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The Tachypomp: A Mathematical Demonstration

by Edward Page Mitchell
This was Mitchell’s first of many anonymous stories for the New York Sun, and although it contained a clever method of achieving unlimited speed, it had no time travel. But not to worry! Two of [Error: Missing '[/exn]' tag for wikilink]
— Michael Main
Just whisper to him that when he has an infinite number of cars with an infinitesimal difference in their lengths, he will have obtained that infinite speed for which he seems to yearn.
“The Tachypomp: A Mathematical Demonstration” by Edward Page Mitchell, New York Sun, January 1874..

Conquest over Time

by Michael Shaara
A fun story of first contact with a planet where astrology reigns supreme, but despite the story’s title, there is no actual time travel™ or other time phenomena.
— Michael Main
Every event that happens on this cockeyed world, from a picnic to a wedding to a company merger or a war, it’s all based on astrology.
“Conquest over Time” by Michael Shaara, Fantastic Universe, November 1956.

Diving Universe 1A

Diving into the Wreck

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The first story in the Diving Universe series finds the captain (a.k.a. “Boss”) of Nobody’s Business and her motley crew of five wreck divers grappling with a five-thousand-year-old derelict spaceship that’s farther from Earth than it has any right to be. Their own spaceship has an FTL Drive, which always implies time travel, and there are suggestions that the old ship has areas of differing time rates based on interdimensional, parallel universe hand-waving, but the confirmation of actual time travel doesn’t occur until later in the Diving Universe series.
— Michael Main
A few documents, smuggled to the colonies on Earth’s Moon, suggested that stealth tech was based on interdimensional science—that the ships didn’t vanish off radar because of a “cloak” but because they traveled, briefly, into another world—a parallel universe that’s similar to our own.

I recognized the theory—it’s the one on which time travel is based, even though we’ve never discovered time travel, at least not in any useful way, and researchers all over the universe discourage experimentation in it. They prefer the other theory of time travel, the one that says time is not linear, that we only perceive it as linear, and to actually time travel would be to alter the human brain.

But what Squishy is telling me is that it’s possible to time travel, it’s possible to open small windows in other dimensions, and bend them to our will.

“Diving into the Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2005.

Diving Universe 1B

The Room of Lost Souls

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
This time around, “Boss” puts together a crew to dive into the central part of an age-old abandoned space station where many have entered but, apparently, only Boss (long ago, as a young girl) has ever returned. The universe is largely unchanged from the first Diving Universe story, replete with mysterious interdimensional ambiguities and timey-wimey goings-on, but still no actual time travel.
— Michael Main
The exterior parts of the station move in a slower time frame. The interior part, nearest the stealth tech itself, is moving at an accelerated pace.
“Diving into the Shipwreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2008.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, directed by Ava DuVernay
An unabashedly pretentious adaptation of L’Engle’s fine children’s, well deserving of the Rotten Tomatoes consensus that it’s “less than the sum of its parts.” Meg views her past, but with no actual time travel[font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]™[/font].
— Michael Main
Seriously, Charles Wallace, I’m underwhelmed.
A Wrinkle in Time by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, directed by Ava DuVernay (premiered at El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, 26 February 2018).
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