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Cloche vaine

English release: Empty ring Literal: Vain bell

by Francine Pelletier
At the end of her long successful writing career, a woman is still haunted by her sister’s death four decades earlier.
— Michael Main
We had talked about SF literature, books on the theme of going back in time. This was related to the activities of the day. During the convention, one of the guest scientists had stated that time travel was impossible.
[ex=bare]“Cloche vaine” | Vain bell[/ex] by Francine Pelletier, in Solaris 109, Spring 1994.

The Last Musketeer 1

The Last Musketeer

by Stuart Gibbs
While chasing the cad who stole his family’s prized black crystal, young Greg Rich ends up back in AD 1615 where he and three future Musketeers must save Greg’s parents from Dominic Richelieu (the cardinal’s evil brother) and the deadly prison known as La Mort.
— Michael Main
When joined as a whole, the Devil’s Stone was rumored to perform many miracles: strike people dead in an instant, turn lead into gold, even open portals in time.
The Last Musketeer by Stuart Gibbs (HarperCollins, September 2011) [print · e-book].

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Time between Us

by Tamara Ireland Stone
Somewhat self-absorbed 16-year-old Anna Green manages to fall for the first time traveler she ever meets, not realizing that he’s a time traveler or that he’s hoping his mission to 1995 will be a short-term affair.
— Jeff Delgado
It’s too easy for me to say the wrong thing today, and if I do, we may never meet at all
Time between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone (Hyperion Books, October 2012).

The Flash, Season 1

written and directed by multiple people
Time travel is implied right from the first episode of the CW’s rendition of The Flash where a newspaper from the future is seen in the closing scene. The rest of the first season builds a fine time-travel arc that includes a nefarious time traveler from the far future, a classic grandfather paradox with a twist (sadly not examined), a do-over day for the Flash (which Harrison Wells calls “temporal reversion”), and a final episode that sees the Flash travel back to his childhood (as well as a hint that Rip Hunter himself will soon appear on the CW scene).
— Michael Main
Wells: Yes, it’s possible, but problematic. Assuming you could create the conditions necessary to take that journey, that journey would then be fraught with potential pitfalls: the Novikov Principle of Self-Consistency, for example.

Joe: Wait—the what, now?

Barry: If you travel back in time to change something, then you end up being the causal factor of that event.

Cisco: Like . . . Terminator.

Joe: Ah!

Wells: Or is time plastic? Is it mutable, whereby any changes in the continuum could create an alternate timeline?

Cisco: Back to the Future.

Joe: Ah, saw that one, too.

The Flash, season 1 written and directed by multiple people (The CW, USA, 7 October 2014) to 19 May 2015).

The Flash, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
After Barry aborts his mission to the past in Season 1 in order to prevent his own present from being erased, he finds that his travel has caused even bigger problems! Yep, a rift has been a-opened to a parallel world with an alternate Flash and an evil speedster and—it would seem—more time travelin’ and another attempt to save his mom and dad!
— Michael Main
No, that’s not how it works. In our timeline, Barry’s mother’s already dead, and her death is a fixed point. And nothing can change that.
The Flash, season 2 by multiple writers and directors (The CW, USA, 6 October 2015) to 24 May 2016).

Creeped Out (s01e05)

A Boy Called Red

by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes
After his parents break up, Vincent visits his Dad’s childhood home where Auntie Jeanne encourages him to explore—without even putting that cursed well off limits, the very well where Dad lost his best friend back in the summer of ’85!
— Inmate Jan
When your dad was younger, he had a best friend, a boy called Red. Red disappeared down that well.
Creeped Out (s01e05), “A Boy Called Red” by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes (CBBC-TV, UK, 28 November 2017).

See You Yesterday

by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol
Up in the ITTDB Citadel, our first attraction is naturally to the time travel aspects of any movie, even when the result is an incomprehensible time wreck resulting from a pair of teenage geniuses. That’s what’s on the surface here, but it also seems to be a metaphor for the even bigger train wreck of the racist society in the 21st-century United States.
— Michael Main
You’re missing the big picture here: If time travel were possible, it would be the greatest ethical and philosophical conundrum of the modern age.
See You Yesterday by Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol, directed by Stefon Bristol (Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, 3 May 2019).

Boss Level

by Chris Bore et al., directed by Joe Carnaham
After visiting his estranged wife, Jemma, at her top secret lab, retired special forces agent and ne’er-do-well Roy Pulver finds himself endlessly repeating the next day, which always starts with the same assassin in his apartment and always ends with Roy dead, even as he learns more and more about Jemma, their son Joe, Jemma’s work, and how to kill endless assassins.
It’s like being stuck in a video game in a level you know you can’t beat. —from the Hulu varient
English
Boss Level by Chris Bore et al., directed by Joe Carnaham (premiere, ArcLight Cinemas, Hollywood, California, 11 February 2020).

An Hour

written and directed by Prasanth Kumar
Young, unemployed Nanna seems to take everything in stride, even the arrival of unexpected package containing an artistic hourglass with the power to take him back or forward one hour in time.

The audio is mostly Telugu, but there are subtitles in broken English.

— Michael Main
What is this? Is it time machine? If it is a time machine, then who will send it to me?
An Hour written and directed by Prasanth Kumar (Youtube: Andhra Pradesh Channel, 2 October 2020).

Your Cat

by Beth Cato
You travel back in time to save your childhood cat in exactly the way that you know she was saved.
— Michael Main
You have traveled thirty years back in time to save your cat.
“Your Cat” by Beth Cato, Daily Science Fiction, 21 September 2021 [webzine].

This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub
After turning forty in a snit because of her career decisions, her unexciting boyfriend, and her dying father, Alice Stern wakes up on her 16th birthday in her teen body.
— Michael Main
“I know it’s your birthday,” Leonard said. “You’ve made me watch Sixteen Candles enough times to ensure that I wouldn’t let this one slide.”
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Riverhead Books, May 2022.

Time Stamp

written and directed by Robert Butler III and Cade Huseby
Traumatized from witnessing her parents’ murder as a child, Jackie—a brilliant, young scientist—desperately time travels from 2033 to 2019, determined to keep her family alive.
— from publicity material
I’ve seen my parents die 277 times.
Time Stamp written and directed by Robert Butler III and Cade Huseby (Amazon Prime, 6 September 2022).
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