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Visiting a Potential Future

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Creatures of the Light

by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
A Teutonic scientist attempts to create a race of artificially created superman who, among other things, can jump a few seconds through time, but only as invisible witnesses to the future goings-on. The story is disturbingly prescient of Nazi ideas of an Aryan Herrenvolk.
— Michael Main
Before Northwood’s horrified sight, he vanished; vanished as though he had turned suddenly to air and floated away.
“Creatures of the Light” by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.

I’m Scared

by Jack Finney
In the 1950s, a retired man in New York City speculates on a variety of cases of odd temporal occurrences such as the woman who realized that the old dog who persistently followed her in 1947 was actually the puppy she adopted several years later. And then there was the now famous case of Rudolph Fentz who seemingly popped into Times Square on an evening in the 1950s, apparently straight from 1876.
— Michael Main
Got himself killed is right. Eleven-fifteen at night in Times Square—the theaters letting out, busiest time and place in the world—and this guy shows up in the middle of the street, gawking and looking around at the cars and up at the signs like he'd never seen them before.
“I’m Scared” by Jack Finney, in Collier’s, 15 September 1951, pp. 24ff..

retold for children

A Christmas Carol

abridged by Joan Collins from the original by Charles Dickens
The tale is a somewhat faithful retelling for children, abridge to about a third of the original length, in simple language, and with copious illustrations by Chris Russell. It even retains the metaphysical thought that the future will be bleak for Tiny Tim if things remain unchanged.
— Michael Main
If these shadows do not change, Tiny Tim will not see another Christmas.
“A Christmas Carol” abridged by Joan Collins from the original by Charles Dickens (Ladybird Books, 1982).

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e08)

Bada Ping!

by Nancy Cohen, directed by Anson Williams
Sabrina takes Salem into the future to find out her fate after gangster Mickey Brentwood finds out that she’s writing an exposé on his shady practices.
— Inmate Jan
You see, this thug nightclub owner threatened our little Lois Lame over there—
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e08), “Bada Ping!” by Nancy Cohen, directed by Anson Williams (The WB-TV, USA, 22 November 2002).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s01e10)

A Quality of Mercy

by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, directed by Chris Fisher
A despondent Captain Pike considers warning two future cadets about the accident that will kill them and maim Pike himself, but before he can write to them, his older self shows up to transport young Pike to the future that the warnings will create.
— Michael Main
Young Pike: How am I supposed to believe . . . ?
Old Pike: . . . that I’m really you?
Young Pike: You ever gonna let me get a word in edgewise?
Old Pike: I knew you were gonna say that. Does that help?
“A Quality of Mercy” by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, directed by Chris Fisher (Paramount+, USA, 7 July 2022).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s02e03)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by David Reed, directed by Chris Fisher
A mysterious, bloody man appears and warns La’an of an attack in the past, after which she races to the bridge, only to find herself in an alternate timeline with a young James T. Kirk at the helm. A trip to the past seeems in order.
— Michael Main
There’s going to be an attack. It’s going to change the timeline. We have to stop it.
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by David Reed, directed by Chris Fisher (Paramount+, USA, 29 June 2023).
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