Birthday Travel

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novelette

Now Wait for This Week

  • by Alice Sola Kim
  • in The Cut, 17 January 2019 [e-zine] [The January 2022 online publication in The Cut is a preview story from A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams (One World, February 2019) [print · e-book].]

On the surface, the story seems to be about white, rich, cute Bonnie who knows she’s is living in a time loop in the week of her birthday and exploring it in a surprising variety of ways, but all this is on top of the story about Bonnie’s unknowing roommate, who through her narration of each iteration relates to us her life as a sexual assault survivor. —Michael Main
They told me that she showed up at their house yesterday, completely frazzled, telling a wild tale about a week that was repeating over and over again.
Multiple copies of a photo of a young woman with red lipstick and multicolored
                beads.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Tudo Bem No Natal Que Vem

  • Everything will be okay next Christmas
  • Just Another Christmas
  • by Paulo Cursino, directed by Roberto Santucci
  • (Netflix, worldwide, 3 December 2020)

While playing Santa on the roof, avowed Christmas hater Jorge takes a fall that results in him waking up every Christmas with no memories of what happened since the last Christmas. —Michael Main
Teu avô disse que eu ainda ia descobrir pra que serve o Natal. Foi você, né, sue velho?
translate He did it! Two days ago he said I’d find out what Christmas is all about! You cursed me, didn’t you, old man?
Frightened Leandro Hassum (as middle-aged Jorge) stands in a Santa hat among
                strands of Christmas lights.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Debatable Time Travel
Feature Film

Era ora


On his 40th birthday, workaholic Dante Agnosio wakes up a year later on his 41st birthday. And so on through his future birthdays while his relationship with Alice and their daughter deteriorates. —Michael Main
Mi pare ovvio che tu non abbia la più pallida idea di come funzionino i viaggi nel tempo.
translate It’s obvious to me that you have no idea how time travel works.
Edoardo Leo (as Dante) and Barbara Ronchi (as Alice) stand with eyes
                downcast.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel