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Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Short Story

Tales of Tomorrow (s01e37)

All the Time in the World

The skilled robber is now Henry Judson and his target is now the New York Metropolitan Museum, but the plot essentials remain largely the same as in Clarke’s earlier story: Use the time traveler’s foolproof plan to rob the museum. —Michael Main
Within this five-foot circle, time is speeded up to an almost unbelievable pace. But the world outside the circle remains unchanged.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #46

The Middle of the Night!

While repairing a watch, Alfred Mott realizes that it can take him back in time, so he heads back to the time of Louis XVI to steal the French crown jewels. —Michael Main
After I repaired it, I tested the our hand by pushing it backward all the way around . . . and today became yesterday!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Flash Fiction

No Time

A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.
You get attacked, you have no backup, so you become your own.
A star emerging from behind a blue planet.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s 1

Just One Damned Thing after Another

Fresh from finishing her Ph.D., Madeline Maxwell (aka Max) runs into her high school mentor who encourages her to apply for a position with a cloistered group of historians called St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research. —Michael Main
Think of History as a living organism, with its own defence mechanisms. History will not permit anything to change events that have already taken place. If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus. Or historian, as we like to call them.
A white coffee cup and saucer sit in front of background images of Big Ben
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Invictus

After Farway Gaius McCarthy fails his final examination at the Central Time Travelers Academy, he puts together a rogue time travel crew to swipe valuable artifacts from the past at moments when they won’t be missed. And it’s all roses until a mysterious girl sidetracks them on the Titanic and steers them into a multiverse of fading timelines.

As you might guess, we enjoyed Far and his friends, but the thing that sealed an Eloi Bronze Medal was the fact that when a particular timeline actually managed to branch (not an easy feat) and the traveler then jumped to the future, she found her another self—the her that was born on that timeline—waiting for her. Most branching timeline stories ignore this issue entirely. —Michael Main
“There’s nothing to return to.” Eliot’s knuckles bulged at the seams, but she didn’t yell. “When the Fade destroys a moment, it’s lost. Forever.”
An abstract design of thin purple lines and dots over out-of-focus grey objects.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Da Vinci’s Cat

As a hostage to Pope Julius II in 1511 Rome, 11-year-old Federico is lonely until he receives a visit from a tawny cat, an art collector from the 20th century, and an 11-year-old kid named Bee from the 21st century. —Michael Main
All we need is to get Raphael to draw me and make sure he signs it.
Illustration of part of the Sistine Chapel with left side showing a cat above a modern kid climbing a tree and the right side showing the same cat above a medieval kid riding a horse.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel