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Terror Out of Time

by Jack Williamson
Until I started reading 1930s pulps, I didn’t realize how ubiquitous were the scientist with a beautiful daughter and her adventurous fiancé. This story has Dr. Audrin, his machine (to project the brain of a present-day man forty million years into the future and possibly bring another mind back), his beautiful daughter Eve, and her manly fiancé, Terry Webb. Manly Webb agrees to be the test subject for the machine, much to the dismay of beautiful Eve.
— Michael Main
I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—
“Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.

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.

All the Time in the World

by Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Ashton is offered a huge amount of money to carry out a foolproof plan of robbing the British Museum of its most valuable holdings.
— Michael Main
Your time scale has been altered. A minute in the outer world would be a year in this room.
“All the Time in the World” by Arthur C. Clarke, Startling Stories, July 1952.

Journey into Mystery #39

I Lived Four Times!

by Carl Wessler, Bob Forgione, and Jack Abel
Stefan Orjanski, a Hungarian soldier, is taken by his love to a sorcerer who can help him desert the army, but the help requires first living through part of the lives of four others.
— Michael Main
I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!
“I Lived Four Times!” by Carl Wessler, Bob Forgione, and Jack Abel, in Journey into Mystery #39 (Atlas Comics, October 1956).

Journey into Mystery #40

The Question That Can’t Be Answered!

by an unknown writer and John Forte
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!
“The Question That Can’t Be Answered!” by an unknown writer and John Forte, in Journey into Mystery #40 (Atlas Comics, November 1956).

Time Travel Inc.

by Robert F. Young
I found this in one of three old sf magazines that I traded for at Denver’s own West Side Books. (Thank you, Lois.) Both the title and the table-of-contents blurb (They wanted to witness the Crucifixion) foreshadow Moorcock’s “Behold the Man,” although the story is not as vivid.
— Michael Main
Oh . . . The Crucifixion. You want to witness it, of course—
“Time Travel Inc.” by Robert F. Young, Super-Science Fiction, February 1958.

Passage to Gomorrah

by Robert F. Young
In a future of FTL spaceships, time storms between the stars, and male-only space explorers, young Berenice had run away to the stars as a sex worker. But when she inexplicably becomes pregnant, the powers-that-be book passage for her on Captain Cross’s ship to the exhile planet called Gomorrah.
— Michael Main
“But wouldn’t our objective reality be affected?”

He nodded. “It could be,” he said, “since, in the absence of any real passage of time, it would be in temporal ratio to our involvement in our pasts, which might force it into a different time plane altogether.”

“Passage to Gomorrah” by Robert F. Young, Fantastic January 1959.

Jessamy

by Barbara Sleigh
Visiting with the caretaker of an empty old mansion, orphaned Jessamy emerges from the nursery closet into the world of 1914 when her namesake lived in the same house and left her adventures and a mystery to be solved again in the present.
— from publicity material
Somehow I’ve become another Jessamy in a different time! It must be a different time because of the clothes. Nobody wears long skirts like Matchett and Aunt now—I mean that—oh, I don’t know what I mean!
Jessamy by Barbara Sleigh (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).

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Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer
Two young, boarding-school students—Charlotte in 1963 and Clare in 1918—swap minds through time every night, until one day the bed that’s causing all this magic gets moved to the hospital ward, and they are stuck in each other’s times.
— Michael Main
“But I’m not Clare,” Charlotte began to say hopelessly, then stopped herself, explanation being impossible, especially since this girl seemed to think so incredibly that she was Clare.
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (Chatto and Windus, September 1969).

The Mirror

by Marlys Millhiser
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 Mirror by Marlys Millhiser (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978).

A Promise of Time Travel

written and directed by Craig Jessen, produced by April Grace Lowe
After fifteen years of estrangement, bookish Zelda Jones reunites with her best friend from high school, Cassie . At the start of their new relationship, it’s not apparent that their interactions are going anywhere, but as the other main characters weave their way into the plot, Zelda learns about time travel on a single, static timeline, and the pieces lock nicely into place.

Oh, and Dave’s grandfather had a plot to go back and kill Hitler, but that’s not really relevant to Zelda (and Cassie and Walter and John and Charlie).

— Michael Main
If you do travel back in time, even though it’s in your subjective future, it’s in the objective past. So if you could travel back in time and if you were determined to change the past, when it came down to it, you’d either decide not to, or you’d fail.
A Promise of Time Travel written and directed by Craig Jessen, produced by April Grace Lowe (North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, 16 August 2016).
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