Foretold or Seen Future Is Inevitable

Tag Area: Timeline Trait
Short Story

The Rocking-Horse Winner


When young Paul frantically rides his rocking horse, he sometimes sees the names of sure winners in actual horse races. —Michael Main
You see, it’s all right, uncle, when I’m sure! Then we go strong for all we’re worth. Don’t we, Bassett?
A young boy and an older man, dressed in nice suits, sit on a park bench
                listening to another suited man.
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

The Man Who Looked at Death


A local guide gives a copy of next month’s newspaper to Oren Van Schoon, a cruel and vicious man who will stop at nothing to learn the secrets of India’s fakirs. —Michael Main
This is worth more than all the rope tricks in India! With the information, you can bet on races, plunge into stocks . . . you will know the future!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novelette

Paycheck


Apparently, Jennings agreed to work as a specialized mechanic for two years at Rethrick Construction, having his memory wiped at the end in return for 50,000 credits—except instead of a bag full of credits, the memory-wiped Jennings is left holding a bag of seven trinkets and no idea why he would have agreed to such a thing. —Michael Main
But the big puzzle: how had he—his earlier self—known that a piece of wire and a bus token would save his life? He had known, all right. Known in advance. But how? And the other five. Probably they were just as precious, or would be.
Black-and-white pointillism illustration of two policemen running down a street
                with skyscrapers on the horizon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #13

What Harry Saw


If you (or Harry, of course) should happen to see your wife with another man in your chronoscope, be careful about how you proceed. —Michael Main
I turned on the futurescope and saw her kissing Edmund, a man I work with!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #16

The Question!


Computer genius and jealous husband Paul Jessup builds a mechanical brain that can answer any question about the future.  —Michael Main
The brain can foretell events for approximately 24 hours in the future!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #42

He Saw the Future


A bump on the head from a falling (small) bag of concrete gives Harry the ability to see the future in exactly the way he needs. —Michael Main
So it wasn’t too surprising that Harry just happened to be passing by the new building going up when a small bag of cement fell from the second story scaffolding.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #6

The Eye That’s Never Shut!


The eye of an ancient Greek sphinx statue tells Rex Ronoff that he can steal the Great Sultana Diamond and never be caught. —Michael Main
The eye says I won’t get caught . . . and it is never wrong!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #45

A Scream on the Screen


Bert Bates crosses some wires while repairing his TV, and suddenly he and his wife are seeing broadcasts from tomorrow. —Michael Main
Say, that’s the Tuesday Review program! And today is Monday! How could that be?
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #60

The Swami


After John McDermott’s uncle dies, John wants to know from the swami now what his uncle’s will holds. —Michael Main
You want me to tell you your future, I presume.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

The Twilight Zone (v1s02e10)

A Most Unusual Camera


Petty thieves Chet and Paula Diedrich are frustrated, angry, and in a bickering mood when they find nothing but cheap junk in the 400-lbs. of stuff they lifted from a curios store in the middle of the night, . . . until that boxy looking camera with the indecipherable label—dix à la propriétaire—produces a photo of the immediate future. —Michael Main
Yeah, it takes dopey pictures—dopey pictures like things that haven’t happened yet, but they do happen.
Jean Carson (as Paula Diedrich) holds up an unusual, boxy camera.
  • Weird Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #26

Where Is Amelia?


At a happenin’ party, a beatnik puts Amelia into a trance, sending her to, like, the the 25th century! —Michael Main
Sleep, chick, sleep deep! You will like go into another world. A world without squares. A world where everyone is like real sweep people!
In the first of three large panels, we see a beatnik playing the bongos and
                hypnotizing a young woman at a party.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #27

Look into the Future


Decades ago, a prescient dream gave a young man confidence to ruthlessly pursue his ambitions. —Michael Main
The mine did cave later . . . but mining is a dangerous business and some always die! The important thing is, I got production!
A collage of three panels taken from "A Look Into the Future" by Steve Ditko.
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Feature Film

The Time Travelers

  • written and directed by Ib Melchior
  • (at movie theaters, USA, 29 October 1964)

Using their time viewer, three scientists see a desolate landscape 107 years in the future, at which point the electrician realizes that the viewer has unexpectedly become a portal. All four jump through, only to have the portal collapse behind them, whereupon they are chased on the surface by Morlockish creatures who are afraid of thrown rocks, and they meet an advanced, post-apocalyptic, underground society that employs androids and is planning a generation-long trip to Alpha Centauri.

The film draws in at least four important additional time travel tropes: suspended animation, a single nonbranching, static timeline (with the corresponding inability to go back and change it), experiencing the passage of time at different rates, and a trip to the far future. And according to the SF Encyclopedia, the film was originally conceived as a sequel to the 1960 film of The Time Machine. —Michael Main
Isn’t it obvious? The war did happen. You never did go back with your warning.
A monster chases people across a rocket field--along with three other scenes
                from the future before it happens!
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

Goosebumps 4

Say Cheese and Die!


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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Audience: Children
  • Debatable Time Travel