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Time Patrol

by Poul Anderson

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.

“Time Patrol” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1955.

W.A.R.P. #1

The Reluctant Assassin

by Eoin Colfer

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.

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, April 2013).

How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig

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.

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (Canongate Books, July 2017).

Fantasy Island (r3s01e07), pt. 1

The Romance

by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, directed by Diana Valentine

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?

Fantasy Island (v3s01e07), seg. 1, “The Romance” by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, directed by Diana Valentine (Fox-TV, USA, 14 September 2021).

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