Time Travel Research Program

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novelette

Blood Trail

  • by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001)
Detective Wheldon, the top man in NYPD Homicide is approached by two FBI agents who offer to let him go back in time two weeks to observe the 4th killing by a serial killer.

This is the first story in Future Imperfect, a 2001 anthology of 12 original time-travel stories, co-edited by the prolific anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) who was also a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. —Michael Main
When it became clear that time travel was even a remote possibility, the government bought a lot of scientists. Those who didn’t play got discredited.
A warped gold pockewatch with Arabic numerals and a separate second hand on its own dial.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Audio Play Series

3 seasons

ars Paradoxica

—pending
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Million Eyes 0.01

Who Is Rudolph Fentz?

It would seem that Jack Finney got it wrong in his 1951 story “I’m Scared.” But never fear! C. R. Berry tells us the true story of how a certain Mr. Rudolph Fentz came to find himself in front of a cab on a busy street next to Times Square. —Michael Main
At 11.15pm, Forrest was passing through Times Square, New York City, heading for his apartment on West 51st Street during Times Square’s busiest time, theatre letting out time. Carving through the crowds, wishing he’d gone a different way, Forrest noticed a man in his thirties standing in the middle of the road.
Pen-and-ink drawing of Santa Clause putting up a large poster with a photo of an elderly couple walking across a bridge.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Million Eyes 0.03

The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller

  • by C. R. Berry
  • in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016
What could that mysterious woman be doing on the film clip of the 1928 premier of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, other than apparently talking into a small brick held to her ear? —Michael Main
Yup, this woman was talking on a mobile phone—in 1928—decades before they were invented.
An astronaut spacewalks up a space station in orbit above a clouded brown planet.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Million Eyes 0.04

Paul

A black-and-white banner of the Storgy magazine title above a story by C R Berry.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Million Eyes 0.02

Rachel Can See

  • by C. R. Berry
  • in Metamorphose: V2, edited by Tammy Davies (Metamorphose Literary, November 2016)
Teenager Rachel is sent to the Pinewood facility because she remembers events that never happened and people who died but are still inviting her to dinner. —Michael Main
She frowned. “I’m not crazy.”

“I’m not saying you are,” Dr. Flynn said. “But there is a problem with your memory and there are people at Pinewood who may be able to find out wht it is.”
A woman in a brown sweater turns her head and hides her face behind long red hair.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book Series

The Rift

The crash of a 1941 World War II plane in a 21st-century Kansas field sets off a chain of plots and subplots involving the pilot, a mother on the run, a precotious young boy, a government agency, and multiple jumps through a time rift. —Michael Main
Smoke billows into a bright blue sky scarred by a rip in the heavens—what we’ll come to know as . . . The Rift
Above a bright red background, a single-wing propeller plane trails smokefrom its engine and wings.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Amazing Stories (v2s01e05)

The Rift

After a dogfight, a World War II plane flies through a time rift and into a 21st-century field near Dayton, where a single mom saves the pilot from the wreckage and her step-son saves the pilot from other dangers. —Michael Main
Sir, I know it’s a doorway and all, and we gotta send everything back there, but in training they did not really tell us what happens if we don’t.
Dunan Joiner (as Elijah) and Kerry Bishé (as Mary Ann) in a field pull away from each other as a one-winged World War II plane drops out of the sky above them.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel