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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.

The Twilight Zone (r1s01e10)

Judgment Night

by Rod Serling, directed by John Brahm
Carl Lanser finds himself on a transatlantic voyage of the cargo liner S.S. Queen of Glasgow, in 1942, not knowing much about himself or how he got there, but knowing volumes about submarine warfare.
— Michael Main
There’d be no wolf packs converging on a single ship, Major Devereaux. The principle of the submarine pack is based on the convoy attack.
The Twilight Zone (v1s01e10), “Judgment Night” by Rod Serling, directed by John Brahm (CBS-TV, USA, 4 December 1959).

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).

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 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).

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Time Out

written and directed by John Landis
The Twilight Zone anthology movie reprises three of the original show’s stories along with one new story, “Time Out” by John Landis, in which disgruntled bigot Bill Connor finds himself as a Jew in World War II German occupied Europe, a black man facing the clan in mid-20th century America, and a man in a Vietnamese jungle during the Second Indochina War.
— Michael Main
Ray, help! Larry! It’s me!
“Time Out” written and directed by John Landis (at movie theaters, USA, 24 June 1983).

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).

Boy Meets World (s05e06)

No Guts, No Cory

by Lara Olsen and Patricia Carr, directed by Alan Myerson
As part of ABC’s Friday night crossover, Salem (the cat from tag-4138 Sabrina) transports the Boy Meets World world to 1940s America where Cory, his dad, and Shawn all ship off to war.
— Michael Main
I don’t know how I would handle living back then. You know, I wonder what it was like during World War II.
Boy Meets World (s05e06), “No Guts, No Cory” by Lara Olsen and Patricia Carr, directed by Alan Myerson (ABC-TV, USA, 7 November 1997) \pt. 2 of the 1997 TGIF Crossover].

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).

Todd Family 1

Life after Life

by Kate Atkinson
In one instantiation of her life, Ursula Todd dies just moments after her birth in 1910. Fortunately (for the sake of the novel), time seems to be cyclic, so she and the rest of the world get many chances at life. At times, she partially recalls her other lives, resulting in many consequences to history and her personal development.
— Michael Main
So much hot air rising above the tables in the Café Heck or the Osteria Bavaria, like smoke from the ovens. It was difficult to believe from this perspective that Hitler was going to lay waste to the world in a few years’ time.

“Time isn’t circular,” she said to Dr. Kellet. “It’s like a palimpsest.”
“Oh, dear,” he said. “That sounds very vexing.”
“And memories are sometimes in the future.”

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, March 2013).

Magic Tree House: Super Edition 1

Danger in the Darkest Hour

by Mary Pope Osborne
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to England in 1944, where the country is fighting for its life in World War II. Before long, Jack and Annie find themselves parachuting to Normandy, France, behind enemy lines, and they realize that they’ve arrived on the day before D-Day. Will the brave brother and sister be able to make a difference during one of the darkest times in history?
— based on fandom.com
Danger in the Darkest Hour by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, January 2015) [print · e-book].

In Another Time

by Jillian Cantor
Hanna Ginsberg—a young Jewish violinist in Germany during the rise of Hitler—awakens in a field in 1946 with no memory of the past decade.
— Michael Main
“Do you have a time machine,” he’d asked his father. It was hard to fathom, unbelievable even as he’d said it, but the idea fascinated him with little-boy wonder.
In Another Time by Jillian Cantor (Harper Perennial, March 2019) [print · e-book].

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.

What If . . . ? [s1e01]

What If . . . Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?

by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews
The Watcher tells us of a universe where a change in a single decision made Peggy Carter (rather than Steve Rogers become the Allies’ super-soldier. Like Steve, Peggy also managed to find her way into modern times via a technique that’s related to time travel.
— Michael Main
When asked to leave the room, Margaret “Peggy” Carter chose to stay, but soon it would be her venturing into the unknown and creating a new world.
“What If . . . Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews, What If . . . ? [s01e01] (Disney+, worldwide, 11 August 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.

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].
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