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Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #18

The Man Who Went Back!

When Jeff Martin floats downstream, he literally floats back in time. Now, if only those two pesky men would quit following him, —Michael Main
It looks like there was something about that swim in the river that threw me back ten years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite 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
Novelette

My Future Self, Refused

Adam-Troy Castro, while struggling with grief from his wife's passing, is visited by his future self, who promises three pieces of advice over the course of a year. —Gareth Gordon
I sat down next to him and said, “Is she going to be all right?”

“I can't tell you,” he said, in a tired voice that showed another couple of decades of wear.  “That much is against the rules.  I'll be yanked back to my time if I even try.”

“Then what good are you, then?”

My future self emitted a soft wheeze that might have been embittered laughter. “I've been asking myself that question since before I was you.”
A giant winged woman–with glowing eyes abd covered in feathers—emerges from the water in frontof a person in a rowboat.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel