Victorian Era

Tag Area: Real-World Setting
Short Story

The Man Who Never Lived

Strange Nicholas van Allensteen joins with a universal mind to journey back before the start of time. —Michael Main
“[. . .] This is an experiment in mental monism, you know, along the time-space continuum that forms material totality.”
I looked at Nicholas and, despite all my conversatons with him, I did not comprehend.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

He Never Slept

The famous Dr. Jason Veldor has made a potion that eliminates the need for sleep. The only trouble is, it’s devastatingly addictive, and for better or worse, it takes Veldor’s mind into the lives in other times and other dimensions. —Michael Main
To come to my point, Richard, I have for many years been very disgusted with the fact that all the human race—indeed every living organism—must waste a third of its life in sleep. Think what a race we’d be if we never slept!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novelette

Time Patrol 1

Time Patrol

In the first of a long series of hallowed stories, former military engineer (and noncomformist) Manse Everard is recruited by the Time Patrol to prevent time travelers from making major changes to history. (Don’t worry, history bounces back from the small stuff.) —Michael Main
If you went back to, I would guess, 1946, and worked to prevent your parents’ marriage in 1947, you would still have existed in that year; you would not go out of existence just because you had influenced events. The same would apply even if you had only been in 1946 one microsecond before shooting the man who would otherwise have become your father.
A man climbs a spiraling ramp up the side of a rocket while holding a blaster on two men below.
  • Gold Medal Eloi
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Chronicles of the Tempus 1

The Queen Must Die

One minute, Katie is under the bed of her New York apartment, and the next she’s in Buckingham Palace, at the height of Queen Victoria's reign—a dangerous place to be. The Royal Family is in mortal peril. In the secret passages of the palace, a plot is afoot. Suspicious figures huddle in the gaslit streets of London. And Katie is not the only time-traveler in the city. —based on publicity material
Everyone knows that, at least everyone in England. Have you just arrived from a foreign land? Are you running a fever? You really do look queer. Perhaps you are a bit insane. I’d call Dr. O’Reilly to look at you, but he’s not to be trusted.
Silhouettes of three children running from a regal building on a dark teal background.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

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The Reluctant Assassin

When fourteen-year-old Victorian waif Riley shows up in the 21st century on seventeen-year-old FBI Agent Chevie Savano’s watch, the two of them pair up and head back to the late 19th century to escape Riley’s evil pursuer.

Although the book involves wormholes and scientists, it’s really a quantum fantasy, wherein an ordinary fantasy has the word “quantum” scattered throughout in key places, typically before the word magic, magician, or wormhole. Nevertheless, we’ve listed it as science fiction to match its publicity material. —Michael Main
He discovered that Einstein’s quantum theory was essentially correct and that he could stabilize a traversable wormhole through space-time using exotic matter with negative energy density.
A young teen boy wearing a green jacket and a red pendant flies straight at us in a retro time machine.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

How to Stop Time

As a 400-something-year-old member of the Albatross Society, Tom Hazard ages less than a month for each year of life. But now, after falling in the 21st-century and butting heads with the Society, he seems to be on a mental trip that covers his entire life (but not an actual time traveling trip). —Michael Main
But as time goes by, at birthdays or other annual markers, people begin to notice you aren’t getting any older.
A silhouette dog and man sit on a sandy beach inside an hourglass, withg a giant rose growing up through the hourglass like a beanstalk.
  • Fantasy
  • No Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e07), pt. 1

The Romance

To help Miss Marshall find her way in the real wrld, the Island sends her to Victorian England to spend time with her favorite author. —Michael Main
Do you ever think you were born in the wrong time?
Lyinging on a blanket in a Victorian gardan, Caitlin Stasey and Gillian Saker (as Isabel Marshall and Rachel Coldwater) share a quiet moment reading a book together.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Rip through Time 1

A Rip through Time

May 20, 2019: While out on a jog one evening, homicide detective Malloryhears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness.

May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Thomson had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly 150 years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in Victorian Scotland, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker who has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it’s too late.
—based on publicity material
Holy shit, I’m wearing a corset and a nightgown. Also some kind of wig—I can feel hair against my back where it normally falls on my shoulders.
A modern woman in side profile with a Victorian scene on her torso.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel