Descendant Travel

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novella

Special Knowledge

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
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
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