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Creatures of the Light

by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
A Teutonic scientist attempts to create a race of artificially created superman who, among other things, can jump a few seconds through time, but only as invisible witnesses to the future goings-on. The story is disturbingly prescient of Nazi ideas of an Aryan Herrenvolk.
— Michael Main
Before Northwood’s horrified sight, he vanished; vanished as though he had turned suddenly to air and floated away.
“Creatures of the Light” by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.

Terror Out of Time

by Jack Williamson
Until I started reading 1930s pulps, I didn’t realize how ubiquitous were the scientist with a beautiful daughter and her adventurous fiancé. This story has Dr. Audrin, his machine (to project the brain of a present-day man forty million years into the future and possibly bring another mind back), his beautiful daughter Eve, and her manly fiancé, Terry Webb. Manly Webb agrees to be the test subject for the machine, much to the dismay of beautiful Eve.
— Michael Main
I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—
“Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.

Future Science Fiction, February 1960

Through Other Eyes

by R. A. Lafferty
Although the story is not about time travel, the characters do spend the first couple of pages reminiscing about their disappointing experiences with a time machine.
— Fred Galvin
“And watching the great Pythagorous at work.”
“And the three days that he spent on that little surveying problem. How one longed to hand him a slide-rule through the barrier and explain its working.”
“Through Other Eyes” by R. A. Lafferty, Future Science Fiction, February 1960.

A String in the Harp

by Nancy Bond
Twelve-year-old Peter Morgan is not happy about being uprooted from Massachusetts and hauled off to a tiny coastal hamlet in Wales, but he is fascinated by the ancient harp key that he finds wedged between two cracks on a dike. Oh, did I mention that the key is magic, letting him (and eventually other children) see the legendary Welsh bard Taliesin?
— Michael Main
I can tell you that the things you have seen and explained with reason could fit the story of Taliesin, though your sister would rather not hear it.
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Margaret K. McElderry, 1976).

retold for children

A Christmas Carol

abridged by Joan Collins from the original by Charles Dickens
The tale is a somewhat faithful retelling for children, abridge to about a third of the original length, in simple language, and with copious illustrations by Chris Russell. It even retains the metaphysical thought that the future will be bleak for Tiny Tim if things remain unchanged.
— Michael Main
If these shadows do not change, Tiny Tim will not see another Christmas.
“A Christmas Carol” abridged by Joan Collins from the original by Charles Dickens (Ladybird Books, 1982).

Mickey’s Christmas Carol

by Burny Mattinson et al. , directed by Bunny Mattinson and Richard Rich
You’ll enjoy all the Disney characters’ renditions of all the Dickens characters, from Scrooge McDuck (as Scrooge, of course) to Goofy (as Marley), Jiminy Cricket (as the Ghost of Christmas Past), and the weasels (as Scrooge’s gravediggers).


With Dickens, we always want to know whether Scrooge actually time travels or merely observes the past and present. In this case, none of the spirits explicitly explain one way or the other, but if you watch carefully when Scrooge and Jiminy arrive in the past, you’ll spot Scrooge definitely interacting with a physical object the past when he’s unable to see the festivities inside Fezzywig’s. Verdict: probably time travel!

This cartoon was based on a 1972 audio musical entitled Disney's A Christmas Carol, although the cartoon is not a musical.

— Michael Main
If these shadows remain unchanged, I see an empty chair where Tiny Tim once sat.
Mickey’s Christmas Carol by Burny Mattinson et al. , directed by Bunny Mattinson and Richard Rich (unknown release details, 20 October 1983).

The Hemingway Hoax

by Joe Haldeman
Literature professor John Baird and conman Sylvester Castlemaine hatch a plan to get rich forging Hemingway’s lost stories, but before long, Baird is confronted by an apparent guardian of the many timelines in the form of Hemingway himself.
— Michael Main
I’m from the future and the past and other temporalities that you can’t comprehend. But all you need to know is that yiou must not write this Hemingway story. If you do, I or someone like me will have to kill you.
“The Hemingway Hoax” by Joe Haldeman, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990.

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e08)

Bada Ping!

by Nancy Cohen, directed by Anson Williams
Sabrina takes Salem into the future to find out her fate after gangster Mickey Brentwood finds out that she’s writing an exposé on his shady practices.
— Inmate Jan
You see, this thug nightclub owner threatened our little Lois Lame over there—
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e08), “Bada Ping!” by Nancy Cohen, directed by Anson Williams (The WB-TV, USA, 22 November 2002).

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e09)

It’s a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas

by Dan Kael, directed by Melissa Joan Hart
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!
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (s07e09), “It’s a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas” by Dan Kael, directed by Melissa Joan Hart (The WB-TV, USA, 6 December 2002).

Ghosts of Christmas Always

by Zach Hug and Annika Marks[/urlx, directed by Rich Newey
This time around, the usual three ghosts are only one of the many three-ghost teams who are given a yearly assignment to scrooge one of the many Scrooges who seem to be more numerous than ever before. Together with their 2022 assignment—Peter Baron, an unsatisfied son of a food baron—they provide a nice tear-jerker for the entire family.
— Michael Main
He’s like the anti-Scrooge.
Ghosts of Christmas Always by Zach Hug and Annika Marks[/urlx, directed by Rich Newey (Hallmark Channel, USA, 30 October 2022).
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