Time Platform

Tag Area: Time Machine
Short Story

Time Control 1

When Time Stood Still

Two Russians (Khalin and Mikhailloff) and an American engineer (Earl Lyons) find a way to step outside of time, view the future from outside their bodies, then step back into time soon that they left, thereby preventing bad things such as Mikhailloff’s murder by the counter-revolutionaries. Also, Earl finds a Russian bride. —Michael Main
Of all five senses, sight alone remained to them. They could see as before, but with unusual clearness.
In a large science lab, two men stand in a large cage beside an older man at a control panel.
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Time Control 2

The Time Control

The two Russian researchers along with their American friend and the beautiful secret police officer Mina are back and traveling to the future via an out-of-body experience that once again allows them to see all threats to their research and world peace. Also, the American's marriage to Mina is finally sanctioned by the Central Committee—or rather it seems that it will be! —Michael Main
My respected Comrades. I am serious, and through over eighty, am in full possession of my senses, when I say that I will now demonstrate to your satisfaction that my colleagues and I have succeeded in partially controlling time!
In a large science lab, four men and a woman watch a glowing man stand in a large cage.
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Ijon Tichy

Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego, pt. 4

  • From remembrances of Ijon Tichy, pt. 4
  • by Stanisław Lem
  • in Księga robotów (Iskry, 1961) [No title for this story other than the Roman numeral IV, which is the fourth of five numbered parts out of nine total parts.]
Ijon is unphased when Physicist Molteris lugs his time machine into Ijon’s sitting room, promising Ijon will be repaid for the colossal amount of electricity that will be consumed by the first trip. —Michael Main
Zamierzałem, ale . . . widzi pan . . . ja . . . mój gospodarz wyłączył mi elektrycznoćś . . . w niedzielę.
translate I planned to, but, you see, I—my landlord turned off the electricity on Sunday.
Pencil drawing of a middle-aged man riding on the back of a large robot.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #75

The Man Who Lost the World!

Just when does the professor’s time machine send things to? Nobody knows, so when the prof’s flunky feels poorly treated, he decides to find out on his own. —Michael Main
But if I could find outwhether the machine sends people intothe past or the future, then I would know something even he doesn’t know!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Lem’s Star Diaries

Czarna komnata profesora Tarantogi

  • Professor Tarantoga's black room
  • by Stanisław Lem
  • in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963) [Published as a TV script (“widowisko telewizyjne”) the year before the 1964 Polish TV broadcast.]
Professor Tarantoga saves human civilization! After using his chronopad to investigate the leading scientists and artists in history, Tarantoga concludes that without exception they are lazy drunkards. So naturally, he sends smart young people into various eras to invent differential calculus, to paint the Mona Lisa, etc.—all while a pair of police inspectors have their eye on him. —based on Wikipedia
A pencil sketch of an odd bird standing on the head of a dog-like robot with a full moon in the sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Fantastic Four #19

Prisoners of the Pharoah! [sic]

Hoping to find a cure for Alicia’s blindness, the FF travel back to ancient Egypt where they meet the time traveler Rama-Tut for the first time. —Michael Main
At the conclusion of that adventure, Doom’s castle was abandoned by him, but there is still a chance that the machine he used to send us into the past may still be operational!
Standing beside Rama Tut and dressed in red finery, Sue Storm thinks, "Rama Tut
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e09)

It’s a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas

While on a Christmas trip to Florida, Sabrina and Salem travel back in time to see who robbed the condo where everyone is staying —Inmate Jan
Oh, oh, oh—I think you went back a little too far!
Melissa Joan Hart (as Sabrina) pulls the lever on an a vintage engine order telegraph, bathing herself and Salem the cat in gold and red light.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Debatable Time Travel
Miniseries

16 episodes

시지프스: The Myth

  • Sisyphus: The Myth
  • Sisyphus: The myth
  • Sisyphus: The Myth
  • by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁
  • 16 untitled episodes (JTBC-TV, Korea, 17 February to 8 April 2021)
Young genius Han Tae-sul is the focus of dangerous people and a mysterious woman—Gang Seo-hae—from a war-torn near future.

Sadly, the story comes close to being a slick static timeline, but alas, the writers could not follow through. —Michael Main
The Downloader is a real piece of work. There’s only a ten percent chance of success, eh? And even if they make it, half of them get caught by the Control Bureau.
A static-y head shot of Park Shin-Hye (as Gang Seo Hae) with long black hair and a worried look.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

夏への扉 -キミのいる未来へ-

  • Natsu e no tobira: Kimi no iru mirai e
  • The door to summer: To the future with you
  • The Door into Summer
  • by 菅野友恵 [Kanno Tomoe], directed by 三木孝浩 [Miki Takahiro]
  • (theatrical release, Japan, 25 June 2021)
All the crucial pieces of Heinlein’s novel are here, including Pete (the cat) and a single, consistent timeline. —Michael Main
A montage of characters from the Japanese adaptation of Heinlein’s The Door into Summer.
  • Honorable Mention Eloi
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel