Angels and Demons

Tag Area: Fictional Collective
Short Story

The Time Professor


Professor Waning Glory takes his new friend Tubby on a trip in a boat that stays always at 9 p.m. in a lofty time-river of some sort, starting at Coney Island, then Chicago, then Denver, and farther west. The professor is able to briefly stop the boat above Chicago, where time for those below stays frozen at 9 p.m., and when their boat crosses the 180° meridian, they travel back a day. Eventually, they arrive back at their starting point on Coney Island, where it is still 9 p.m. —Michael Main
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Worm Ouroboros


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."
A black-and-white, diamond-speckled snake with hands and teeth winds
                around itself several times and eats its own tail.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Playlet

The Jest of Hahalaba


Against the advice of his alchemist, Sir Arthur calls up the Spirit of Laughter on New Year’s Eve and asks to see the coming year’s issues of the Times. —Michael Main
Sir Arthur Strangways: Only a trifle. I wish to see a file of the Times.
Hahalaba:For what year?
19th-century, hand-drawn map showing Dunsany Castle and its surrounds.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

I Saw a Demon!


When Dr. Morgan succeeds in playing back sound from ancient Egyptian rocks, an ancient Egyptian demon unexpectedly appears. —Michael Main
I forgot! Sounds could be etched on this rock by voices in its vicinity over the ages, since it was first formed!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Teen Angel (s01e07)

One Dog Night


The final part of ABC’s Friday night crossover took Salem the cat to Teen Angel’s house where he transports Teen Angel and the family back to the time of disco and, apparently, altered the course of the 1976 presidential election. —Michael Main
Oh, honey, you can go any time. Disco’s gonna last forever.
Closing title card Episode 7 of Teen Angel, with a logo for abc dot com and
                Melissa Joan Hart (as Sabrina) talking with Mike Damus (as the Teen Angel).
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Parallel Highways

  • by James Van Pelt
  • in After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror, edited by Jeremy Lassen (fREAk pRESs, May 2000)

Jack and Debbie have been driving nonstop in high-speed, bumper-to-bumper traffic for decades. Particularly fun is swapping drivers from time to time, without stopping. No actual time travel for the fated pair, but you will spot some familiar time phenomena. —Michael Main
He remembered the morning this started, holding his own in his lane, the early commute streaming toward its destination, when he saw the mini-van coming toward him from the on-ramp.
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  • Horror
  • Time Phenomena
Novel

Artemis Fowl, Book #6

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

  • by Eoin Colfer
  • (Hyperion Books for Children, July 2008)

When fourteen-year-old genius Artemis Fowl realizes that the only cure for his mother’s case of Spelltropy lies in a species of lemur that Artemis made extinct eight years ago, there is only one solution: Grab your 80-year-old, elfin-police-captain-friend Holly Short and trick her into traveling back in time to stop your formerly evil, ten-year-old self from killing off the last of the all-cure lemurs.

Author Eoin Colfer does a masterful job presenting a single nonbranching, static timeline, complete with three consistent causal loops (further described in our tag notes for this story). But really, Eoin, you missed the shuttle on “the kiss”! With the help of N°1, Artemis can time travel, so if you're intent on his first romantic kiss coming from Holly Short, couldn’t N°1 have brought Holly’s actual fourteen-year-old self into the story? Might have even presented an opportunity for a fourth causal loop: Fourteen-year-old Holly kissees fourteen-year-old Artemis, but only because fifteen-year-old Artemis had already told thirteen-year-old Holly that they would enjoy it. —Michael Main
Oh, bless my bum-flap. You’re time travelers.
A boy clutching a lemur and followed by a smaller version of himself is blown
                out of the page by a yellow explosion.
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Edelstein Trilogie, Book 2

Saphirblau

  • Sapphire blue
  • Sapphire Blue
  • by Kerstin Gier
  • (Arena Verlag, January 2010)

Apart from amusing blustering from the Count during her trips to the 18th century, time travel took a back seat to Gwenny’s on-again-off-again romance with Gideon in this second book of the trilogy. Gwenny’s new pal, the ghost/demon/gargoyle Xemerius, was enjoyable, though we wish that he would be time traveller #13. —Michael Main
Rubinrot, Begabt mit der Magie des Raben, Schließt G-Dur den Kreis, Den zwölf gebildet haben.
translate Ruby Red, with G-major, the magic of the raven, brings the Circle of Twelve home into safe haven.
Black silhouettes of a young 18th-century man and woman on a blue background.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

R.I.P.D.


Note to self: When you’re a detective having second thoughts about stealing that gold from a drug bust, don’t express your thoughts to your partner who might give you a shotgun blast to the face, whereupon time will momentarily freeze and you will be recruited to an understaffed supernatural police department. Apart from time freezing, there are no time phenomena in this adaptation of the earlier comic book miniseries. —Michael Main
Proctor: You’re lucky, Nick. You have skills that we want, so we’re giving you a choice: You can take your chances with judgement, or . . . [fishes undeader gun from a drawer and places it on the desk]/actor] you can join the R.I.P.D.
Jeff Bridges (as Roy Pulsipher) and Ryan Reynolds (as Nick Walker) march down a
                Boston street, guns blazing, underneath an electrified vortex.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Time Phenomena
Feature Film

Insidious 2

Insidious: Chapter 2


The first scene goes back to the time of Josh (the dad in Insidious) as a boy when he was possessed by a woman in white. The movie then returns to the present day, just after a possessed Josh murdered the exorcist who had treated him as a child, and gives a horrific, supernatural explanation of it all—including time travel via a demon world of non-linear time. —Michael Main
I, uh, digitized the actual footage taken from the night. I, uh, cropped and lightened the image.
Frightened Rose Byrnes (as Renai Lambert) holds a hammer in one hand and
                clutches two children (played by Ty Simpkins and Andrew Astor) to her with the
                other.
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel Series

Providence Falls Trilogy


After more than a century in limbo, Irish ruffian Liam O’Connor is dropped into an adult life in 21st-century Providence Falls where, in order to save his soul, he must convince his reincarnated true love, Cora, to marry someone other than himself. It appears that Liam had a long sleep, and Cora was reincarnated, but neither had real time travel. —Michael Main
“Cora is on earth again in this twenty-first century,” Samuel said. “You must make sure she fulfills her true destiny in this life.”
A man and a woman walk away from each other in long grass with their images,
                wearing old fashioned clothes, reflected in water below.
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

A Demon’s Christmas Carol

  • by Jennie Goloboy
  • in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2021

A enjoyable Christmastime tale of a demon who hasn’t been on Earth since Victorian times, but despite the title, there are no Dickensian guides and no time travel. —Michael Main
This was it; this was the summoning Mastema had been waiting for.
A woman with an implant at her temple and cracking green skin holds a happy
                piglet in waist-high water.
  • Fantasy
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

A Christmas Prelude

  • by Peter David
  • in [Error: Missing ']]' tag for wikilink]

A green drink with ice sits on a brown bar in front of a warped stopwatch.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Time Bandits, s01e01

Kevin Haddock


After stealing the Map of the Universe from the Supreme Being, a band of dissatisfied new bandits pops through the time portal in Kevin’s bedroom—and the adventures begin! —Michael Main
Dad was right. It is just a pile of stones with a gift shop.
A pirate ship, bits of earth torn from the ground, and the cast of Time Bandits
                float in front of colorful clouds.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Time Bandits, s01e02

Mayan


Even though Kevin seems (mostly) helpful to the bandits, Penelope still tries to dump him in the Ice Age and Maya times. —Michael Main
I’m not cut out to be a time traveling bandit.
Young Kal-El Tuk (as Kevin) stands boldly, wearing his glasses, knight tunic,
                and translation helmet.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Time Bandits, s01e03

Medieval


With the aid of a triceritops skull that Kevin nabbed in the Cretaceous, the gang tries to pass itself off as dragon slayers in medieval Nottingham. And then, just when you’re starting to think this story might be too slim for an entire series, we get sister Saffron coming after Kevin. —Michael Main
We don’t know if we can change time or effect it at all.”
Lisa Kudrow (as Penelope) sits on a log in a forest, addressing a group of
                people offscreen.
  • Undetermined
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel