Noniteracting Traveler

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Novelette

Wanderer of Infinity

When Joan Carmody sends a plea to her ex-boyfriend Bert Redmond, he barrels from Indiana to upstate New York in a trice, only to see Joan and her borderline-mad brother Tom kidnapped by metal monsters from another dimension. Fortunately, a mourning, immortal wanderer through time and space also sees the abduction and fills in Bert with all the salient details and some unsalient ones, too.
—Michael Main
“We are here only as onlookers,” the Wanderer explained sadly, “and can have no material existence here. We can not enter this plane, for there is no gateway. Would that there were.”
  • “Wanderer of Infinity” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novella

He Never Slept

The famous Dr. Jason Veldor has made a potion that eliminates the need for sleep. The only trouble is, it’s devastatingly addictive, and for better or worse, it takes Veldor’s mind into the lives in other times and other dimensions.
—Michael Main
To come to my point, Richard, I have for many years been very disgusted with the fact that all the human race—indeed every living organism—must waste a third of its life in sleep. Think what a race we’d be if we never slept!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novella

Before Earth Came

Mary Ainsworth’s beau, Lee Carnforth, is the first test subject for old Professor Ainsworth’s new technique to uncover and display ancestral memories. In fact, these are extreme ancestors, from before the birth of the solar system.
—based on Frank J. Bleiler
Why should father want tounlock the doors of the unknown—probe backward through time? Beyond the beyond!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novel

A String in the Harp

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).
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Flash Fiction

Slight Courage

A woman moves back and forth through her own life, processing her mother’s death.
—Michael Main
Why do you have to leave me? Why now? Her lips move, a gentle separation, but hold a wordless tenure.
Stylized outline of a rocket launching in a green circular seal for Daily Science Fiction.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Ghosts of Christmas Always

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.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Audience: Families
  • Debatable Time Travel