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The Time Professor

by Ray Cummings
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.
“The Time Professor” by Ray Cummings, in Argosy, 1 January 1921.

The Worm Ouroboros

by E. R. Eddison
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."
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).

The Jest of Hahalaba

by Lord Dunsany
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?
The Jest of Hahalaba by Lord Dunsany, unknown first performance, circa 1926.

Journey into Mystery #40

I Saw a Demon!

by an unknown writer and John Giunta
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!
“I Saw a Demon!” by an unknown writer and John Giunta, in Journey into Mystery #40 (Atlas Comics, November 1956).

Teen Angel (s01e07)

One Dog Night

by Michael Price, directed by Gary Halvorson
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.
Teen Angel (s01e07), “One Dog Night” by Michael Price, directed by Gary Halvorson (ABC-TV, USA, 7 November 1997) \pt. 4 of the 1997 TGIF Crossover].

Artemis Fowl, Book #6

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

by Eoin Colfer
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.
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion Books for Children, July 2008).

Edelstein Trilogie, Book 2

Saphirblau

English release: Sapphire Blue Literal: Sapphire blue

by Kerstin Gier
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.
Ruby Red, with G-major, the magic of the raven, brings the Circle of Twelve home into safe haven.
English
[ex=bare]Saphirblau | Sapphire blue[/ex] by Kerstin Gier (Arena Verlag, January 2010).

R.I.P.D.

by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, directed by Robert Schwentke
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.
R.I.P.D. by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, directed by Robert Schwentke (at movie theaters, Iceland, 17 July 2013).

Insidious 2

Insidious: Chapter 2

by Leigh Whannell, directed by James Wan
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.
Insidious: Chapter 2 by Leigh Whannell, directed by James Wan (at movie theaters, USA etc., 13 September 2013).

Providence Falls Trilogy

by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets
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.”
The Providence Falls Novels, 2 vols. by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets (Mira, September 2020 to October 2022) [print · e-book].

A Demon’s Christmas Carol

by Jennie Goloboy
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 Demon’s Christmas Carol” by Jennie Goloboy, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2021.

A Christmas Prelude

by Peter David
“A Christmas Prelude” by Peter David, in Three Time Travelers Walk Into . . ., edited by Michael A. Ventrella (Fantastic Books, June 2022) [print · e-book].
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