Time Historians

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #20

The Messenger!

Jeff Calder is a true prankster, but his new messenger, Dal J. Keefe, seems to take every prank without missing a beat. —Michael Main
Messenger, you’re just in time! Recieved a priority order from the top . . . scrounge up a gallow of yellow paint with black stripes.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Rainy Day in Halicarnassus

  • by R. A. Lafferty
  • in At the Sleepy Sailor: A Tribute to R. A. Lafferty, edited by Guy H. Lillian III (The Sons of the Sand, 1979) [fanzine]
Time-trippers from the 29th century arrive in 20th century Turkey to interview Socrates, who is still alive, contrary to his rumored death by hemlock.  The time travel episode takes place within a larger story of Socrates giving a guided tour to two sailors. —Fred Galvin
And the interview was a great success. The old master used the hundred or so questions as takeoff points for truly masterful illuminations. It really was the archeological-historical coup of the century.
Pen-and-ink drawing of R. A. Lafferty sitting at a bar, surrounded by science fiction and fantasy characters.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Oxford Historians 1

Doomsday Book

We may never know just how young Kivrin Engle wrangled her academic advisor and the powers-that-be at the University of Oxford into sending her to previously off-limits, 14th-century England, but her timing was not ideal given that she’dd just been exposed to a recently re-emerged influenza virus. Oh, and the inexperience tech who also got hit with the virus with the virus after the drop may have sent Kivrin to the wrong year. —Ruthie Mariner
You know what he said when I told him he should run at least one unmanned? He said, “If something unfortunate does happen, we can go back in time and pull Miss Engle out before it happens, can’t we?” The man has no notion of how the net works, no notion of the paradoxes, no notion that Kivrin is there, and what happens to her is real and irrevocable.
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  • 1993 Hugo
  • 1993 Nebula
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Oxford Historians 2

To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last

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  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Unredacted Reports from 1546

  • by Leah Cypess
  • Future Science Fiction Digest #11, June 2021 [e-zine · webzine]
An 18-year-old history student hopes to show that her research subject, 16th-century poet Lucia of Gonzaga, was a modern woman supressed by her time period, but as the traveling student sends messages back to her 21st-century mentor, she reveals more than just history as she’d hoped it would be. —Michael Main
You were wrong about my age, though. In the sixteenth century, I’m an adult. I am physically mature and able to bear children, and that’s all that matters. No one cares about the completeness of my frontal lobe.
Large, spherical glass terrariums float above a futuristic city in the sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel