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Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno
Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory.
— Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
“The Time Cap” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno, Unusual Tales #20 (Charlton Comics, January 1960).

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All Our Yesterdays

by Jean Lisette Aroeste, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
The three principal Trekkers find themselves on a planet where everyone is being evacuated to the past to escape an impending supernova.
— Michael Main
Spock! You’re reverting into your ancestors, five thousand years before you were born!
Star Trek (s03e23), “All Our Yesterdays” by Jean Lisette Aroeste, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (NBC-TV, USA, 14 March 1969).

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Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer
Two young, boarding-school students—Charlotte in 1963 and Clare in 1918—swap minds through time every night, until one day the bed that’s causing all this magic gets moved to the hospital ward, and they are stuck in each other’s times.
— Michael Main
“But I’m not Clare,” Charlotte began to say hopelessly, then stopped herself, explanation being impossible, especially since this girl seemed to think so incredibly that she was Clare.
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (Chatto and Windus, September 1969).

From Time to Time

by Jack Finney
Finney’s sequel to Time and Again initially finds Si Morley living a happy life in the 19th century with his 19th century family, while The Project in the future never even got started because he prevented the inventor’s parents from ever meeting. But vague memories linger in some of the Project member’s minds, and Morley can’t stay put.
— Michael Main
They’re back there in the past, trampling around, changing things, aren’t they? They don’t know it. They’re just living their happy lives, but changing small events. Mostly trivial, with no important effects. But every once in a while the effect of some small changed event moves on down to the—
From Time to Time by Jack Finney (Simon and Shuster, February 1995).

Kendra Donvan Series

by Julie McElwain
While roleplaying as a 19th-century lady’s maid, vigilant FBI agent Kate Donovan finds herself thrown back to 1815 England where she fights the norms and mores of the time and solves a serial murder case. She hopes that solving the case will prompt her to be thrown back to the 21st century, but alas she seems fated to stay where she is to star in a series of mystery books along with her 19th-century host, the Duke of Aldrich, and his marquis nephew, the debonair Alex.
  • 1. A Murder in Time (April 2016
  • 2. A Twist in Time (April 2017
  • 3. Caught in Time (July 2018
  • 4. Betrayal in Time (July 2019
  • 5. Shadows in Time (August 2020
— Michael Main
My best guess is that it was some sort of vortex or a wormhole.
Kendra Donovan Series by Julie McElwain, 5 books (Pegasus Crime, April 2016 to August 2020) [print · e-book].

50 Year Calendar

by Alex Johnson, directed by Connor Tatum
A teenage boy opens a Christmas present that takes him from 2017 to 2047 where he meets two antisocial teens, learns of a future war, and has a confused end to his trip.
— Michael Main
I’m from 2017. Can you fix it? I need to get back.
50 Year Calendar by Alex Johnson, directed by Connor Tatum (Youtube: Rock Ledge Studios Channel, 19 January 2017).

Aether

written and directed by Jerry Brown, Jr.
At the moment when the speedometer on the Aether spaceship clicked over from .999999c to 1.00000c, a collective cheer erupted up in the ITTDB Citadel. Was it a jaw-dropping dramatic moment? Seems unlikely, but we were looking for something to cheer for in this cryptic story of three men who headed to the future via relativistic time travel, only to find themselves trapped in post-apocalyptic outer space and quantum technobabble.
— Michael Main
It nullifies Gödel’s theorem.
Aether written and directed by Jerry Brown, Jr. (Youtube: SuperEpic Channel, 2 April 2018).

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Throwback

by Peter Lerangis
When 13-year-old Corey Fletcher first finds himself transported back in time, he doesn’t realize how it happened or that he is one of the rare travelers who can actually change the timeline, rescue his Papou, and maybe even save his grandma from 9/11.
— Michael Main
So . . . some people inherit diabetess, some inherit curly hair, and I inherited time travel?
Throwback by Peter Lerangis (HarperCollins, October 2019) [print · e-book].

Meeting the Man from the Future

by Jane Williams
We meet by chance one autumn evening
“Meeting the Man from the Future” by Jane Williams, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2020.

The Adam Project

by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy
In 2050, time jet pilot Adam Reed steals a jet and heads back to 2018 to save his stranded wife, but he gets waylaid in 2022 where his 12-year-old self is the only hope to save the mission.
— Michael Main
Young Adam: I mean if this is happening to me, that means that it already happened to you—right?—unless it works more like a multiverse where each ripple creates an alternate timeline—
Middle-Age Adam: It isn’t a multiverse! My god, we watch too many movies.
The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).
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