In a Series with Time Travel, but None Here

Tag Area: Time-Related Situation
Novelette

A Race Through Time 2

Farewell to Earth


Perhaps you recall that in Wandrei’s first story, “A Race through Time,” good and compassionate Webster was trapped in the year AD 1,001950, exactly 1,950 years after the time when his true love, Ellen, was taken by that cad Daniel. So what is left for him on this barren Earth?
I am the daughter of Ellayn, who was the daughter of Ellayn, until far back there was the first Ellayn. She and Worin were the first two.
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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Novella

Dragonriders of Pern 1A

Weyr Search


Time travel doesn’t yet occur in this first of the Pern stories, but hop on over to the second story for the first display of a dragon jumping between times. —Michael Main
The danger was definitely not within the walls of Hold Ruath. Nor approaching the paved perimeter without the Hold where relentless grass had forced new growth through the ancient mortar, green witness to the deterioration of the once stone-clean Hold.
A brontosaurus-like dragon sits on its haunches behind two cloaked men with a
                dragon-filled sky in the background.
  • 1968 Hugo
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • No Time Phenomena
Novella

Diving Universe 1A

Diving into the Wreck


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.
A shuttle-like spacecraft accelerates in front of a looming larger craft, both
                in orbit above a blue planet.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novella

Diving Universe 1B

The Room of Lost Souls


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.
A woman in a off-the-shoulder, flowing white gown with billowing sleeves and a
                long train stares into the distance in front of a futuristic city.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novella

Outlander novella

Virgins

  • by Diana Gabaldon
  • in Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Harper Voyager, November 2013)

The two title-virgins in this prequel to the Outlander time travel series are Jamie Fraser and his pal Ian, who undertake a mercenary adventure near Bourdeaux in 1740. During their adventure, they may or may not have changed their status as virgins in the art of lovemaking (we’ll never tell), but will say that at the conclusion of the story, they were still time travel virgins. —Michael Main
The job offered was simple. Rebekah was to be married to the son of the chief rabbi of the Paris synagogue. The ancient Torah was part of her dowry, as was a sum of money that made D’Eglise’s eyes glisten. The Doctor wished to engage D’Eglise to deliver all three items—the girl, the scroll, and the money—safely to Paris; the Doctor himself would travel there for the wedding, but later in the month, as his business in Bordeaux detained him.
A double-ended sword lies between text of the editors’ names and the title of
                the book.
  • Romance
  • No Time Phenomena