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An Inhabitant of Carcosa

by Ambrose Bierce
The ghost of a man from the ancient, fictional city of Carcosa seems destined to wander the city’s ruins, meeting wildlife and perhaps one even older ghost. Although we detected no definitive time phenomena, the time frame of the story is nebulous and intriguing, and the city’s mythos provided a fertile ground for 20th-century writers including Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, and George R. R. Martin.
— Michael Main
In one kind of death the spirit also dieth, and this it hath been known to do while yet the body was in vigour for many years. Sometimes, as is veritably attested, it dieth with the body, but after a season is raised up again in that place where the body did decay.
“An Inhabitant of Carcosa” by Ambrose Bierce, in the San Francisco Newsletter and California Advertiser, 25 December 1886.

The Worm Ouroboros

by E. R. Eddison
For the most part, the story is a high fantasy in which three chiefs of Demonland—Lord Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch Daha—embark on a heroic quest to rescue the fourth lord from his imprisonment in the mountains of Impland. However, at the end, Queen Sophonisba undertakes a resolution to the final problem that could well involve time travel.
— Michael Main
Lord, it is an Ambassador from Witchland and his train. He craveth present audience."
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).

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.

Gorgo #23

Time Pocket

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno
Although this one-page feature is title “Time Pocket,” it seems to be about travel to another dimension rather than through time.
— Michael Main
A person can suddenly disappear before our eyes, by accidentally or purposely stepping into another dimension.
“Time Pocket” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno, in Gorgo #23 (Charlton Comics, September 1965).

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 Magic Tree House 6

Afternoon on the Amazon

by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie travel to the Amazon, encountering army ants, snakes, crocodiles (does the Amazon have crocodiles?), a jaguar, and a monkey who gives them the second object they need to collect in their quest to save Morgan[/ex].

This is the first tree house story where the kids’ desitination might be in the present time, although there is still some time travel since the tree house always returns to the same time that it left, presumably so The Parents don’t worry. In any case. we’ve decided to mark this type of possibly-present-day story as having debatable time travel to distinguish this kind of destination from those in the past or future.

— Michael Main
Jack nodded. Now he remembered. The ninja master said they wouldn’t be able to find the Pennsylvania book until they had found what they were looking for.
Afternoon on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, August 1995).

The Magic Tree House 26

Good Morning, Gorillas

by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie travel to an African rain forest, encountering a young gorilla before being separated from each other for the night. But all turns out well when they find each other, find a family of bigger gorillas, and find a second kind of magic without wands.

As with several of the Magic Tree House stories, the kids’ destination in this one might be in the present time.

— Michael Main
But he couldn’t find the magic. He couldn’t find the words that finished the rhyme. Worst of all, he couldn’t find Annie.
Good Morning, Gorillas by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, August 2002).

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 3*

Summer of the Sea Serpent

by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin.
— based on fandom.com
Summer of the Sea Serpent by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, March 2004) [print · e-book].

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 4*

Winter of the Ice Wizard

by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie are joined by Teddy and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.
— based on fandom.com
Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, September 2004) [print · e-book].

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 12*

Eve of the Emperor Penguin

by Mary Pope Osborne
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
— based on fandom.com
Eve of the Emperor Penguin by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, September 2008) [print · e-book].

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 20*

A Perfect Time For Pandas

by Mary Pope Osborne
Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on Merlin’s beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world’s largest giant panda reserve.
— based on fandom.com
A Perfect Time For Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, July 2012) [print · e-book].

Spy vs. Spy Animated Segment #63

Black Spy and the DeLorean

[writer and director unknown]
White Spy thinks he can win a drag race against Black Spy and his DeLorean, all in just thirty seconds of stop-motion animation!
— Michael Main
88 MPH
“Black Spy and the DeLorean” [writer and director unknown], short segment of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Adjustment Burro,” from Mad [s03e11] (Cartoon Network, USA, 27 September 2012).

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].

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).

Effect and Cause

by Grove Koger
Over dinner, a group of professional men and women called the Club discuss a recent happening at a house that’s been haunted since 1928.
— Michael Main
The house Parry lived in had been built in 1928, right before the Depression hit, and the odd thing was that it apparently was haunted from the very beginning. From day one.
“Effect and Cause” by Grove Koger, Bewildering Stories, 15 September 2014.

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.

Arthur (s20e01a)

Buster’s Second Chance

by Ken Scarborough and Cilbur Rocha, directed by Greg Bailey
According to Brain, the past cannot be changed, but Buster still tries to do so when he’s thrown back to preschool by a time vortex.
— Tony Carr
Buster: What’s the square root of 49? [Buster thinks] I don’t know. I don’t know! . . . I’m baaaaack!
Arthur (s20e01a), “Buster’s Second Chance” by Ken Scarborough and Cilbur Rocha, directed by Greg Bailey (PBS-TV, USA, 10 October 2016).

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).

Tock

by Mike Murphy
Jake lies shivering iin bed while someone—it’a hard to say who—falls endlessly down the stairs.
— Michael Main
He clutched his blankets, waiting for the inevitable.
The dusty mantle clock hadn’t peeped since Aunt Beryl . . .
English
“Tock” by Mike Murphy, in Chronos: An Anthology of Time Drabbles, edited by Eric S. Fomley (Shacklebound Books, August 2018).

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].

Meeting the Man from the Future

by Jane Williams
We meet by chance one autumn evening
“Meeting the Man from the Future” by Jane Williams, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2020.

Unlooping

by Marie Vibbert
My life, a black vinyl record
“Unlooping” by Marie Vibbert, Asimov’s Science Fiction January/February 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].

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].

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].

Unwound

by Tom Jolly
A sweet romance story about a gray-haired man and his wife’s reaction to his discovery of reverse aging.
— Michael Main
Would it make him younger? Would his hair darken and his wrinkles fade?
“Unwound” by Tom Jolly, Daily Science Fiction, 29 October 2021 [webzine].

Magic Tree House 36*

Sunlight on the Snow Leopard

by Mary Pope Osborne
The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out the Gray Ghost and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up to the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.
— based on fandom.com
Sunlight on the Snow Leopard by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, January 2022) [print · e-book].

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].

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].

Magic Tree House 37*

Rhinos at Recess

by Mary Pope Osborne
Rhinos at Recess by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, forthcoming) [print · e-book].
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