Ancestor Travel and Ancestral Memories

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novella

Before Earth Came

Mary Ainsworth’s beau, Lee Carnforth, is the first test subject for old Professor Ainsworth’s new technique to uncover and display ancestral memories. In fact, these are extreme ancestors, from before the birth of the solar system. —based on Frank J. Bleiler
Why should father want tounlock the doors of the unknown—probe backward through time? Beyond the beyond!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

The Question That Can’t Be Answered!

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!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Mirror

In 1978, a 20-year-old Boulder woman exchanges places with her grandmother in 1900 on the eve of their respective weddings. —Michael Main
He thought she wouldn’t answer but finally she said, “What if I can’t go back? What if I have to live out Brandy’s life? She lives an awfully long time, Corbin.”
The face of a young woman, with long hair parted in the middle, looks out from an oval mirror.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Trancers I

Trancers

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 . . . 
Gun-toting Tim Tomerson (as Jack Deth) emerges from a door into a foggy night sky littered with parking lot posts.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel