir to the throne vanished along with the citadel where she lived, the disappearance still occupies the minds of an ensemble of people, One of that ensemble, Diem Huong, was a girl when the citadel stole her mother away, but now Diem Huong is an engineer on a project which is determined to travel back those thirty years.
Mother had gone on ahead, Ancesters only knew where. So there was no way forward. But somewhere in the starlit hours of the past—somewhere in the days when the Citadel still existed, and Bright Princess Ngoc Minh’s quarrel with the empress was still fresh and raw—Mother was still alive.

There was a way back.

“The Citidel of Weeping Pearls” by Aliette de Bodard, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2015.

Hollywood after 10

by Thomas Esaias
In the post-Chronarch civilization, groups of wealthy time travelers enthusiastically take on causes in the past, such as making sure of a successful Norman Mailer fund-raising party to support the convicted Hollywood 10 in the McCarthy era.
A child doesn’t fully mature until it self-consciously overcomes the mistakes its parents and its community made in raising it. What we are doing is saying to our ancestors, ‘Here and here you were wrong. We refuse to accept these errors. We are taking command of our own history.’ This is part of the maturing of human culture.
“Hollywood after 10” by Thomas Esaias, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2015.

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show

|pending byline|
Why am I not surprised that I can’t find any information on who had the idea of ruining this childhood favorite?
But first let’s get things rolling by introducing an incredible invention of mine that I like to call the WABAC machine.
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show |pending byline| (9 October 2015).

{BLINK}

by Brad Crawford
—an unpredictable time machine
“{BLINK}” by Brad Crawford, 365 Tomorrows, 13 October 2015 [webzine].

Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves The World

by Bob Gale, Glenn Sanders, and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Glenn Sanders and Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves The World by Bob Gale, Glenn Sanders, and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Glenn Sanders and Robert Zemeckis (direct-to-video, USA, 20 October 2015).

Prime Time

by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
Something goes awry when Aurelia’s Dad uses his time machine to come back and warn Aurelia about the fact that she’s going to disappear tonight.

P.S. to Jennifer Campbell-Hicks and the Nature editors: The number one is not considered prime, probably because that would cause prime number factorization to not be unique, but since we don’t know the cause of the total number of dads always being prime, we can overlook that issue.

What do you think? Your machine is broken. It’s spitting you out, over and over. You’re coming out in groups so you always add up to a prime number. We had seven. Now it’s eleven.
“Prime Time” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, in Nature, 22 October 2015.

Unjust

by Beck Dacus
—time machines and courts of law
“Unjust” by Beck Dacus, 365 Tomorrows, 24 October 2015 [webzine].

Time Device

written and directed by Derick Thomas
Time Device written and directed by Derick Thomas (Davision Entertainment, 26 October 2015 [online]).

Max Pierson-Takahashi 2

Borrowed Time

by Greg Leitich Smith
Borrowed Time by Greg Leitich Smith (Clarion Books, November 2015).

Time & Shadows Mysteries 2

Convergence Point

by Liana Brooks
Convergence Point by Liana Brooks (Harper Voyager Impulse, November 2015).

Life/Time in the New World

by Ann Christy
“Life/Time in the New World” by Ann Christy, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, November 2015).

It’s All Relative at the Space-Time Café

by Norman Birnbach
“It’s All Relative at the Space-Time Café” by Norman Birnbach, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2015.

Tomorrow Is a Lovely Day

by Lisa Mason
Benjamin, having a really bad day working at his seemingly pointless job watching a machine that supposedly retrieves information from the future, gets a feeling that he and the machine’s inventor have been through all this before.
I substituted phase-compensating lenses to dispel the zero average of the cosine function mandated by Eberhard’s proof. I instituted an autocidal-prevention mechanism to avoid the self-canceling paradox. Kill my own grandfather? Father a child who will bear a child who will kill me? What nonsense. My calcite crystals generate superluminal tachyons. Information from the future! The Nostradamus Machine!
“Tomorrow Is a Lovely Day” by Lisa Mason, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2015.

The Diatomic Quantum Flop

by Daniel Arthur Smith
A college tripper and his three buddies use a nanodrug and sensory deprivation tanks in order to experience increasingly longer periods of time inside a simultaneous, non-linear, Eastern religion fashion—a useful way of viewing the world when you’re at a casino.
The conversation I was having was déjà vu, but at the same time I was already into tomorrow, and back to earlier in the evening walking up Marty’s porch, looking at the huge Om symbol on the psychedelic tapestry that curtained his window,
“The Diatomic Quantum Flop” by Daniel Arthur Smith, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

Excess Baggage

by Carol Davis
By chance, fourteen-year-old Toby Cobb gets in the path of time-traveler John Asher who’s headed to save an important woman from the great San Francisco earthquake. As a result, both of them end up trapped in a wasteland.
You can’t change history, dude. Known fact. You can’t mess with things. Create paradoxes. You could much everything up so you don’t even exist, like in Back to the Future. And, like, every time travel story known to man. You shouldn’t even be telling me this.
“Excess Baggage” by Carol Davis, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

Extant

by Anthony Vicino
Three paratroopers—Kaelyn, Zoe, and Maddix—are having a really bad jump, but fortunately they can always unwind time by a limited number of seconds.
Time reversed, dragging at my atoms like a boat suddenly throwing down its anchor whilst traveling at full speed. Nausea and vertigo twisted about, dancing just beyond the perimeter of my mind before slamming into my chest and driving the air out of my lungs.
“Extant” by Anthony Vicino, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

Meddler

by Ernie Luis
Miller, who deals in illicit drugs sent from the future, knows the eventual fate of each of his clients, but he can never intervene, not even when his all those people are dying one after another.
I boot up my laptop and search for an old report I got on Jeff when he first started coming in. A report from the future. We call it an insight document. And it tells us everything we need to know about the future of our clients.
“Meddler” by Ernie Luis, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

The Nothing Gate

by Tracy Banghart
Teenager Juniper Young is a pariah in her own Maine town because her father was one of the messengers about the climate change that did come true. However now he’s funding a solution.
It’s an escape, of sorts. But. . . but not outward.
“The Nothing Gate” by Tracy Banghart, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

Red Mustang

by Michael Holden
Sixty-five-year-old Jimmy Spaulding, a combination handy-man/petty-thief, agrees to drive an old Grace Clark to an unknown destination in return for her not pressing larceny charges against him.

I liked the story’s atmosphere, but felt that the author needed better research about prices in the 60s. By my calculations, that red Mustang must have held about 70 gallons of gas—leaded gas, that is—given the price they paid for a fill-up. And back in hippie days, teen talk should have been peppered with “cool” far more than “like.”

Pulling back the tarp, I exposed a chromed grill and red paint. Peeling it back fruther, careful not to drap the tarp and bugger up the finish, I found more chrome, more red paint, and red vinyl upholstered seats. As I uncovered more and more of the car, a vague feeling of familiarity crept over me.
“Red Mustang” by Michael Holden, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

The Traveler

by Stefan Bolz
After a twelve-year-old boy’s father dies, the boy finds directions for making H.G. Wells’s time machine in the father’s workshop.
What followed were twenty pages of neatly written text intertwined with drawings, sketches, and mathematical formulas. Then several pages with lists of materials.
“The Traveler” by Stefan Bolz, in The Time Travel Chronicles, edited by Crystal Watanabe (Windrift Books, 2 November 2015).

The Last of Time

by Ken Poyner
The guy who cleans the time machines in the Duchy of New York tells us about his job.
Mostly the job is scratching stray seconds and the occasional minute out of the rigging, sucking up a misplaced nanosecond that somehow got into the cockpit.
“The Last of Time” by Ken Poyner, Daily Science Fiction, 4 November 2015 [webzine].

1916-ish

by Ebony McKenna
1916-ish by Ebony McKenna (unknown publisher, December 2015) [e-book].

Paris, 1835

by Bill Johnson
Decade by decade, Martin and his AI, Artie (introduced in the second story of the series), work to restore their home timeline, continuously hoping that some other damnfool time traveler won’t come along and mess things up again.

In this first story, Martin (sans Artie) and a countess from a different timeline butt heads over whose timeline they should try to recreate.

I was in the way back. Far, far back. I skipped downtime and uptime, back to my past and then up to my home, and everything worked find. Then one day, in the far back, I tried to go home.
“Paris, 1835” by Bill Johnson, in Analog, December 2015.

Reset

by Gryphon Ward and Cassandra Ward, directed by Sven Plough Johansen
After moving to a new school when his father died, 12-year-old Jaywon struggles with bullies and depression—a situation that certainly seems like it could be helped by a handheld sphere that can turn back time.
— Michael Main
A hundred and forty-two thousand divided by sixteen-oh-nine, you’re gonna get somewhere right around eighty-eight miles every one hour—Great Scott!, right? (silence) No? Seriously? I’m getting old.
Reset by Gryphon Ward and Cassandra Ward, directed by Sven Plough Johansen (Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival, 4 December 2015).

Meeting of the Minds

by S T Xavier
—time traveler vs himselves biannually
“Meeting of the Minds” by S T Xavier, 365 Tomorrows, 7 December 2015 [webzine].

Hamlet’s Ghost

by Walker Haynes and Cleve Nettles, directed by Walker Haynes
Hamlet’s Ghost by Walker Haynes and Cleve Nettles, directed by Walker Haynes (at movie theaters, USA, 11 December 2015).

Nathaniel

by Mary Ogle
“Nathaniel” by Mary Ogle, Daily Science Fiction, 21 December 2015 [webzine].

Million Eyes 0.01

Who Is Rudolph Fentz?

by C. R. Berry
It would seem that Jack Finney got it wrong in his 1951 story “I’m Scared.” But never fear! C. R. Berry tells us the true story of how a certain Mr. Rudolph Fentz came to find himself in front of a cab on a busy street next to Times Square.
— Michael Main
At 11.15pm, Forrest was passing through Times Square, New York City, heading for his apartment on West 51st Street during Times Square’s busiest time, theatre letting out time. Carving through the crowds, wishing he’d gone a different way, Forrest noticed a man in his thirties standing in the middle of the road.
“Who Is Rudolph Fentz?” by C. R. Berry, in Scribble 68, Winter 2015.

Adventures of Louanna Lee: The Movie

by Mark Squirek et al. , directed by Lee Doll et al.
Adventures of Louanna Lee: The Movie by Mark Squirek et al. , directed by Lee Doll et al. (unknown release details, circa 2015).

The Left Behinds 2

Abe Lincoln and the Selfie That Saved the Union

by David Potter
Abe Lincoln and the Selfie That Saved the Union by David Potter (Crown Books for Young Readers, January 2016).

Felix Frost Time Detective 2

Ghost Plane

by Eleanor Hawken
Ghost Plane by Eleanor Hawken (Quercus, January 2016).

Time Shift 1

The Year of Lightning

by Ryan Dalton
The Year of Lightning by Ryan Dalton (Jolly Fish Press, January 2016).

Robot from the Future

by Terry Bisson
Eleven-year-old Theodore, his enhanced dog Bette, and his Grandpa deal with a robot who’s traveled from a post-singularity future and needs a Mason jar of gas-o-line to get back home without endangering the Time line.
“There is no Time machine,” it says. “We are not supposed to be here but our Time line pinched and we are in big trouble unless you can help.”
“Robot from the Future” by Terry Bisson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2016.

Sherlock [s04e00: special]

The Abominable Bride

by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
Sherlock, (s04 special), “The Abominable Bride” by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat (1 January 2016).

僕だけがいない街

Boku dake ga inai machi English release: Erased Literal: The city where only I am missing

by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn]
This 12-part anime adaptation of Kei Sambe’s manga felt more abbreviated than the 12-part live-action version, and the characters were not as captivating for me.
I call the process “Revival.” I usually go back between one and five minutes.
[ex=bare]僕だけがいない街 | The city where only I am missing | Boku dake ga inai machi[/ex] by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn] (8 January 2016).

Space Cop

by Mike Stoklasa, directed by Jay Bauman and Stoklasa
Space Cop by Mike Stoklasa, directed by Jay Bauman and Stoklasa (direct-to-video, USA, 12 January 2016).

My First Time

written and directed by Hank Isaac
My First Time written and directed by Hank Isaac (unknown release details, 18 January 2016).

New Under the Sun

by Janet Shell Anderson
—circular time on a prison planet
“New Under the Sun” by Janet Shell Anderson, 365 Tomorrows, 28 January 2016 [webzine].

Time Detectives [Woolf] 4

The Curse of Castle Cranston

by Alex Woolf
The Curse of Castle Cranston by Alex Woolf (ReadZone Books Limited, February 2016).

Flashback Four 1

The Lincoln Project

by Dan Gutman
The Lincoln Project by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, February 2016).

Movers

by Meaghan McIsaac
Movers by Meaghan McIsaac (Tundra Books, February 2016).

Dewey Decimal Adventures / Aiden Pike 2

Newshound

by Mary C. Ryan
Newshound by Mary C. Ryan (Dragonseed Press, February 2016).

Timewaves 1

The Syndicate

by Sophie Davis
The Syndicate by Sophie Davis (self-published, February 2016).

Version Control

by Dexter Palmer
I don“t know whether there’s any other book with Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data that lists the topics:
  1. Married women—Fiction.
  2. Physicists—Fiction.
  3. Quantum theory—Fiction.
The married woman is Rebecca Wright, a complex, introspective twenty-something who eventually lands a job at the online dating site Lovability; her physicist husband Philip Steiner has invented a time machine, um, excuse me, a causality violation device. I didn’t actually see any quantum physics going on, but there are multiple timelines, complex relationships, poking fun at both modern cybersocial life and modern academia, and philosophical discussions—all from my friend Marga as a gift for my 60th birthday.
He can read her face, and can tell that she agrees the opinion that he himself is too politic to speak aloud: that the papers being delivered today are not that good. They are not very interesting. They are parsimoniously doled out fingernail parings of thought, bloated into full length by badly written prose and extensive recapitulations of material with which an audience of this kind would already be familiar. They are evidence that the desire to bide one’s time in order to do good science has be sublimated to the constant drive to publish; as the saying goes, the committees that hand out funds and grand tenure cannot read, but they can count.
Version Control by Dexter Palmer (Pantheon Books, February 2016).

Displacement

written and directed by Kenneth Mader
Brilliant physics student Cassandra Sinclair finds herself running from the evil Initiative Organization—which includes her childhood friend Josh and a posh lady with an English accent—who are after the equations in her thesis notes that somehow (she’s not quite sure how) launched her on multiple slips back in time (we counted eight) that may or may not result in destroying yourself by getting too close to yourself, a closed timelike curve, quantum entanglement, and/or solving the Grandfather Paradox (without ever having anything that resembles the Grandfather Paradox, quantum entanglement, or a closed timelike curve). We suspect that writer/director Kenneth Mader had been reading “Experimental Simulation of Closed Timelike Curves,” but the actual science didn’t fully translate from the lab to the silver screen.

Handy Hint: The movie is eminently more watchable in a late-night group where everyone shouts “Great Scott!” whenever a character spews a sequence of pseudoscientific quantum mumbo jumbo that vaguely resembles an English sentence.

— Michael Main
We’ve been running simulations to resolve the Grandfather Paradox, and we experienced an unusual electromagnetic pulse at the school that was triggered remotely. We were able to locate the source, but I suspect someone may have taken our simulations a step further. . . . The equation in your daughter’s thesis notes may have actually solved the paradox. But they’re untested and now they’re missing, and you said Charles has been absent. Could he have taken them and induced an entanglement?!
Displacement written and directed by Kenneth Mader (Boston SciFi Film Festival, 7 February 2016).

This Is the Most Important Job You Have to Do

by Danielle Bodnar
—postapocalytic time machine
“This Is the Most Important Job You Have to Do” by Danielle Bodnar, 365 Tomorrows, 10 February 2016 [webzine].

Star Trek

The Many and the Few

by Wendy Welcott
Spock travels back and forth through time to save the Federation.
— Michael Main
Peering into the murky abyss, Spock saw something he had never seen before: a window, a portal to that other world, not a vision, not a light, but a feeling, a feeling he didn’t understand—wonderment.
The Many and the Few by Wendy Welcott, submission to Star Trek’s To Boldly Go Script Competition, 16 February 2016.

Prisoner X

written and directed by Gaurav Seth
Prisoner X written and directed by Gaurav Seth (Fantasporto Film Festival, Porto, Portugual, 27 February 2016).

Future Imperfect

by Simon Rose
Future Imperfect by Simon Rose (Tyche Books, March 2016) [e-book].

I Hate Time Travellers

by Lee J Isserow
Turns out the Luke is one of the few people on Earth who didn’t get involuntarily evolved into a time traveler.
— Michael Main
All of them except Luke Denton and around a thousand other souls who’d been left behind whilst the rest of the human race were evolved against their will, by a force conspiracy theorists around the world had put down to anything from governmental to extra terrestrial tinkering.
I Hate Time Travellers by Lee J Isserow (ABAM.info, March 2016) [audio reading].

Into the Dim 1

Into the Dim

by Janet B. Taylor
Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2016).

The Kirov Saga: Excerpts 2

Vendetta

by John Schettler
Vendetta by John Schettler (Writing Shop, March 2016).

Echo///Back: The Time Travel Virus

by William Rosenthal, directed by Tristram Geary
Echo///Back: The Time Travel Virus by William Rosenthal, directed by Tristram Geary (Youtube: Torchborn Channel, 21 March 2016).

Spacedad

by Amanda Grace Shu
Clare is the time-traveler’s daughter, more or less, although she thinks that her daddy is in space. But maybe she’s right in that it certainly seems that her daddy could be a time traveler from outer space.
He is an old man at her birth, a youth at her third birthday party, and a fifty-something when he walks her to her first day of kindergarten.
“Spacedad” by Amanda Grace Shu, Daily Science Fiction, 23 March 2016 [webzine].

The Visit

by Christopher Jon Heuer
Billy’s dad gives an incorrect explanation of why time travel is impossible, an explanation that was worn out when Astounding was still young.
Dad, do you think time travel is possible?
“The Visit” by Christopher Jon Heuer, Daily Science Fiction, 28 March 2016 [webzine].

23 Minutes

by Vivian Vande Velde
23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde (Boyds Mills Press, April 2016).

Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs

by Rosemary Claire Smith
Now a wildlife biologist, Dr. Marty Zuber and his girlfriend Julianna Carson head to the Mesozoic to try to head off the commercial ambitions of Marty's arch-nemesis, the always nefarious Dr. Derek Dill.
What should you do if a mosasaur comes up out of the sewer and into your bathroom?
“Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs” by Rosemary Claire Smith, in Analog, April 2016.

The DATA Set 2

Don’t Disturb the Dinosaurs

by Ada Hopper
Don’t Disturb the Dinosaurs by Ada Hopper (Little Simon, April 2016).

Early Warnings

by Martin L. Shoemaker
A physicist's future me travels back in time to warn him about the perils of breaking up with Gwen.
His story was ridiculous, but he really did look like me plus twenty years, and he knew things about me that nobody else could know.
“Early Warnings” by Martin L. Shoemaker, in Analog, April 2016.

Future Shock 1

Future Shock

by Elizabeth Briggs
Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs (AW Teen, April 2016).

Infinite Time 1

Infinite Time

by H. J. Lawson
Infinite Time by H. J. Lawson (self-published, April 2016).

Once Was a Time

by Leila Sales
Once Was a Time by Leila Sales (Chronicle Books, April 2016).

Compton Valance 4

Revenge of the Fancy-Pants Time Pirate

by Matt Brown
Revenge of the Fancy-Pants Time Pirate by Matt Brown (Usborne, April 2016).

Hydrogen Butterfly

by Glenn S. Austin
—back to the primordial solar system
“Hydrogen Butterfly” by Glenn S. Austin, 365 Tomorrows, 4 April 2016 [webzine].

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

by Josh Whedon et al.
This show had the episode (“Spacetime”) that pushed me over the edge in the matter of whether to include precognition/premonitions in my time travel list. But when Fitz has quotes such as “You guys, there is no time—” how could I not? It may take me a while to pull in other visions-of-the-future stories, and I won’t include obvious non-examples (such as predicting the future based on elements that are available in the present moment), but I shall persevere. Here’s the reasoning behind my new ruling: If you (or Daisy) are actually getting a picture of the future, then Occam’s Razor says that information about the future is most likely traveling through time. Case closed.
Coulson: Like, in Terminator, if John Connor’s alive and able to send his friend back in time to save his mom to make sure he’s born, doesn’t that mean he doesn’t have to?
Lincoln: I, uh, never saw the original Terminator.
Coulson: You’re off the team.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Josh Whedon et al. (“Spacetime,” 5 April 2016).

Quantum Break

|pending byline|
Quantum Break |pending byline| (included with game, 5 April 2016).

The Treasures of Fred

by Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey
After Frederick A. Hayes dies, his daughter Charlotte finds use for various of his things, but not for his Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Abramowitz and Stegan, 1970) which some burglar repeatedly steals as he and the daughter relive the day of the funeral over and over, apparently as a consequence of a time trap that the father set.
My father set a time trap?
“The Treasures of Fred” by Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey, Daily Science Fiction, 8 April 2016 [webzine].

A Hazy Shade of Winter

by Adam B. Levine
Feeling old, a woman uses the new view-the-past technology to drop in on her younger self.
Of course, that thought immediately slipped her mind when she turned on the news and saw the main story for the day: time travel had been discovered.
“A Hazy Shade of Winter” by Adam B. Levine, Daily Science Fiction, 12 April 2016 [webzine].

Stricken from the Record of Space and Time

by Charlie Sandefer
—saving a scientist’s son
“Stricken from the Record of Space and Time” by Charlie Sandefer, 365 Tomorrows, 12 April 2016 [webzine].

Hurok

written and directed by Isti Madarász
Hurok written and directed by Isti Madarász (unknown release details, 14 April 2016).

Paradox

written and directed by Michael Hurst
A mysterious, wealthy boss and his dysfunctional group of twenty-somethings build a secret time machine while the NSA surveils the affair. But when the group sends their first victim traveler forward, he comes back with news that someone is murdering them all, after which the story turns into a teen slashfest with bad acting, worse writing, and no interesting turns. Nevertheless, the movie does an almost perfect job when it comes to creating a single, nonparadoxical timeline.
— Michael Main
Jim: We have a time machine. We have a time machine! None of this has to happen, okay? Somebody goes back and they warn us not to come. So whoever the killer is, he doesn’t get to kill anybody, not today.
Bubbles: Yeah, that’s good.
Gale: Yeah.
Randy: No, we can’t do that. We’ll cause a paradox!
Paradox written and directed by Michael Hurst (at movie theaters, USA, 15 April 2016).

Future Boyfriend

by A. Vincent Warich, directed by Ben Rock
Future Boyfriend by A. Vincent Warich, directed by Ben Rock (Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, 16 April 2016).

Infinite Time

by H. J. Lawson
The cover blurb for Infinite Time, the first short book of a series, says Save the girl. Save the day. Save yourself. Not only that, but in the opening pages, Parker (the high-school Hero) blames himself for the death of his Uncle Ben father at the hand of a robber many years ago. Eventually Parker will get a time-travel opportunity to save his father and stop his mother from remarrying the lazy step-father, but not until the second book or later. In the first book, Parker must deal with the high-school bully, a well-written crush on a cheerleader, and a time travel setup that has him meet other time travelers who are given mysterious missions to complete.
It’s not a game, and it’s not a dream. I can time-travel. Clint can. Bruce, too, when he’s not writing on the ground, and apparently so can you.
Infinite Time by H. J. Lawson (26 April 2016).

Paradox Lost

by Bob Newbell
—a grandfather paradox
“Paradox Lost” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 29 April 2016 [webzine].

Time Toys

written and directed by Mark Rosman
Time Toys written and directed by Mark Rosman (Transforming Stories International Christian Film Festival, showings across South Africa, 29 April 2016).

The Gettysburg Game

by Jeff Calhoun
“The Gettysburg Game” by Jeff Calhoun, in Galaxy’s Edge, May 2016.

The Kirov Saga 24

Second Front

by John Schettler
Second Front by John Schettler (CreateSpace, May 2016).

Timebomb Trilogy 2

Second Lives

by Scott Andrews
Second Lives by Scott Andrews (Hodder and Stoughton, May 2016).

The Square Root of Summer

by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood (Roaring Brook Press, May 2016).

Flight from the Ages

by Derek Künsken
In a mind-bending story with vast ideas on every page bang, the artificial intelligence Ulixes-316 starts as a financial agent for a galaxy-spanning bank in which he and Poluphemos witness (or cause?) an explosion that sets off a wavefront that’s collapsing space time at an ever expanding rate. With this as background, time travel plays both a minor role in a light-years-wide tachyon-based computing network and the key role in how a degenerating Ulixes can take care of his damaged companion Poluphemos and take an ethically questionable step that involves rewriting the Big Bang.
Correct, little algorithm, but we are not in your present. We transmitted ourselves by tachyons into the past, back into the stelliferous period, to one of the first galaxies. We have been working here in the morning of the Universe for twelve million years.
“Flight from the Ages” by Derek Künsken, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2016.

24

written and directed by Vikram K. Kumar
A scientist invents a time-traveling watch, which his evil twin brother wants to get hold of. Years later, the scientist’s son batles his uncle, who is still desperately in search of the watch.
— from publicity material
24 written and directed by Vikram K. Kumar (unknown release details, 5 May 2016).

A Little Something

written and directed by Brett Eichenberger
A time-traveling salesman brings a gift to a woman who’s about to begin cancer treatment.
— Michael Main
I just googled woolly mammoth, babies, clones . . .
A Little Something written and directed by Brett Eichenberger (Roswell Film Festival, 21 May 2016).

Would Santayana Take It Back?

by Joe Queenan
Shortly after the publication of Wells’s The Time Machine, Jorge Agustin Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (aka George Santayana) is visited by time travelers who beseech him to never put his only historically remembered sentence.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
“Would Santayana Take It Back?” by Joe Queenan, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 May 2016 (online edition).

Eight Minutes

by Jonathan K. Harline
—end-of-world time loop
“Eight Minutes” by Jonathan K. Harline, 365 Tomorrows, 31 May 2016 [webzine].

Time Squared

by Brian K. Larson
In the first book, Jonas Arnell and his crew awaken at Gliese 667 after a cryogenic sleep to find that the signals they detected from Earth are coming from an abandoned version of their own ship.
We’ve got a reactant coolant leak!
Time Squared by Brian K. Larson (31 May 2016).

Hold the Moment

by Marie Vibbert
“Hold the Moment” by Marie Vibbert, in Analog, June 2016.

Rats Dream of the Future

by Paul McAuley
“Rats Dream of the Future” by Paul McAuley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2016.

When the Stone Eagle Flies

by Bill Johnson
The Stone Eagle is both a sign and a meeting place for the myriad of odd ones from the future and the past, including Martin and his embedded AI, Artie. In this second adventure, they're back in ancient Mesopotamia, still trying to restore Martin's timeline.
“The odd ones from the future and the past,” she said, matter-of-factly. “The ones who taught us that the past and future are not one simple path but more like a basket full of loose threads. And all these threads are strung together with different starting points and different events, like knots, along the threads.”
“When the Stone Eagle Flies” by Bill Johnson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2016.

The Day the Future Invaded

by Beth Powers
One Friday afternoon in the middle of winter, time travelers from the future appear along with their various gadgets and green food.
Ruptures in space time. . . quantum [gobbledygook]. . . not linear.
“The Day the Future Invaded” by Beth Powers, Daily Science Fiction, 2 June 2016 [webzine].

Beautiful Dreamer

by David Gaddie and Steven Kelleher, directed by David Gaddie
Beautiful Dreamer by David Gaddie and Steven Kelleher, directed by David Gaddie (unknown release details, 10 June 2016).

TimeCorp

by Steven Journey
—that whole Earth-is-moving business
“TimeCorp” by Steven Journey, 365 Tomorrows, 30 June 2016 [webzine].

Future Ratboy 2

Future Ratboy and the Invasion of the Nom Noms

by Jim Smith
Future Ratboy and the Invasion of the Nom Noms by Jim Smith (Jelly Pie, July 2016).

In Due Time 1

Going, Going, Gone

by Caroline Hickey
Going, Going, Gone by Caroline Hickey (Simon Spotlight, July 2016).

In Due Time 2

Stay a Spell

by Sheila Sweeny Higginson
Stay a Spell by Sheila Sweeny Higginson (Simon Spotlight, July 2016).

The Timekeepers

by Matthew Harrison
—a 13-hour watch controls time
“The Timekeepers” by Matthew Harrison, 365 Tomorrows, 11 July 2016 [webzine].

Matured

by Jae Miles
—illicit sampling of past food and wine
“Matured” by Jae Miles, 365 Tomorrows, 12 July 2016 [webzine].

Star Trek Beyond

by Simon Pegg et al. , directed by Justin Lin
Star Trek Beyond by Simon Pegg et al. , directed by Justin Lin (at movie theaters, Indonesia and elsewhere, 20 July 2016).

Repeat One

by Andrew Neil McDonald
Marty meets an old man who explains how things are.
“We exist within a glitch of the space-time continuum,” he said, hands flailing, “and are doomed to relive this exact moment, this exact conversation, forever.”
“Repeat One” by Andrew Neil McDonald, Daily Science Fiction, 28 July 2016 [webzine].

Nothing but Time

by Stephen R. Smith
—trapped in a long time loop as an observer
“Nothing but Time” by Stephen R. Smith, 365 Tomorrows, 29 July 2016 [webzine].

One Man’s Trash . . .

by Edward D. Thompson
—mining the past for trash
“One Man’s Trash . . .” by Edward D. Thompson, 365 Tomorrows, 30 July 2016 [webzine].

Warrior Heroes 6

The Egyptian Warrior

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Egyptian Warrior by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (Crabtree Publishing, August 2016).

Infinite Time 2

Future Bound

by H. J. Lawson
Future Bound by H. J. Lawson (self-published, August 2016).

Last Descendants 1

Last Descendants

by Matthew J. Kirby
Last Descendants by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, August 2016).

The Kirov Saga: Excerpts 3

Roll of Thunder: The Alternate History of the Pacific War

by John Schettler
Roll of Thunder: The Alternate History of the Pacific War by John Schettler (Writing Shop, August 2016).

Warrior Heroes 5

The Spartan’s March

by Benjamin Hulme-Cross
The Spartan’s March by Benjamin Hulme-Cross (Crabtree Publishing, August 2016).

Toppers

by Jason Sanford
Hanger-girl and other lost souls live in a future New York City of crumbling buildings and a ground-level mist that will take you if you let it. The way all this came about involves a researcher who tried to open tiny doors through time.
The mists are time itself, or at least time as it exists here.
“Toppers” by Jason Sanford, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2016.

ISRA 88

by Jordan Champine and Thomas Zellen, directed by Thomas Zellen
ISRA 88 by Jordan Champine and Thomas Zellen, directed by Thomas Zellen (unknown release details, 8 August 2016).

Fate

written and directed by Dan Sheldon
Fate written and directed by Dan Sheldon (unknown release details, 15 August 2016).

A Promise of Time Travel

written and directed by Craig Jessen, produced by April Grace Lowe
After fifteen years of estrangement, bookish Zelda Jones reunites with her best friend from high school, Cassie . At the start of their new relationship, it’s not apparent that their interactions are going anywhere, but as the other main characters weave their way into the plot, Zelda learns about time travel on a single, static timeline, and the pieces lock nicely into place.

Oh, and Dave’s grandfather had a plot to go back and kill Hitler, but that’s not really relevant to Zelda (and Cassie and Walter and John and Charlie).

— Michael Main
If you do travel back in time, even though it’s in your subjective future, it’s in the objective past. So if you could travel back in time and if you were determined to change the past, when it came down to it, you’d either decide not to, or you’d fail.
A Promise of Time Travel written and directed by Craig Jessen, produced by April Grace Lowe (North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, 16 August 2016).

Academic Circles

by Peter Wood
Kate Warner, assistant professor of English, doesn’t see how that dimwitted Marzano could have submitted her paper on The Man in the High Castle to The Hoboken Literary Journal 18 months before she even started writing it.

Wood creates some likeable characters, but there is no consistency in his model of time travel.

You have a time machine and you’re not doing anything important or helping anyone. All you’re doing messing with me.
“Academic Circles” by Peter Wood, in Asimov’s Science Ficton, September 2016.

Blowback 1

Blowback ’07

by Brian Meehl
Blowback ’07 by Brian Meehl (MCP Books, September 2016).

The Kirov Saga: Excerpts 1

Foxbane

by John Schettler
Foxbane by John Schettler (Writing Shop, September 2016).

Time After Time [Curtin] 1

Time after Time

by Judi Curtin
Time after Time by Judi Curtin (O’Brien Press, September 2016).

In Due Time 3

Wrong Place, (Really) Wrong Time

by Caroline Hickey
Wrong Place, (Really) Wrong Time by Caroline Hickey (Simon Spotlight, September 2016).

Arrival

by Eric Heisserer, directed by Denis Villeneuve
Arrival by Eric Heisserer, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Venice Film Festival, 1 September 2016).

Counter Clockwise

by Michael Kopelow and George Moïse, directed by George Moïse
Counter Clockwise by Michael Kopelow and George Moïse, directed by George Moïse (Film Invasion L.A., 1 September 2016).

ARQ

written and directed by Tony Elliott
Ren (and eventually Hannah) are stuck in a time loop, fighting the Bloc—a group of violent men who at first don’t seem interested in the time-looping machine (aka the ARQ).
— Michael Main
I already tried that.
ARQ written and directed by Tony Elliott (Toronto International Film Festival, 9 September 2016).

Running Back

by Beck Dacus
—time reversal at a 1 to –1 ratio
“Running Back” by Beck Dacus, 365 Tomorrows, 17 September 2016 [webzine].

The Tim Machine

by Matt Larsen
Time travelers are among us in knitting groups and speaking to Tim through his cell phone.
Faster than light travel makes it possible to send an observer out and back before he left.
“The Tim Machine” by Matt Larsen, Daily Science Fiction, 26 September 2016 [webzine].

Million Eyes 0.03

The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller

by C. R. Berry
What could that mysterious woman be doing on the film clip of the 1928 premier of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, other than apparently talking into a small brick held to her ear?
— Michael Main
Yup, this woman was talking on a mobile phone—in 1928—decades before they were invented.
“The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller” by C. R. Berry, in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016.

Spinners 1

Rewind 717

by Christian Kallias
Rewind 717 by Christian Kallias (self-published, October 2016).

Kirov Battle Books 4

Sea of Fire

by John Schettler
Sea of Fire by John Schettler (Writing Shop, October 2016).

Time Detectives [Woolf] 3

The Tale of Tutankhamun’s Treasure

by Alex Woolf
The Tale of Tutankhamun’s Treasure by Alex Woolf (ReadZone Books Limited, October 2016).

Time Traveling with a Hamster

by Ross Welford
Time Traveling with a Hamster by Ross Welford (Schwartz and Wade, October 2016).

When Grandfather Returns

by Sharon N. Farber
In the times of the conquistadors, young Thunder Cries is such a hellion that his parents eventually give him over to the spirits to raise.
When all was quiet, he walked into the future in his dreams. He saw these Turtle Men at a village like his mother's, perhaps his mother's village. All villages met the same fate.
“When Grandfather Returns” by Sharon N. Farber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2016.

Timeless

by Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke
I like the show’s period sets and the three main characters: history professor Lucy Preston, timeship pilot/scientist Rufus Carlin, and Delta Force soldier Wyatt Logan. I even like the bad guy that the trio chases through time. But I’m going to use the show to illustrate two questions that I wish they’d answer:

1. Take Lucy, for example. She and her pals go back in time and change something so that when they return to the present, the previously sistered Lucy no longer has a sister, Amy. And everyone except the travelers remember the Amyless version. That Lucy is quite a different Lucy, complete with a fiancé. So what happened to that Lucy?

2. When they discover that evil Garcia Flynn has gone back to some time in history, they inevitably rush to get there quickly. Why are they rushing? And why don’t they consider going back to before Flynn’s arrival in the past to be ready for him when he arrives?

But, yeah, I like the show and their cool timeship.

Lucy? What the hell has gotten into you? And who’s Amy?
Timeless by Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke (3 October 2016).

The Ouroboros Ship

by T.N. Allan
—timeloop on a spaceship with no food
“The Ouroboros Ship” by T.N. Allan, 365 Tomorrows, 19 October 2016 [webzine].

The Kirov Saga 27

1943

by John Schettler
1943 by John Schettler (Writing Shop, November 2016).

In Due Time 4

Houston, We Have a Klutz!

by Caroline Hickey
Houston, We Have a Klutz! by Caroline Hickey (Simon Spotlight, November 2016).

Million Eyes 0.04

Paul

by C. R. Berry
“Paul” by C. R. Berry, in Storgy Magazine, November 2016.

Million Eyes 0.02

Rachel Can See

by C. R. Berry
Teenager Rachel is sent to the Pinewood facility because she remembers events that never happened and people who died but are still inviting her to dinner.
— Michael Main
She frowned. “I’m not crazy.”

“I’m not saying you are,” Dr. Flynn said. “But there is a problem with your memory and there are people at Pinewood who may be able to find out wht it is.”

“Rachel Can See” by C. R. Berry, in Metamorphose: V2, edited by Tammy Davies (Metamorphose Literary, November 2016).

My Name is Alex

by Russell Bert Waters
—Alex seems to repeat his Saturday
“My Name is Alex” by Russell Bert Waters, 365 Tomorrows, 4 November 2016 [webzine].

The Dandelion Clock

by Robin Husen
—going back to save the city from fire
“The Dandelion Clock” by Robin Husen, 365 Tomorrows, 6 November 2016 [webzine].

Altered Hours

by Mike Ladue and Bruce Wemple, directed by Bruce Wemple
Altered Hours by Mike Ladue and Bruce Wemple, directed by Bruce Wemple (Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, Buffalo, New York, 12 November 2016).

Time Twisters 3

The Curse of Time

by Kathryn Lay
The Curse of Time by Kathryn Lay (Magic Wagon, December 2016).

Time Twisters 2

Haunted Time

by Kathryn Lay
Haunted Time by Kathryn Lay (Magic Wagon, December 2016).

Last Year

by Robert Charles Wilson
Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, December 2016).

The Kirov Saga 28

Lions at Dawn

by John Schettler
Lions at Dawn by John Schettler (Writing Shop, December 2016).

Time Twisters 1

Time and Space

by Kathryn Lay
Time and Space by Kathryn Lay (Magic Wagon, December 2016).

Time Twisters 4

Time Under the Sea

by Kathryn Lay
Time Under the Sea by Kathryn Lay (Magic Wagon, December 2016).

Last Descendants 2

Tomb of the Khan

by Matthew J. Kirby
Tomb of the Khan by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, December 2016).

Erasure

by Andi Dobek
—fix your mistakes with a black market time machine
“Erasure” by Andi Dobek, 365 Tomorrows, 5 December 2016 [webzine].

The Tomorrow

by Jae Miles
—Vienna in the early 1900s
“The Tomorrow” by Jae Miles, 365 Tomorrows, 7 December 2016 [webzine].

Assassin’s Creed

by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage, directed by Justin Kurzel
Assassin’s Creed by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage, directed by Justin Kurzel (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 13 December 2016).

Reversion

by Beck Dacus
—a button to return you to age eight
“Reversion” by Beck Dacus, 365 Tomorrows, 21 December 2016 [webzine].

Time Inc.

by Travis Gregg
—each trip back creates an alternate reality
“Time Inc.” by Travis Gregg, 365 Tomorrows, 22 December 2016 [webzine].

Travelers

by Brad Wright
Earth’s outlook is pretty grim, which we know because small groups of travelers from the future are taking over the bodies of present-day people with the goal of altering the shape of things that came. I enjoy how the bodies of the star team (Grant, Marcy, Carly, Trevor, and Philip) don’t always match those of their future counterparts.
We, the last and broken memories, vow to undo the errors of our ancestors, to make the Earth whole, the lost unlost, at the peril of our own birth.
Travelers by Brad Wright (23 December 2016).

Travelers

written and directed by Adam Starks
Travelers written and directed by Adam Starks (at limited movie theaters, UK and USA, Summer 2017).

Erased

by Robbi Mccoy
Erased by Robbi Mccoy (Bella Books, January 2017).

The Rift

by Don Handfield, Richard Rayner, and Leno Varvalho
The crash of a 1941 World War II plane in a 21st-century Kansas field sets off a chain of plots and subplots involving the pilot, a mother on the run, a precotious young boy, a government agency, and multiple jumps through a time rift.
— Michael Main
Smoke billows into a bright blue sky scarred by a rip in the heavens—what we’ll come to know as . . . The Rift
The Rift, 4 pts. by Don Handfield, Richard Rayner, and Leno Varvalho (Red 5 Comics, January–April 2017).

Lifespan of Starlight 2

Split Infinity

by Thalia Kalkipsakis
Split Infinity by Thalia Kalkipsakis (Hardie Grant Egmont, January 2017).

Sterkarm 3

A Sterkarm Tryst

by Susan Price
A Sterkarm Tryst by Susan Price (Open Road Integrated Media, January 2017).

In Due Time 5

There’s No WiFi on the Prairie

by Caroline Hickey
There’s No WiFi on the Prairie by Caroline Hickey (Simon Spotlight, January 2017).

Whending My Way Back Home

by Bill Johnson
Martin and his AI, Artie, are in ancient Carthage, a few centuries after their second escapade. Seems like they're making progress toward their future timeline, but looks can be deceiving.
Perfection, of any kind, was an error.
“Whending My Way Back Home” by Bill Johnson, in Analog, January 2017.

Still Life with Abyss

by Jim Grimsley
Teams of researchers from a nebulous future observe branching timelines in their past, with a particular fascination for the one man who has never made a choice that forked off a new line.
He’s a human freak as far as I’m concerned. Whatever I think of him, it doesn’t affect my work.
“Still Life with Abyss” by Jim Grimsley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2017.

50 Year Calendar

by Alex Johnson, directed by Connor Tatum
A teenage boy opens a Christmas present that takes him from 2017 to 2047 where he meets two antisocial teens, learns of a future war, and has a confused end to his trip.
— Michael Main
I’m from 2017. Can you fix it? I need to get back.
50 Year Calendar by Alex Johnson, directed by Connor Tatum (Youtube: Rock Ledge Studios Channel, 19 January 2017).

Future ’38

written and directed by Jamie Greenberg
Future ’38 written and directed by Jamie Greenberg (Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 24 January 2017).

All Our Wrong Todays

by Elan Mastai
Tom Barron uses his father’s time machine to go back to the moment in 1965 when unlimited power-supplying Goettreider Engine was first turned on, but in the process he changes an idyllic world into the world that we now have.
Nearly every object of art and entertainment is different in thisworld. Early on, the variations aren't that significant. But as the late 1960s gave way to the vast technological and social leaps of the 1970s, almost everything changed, generating decades of pop cuylture that never existed—fifty years of writers and artists and muscians creating an entirely other body of work.
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (Dutton, February 2017).

Time After Time [Curtin] 1.1

Fast Forward

by Judi Curtin
Fast Forward by Judi Curtin (O’Brien Press, February 2017).

The Kirov Saga 29

Stormtide Rising

by John Schettler
Stormtide Rising by John Schettler (Writing Shop, February 2017).

Time Tunnel

by Stephanie Baudet
Time Tunnel by Stephanie Baudet (unknown publisher, February 2017).

One of a Kind

by Maurice Forrester
Advertisements for a pocket watch with time-traveling properties are followed from 1895, into the future, and back.
Offered for private sale is a gold watch engineered to allow the discriminating Gentleman the opportunity to experience time in a new way. This is a one-of-a-kind item. Serious inquiries only. Reply to Box 154 at this newspaper.
“One of a Kind” by Maurice Forrester, Daily Science Fiction, 26 February 2017 [webzine].

Future Shock 2

Future Threat

by Elizabeth Briggs
Future Threat by Elizabeth Briggs (AW Teen, March 2017).

After the Atrocity

by Ian Creasey
“After the Atrocity” by Ian Creasey, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2017.

Alexander’s Theory of Special Relativity

by Shane Halbach
After Alexander accidentally strands his girlfriend in the future, he has trouble reestablishing relations with her.
She turned and slapped him hard across the face.
“Alexander’s Theory of Special Relativity” by Shane Halbach, in Analog, March/April 2017.

Eli’s Coming

by Catherine Wells
Eli ben Aryeh, the founder and head of Time Sharing Adventures, is aiming for the year 10 BCE, but he misses by 75 years and ends up instead at the Romans siege of Masada where he is mistaken for the prophet Elijah.
But they hadn’t existed at the time of Herod the Great. And they hadn’t captured Masada until—what, 66 CE?
“Eli’s Coming” by Catherine Wells, in Analog, March/April 2017.

Grandmaster

by Jay O’Connell
While her husband is asleep on the couch, renowned science fiction writer C. L. Moore receives a visitor from the future who presents her with a well-deserved award that she never received while alive.
She’s thirty-six but has felt the same inside since fifteen, when she’d read a pulp magazine and knew with absolute certainty what she wanted to do with her life.
“Grandmaster” by Jay O’Connell, in Analog, March/April 2017.

Kitty Hawk

by Alan Smale
“Kitty Hawk” by Alan Smale, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2017.

Nexus

by Michael F. Flynn
The lives of Siddhar Nagkmur (a regretful alien time traveler) and Stacey Papandreon (a tired immortal) converge for the second time since 522 AD; throw in some more aliens and a desperate need to repair the timeline to complete the story.
Nagkmur finds a chronology on the Internet and searches out a year halfway between the present and their encounter in sixth century Constantinople. The quickest way to identify when things went awry, he tells her, is to work by halves. If AD 1300 is undisturbed, the change came later; otherwise, earlier.
“Nexus” by Michael F. Flynn, in Analog, March/April 2017.

Shakesville

by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Fifty future versions of a man show up in his apartment (49 of whom are corrupted) to warn him of an impending fateful decision that he must make correctly.
— Michael Main
It’s not anything fatal. You know it can’t be anything fatal, because if it was, then there would be no future self who could be sent back to warn you.
”Shakesville” by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2017.

A Singular Event in the Fourth Dimension

by Andrea M. Pawley
“A Singular Event in the Fourth Dimension” by Andrea M. Pawley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2017.

The Snatchers

by Edward McDermott
Max, an experienced snatcher of Valuables from the past, joins with newbie Nichole to snatch the author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his death in World War II.
Fifty percent of snatchers don’t return from their first. Why? Because time is a malevolent killer that tries to eradicate us when we jaunt. But you know all that.
“The Snatchers” by Edward McDermott, in Analog, March/April 2017.

Tao Zero

by Damien Broderick
“Tao Zero” by Damien Broderick, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2017.

Time Heals

by James C. Glass
John’s hatred of his stepfather leads him to the kind of time jump activity that Time Adventures explicitly forbids.
His second attempt had not been so subtle, a handgun and cartridges smuggled past Time Adventures people who didn’t even bother to check his luggage.
“Time Heals” by James C. Glass, in Analog, March/April 2017.

The Wisdom of the Group

by Ian R. MacLeod
“The Wisdom of the Group” by Ian R. MacLeod, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2017.

Time after Time

by Kevin Williamson
H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper through time didn’t manage to translate from the 1979 silver screen to the 2017 small screen, although I enjoyed the Paris episode before the show was prematurely canceled.

The model of time travel was particularly troublesome in that I never did understand why H.G’s first trip took him to the museum.

It’s inevitable: Science and technology will advance beyond all imagination, forcing society to perfect itself. Imagine who you could be if you didn’t live in fear. Or more importantly, imagine the stories you could write if your life was full of adventure.
Time after Time by Kevin Williamson (5 March 2017).

Casanova's Butterfly 1

Bad Penny

by Terry Mancour
Bad Penny by Terry Mancour (self-published, April 2017).

Time Shift 2

The Black Tempest

by Ryan Dalton
The Black Tempest by Ryan Dalton (Jolly Fish Press, April 2017).

Sputnik’s Children

by Terri Favro
Sputnik’s Children by Terri Favro (ECW Press, April 2017).

Flashback Four 2

The Titanic Mission

by Dan Gutman
The Titanic Mission by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, April 2017).

The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship

by Philip Pullman
The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship by Philip Pullman (Graphix, May 2017) [e-book].

Cold Summer

by Gwen Cole
Cold Summer by Gwen Cole (Sky Pony Press, May 2017).

In Due Time 6

Hang Ten for Dear Life!

by Caroline Hickey
Hang Ten for Dear Life! by Caroline Hickey (Simon Spotlight, May 2017).

Triceratops

by Ian McHugh
“Triceratops” by Ian McHugh, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2017.

Timetrap

by Mark Dennis, directed by Dennis and Ben Foster
After archaeologist Jason Hopper disappears into a deep cave, his grad students, a friend, and a couple of kids follow after him and run into time anomalies.
— Michael Main
Guys, we’re gonna go check out this [spooky] tunnel.
Time Trap by Mark Dennis, directed by Dennis and Ben Foster (Seattle International Film Festival, 19 May 2017).

Precognition

by Alex Drozd
“Precognition” by Alex Drozd, Daily Science Fiction, 30 May 2017 [webzine].

Échos dans le temps

Literal: Echos in time

by Pierre Bordage
Échos dans le temps by Pierre Bordage (J’ai Lu, June 2017).

Cosmic Colin 3

Hairy Hamster Horror

by Tim Collins
Hairy Hamster Horror by Tim Collins (Buster Books, June 2017).

The Edge of Forever 2

On Through the Never

by Melissa E. Hurst
On Through the Never by Melissa E. Hurst (Sky Pony Press, June 2017).

D.O.D.O. 1

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

by Nicole Galland
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland (William Morrow, June 2017).

Cosmic Colin 4

Ticking Time Bomb

by Tim Collins
Ticking Time Bomb by Tim Collins (Buster Books, June 2017).

Xeelee 7

Xeelee: Vengeance

by Stephen Baxter
Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, June 2017).

Stasis

written and directed by Nicole Jones-Dion
Stasis written and directed by Nicole Jones-Dion (at movie theaters, Italy, 4 June 2017).

1989

by Shakir Ameed, directed by Shakir Ameed and Rifat Mohammed
What are you to do when you fail your high school final exams? In Shakir’s case, he decides to get his friend’s friend to send him back in time a few months to give himself a copy of the exam papers, which seems like a good plan if only he would listen to the warnings about not returning before he leaves.
— Michael Main
What do we do now? Your exams are already over, right?
1989 by Shakir Ameed, directed by Shakir Ameed and Rifat Mohammed (Youtube: Shakir Ameer Channel, 29 June 2017).

Black Tiger: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Mrs. Chen, Book One

by CJ Montgomery
Jonathan Chesterfield, inventor of a 24th-century time machine, is conned by the mysterious Mrs. Chen who unceremoniously strands him in eighteenth-century China.

And for my friend Shane, this is the first admixture of time travel and LIDAR!

Hey, pull up the article from April 2018, where they found that airplaine using LIDAR.
Black Tiger: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Mrs. Chen, Book One by CJ Montgomery (Nook Press, July 2017).

Future Ratboy 3

Future Ratboy and the Quest for the Missing Thingy

by Jim Smith
Future Ratboy and the Quest for the Missing Thingy by Jim Smith (Egmont Books, July 2017).

Neo-Heian (Dis)missive

by Tamara K. Walker
“Neo-Heian (Dis)missive” by Tamara K. Walker, Star*Line, July 2017.

Timebomb Trilogy 3

The New World

by Scott Andrews
The New World by Scott Andrews (Hodder and Stoughton, July 2017).

The Kirov Saga 31

Nexus Deep

by John Schettler
Nexus Deep by John Schettler (Writing Shop, July 2017).

Other Worlds and This One

by Cadwell Turnbull
In his universe, where the narrator lives with his difficult brother and mother, he had no ability to travel to other times and places, but he can visit pretty much any time or place (especially places with Hugh Everett) in any of the other myriad universes from the vast multiverse which are all fixed in stone.
What I can’t do is change anything. I can’t change the course of history. I can’t make it so that things work out. Every universe exists complete from the start. It’s all already happened.
“Other Worlds and This One” by Cadwell Turnbull, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2017.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

written and directed by Luc Besson
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets written and directed by Luc Besson (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 17 July 2017).

Into the Dim 2

Sparks of Light

by Janet B. Taylor
Sparks of Light by Janet B. Taylor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, August 2017).

History Pals 1

Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom!

by Candace Fleming
Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom! by Candace Fleming (Schwartz and Wade, September 2017).

Blowback 2

Blowback ’63

by Brian Meehl
Blowback ’63 by Brian Meehl (Twisko Press, September 2017).

The Kirov Saga 32

Field of Glory: Keyholder’s Saga 1

by John Schettler
Field of Glory: Keyholder’s Saga 1 by John Schettler (Writing Shop, September 2017).

Invictus

by Ryan Graudin
After Farway Gaius McCarthy fails his final examination at the Central Time Travelers Academy, he puts together a rogue time travel crew to swipe valuable artifacts from the past at moments when they won’t be missed. And it’s all roses until a mysterious girl sidetracks them on the Titanic and steers them into a multiverse of fading timelines.

As you might guess, we enjoyed Far and his friends, but the thing that sealed an Eloi Bronze Medal was the fact that when a particular timeline actually managed to branch (not an easy feat) and the traveler then jumped to the future, she found her another self—the her that was born on that timeline—waiting for her. Most branching timeline stories ignore this issue entirely.

— Michael Main
“There’s nothing to return to.” Eliot’s knuckles bulged at the seams, but she didn’t yell. “When the Fade destroys a moment, it’s lost. Forever.”
Invictus by Ryan Graudin (Little, Brown, September 2017).

An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright

by Allen M. Steele
Nathan Arkwright, one of the big four of golden-age science fiction writers, is considering whether there's any point to continuing with his Galaxy Patrol series when he gets invited out to dinner by an odd couple with a brand new car.
Your novels are popular now, but in time your work will become even more esteemed. . . more valuable. . . than you can ever know.
“An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright” by Allen M. Steele, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2017.

Yesterday’s Tomorrow

written and directed by Ryan Muise
Yesterday’s Tomorrow written and directed by Ryan Muise (Toronto Independent Film Festival, 15 September 2017).

Electric Dreams [s:1e2]

“Impossible Planet”

by Philip K. Dick
A pair of spaceship pilots take advantage of centuries-old Irma Louise Gordon who just wants to see Earth before she dies.

Parts of Philip K. Dick’s original story are gone, such as the original ending, which must have been corny even in 1953; and part of the ambiguous revised plotline can be interpreted as time travel, although I suspect that adapter/director David Farr had a different meaning in mind. Regardless, I found Farr’s characters moving.

Electric Dreams (s01e02), ““Impossible Planet”” by Philip K. Dick (Channel 4, UK, 24 September 2017).

Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic

by Armand Baltazar
Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic by Armand Baltazar (HarperCollins Children’s Books, October 2017).

Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time!

by Alex Milway
Pigsticks and Harold Lost in Time! by Alex Milway (Walker Books, October 2017).

The Kirov Saga 33

Prime Meridian

by John Schettler
Prime Meridian by John Schettler (Writing Shop, October 2017).

The Orville

by Seth MacFarlane
It didn’t take long for MacFarlane’s slightly zany Star Trek parody to introduce us to Pria, a collector visitor from their far-future, who grabs people only just before they’re about to die. I know the show has a bit of a comedy take, but I love their excellent take on so many classic sf tropes.
When we get to my century, I'll introduce you to Amelia Earhart.
The Orville by Seth MacFarlane (“Pria,” 5 October 2017).

Curvature

by Brian DeLeeuw, directed by Diego Hallivis
Curvature by Brian DeLeeuw, directed by Diego Hallivis (Shriekfest, Los Angeles, 8 October 2017).

Annum Guard 3

Parallel

by Meredith McCardle
Parallel by Meredith McCardle (unknown publisher, November 2017).

Hybrid, Blue, by Firelight

by Bill Johnson
It seems that each successive story takes the time traveler and his AI further in time from their goal. This episode, rife with Neanderthals and Denisovans, starts off in 42,967 BCE.
What do you get when a Neanderthal, a Denisovan, and a Red Deer Cave sit down around a table together?
“Hybrid, Blue, by Firelight” by Bill Johnson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2017.

Marley and Marley

by J. R. Dawson
Somewhat jaded 28-year-old Marley comes back through time to take care of 12-year-old orphaned Marley.
— Michael Main
He told me all the horrible things that would happen if I broke any Time Laws. Worlds would collapse. I would turn inside out. Important people would die and important things wouldn’t happen.
“Marley and Marley” by J. R. Dawson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2017.

Time Travel Is Only for the Poor

by S. L. Huang
“Time Travel Is Only for the Poor” by S. L. Huang, in Analog, November/December 2017.

The Ant and the Grasshoppers

by Ian Randal Strock
When the narrator realizes that Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, he sends the whole planet back in time ten years.
If only I had never known, I could have been happier.
“The Ant and the Grasshoppers” by Ian Randal Strock, Daily Science Fiction, 16 November 2017 [webzine].

Last Descendants 3

Fate of the Gods

by Matthew J. Kirby
Fate of the Gods by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, December 2017).

Dewey Decimal Adventures / Aiden Pike 3

Step Right Up!

by Mary C. Ryan
Step Right Up! by Mary C. Ryan (Dragonseed Press, December 2017).

Broken Infinities 2

Tomorrow’s Yesterdays

by Till Noever
Tomorrow’s Yesterdays by Till Noever (self-published, December 2017).

Dear Principal

by Stephen Callaghan
When Ruby left for school yesterday it was 2017 but when she returned home in the afternoon she was from 1968.

I know this to be the case as Ruby informed me that the “girls” in Year 6 would be attending the school library to get their hair and make-up done on Monday afternoon while the “boys” are going to Bunnings [hardware store].

Dear Principal by Stephen Callaghan (6 December 2017).

僕だけがいない街

Boku dake ga inai machi English release: Erased Literal: The city where only I am missing

by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn]
This faithful, 12-part adaptation of Kei Sambe’s manga provides a compelling story for all three ages of Satoru Fujinuma, although for me the most captivating and disturbing story was of ten-year-old Satoru.
It’s as if you've seen the future.
[ex=bare]僕だけがいない街 | The city where only I am missing | Boku dake ga inai machi[/ex] by 三部敬 :: [exn]Sanbe Kei[/exn] (15 December 2017).

Mixed-Up History 2

Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean

by Steve Sheinkin
Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press, January 2018).

Mixed-Up History 1

Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler

by Steve Sheinkin
Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press, January 2018).

Split Second 2

Time Frame

by Douglas E. Richards
Time Frame by Douglas E. Richards (Paragon Press, January 2018).

The Future’s Dark Past

by John Yarrow
The Future’s Dark Past by John Yarrow (Kairos Press, February 2018).

When We First Met

by John Whittington, directed by Ari Sandel
When We First Met by John Whittington, directed by Ari Sandel (Netflix, USA, 9 February 2018).

The Gateway

by John V. Soto and Michael White, directed by John V. Soto
The Gateway by John V. Soto and Michael White, directed by John V. Soto (Boston SciFi Film Festival, 10 February 2018).

Utu

written and directed by Daniel Freedman
Utu written and directed by Daniel Freedman (Vimeo: Daniel Freedman Channel, 15 February 2018).

A Wrinkle in Time

by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, directed by Ava DuVernay
An unabashedly pretentious adaptation of L’Engle’s fine children’s, well deserving of the Rotten Tomatoes consensus that it’s “less than the sum of its parts.” Meg views her past, but with no actual time travel[font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]™[/font].
— Michael Main
Seriously, Charles Wallace, I’m underwhelmed.
A Wrinkle in Time by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, directed by Ava DuVernay (premiered at El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, 26 February 2018).

The Kirov Saga 36

1944

by John Schettler
1944 by John Schettler (Writing Shop, March 2018) [e-book].

Shadows

by Meaghan McIsaac
Shadows by Meaghan McIsaac (Andersen Press, March 2018).

7 Splinters of Time

written and directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
While on medical leave for his mental health, police detective Darius Lafaux is called back in to investigate a case that turns into multiple murders of men who look exactly like himself.
— Michael Main
Alise: You died ten years ago.
Darius: I was born ten years ago.
7 Splinters of Time written and directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel (Cinequest, 3 March 2018).

The Kirov Saga: Excerpts 5

Foxbane II

by John Schettler
Foxbane II by John Schettler (Writing Shop, April 2018) [e-book].

Future Shock 3

Future Lost

by Elizabeth Briggs
Future Lost by Elizabeth Briggs (Albert Whitman, April 2018).

Time Shift 3

The Genesis Flame

by Ryan Dalton
The Genesis Flame by Ryan Dalton (Jolly Fish Press, April 2018).

Flashback Four 3

The Pompeii Disaster

by Dan Gutman
The Pompeii Disaster by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, April 2018).

Rewind (Carolyn O’Doherty) 1

Rewind

by Carolyn O’Doherty
Rewind by Carolyn O’Doherty (Boyds Mills Press, April 2018).

Aether

written and directed by Jerry Brown, Jr.
At the moment when the speedometer on the Aether spaceship clicked over from .999999c to 1.00000c, a collective cheer erupted up in the ITTDB Citadel. Was it a jaw-dropping dramatic moment? Seems unlikely, but we were looking for something to cheer for in this cryptic story of three men who headed to the future via relativistic time travel, only to find themselves trapped in post-apocalyptic outer space and quantum technobabble.
— Michael Main
It nullifies Gödel’s theorem.
Aether written and directed by Jerry Brown, Jr. (Youtube: SuperEpic Channel, 2 April 2018).

Coffee Time

written and directed by David deMena
Tiffany’s coffee takes her back and forth through time to help with her hectic college life.
— Michael Main
Tiffany [waking up late]: Oh, no! It didn’t go off. I thought I’d turned it on.
Coffee Time written and directed by David deMena (Highbridge Film Festival, 21 April 2018).

The Flipside Saga 1

The Flipside

by Jake Bible
The Flipside by Jake Bible (Severed Press, May 2018).

In Real Time 1

Quake

by Chris Mandeville
Quake by Chris Mandeville (Parker Hayden Media, May 2018).

Time After Time [Curtin] 2

Stand By Me

by Judi Curtin
Stand By Me by Judi Curtin (O’Brien Press, May 2018).

The Stolen Summers

by Annabeth Bondor-Stone
The Stolen Summers by Annabeth Bondor-Stone (HarperCollins, May 2018).

The Kirov Saga 37

The Tempest

by John Schettler
The Tempest by John Schettler (Writing Shop, May 2018).

Lifespan of Starlight 3

Edge of Time

by Thalia Kalkipsakis
Edge of Time by Thalia Kalkipsakis (Hardie Grant Egmont, June 2018).

Fast Backward

by David Patneaude
Fast Backward by David Patneaude (Koehler Books, June 2018).

Battlefield High

by Shana Figueroa
Battlefield High by Shana Figueroa (unknown publisher, July 2018).

The Kirov Saga 38

Breakout

by John Schettler
Breakout by John Schettler (Writing Shop, July 2018).

Diastanaut

by M. Yzmore
Although the story has no explicit mention of time phenomena, please see our tagging of the story for one interpretation of Imoghen’s multiverse travels.
— Michael Main
Ze had traveled the multiverse more times than any other distanaut [. . .]
“Diastanaut” by M. Yzmore, in Chronos: An Anthology of Time Drabbles, edited by Eric S. Fomley (Shacklebound Books, August 2018).

One Giant Step

by John H. Dromey
A damaged time probe provides an ominous warning for human time travel.
— Michael Main
[. . .] all of the data-gathering instruments are kaput.
“One Giant Step” by John H. Dromey, in Chronos: An Anthology of Time Drabbles, edited by Eric S. Fomley (Shacklebound Books, August 2018).

A Spy in Time

by Imraan Coovadia
A Spy in Time by Imraan Coovadia (California Coldblood Books, August 2018).

Collider

by Daniel D. Ford and Justin Lewis, directed by Justin Lewis
Collider by Daniel D. Ford and Justin Lewis, directed by Justin Lewis (unknown release details, 1 August 2018).

Decades Apart

by Andrew Di Pardo and Gilbert T. Laberge, directed by Andrew Di Pardo
Decades Apart by Andrew Di Pardo and Gilbert T. Laberge, directed by Andrew Di Pardo (unknown release details, 17 August 2018).

The 48

by Donna Hosie
The 48 by Donna Hosie (Holiday House, September 2018).

Unofficial Minecrafters 1

The Clash of the Withers

by Winter Morgan
The Clash of the Withers by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, September 2018).

History Pals 2

Eleanor Roosevelt’s in My Garage!

by Candace Fleming
Eleanor Roosevelt’s in My Garage! by Candace Fleming (Schwartz and Wade, September 2018).

Quantifying Trust

by John Chu
AI grad student Maya is attempting to train her prototype artificial neural net (named Sammy) so that it recognizes what to trust and what not to trust on the Internet, with the goal of building AIs free of human prejudice. Meanwhile, that new grad student Jake keeps saying and doing things that seem only to verify his ongoing joke that he’s an AI from the future.
— Michael Main
You got me. I’m an android sent back from the future.
“Quantifying Trust” by John Chu, in Mother of Invention, edited by Rivqa Rafael and Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press, September 2018).

Time Runners

by S. K. Vaughn
Time Runners by S. K. Vaughn (Leatherbound Publishing, September 2018).

Time After Time [Curtin] 3

You’ve Got a Friend

by Judi Curtin
You’ve Got a Friend by Judi Curtin (O’Brien Press, September 2018).

Another Time

by Thomas Hennessy and Scott Kennard, directed by Thomas Hennessy
Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.
— from publicity material
Another Time by Thomas Hennessy and Scott Kennard, directed by Thomas Hennessy (Newport Beach International Film Festival, 14 September 2018).

The Stolen Future 3

The Cosmic City

by Brian K. Lowe
The Cosmic City by Brian K. Lowe (Digital Science Fiction, October 2018).

The Stolen Future 1

The Invisible City

by Brian K. Lowe
The Invisible City by Brian K. Lowe (Digital Science Fiction, October 2018).

Leçon d’histoire

Literal: History lesson

by Frédéric Parrot
“Leçon d’histoire” by Frédéric Parrot, in Solaris 208, October 2018.

Prochaine station

Literal: Next station

by Jonathan Brassard
“Prochaine station” by Jonathan Brassard, in Solaris 208, October 2018.

The Stolen Future 2

The Secret City

by Brian K. Lowe
The Secret City by Brian K. Lowe (Digital Science Fiction, October 2018).

By the Way That He Came

by Ron S. Friedman
“By the Way That He Came” by Ron S. Friedman (unknown publisher, November 2018).

Unofficial Minecrafters 2

The Creeper Attack

by Winter Morgan
The Creeper Attack by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, November 2018).

Time Freak

written and directed by Andrew Bowler
When Debbie breaks up with often-clueless physics genius Stillwell, he does the normal thing and invents a time machine for him and his friend to go back and fix every wayward relationship moment.
— Michael Main
I just love the proofs and the equations and the whole riddle of it all.
Time Freak written and directed by Andrew Bowler (at movie theaters, Phillipines, 7 November 2018).

Broken Infinities 3

Seeking Emily

by Till Noever
Seeking Emily by Till Noever (self-published, December 2018).

Strange Days

by Constantine Singer
Strange Days by Constantine Singer (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, December 2018).

Valiant

by Merrie Destefano
Valiant by Merrie Destefano (Entangled Teen, December 2018).

2nd Door

written and directed by Umesh Verma
Two men—a garage shop owner and a mad scientist—loop through 13 days, meeting and shooting each other and themselves, but not so that we could understand much (beyond that there was a time portal made of hubcaps and blue electricity).
— Michael Main
This freak made a mess of our garage.
2nd Door written and directed by Umesh Verma (Youtube: 2nd Door Channel, 8 December 2017).

Out of Time

written and directed by Matt Handy
A government agent from 1951 follows three alien invaders through a time portal to 21st-century Lost Angeles where he teams up with a local cop to track the trio down before they can signal their cohorts.
— Michael Main
Sir: [pointing at a billborad of the Space Shuttle] That is why we leapt into the future. We fly that back to the armada and show them where this planet is.
Out of Time written and directed by Matt Handy (unknown release details, 2019).

Unofficial Minecrafters 3

Destruction in the Desert

by Winter Morgan
Destruction in the Desert by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, January 2019).

Here and Now and Then

by Mike Chen
When time travel agent Kin Stewart finds himself rapidly losing his memory and stranded in 1996, he writes a journal of his life in the future and proceeds to break every rule in the book by creating a new life and family in his new present . . . until a retriever shows up in 2014.
— Michael Main
Science fiction. She thought the journal was filled with tales, like her Doctor Who or Heather’s Star Trek shows.
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (Mira, January 2019).

Now Wait for This Week

by Alice Sola Kim
On the surface, the story seems to be about white, rich, cute Bonnie who knows she’s is living in a time loop in the week of her birthday and exploring it in a surprising variety of ways, but all this is on top of the story about Bonnie’s unknowing roommate, who through her narration of each iteration relates to us her life as a sexual assault survivor.
— Michael Main
They told me that she showed up at their house yesterday, completely frazzled, telling a wild tale about a week that was repeating over and over again.
“Now Wait for This Week” by Alice Sola Kim, in The Cut, 17 January 2019 [e-zine].

Dark Stars 1

Stolen Time

by Danielle Vega
Stolen Time by Danielle Vega (HarperTeen, February 2019).

Il était une seconde fois

English release: Twice Upon a Time Literal: It was a second time

by Nathalie Leuthreau and Guillaume Nicloux, directed by Giillaume Nicloux
At first, Vincent’s only plan for the mysterious 600mm wooden cube that provides a tunnel to the past is to make sure that Louise doesn’t break up with him four months in the past, but new circumstances soon raise the stakes. Then it gets weird in this four-part miniseries.
— Michael Main
En fait, je suis passé dans un cube, et ça . . .
I actually went through this cube, and it . . .
English
[ex=bare]Il était une seconde fois | It was a second time[/ex] by Nathalie Leuthreau and Guillaume Nicloux, directed by Giillaume Nicloux, at the Berlin International Film Festival, 12 February 2019.

The Archronology of Love

by Caroline M. Yoachim
A great story of love, loss and discovery, with a new colony all dead and all organic matter gone. The protagonist and her dead husband, a colonists, are both academics in the field of archronology, which combines archeology and travel to and viewing of different times.
— Dave Hook
“The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim, Lightspeed, April 2019.

Unofficial Minecrafters 4

Escape from the Nether

by Winter Morgan
Escape from the Nether by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, April 2019).

Flashback Four 4

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

by Dan Gutman
The Hamilton-Burr Duel by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, April 2019).

The Integration Attempt

by Dee Cope
The Integration Attempt by Dee Cope (Black Rose Writing, April 2019).

Turning the Hourglass

by M. J. Keeley
Turning the Hourglass by M. J. Keeley (Black Rose Writing, April 2019).

Excursion

by Magdalena Drahovska, directed by Martin Grof
Excursion by Magdalena Drahovska, directed by Martin Grof (unknown release details, 20 April 2019).

Mackenzie Mortimer 1

The 25th Hour

by Keith B. Darrell
The 25th Hour by Keith B. Darrell, in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer: Omnibus Edition (Amber BookSeptember 2018, May 2019).

Advent

by Cat Kydd
Advent by Cat Kydd (self-published, May 2019).

Mackenzie Mortimer 3

All the Time in the World

by Keith B. Darrell
All the Time in the World by Keith B. Darrell, in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer: Omnibus Edition (Amber BookAugust 2019, May 2019).

Impossible Times 2

Limited Wish

by Mark Lawrence
Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence (47North, May 2019).

Impossible Times 1

One Word Kill

by Mark Lawrence
One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence (47North, May 2019).

The Ottoman Secret

by Raymond Khoury
Secret police agent Kamal teams with his sister-in-law Nisreen, fleeing through time from pursuing gunmen who killed Nisreen’s family because toprotect the secret that their world was created by a violent temporal disruptor who altered history in favor of an autocratic Islam theocracy.
— Michael Main
Nisreen: I want to know how it is different and why he wanted to change it. Don’t you see? That’s how the world was supposed to be.

Ramazan: Assuming no one else had gone back and changed things before he did.

The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Michael Joseph, May 2019).

Mackenzie Mortimer 2

The Tomorrow Paradox

by Keith B. Darrell
The Tomorrow Paradox by Keith B. Darrell, in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer: Omnibus Edition (Amber BookAugust 2019, May 2019).

See You Yesterday

by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol
Up in the ITTDB Citadel, our first attraction is naturally to the time travel aspects of any movie, even when the result is an incomprehensible time wreck resulting from a pair of teenage geniuses. That’s what’s on the surface here, but it also seems to be a metaphor for the even bigger train wreck of the racist society in the 21st-century United States.
— Michael Main
You’re missing the big picture here: If time travel were possible, it would be the greatest ethical and philosophical conundrum of the modern age.
See You Yesterday by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol (Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, 3 May 2019).

Mixed-Up History 4

Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot

by Steve Sheinkin
Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press, June 2019).

Unofficial Minecrafters 5

Madness in the Mine

by Winter Morgan
Madness in the Mine by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, June 2019).

My Brother Is a Superhero 5

My Cousin Is a Time Traveller

by David Solomons
My Cousin Is a Time Traveller by David Solomons (Nosy Crow, June 2019).

Mixed-Up History 3

Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys

by Steve Sheinkin
Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press, June 2019).

Goners

by J. A. Henderson
Goners by J. A. Henderson (Black Hart, July 2019).

Armistice

by J. Mark Matters
Armistice has arrived in the time war with the Kelad.
— Michael Main
We did not lose the Time War
“Armistice” by J. Mark Matters, Daily Science Fiction, 16 July 2019 [webzine].

Unofficial Minecrafters 6

Battle for Time

by Winter Morgan
Battle for Time by Winter Morgan (Sky Pony Press, August 2019).

Dakota Adams 1

Apocalypse How?

by Galen Surlak-Ramsey
Apocalypse How? by Galen Surlak-Ramsey (Tiny Fox Press, September 2019).

The Future of Another Timeline

by Annalee Newitz
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor, September 2019).

The Future of Another Timeline

by Annalee Newitz
Tess is a geologist (because, of course, geologists control the time travel of the giant ancient machines) and a member of the Daughters of Harriet (Senator Harriet Tubman, that is, from 19th-century Mississippi). On the surface, the Daughters are time travel scholars, but in reality, Tess and her fellow Daughters are fighting a pitched changewar for women’s rights against the oppressors known as the Comstockers. One more thing: While she’s at it,Tess also hopes to also save the souls of her teenaged self and her underground feminist punk friends in the 1990s, with a particular focus on their vigilante killing spree and young Beth’s abortion.
— Michael Main
All five Machines had limitations, but the hardest to surmount was what travelers call the Long Four Years. Wormholes only opened for people who remained within twenty kilometers of a Machine for at least 1,680 days.
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor, September 2019).

Time Warp

by Brian Pinkerton
Time Warp by Brian Pinkerton (Gordian Knot Books, September 2019).

Rewind (Carolyn O'Doherty) 2

Unleashed

by Carolyn O’Doherty
Unleashed by Carolyn O’Doherty (Boyds Mills Press, September 2019).

Rewind (Carolyn O’Doherty) 2

Unleashed

by Carolyn O’Doherty
Unleashed by Carolyn O’Doherty (Boyds Mills Press, September 2019).

In the Shadow of the Moon

by Gregory Weidman and Geoffrey Tock, directed by Jim Mickle
Nine years after a gruesome mass murder, the case is reopened in the face of a copycat. As you might expect, Detective Thomas Lockhart poo-poos the notion that time travel is the only explanation for set of one-year-old keys that were in the sealed evidence box of the nine-year-old case.
— Michael Main
Last year? How in the hell did she have these keys in 1988?
In the Shadow of the Moon by Gregory Weidman and Geoffrey Tock, directed by Jim Mickle (Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas, 21 September 2019).

Sentinels of the Galaxy 2

Chasing the Shadows

by Maria V. Snyder
Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder (self-published, October 2019).

In Real Time 2

Shake

by Chris Mandeville
Shake by Chris Mandeville (Parker Hayden Media, October 2019).

Throwback 1

Throwback

by Peter Lerangis
When 13-year-old Corey Fletcher first finds himself transported back in time, he doesn’t realize how it happened or that he is one of the rare travelers who can actually change the timeline, rescue his Papou, and maybe even save his grandma from 9/11.
— Michael Main
So . . . some people inherit diabetess, some inherit curly hair, and I inherited time travel?
Throwback by Peter Lerangis (HarperCollins, October 2019) [print · e-book].

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Terminator: Dark Fate

by David S. Goyer et al., directed by Tim Miller
After the excitement of T2, you’d have thought that Sarah Connor and her son John could have settled down for a well-deserved, peaceful life. But, no: First a leftover T-800 Model 101 Terminator kills young John, and then 20 years later, Sarah meets two new characters—young Dani Ramos and an enhanced woman from the future—who are running from a new kind of terminator built by a new kind of Skynet. Certainly a fun T-romp, cast in the mold of T2, but really?!, if those johnny-come-lately millennial writers wanna live, they can’t be messing with the come-with-me line.
— Michael Main
Grace: [to Dani and Diego at the car assembly plant] Come with me or you’re dead in the next 30 seconds.
Terminator: Dark Fate by David S. Goyer et al., directed by Tim Miller (at movie theaters, UK and elsewhere, 23 October 2019).

Impossible Times 3

Dispel Illusion

by Mark Lawrence
Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence (47North, November 2019).

Dakota Adams 2

Spoilers: Things Get Worse

by Galen Surlak-Ramsey
Spoilers: Things Get Worse by Galen Surlak-Ramsey (Tiny Fox Press, December 2019).

The Kirov Saga 49

Condition Zebra

by John Schettler
Condition Zebra by John Schettler (Writing Shop, January 2020).

Time Crime

by Carnegie Olson
Time Crime by Carnegie Olson (Humble Hogs Press, January 2020).

Not This Tide

by Sheila Finch
Through the eyes of young Rosemary (in 1944 London during the time of buzz bombs and V-2 rockets) and old Rosemary (now called Mary in 2035 Oslo), we see the picture of her whole life from her imaginary friend during the war to her physicist grandson at Princeton.
— Michael Main
“Not This Tide” by Sheila Finch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2020.

Blowback 3

Blowback ’94: When the Only Way Forward Is Back

by Brian Meehl
Blowback ’94: When the Only Way Forward Is Back by Brian Meehl (Twisko Press, February 2020).

The Theta Decision

by Chris Dietzel
“The Theta Decision” by Chris Dietzel, in The Dogs of God: Science Fiction According to Chris, edited by Chris Kennedy (Theogony Books, February 2020).

Dark Stars 2

Twisted Fates

by Danielle Vega
Twisted Fates by Danielle Vega (HarperTeen, February 2020).

Boss Level

by Chris Bore et al., directed by Joe Carnaham
After visiting his estranged wife, Jemma, at her top secret lab, retired special forces agent and ne’er-do-well Roy Pulver finds himself endlessly repeating the next day, which always starts with the same assassin in his apartment and always ends with Roy dead, even as he learns more and more about Jemma, their son Joe, Jemma’s work, and how to kill endless assassins.
It’s like being stuck in a video game in a level you know you can’t beat. —from the Hulu varient
English
Boss Level by Chris Bore et al., directed by Joe Carnaham (premiere, ArcLight Cinemas, Hollywood, California, 11 February 2020).

A.N.E.W

written and directed by Godwin Josiah and Raymond Yusuff
After his broken watch causes embarrassment, a boy orders a new watch that takes him back to the embarrassing moment more than once.
— Michael Main
My watch is not working.
A.N.E.W written and directed by Godwin Josiah and Raymond Yusuff (Youtube: Critics Company Channel, 24 February 2020).

In Five Years

by Rebecca Serle
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (Quercus, March 2020).

The Leap Cycle 1

The Infinite

by Patience Agbabi
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi (Canongate Books, April 2020).

A Town Called Discovery

by R. R. Haywood
A Town Called Discovery by R. R. Haywood (self-published, April 2020).

Amazing Stories (r2s01e05)

The Rift

by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, directed by Mark Mylod
After a dogfight, a World War II plane flies through a time rift and into a 21st-century field near Dayton, where a single mom saves the pilot from the wreckage and her step-son saves the pilot from other dangers.
— Michael Main
Sir, I know it’s a doorway and all, and we gotta send everything back there, but in training they did not really tell us what happens if we don’t.
Amazing Stories (v2s01e05), “The Rift” by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, directed by Mark Mylod (Apple TV, 3 April 2020).

Glitch

by Laura Martin
Glitch by Laura Martin (HarperCollins, June 2020).

ドロステのはてで僕ら

Dorosute no hate de bokura English release: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes Literal: We at the end of the Droste

by 上田誠, directed by 山口淳太
For the first sixty minutes, a perfect static timeline seemed to be emerging from Kato’s video stream from two minutes in the future. We might even get some philosophical commentary on free will! Alas, that was not to be as the final ten minutes presented a more commonplace ending, although the single-take nagamawashi was executed with perfection and garnered this fun film an Eloi Medal.

P.S. Don’t skip the end-credits!

— Michael Main
Your monitor and the shop’s TV are linked with a two-minute delay.
[ex=bare]ドロステのはてで僕ら | We at the end of the Droste | Dorosute no hate de bokura[/ex] by 上田誠, directed by 山口淳太 (at limited theaters, Japan, 5 June 2020).

Eleven Lines to Somewhere

by Alyson Rudd
Eleven Lines to Somewhere by Alyson Rudd (HQ, July 2020).

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Seven Rules of Time Travel

by Roy Huff
Quinn Black is having the worst day ever . . . over and over again. The same car blocking his driveway, the same horrific accident he witnesses, the same cop that keeps preventing him from saving his boss from dying in it, and the same memory of a girl from his past that gets sharper each time. Then he realizes he has the power to travel through time and change the future. With infinite opportunities to alter the past, the possibilities are endless. Could he prevent terrorist attacks? Natural disasters? The deaths of friends? Or even go back in time and say the right thing to the girl who haunts his dreams?
— from publicity material
Everything we thought we knew about time travel is wrong.
Seven Rules of Time Travel by Roy Huff (independently published, July 2020) [print · e-book].

Goodbye, Howard Henning

by John E. Stith
Did you ever wonder what happens when a time traveler makes a mistake? Don’t miss Stith’s “Story behind the Story” at the end of the web page.
— Michael Main
This isn’t Germany. And this can’t be 1924.
“Goodbye, Howard Henning” by John E. Stith, in Nature Futures, 15 July 2020.

Max Einstein 3

Max Einstein Saves the Future

by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
The prologue to the third Max Einstein book tells us that twelve-year-old genius do-gooder Max traveled as a baby from 1921 to the early 21st century when an experiment in her genius parents’ basement went a little ca-ca. Later on, Einstein himself makes a cameo appearance, possibly by opening some kind of communication line from the past to Max in her moment of need, but nothing else crops up in the way of time travel. I suspect that a truly genius rebel child would toss this aside as being condescending, preachy, one-dimensional, and melodramatic (not in a good way), as well as innacurate in most of its science and guilty of oversimplifying complex world problems.
— Michael Main
Plus, if you shut down the time machine and never came into the future, you would never do all the great things you have already done in your life. We wouldn’t be standing her right now if you went back in time and convinced your parents to dismantle the project.
Max Einstein Saves the Future by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy Patterson, August 2020).

A Mummy Ate My Homework

by Thiago de Moraes
A Mummy Ate My Homework by Thiago de Moraes (Scholastic, August 2020).

Dakota Adams 4

One Step Behind

by Galen Surlak-Ramsey
One Step Behind by Galen Surlak-Ramsey (Tiny Fox Press, August 2020).

Small Town Hero

by Patrick Neate
Small Town Hero by Patrick Neate (Andersen Press, August 2020).

Early Departures

by Justin A. Reynolds
Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds (Katherine Tegen Books, September 2020).

Dimension Why 1

How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying

by John Cusick
How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying by John Cusick (HarperCollins, September 2020).

Press Start! 9

Super Rabbit Boy’s Time Jump!

by Thomas Flintham
A superhero rabbit from a low-resolution handheld video game fights his arch-nemesis, King Viking, who plans to stop Baby Rabbit Boy from ever getting superpowers.
— Michael Main
I built this Super Mega Robot Time Machine to use the Time Crystal’s power. That means I can travel through time!
Super Rabbit Boy’s Time Jump! by Thomas Flintham (Branches, September 2020) [print · e-book].

Tom and Huck’s Howling Adventure

by Tim Champlin
Tom and Huck’s Howling Adventure by Tim Champlin (Crossroad Press, September 2020).

The Shadows of Alexandrium

by David Gerrold
Up in the Citadel, we polled eight Librarians on whether this story should be included in the database. The results? Nobody thought it should be excluded, nobody thought it should be included, and eleven were certain it wasn’t a story. Probably. So with that mandate along with the fact that at one point in the narrative neither space nor time exist and at another point outside the narrative David Gerrold annouced this was an homage to Douglas Adams and Doctor Who, we hereby present the official indexing of “The Shadows of Alexandrium.”
— Michael Main
If we had the time—well, actually, we do, because there isn’t any time here, just like there isn’t any space, except what we’ve been creating by being here, all this staring around—that’s making nothing into something.
“The Shadows of Alexandrium” by David Gerrold, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2020.

The Speed of Time

by Russ Nickel and William J. Stribling, directed by William J. Stribling
Johnny Killfire of the year 2055 (the buff version) comes back to 2020 to stop his younger self from making a killer pizza-delivery app.
— Michael Main
You know that pizza app you’re working on to reduce delivery times? You designed it too well.
The Speed of Time by Russ Nickel and William J. Stribling, directed by William J. Stribling (Youtube: Dust Channel, 17 September 2020).

Silver Door Diner

by Bishop Garrison
A great story of an alien from a very advanced race and an Earth with a short, recurring time loop leading up to the time of destruction after an unconventional weapon is used. And a woman working at a diner, and the best apple pie.
— Dave Hook
“Silver Door Diner” by Bishop Garrison, tag-4408 Fiyah, Autumn 2020 [ezine].

The Sea Within

by Missouri Vaun
The Sea Within by Missouri Vaun (Bold Strokes Books, October 2020).

2067

written and directed by Seth Larney
The cinematic vision of writer/director Seth Larney was beyond his grasp in this story of a Philip K. Dick-esque future where all plant life has been killed off, an evil corporation has cornered the market in artificial oxygen, and a lowly utility worker with a dying wife is called four centuries into the future by a successfully executed causal loop accompanied by the usual kind of unexplained skeleton timeline.
— Michael Main
You want to shoot me into oblivion with no way to get home.
2067 written and directed by Seth Larney (at limited theaters (USA, 2 October 2020).

An Hour

written and directed by Prasanth Kumar
Young, unemployed Nanna seems to take everything in stride, even the arrival of unexpected package containing an artistic hourglass with the power to take him back or forward one hour in time.

The audio is mostly Telugu, but there are subtitles in broken English.

— Michael Main
What is this? Is it time machine? If it is a time machine, then who will send it to me?
An Hour written and directed by Prasanth Kumar (Youtube: Andhra Pradesh Channel, 2 October 2020).

Backwards

BY Gregory Velloze
A short-lived species has memories of both the past and the future.
— Michael Main
For progeny and ancestors of the Retromens had communicated with their caretaker, studying him as he studied them, generation for generation.
“Backwards” BY Gregory Velloze, Daily Science Fiction, 28 October 2020 [webzine].

Arthur Travels Back in Time

by Gene Lipen and Judith San Nicolas
Arthur the fearless dog travels to different times in a large blue cannister. The story is written in verse that ignores meter and uses rhymes that don’t quite work.
— Ruthie Mariner
With sights on events his eyes have never seen, Arthur is ready for his new time machine.
Arthur Travels Back in Time by Gene Lipen and Judith San Nicolas (Gene Lipen, November 2020).

Proof of Existence

by Hal Y. Zhang
An unlikely story of some very random occurrences of time travel, occurring only when not observed.
— Dave Hook
“Proof of Existence” by Hal Y. Zhang, tag-4407 Uncanny Magazine, November/December 2020 [ezine].

Best. Scientist. EVER.

by Omar Velasco
You head out on a quick, rollicking ride back through time, with an unknown pursuer and an ambiguous conclusion.
— Tandy Ringoringo
You come to the conclusion that you can correct everything if you stop yourself before you steal the time machine.
“Best. Scientist. EVER.” by Omar Velasco, Daily Science Fiction, 8 December 2020 [webzine].

Chuck’s 20/40 Hindsight: A Lighthearted Tale with a Touch of Time Travel

by C. C. Prestel
Chuck’s 20/40 Hindsight: A Lighthearted Tale with a Touch of Time Travel by C. C. Prestel (Christopher C. Prestel, January 2021).

Time Travel for Love and Profit

by Sarah Lariviere
Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere (Alfred A. Knopf, January 2021).

D.O.D.O. 2

Master of the Revels

by Nicole Galland
Master of the Revels by Nicole Galland (William Morrow, February 2021).

Miniseries

시지프스: The Myth

Sisyphus: The Myth English release: Sisyphus: The Myth Literal: Sisyphus: The myth

by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁
Young genius Han Tae-sul is the focus of dangerous people and a mysterious woman—Gang Seo-hae—from a war-torn near future.

Sadly, the story comes close to being a slick static timeline, but alas, the writers could not follow through.

— Michael Main
The Downloader is a real piece of work. There’s only a ten percent chance of success, eh? And even if they make it, half of them get caught by the Control Bureau.
[ex=bare]시지프스: The Myth | Sisyphus: The myth | Sijipeuseu: The myth[/ex] by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, 16 untitled episodes (JTBC-TV, Korea, 17 February to 8 April 2021).

Dark Stars (Danielle Vega) 3

Dark Stars

by Danielle Vega
Dark Stars by Danielle Vega (HarperTeen, March 2021).

One Day All This Will Be Yours

by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“One Day All This Will Be Yours” by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris, March 2021).

The Other Emily

by Dean R. Koontz
A decade after David Thorne’s wife goes missing on a solo trip to northern California, her exact duplicate shows up—without having aged a day and claiming not to be Emily—at a bar in one of David’s favorite restaurants.
— Michael Main
Equally in the grip of dread and amazement, David Thorne began to awaken to a previously unthought-of truth, the ramifications of which were devastating and numberless.
The Other Emily by Dean R. Koontz (Thomas and Mercer, March 2021).

The Present

by Jay Martel
The Present by Jay Martel (Audible Originals, March 2021).

Dream Atlas

by Michael Swanwick
Eleanor, a dream scientist, is visited by her future self in a vivid dream
— Michael Main
Right now, all that matters is that within a month of your waking from this encounter, you’ll be able to duplicate thought projection through short durations of dream-time.
“Dream Atlas” by Michael Swanwick, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2021.

Re: Bubble 476

by A. T. Greenblatt
“Re: Bubble 476” by A. T. Greenblatt, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2021.

Time Traveler at the Grocery Store circa 1992

by Kristian Macaron
Twentieth-century grocery store aisles provide a vision of a world of dust that's coming.
— Michael Main
Some days it’s hard to believe that there’s not something wrong with the lettuce.
“Time Traveler at the Grocery Store circa 1992” by Kristian Macaron, Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2021.

Da Vinci’s Cat

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
As a hostage to Pope Julius II in 1511 Rome, 11-year-old Federico is lonely until he receives a visit from a tawny cat, an art collector from the 20th century, and an 11-year-old kid named Bee from the 21st century.
— Michael Main
All we need is to get Raphael to draw me and make sure he signs it.
Da Vinci’s Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Greenwillow Books, May 2021) [print · e-book].

Future Friend

by David Baddiel
Future Friend by David Baddiel (HarperCollins Children’s Books, May 2021).

The Leap Cycle 2

The Time-Thief

by Patience Agbabi
The Time-Thief by Patience Agbabi (Canongate Books, May 2021).

Solos [s1.e01]

Leah

by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff
While talking to her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, brilliant scientist Leah Salavara’s subconscious brings up just the idea that’s needed to video chat with herself in other times and eventually complete the final step that leads to actual time travel with a surprisingly complex set of motives.
— Michael Main
Okay, so in order to run a reverse dimensional location search, I need to know what the interdimensional VIN is on your computer.
Solos (s01e01), “Leah” by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff (Amazon Prime, 21 May 2021).

Lost between the Plates

by Benjamin Abbott
A woman seems to be chasing someone via random jumps through time.
— Michael Main
I’ve been chasing him for years and forever. Spinning through time and space without a sail.
“Lost between the Plates” by Benjamin Abbott, Daily Science Fiction, 21 May 2021 [webzine].

Unredacted Reports from 1546

by Leah Cypess
An 18-year-old history student hopes to show that her research subject, 16th-century poet Lucia of Gonzaga, was a modern woman supressed by her time period, but as the traveling student sends messages back to her 21st-century mentor, she reveals more than just history as she’d hoped it would be.
— Michael Main
You were wrong about my age, though. In the sixteenth century, I’m an adult. I am physically mature and able to bear children, and that’s all that matters. No one cares about the completeness of my frontal lobe.
“Unredacted Reports from 1546” by Leah Cypess, Future Science Fiction Digest #11, June 2021 [e-zine · webzine].

Giving Up the Ghost

by Aeryn Rudel
An assassin jumps back into her 17-year-old body where she takes care of her mission and has a little time left over.
— Michael Main
My target is a few blocks from here, which is why the Department of Temporal Enforcement chose me for the assignment. Proximity is important. The less you move around, the less likely the time stream gets fucked up.
“Giving Up the Ghost” by Aeryn Rudel, in Flashpoint Science Fiction, 26 June 2021.

A Smell of Jet Fuel

by Andrew Dana Hudson
On the 107th floor of the South Tower on 9/11, time travel tour guide Brad Eckelson meets Sitra Velasco, a woman who couldn’t possibly be there.
— Michael Main
Well, she wasn’t a contemporary, that much was clear.
“A Smell of Jet Fuel” by Andrew Dana Hudson, in Lightspeed 134, July 2021.

Seven Rules 2

The Trouble with Time Travel

by Roy Huff
In the four years since he traveled through time to save the world, Quinn Black has settled happily into life as a new space race billionaire, despite the fact he’s no longer able to travel or loop time. But before long, things start to go horribly wrong. The system he created to save the planet mysteriously begins to malfunction. His team receives a cryptic message, and he’s hurled back into the past once again . . . but with a twist. Now, instead of trying to go back in time, he’s desperate to travel in the other direction and get back to the future.
— from publicity material
Cameron saw the benefits, but the trouble with time travel was that it was tough to be certain of anything on a second trip.
The Trouble with Time Travel by Roy Huff (independently published, July 2021) [print · e-book].

The Tomorrow War

by Zach Dean, directed by Chris McKay
Forty-year-old high school biology teacher Dan Forester is drafted for a seven-day tour of the future where he must fight what seems to be a losing cause in the war against bug/T-rex aliens.
— Michael Main
We need you to fight beside us if we stand a chance at winning this war. You are our last hope.
The Tomorrow War by Zach Dean, directed by Chris McKay (Amazon Prime, 2 July 2021).

Secret Agent Moe Berg #6

Billie the Kid

by Rick Wilber
In an alternate history leading up to a 1945 atomic bomb in southern California, young Billie “the Kid” Davis grows up in the mid-20th century, playing shortstop better than any of the boys, flying B-25s with her Dad, and eventually—with Moe Berg and the woman-with-many-names—taking on that bomb.
— Michael Main
This is your moment, Billie. Coming up right now. Save the worlds, Billie. Change everything. You can do it.
“Billie the Kid” by Rick Wilber, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2021.

The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards

by Jason Sanford
Forty years after NASA explorer Tessa Raij attempted to step through a dimensional portal and was instead relegated to an inexplicable state of isolation in a radioactivce crater, a dead girl—resembling her grandmother as a teen—shows up at her feet.
— Michael Main
Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.
“The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards” by Jason Sanford, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2021.

Your Cat

by Beth Cato
You travel back in time to save your childhood cat in exactly the way that you know she was saved.
— Michael Main
You have traveled thirty years back in time to save your cat.
“Your Cat” by Beth Cato, Daily Science Fiction, 21 September 2021 [webzine].

Captain Nova

English release: Captain Nova

by Lotte Tabbers and Maurice Trouwborst, directed by Maurice Trouwborst
Captain Nova Kester travels back from a devastated future to warn an energy mogel about the impending climate cataclysm, but only young Nas takes her seriously. That happens when time travel causes you to revert to 12 years old.
— Michael Main
Luister, jongedame: De mensen denken al eeuwen dat ze leven in het einde der tijden. Het zou handig ziln als je jezelf ietsje minderbelangrijk maakt.
Listen, young lady: People have thought for centuries that the end of time is drawing near. It would help everyone if you showed just a little less . . . self-importance.
English
Captain Nova by Lotte Tabbers and Maurice Trouwborst, directed by Maurice Trouwborst (Cinekid Film Festival, 13 October 2021).

Needle in a Timestack

written and directed by John Ridley
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Each volume in the series contains stories of four or five travelers.
— Michael Main
Needle in a Timestack written and directed by John Ridley (unknown streaming services, 14 October 2021).

Outlander 9

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

by Diana Gabaldon
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, November 2021).

Vacation in Sunny Future

by Terence Kuch
The narrator takes a vacation to the future, since going to the past is sensibly banned.
— Michael Main
Like all those stories where the world goes to hell because of some tiny stupid thing I might do back then.
“Vacation in Sunny Future” by Terence Kuch, Daily Science Fiction, 4 November 2021 [webzine].

Paean for a Branch Ghost

by Filip Wiltgren
In the far future, a woman who had lived through the Sobibor extermination camp manipulates the system to go back and rescue the rest of her family.
— Michael Main
“Twentieth century,” said Davos, and I whistled, long, and low, and falling. “Special assignment,” he said, and I whistled again. I’d never heard of anyone going that far back.
“Paean for a Branch Ghost” by Filip Wiltgren, Future Science Fiction Digest #14, March 2022 [e-zine · webzine].

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024.
— Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).

The Adam Project

by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy
In 2050, time jet pilot Adam Reed steals a jet and heads back to 2018 to save his stranded wife, but he gets waylaid in 2022 where his 12-year-old self is the only hope to save the mission.
— Michael Main
Young Adam: I mean if this is happening to me, that means that it already happened to you—right?—unless it works more like a multiverse where each ripple creates an alternate timeline—
Middle-Age Adam: It isn’t a multiverse! My god, we watch too many movies.
The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).

Eye of the Storm

by Steve Rasnic Tem
A nameless narrator tells of unimaginable results and understandable regret that arose from testing what seemed like sound theories.
— Michael Main
What has to happen to make you change?
“Eye of the Storm” by Steve Rasnic Tem, Daily Science Fiction, 8 April 2022 [webzine].

The Hero of Your Own Story

by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
A bad egg creates chaos by leaving time portals open between various times in various parts of the multiverse.
— Michael Main
Your time portals are not big enough for any of the really exciting monsters.
“The Hero of Your Own Story” by Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Daily Science Fiction, 23 May 2022 [webzine].

The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift

by Nika Murphy
Audra Cobb is pulled through time rifts from one parallel universe to another with a bit of time travel thrown in. I think the parallel universes are a literary mechanism to explore daydreaming about what might have been while under the spell of limerence.
— Michael Main
The egg yolk path glistens in my periphery and my fingertips tingle. Once the rift closes, we go back. Back to before the rift ruptured. Back to when Joseph first moved in and before we . . .
“The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift” by Nika Murphy, Clarkesworld #189, June 2022 [print · e-zine · webzine].

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Time Travel Tribulations

by Roy Huff
When something knocks Quinn Black and his team through an anomaly, he finds himself on a crash course with what appears to be an uninhabited planet. With an object of mysterious origin orbiting the system and his crew under attack from an unknown source, one thing is clear: they are not supposed to be there. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning of their problems. Thrust into time loops and a seemingly parallel world where dinosaurs roam, someone is deliberately sabotaging them.
— from publicity material
It hadn’t been that long ago when the world calmed to something resembling almost a normal life and he could finally catch his breath without worrying about time jumps and the destruction of the human race.
Time Travel Tribulations by Roy Huff (independently published, June 2022) [print · e-book].

Lightyear

by Jason Headley and Angus MacLane, directed by Angus MacLane
Despite having relativistic time dilation, actual time travel, and a nice treatment of various time travel tropes, the story of Buzz Lightyear (the movie character) who was the basis for Buzz Lightyear (the toy) fell far short of infinity in terms of plot and fun.
— Michael Main
Time dilation is quite simple. As you approached hyperspeed, your time slowed relative to our own, so during your mission, you aged only minutes, while the rest of us have aged years. Simply put, the faster you fly—
Lightyear by Jason Headley and Angus MacLane, directed by Angus MacLane (at movie theaters, Philippines et al., 15 June 2022).

Ad Nauseam

by Josh Warriner
Illegal time travelers Jin and Rhea are stuck in a time loop in the 1950s.
— Michael Main
Was this the fourth, or the fifth time around?
“Ad Nauseam” by Josh Warriner, Daily Science Fiction, 24 June 2022 [webzine].

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s01e10)

A Quality of Mercy

by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, directed by Chris Fisher
A despondent Captain Pike considers warning two future cadets about the accident that will kill them and maim Pike himself, but before he can write to them, his older self shows up to transport young Pike to the future that the warnings will create.
— Michael Main
Young Pike: How am I supposed to believe . . . ?
Old Pike: . . . that I’m really you?
Young Pike: You ever gonna let me get a word in edgewise?
Old Pike: I knew you were gonna say that. Does that help?
“A Quality of Mercy” by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, directed by Chris Fisher (Paramount+, USA, 7 July 2022).

Time Stamp

written and directed by Robert Butler III and Cade Huseby
Traumatized from witnessing her parents’ murder as a child, Jackie—a brilliant, young scientist—desperately time travels from 2033 to 2019, determined to keep her family alive.
— from publicity material
I’ve seen my parents die 277 times.
Time Stamp written and directed by Robert Butler III and Cade Huseby (Amazon Prime, 6 September 2022).

Remainder

by Alex Sobel
The setting is necessarily vague, but it seems that in the future, doctors may recommend limited time travel to seek closure for a lost personal relationship.
— Michael Main
She wants to go back more, as far as possible. Maybe before he was sick, even. But two years is the limit the doctor from the company gives her, his voice serious, concerned.
“Remainder” by Alex Sobel, Daily Science Fiction, 7 September 2022 [webzine].

The Peripheral, Season 1

by Scott B. Smith, et al., directed by Vincenzo Natali and Alrick Riley
When Flynne Fisher’s ne’er-do-well brother lands a lucrative gig testing new VR tech, he drafts Flynne to do the heavy lifting, and she’s bowled over by the future world the VR has created—until she realizes it’s more than a sim.
— Michael Main
If it were time travel, as you say, you’d be here physically. This is merely a matter of data transfer: quantum tunneling is the technical term for it. I understand your confusion.
The Peripheral, Season 1 by Scott B. Smith, et al., directed by Vincenzo Natali and Alrick Riley, 8 episodes (Amazon Prime, 21 October 2022 to 2 December 2022).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s02e03)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by David Reed, directed by Chris Fisher
A mysterious, bloody man appears and warns La’an of an attack in the past, after which she races to the bridge, only to find herself in an alternate timeline with a young James T. Kirk at the helm. A trip to the past seeems in order.
— Michael Main
There’s going to be an attack. It’s going to change the timeline. We have to stop it.
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by David Reed, directed by Chris Fisher (Paramount+, USA, 29 June 2023).

Aunty Bhaya Tick

writer and director pending
Aunty Bhaya Tick writer and director pending.

Dirty Machines: The End of History

writer and director pending
Dirty Machines: The End of History writer and director pending.

Don’t Time Travel to 2020

writer and director pending
Don’t Time Travel to 2020 writer and director pending.

Double Trouble

writer and director pending
Double Trouble writer and director pending.

Dumbtime

writer and director pending
Dumbtime writer and director pending.

Einstein-Rosen

writer and director pending
Einstein-Rosen writer and director pending.

Engalai patri yosi

writer and director pending
Engalai patri yosi writer and director pending.

Exit Strategy

writer and director pending
Exit Strategy writer and director pending.

Flash!

writer and director pending
Flash! writer and director pending.

Frankie

writer and director pending
Frankie writer and director pending.

Get Rich or Try Dying

writer and director pending
Get Rich or Try Dying writer and director pending.

Glitch

writer and director pending
Glitch writer and director pending.

Grandfather Paradox

writer and director pending
Grandfather Paradox writer and director pending.

Green Grass

writer and director pending
Green Grass writer and director pending.

Hard Reset

writer and director pending
Hard Reset writer and director pending.

Hidden Nowhere

writer and director pending
Hidden Nowhere writer and director pending.

Invest in Yourself

writer and director pending
Invest in Yourself writer and director pending.

Iteration 1

writer and director pending
Iteration 1 writer and director pending.

It’s About Time

writer and director pending
It’s About Time writer and director pending.

Journey 17

writer and director pending
Journey 17 writer and director pending.

The Jump

writer and director pending
The Jump writer and director pending.

Kaalayatri

writer and director pending
Kaalayatri writer and director pending.

கடிகாரம்

Katikaram Literal: Clock

writer and director pending
[ex=bare]கடிகாரம் | Clock | Katikaram[/ex] writer and director pending.

The Last One

writer and director pending
The Last One writer and director pending.

The Leap

writer and director pending
The Leap writer and director pending.

Leaping

writer and director pending
Leaping writer and director pending.

Live and Let Die

writer and director pending
Live and Let Die writer and director pending.

Loop

writer and director pending
Loop writer and director pending.

Lost Time

writer and director pending
Lost Time writer and director pending.

Love Has No Sound

writer and director pending
Love Has No Sound writer and director pending.

The Machine

writer and director pending
The Machine writer and director pending.

Man Out of Time

writer and director pending
Man Out of Time writer and director pending.

Memory Lane

writer and director pending
Memory Lane writer and director pending.

Microwave Time Machine

writer and director pending
Microwave Time Machine writer and director pending.

The Misinventions of Milo Weatherby

writer and director pending
The Misinventions of Milo Weatherby writer and director pending.

மீட்டமை

Mittamai Literal: Restore

writer and director pending
[ex=bare]மீட்டமை | Restore | Mittamai[/ex] writer and director pending.

Nura: Theory 1

writer and director pending
Nura: Theory 1 writer and director pending.

Outta Time

writer and director pending
Outta Time writer and director pending.

Paradox

writer and director pending
Paradox writer and director pending.

Paradox

writer and director pending
Paradox writer and director pending.

Paradox

writer and director pending
Paradox writer and director pending.

The Paradox

writer and director pending
The Paradox writer and director pending.

Passed Mistakes of the Future

writer and director pending
Passed Mistakes of the Future writer and director pending.

The Past in My Hands

writer and director pending
The Past in My Hands writer and director pending.

Penciled

writer and director pending
Penciled writer and director pending.

Plurality

writer and director pending
Plurality writer and director pending.

Pointless Time Travel

writer and director pending
Pointless Time Travel writer and director pending.

Portal

writer and director pending
Portal writer and director pending.

Prayanam: The Time Travel

writer and director pending
Prayanam: The Time Travel writer and director pending.

Pre-Destined Custard Pie

writer and director pending
Pre-Destined Custard Pie writer and director pending.

Press Cook

writer and director pending
Press Cook writer and director pending.

Professor Layton

writer and director pending
Professor Layton writer and director pending.

Quantum Bridge

writer and director pending
Quantum Bridge writer and director pending.

Reality

writer and director pending
Reality writer and director pending.

The Redo

writer and director pending
The Redo writer and director pending.

Refill

writer and director pending
Refill writer and director pending.

Repeat

writer and director pending
Repeat writer and director pending.

Reset

writer and director pending
Reset writer and director pending.

ReStart

writer and director pending
ReStart writer and director pending.

ReWrite

writer and director pending
ReWrite writer and director pending.

Room 88

writer and director pending
Room 88 writer and director pending.

समय यात्रा

Samay yaatra Literal: Time travel

writer and director pending
[ex=bare]समय यात्रा | Time travel | Samay yaatra[/ex] writer and director pending.

Second Chance

writer and director pending
Second Chance writer and director pending.

See Yourself

writer and director pending
See Yourself writer and director pending.

Shame & Everything’s a Nail

writer and director pending
Shame & Everything’s a Nail writer and director pending.

The Story of Time

writer and director pending
The Story of Time writer and director pending.

Stuck in a Time Travel Loop

writer and director pending
Stuck in a Time Travel Loop writer and director pending.

Tempus

writer and director pending
Tempus writer and director pending.

Tempus

writer and director pending
Tempus writer and director pending.

Ten Minute Time Machine

writer and director pending
Ten Minute Time Machine writer and director pending.

The Tent

writer and director pending
The Tent writer and director pending.

Tick

writer and director pending
Tick writer and director pending.

Time

writer and director pending
Time writer and director pending.

The Time Agent

writer and director pending
The Time Agent writer and director pending.

Time and Again

writer and director pending
Time and Again writer and director pending.

The Time Machine

writer and director pending
The Time Machine writer and director pending.

The Time Machine

writer and director pending
The Time Machine writer and director pending.

Time Machine

writer and director pending
Time Machine writer and director pending.

टाइम मशीन

Time machine Literal: Time machine

writer and director pending
[ex=bare]टाइम मशीन | Time machine | Taim masheen[/ex] writer and director pending.

Time Paradox

writer and director pending
Time Paradox writer and director pending.

Time Sculpture

writer and director pending
Time Sculpture writer and director pending.

Time Travel

writer and director pending
Time Travel writer and director pending.

Time Travel

writer and director pending
Time Travel writer and director pending.

Time Travel

writer and director pending
Time Travel writer and director pending.

Time Travel: A Love Story

writer and director pending
Time Travel: A Love Story writer and director pending.

Time Travel Academy

writer and director pending
Time Travel Academy writer and director pending.

Time Travel Alaparaigal

writer and director pending
Time Travel Alaparaigal writer and director pending.

Time Travel Taxi

writer and director pending
Time Travel Taxi writer and director pending.

Time Traveller

writer and director pending
Time Traveller writer and director pending.

The Time Traveller’s Journal

writer and director pending
The Time Traveller’s Journal writer and director pending.

Time Warped

writer and director pending
Time Warped writer and director pending.

Time Watch

writer and director pending
Time Watch writer and director pending.

Timeless

writer and director pending
Timeless writer and director pending.

Timeless Man

writer and director pending
Timeless Man writer and director pending.

Timeline

writer and director pending
Timeline writer and director pending.

Timeloop

writer and director pending
Timeloop writer and director pending.

TimeTravel

writer and director pending
TimeTravel writer and director pending.

Travelooper

writer and director pending
Travelooper writer and director pending.

Tree House Time Machine

writer and director pending
Tree House Time Machine writer and director pending.

TRIPLE TIMe

writer and director pending
TRIPLE TIMe writer and director pending.

Unstuck

writer and director pending
Unstuck writer and director pending.

Wastelands

writer and director pending
Wastelands writer and director pending.

Woo Hoo!

writer and director pending
Woo Hoo! writer and director pending.

You Can’t Change

writer and director pending
You Can’t Change writer and director pending.
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