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Circa AD 2100 to 2199

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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).

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 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).

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.

Journey into Mystery #20

The Messenger!

by Paul S. Newman and Jack Abel

Jeff Calder is a true prankster, but his new messenger, Dal J. Keefe, seems to take every prank without missing a beat.
— Michael Main
Messenger, you’re just in time! Recieved a priority order from the top . . . scrounge up a gallow of yellow paint with black stripes.

“The Messenger!” by Paul S. Newman and Jack Abel, in Journey into Mystery #20 (Atlas Comics, December 1954).

Journey into Mystery #37

The Deep Freeze

by Carl Wessler and Don Heck

Fresh off a heist of $150,000, three crooks freeze themselves for 150 years to escape the law.
— Michael Main
We were in suspended animation for two hundred years!

“The Deep Freeze” by Carl Wessler and Don Heck, in Journey into Mystery #37 (Atlas Comics, August 1956).

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.

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].

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).

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.

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).

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).

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).

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.

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).

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