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Novel

El Anacronópete

  • He who flies backwards in time
  • The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey
  • by Enrique Gaspar
  • in Novelas (Daniel Cortezo, 1887)

Mad scientist Don Sindulfo and his best friend Benjamin head to the past in Sindulfo’s flying time machine along with Sindulfo’s niece, her maid, a troop of Spanish soldiers, and a bordelloful of French strumpets for madcap adventures at the 1860 Battle of Téouan, Queen Isabella’s Spain, nondescript locales in the eleventh and seventh centuries, 3rd-century China, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and a biblical time shortly after the flood.

After taking a year of Spanish at the University of Colorado, I undertook a three-year project of translating Gaspar’s novel to English, which is available in a pdf file for your reading pleasure. Even with the unpleasant twist at the end, it was still a fine, farcical romp through history. —Michael Main
—Poco á poco—argumentaba un sensato.—Si el Anacronópete conduce á deshacer lo hecho, á mi me pasrece que debemos felicitarnos porque eso no permite reparar nuestras faltas.

—Tiene usted razón—clamaba empotrado en un testero del coche un marido cansado de su mujer.—En cuanto se abra la línea al público, tomo yo un billete para la vispera de mi boda.
translate “One step at a time,” argued a sensible voice. “If el Anacronópete aims to undo history, it seems to me that we must be congratulated as it allows us to amend our failures.”

“Quite right,” called a married man jammed into the front of the bus, thinking of his tiresome wife. “As soon as the ticket office opens to the public, I’m booking passage to the eve of my wedding.”
A flower plant in a vase and a Chinese woman holding a large shpere
                containing the flying time machine, El Anacronópete.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

The Left-Handed Sword

  • by E. Nesbit
  • in These Little Ones (George Allen and Sons, 1909)

After many previous attempts at prying a stone out of the overgrown castle arch, young Sir Hugh de Vere Coningsby Drelincourt finally succeeds and discovers a portal to the past where he becomes young 17th century Sir Hugh. —Michael Main
Through into a little room whose narrow window showed the blue day-lit sky—a room with not much in it but a bed, a carved stool, and a boy of his own age, dressed in the kind of dress you see in the pictures of the little sons of Charles the First.
A row of three jestors dance across the top while two fairies fly away
                with a possible necklace below.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Worm Ouroboros


For the most part, the story is a high fantasy in which three chiefs of Demonland—Lord Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch Daha—embark on a heroic quest to rescue the fourth lord from his imprisonment in the mountains of Impland. However, at the end, Queen Sophonisba undertakes a resolution to the final problem that could well involve time travel. —Michael Main
Lord, it is an Ambassador from Witchland and his train. He craveth present audience."
A black-and-white, diamond-speckled snake with hands and teeth winds
                around itself several times and eats its own tail.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novella

The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast Based on Present Possibilities

  • by John Hodgson
  • serialized in The Star Review, April to December 1929

Dr. Barton travels to the year 3927 where the world’s population has grown to an unimaginable eight billion, but fear not! The utopian society has eliminated waste from poor economic systems of the past, and all inhabitants now work (by choice) for but one month per year. —based on Frank J. Bleiler
We crossed over the centre of Lake Victoria and so northward, parallel to the well “trained” banks of the Nile. The Sudd region had been drained and embanked, thus saving the evaporation of millions of tons of water annually.
Text-only, yellow cover for The Star Review, June 1929.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Retreat from Utopia


A newspaper reporter from 2175 describes his strict, puritan world where nobody is happy because nothing ever happens, and even the criminals off in Borneo refuse to rejoin that society, so the story’s 1934 narrator visits the future to set things right. —Michael Main
You twentieth-century folks don’t know how lucky you are.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Time Impostor


Newspaper reporter Derek Williams leaps into a time machine that’s come from the 9th millennium to rescue the condemned murderer Mike Spinnot because he’s worshiped as a hero in that future time. —Michael Main
You know as well as I that in 1932 the Earth was groaning under a tyranny more brutal, morehorrible, thanany in all recorded history.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Tooth


Old Dr. Radley knows that Lois Lane loves their dentist, Bob Garney, so he hatches a plan that will throw the potential loverbirds together in prehistoric times, hoping to jolt Bob into romantic action. Oh—and something about breaking the spell of Radley’s evil, abscessed tooth seems to be behind it all.  —Michael Main
That evening, as he and Lois Lane stepped into the waiting room, Garney came out of his office and looked in.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Professor Dingle 2

History Hysterical


Professor Dingle’s second escapade! Yes, he’s still in the asylum where he creates a powder that unleashes memories of previous lives. And when the professor and a friend take the powder, they find themselves as deadly enemies back in the medieval court of Baron De Brassat. —Michael Main
By intense radio-active action on the ductless glands, the drug I have just mixed should prove a powerful stimulant to our dormant sub-conscious impressions, and whirl us back through time when we swallow it—
Two old men in dark suits wrestle violently in front of a fireplace and a black
                cat.
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
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

The Fall of Mercury


Mort Forrest and his fellow explorer Bruce are headed for supposedly uninhabited Mercury when they are captured by Mercurians intent on taking over the solar system, but fortunately, a friendly Saturnian named Chen-Chak (with a small globe that can momentarily transfer bad guys into the future) rescues them, tells them of the history of species from all the planets, and saves the solar system. —based on Frank J. Bleiler
“They are not dead,” he averred; “within half an hour of your time they will be returned, unaware of what has taken place. They must wait for Time to catch up with them!”
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Band Played On


When Mac hits a high one on his trombone, he first slips into a fantasy world filled with duck people (where he’d rather not be because, well, ducks); then he slips into the far future where he meets Ann, “a lovely little number of about twenty (where he doesn’t mind being because, well, Ann). —Michael Main
Well, I close my eyes and I am shaking so that I hardly notice the vibrations of the horn begin, but when I reach the E in the third measure, I know I am feeling what I felt in Benny’s.
A man holding a trombone confronts a large, two-armed duck.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Twonky


A man, dazed from running into a temporal snag, appears in a radio factory, whereupon (before returning to his own time) he makes a radio that’s actually a Twonky, which promptly gets shipped to a Mr. Kerry Westerfield, who is initially quite confounded and amazed at everything it does.

Because of the story’s opening, I’m convinced the Twonky is from the future. The “temporal snag” that brought it to 1942 feels like an unexpected time rift to me, although the route back to the future is an intentional journey via an unexplained method. —Michael Main
“Great Snell!” he gasped. “So that was it! I ran into a temporal snag!”
Thin arms emerge from a console radio to light a man
  • 1943 Retro Hugo
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Rescue Party


Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first contact story. —Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a military tank with wings.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Strip

Mickey Mouse, 22 October 1951 to 22 January 1952

Uncle Wombat’s Tock-Tock Time Machine


Mickey Mouse and Goofy ride in a aerodynamic car that
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Tales of Tomorrow (s01e37)

All the Time in the World


The skilled robber is now Henry Judson and his target is now the New York Metropolitan Museum, but the plot essentials remain largely the same as in Clarke’s earlier story: Use the time traveler’s foolproof plan to rob the museum. —Michael Main
Within this five-foot circle, time is speeded up to an almost unbelievable pace. But the world outside the circle remains unchanged.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

All the Time in the World


Robert Ashton is offered a huge amount of money to carry out a foolproof plan of robbing the British Museum of its most valuable holdings. —Michael Main
Your time scale has been altered. A minute in the outer world would be a year in this room.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #2

Don’t Look!


Yep, the mirror that Harold Whitney got from an odd old man really does let you see what people will look like in the future—a situation that we’d normally mark as a mere time phenomenon and tag as a simple kind of chronoscope. But the story also has a twist at the end that makes me wonder whether the old man was also a time traveler. —Michael Main
I have here a strange invention, a mirror that will let you see how anyone will look at anytime in the future.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #2

The Pact


Frances Conrad learns the dark truth about an unholy pact made by his ancestor from the horse’s mouth itself. —Michael Main
The year is 1693, the month is June, and the day is the fifteenth. Come and watch with me.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #3

Hands Off!


Eugene Varo makes a dark deal with a visitor from the past who wants Varo’s perfectly crafted artificial hands. This is the first story in Journey into Mystery to have definite time travel. —Michael Main
I have come out of the dim past to bargain for those hands . . . and take them back with me . . . they are too beautiful for this age.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #4

The Bewitched Bike!


When small-time crook Spider steals a time-traveling bike, all he can think to make a profit from it is to rob, murder, and escape to the future. No wonder he’s small-time! —Michael Main
I can be the biggest! I can rob, murder . . . do anything! Then all I have to do is jump on my bike an’ presto, I’m 40 years in the future.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #6

The Man Who Went Back


A man on death row murders his guards and escapes, getting on an odd bus where everyone is rapidly aging. And when he demands to be taken back, that’s when the real fun begins. —Michael Main
You’ve got to stop the bus . . . turn around or we’ll all soon be dead of old age!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

a Haertel Complex story

Common Time

  • by James Blish
  • in Shadow of Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, July 1953)

Spaceman Garrard is the third pilot to attempt the trip to the binary star system of Alpha Centauri using the FTL drive invented by Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein!) The Haertel Complex stories provide little in the way of actual time travel, but this one does have minor relativistic time dilation and more significant differing time rates. —Michael Main
Figuring backward brought him quickly to the equivalence he wanted: one second in ship time was two hours in Garrard time.
Illustration of a rocketship and three astronauts on the moon with a full Earth
                in an orange sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #14

The Man Who Owned a World


Evil stepfather George intercepts a build-a-world kit from the future. —Michael Main
Somewhere in the future, a postal error had been made and a package destined for a yet as unborn grandson had been lost in time and delivered to this house!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #18

The Man Who Went Back!


When Jeff Martin floats downstream, he literally floats back in time. Now, if only those two pesky men would quit following him, —Michael Main
It looks like there was something about that swim in the river that threw me back ten years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #28

They Wouldn’t Believe Him!


To escape a forced marriage, a woman in the future tries to disappear into the pase, but her fiance tracks her down. —Michael Main
I’ll marry you, Everest! But first may I go on a short time-vacation?
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #1

Future . . . Tense!


The debut of Rod Clayton’s first teleplay is being broadcast live tonight, and he hopes that it’ll provide the boost to his career that he’s been waiting for. But then a time scanner from the future arrives and shuts down the whole production. —Michael Main
I am a scanner, a man whose job it is to scan the past, to find any small occurrence which might change the future world!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #2

The Betrayer!


Raymond Coates gets his wish of going back to profit from the War Between the States rather than joining the union army fight, but the war profiteering doesn’t work out quite the way he wanted. —Michael Main
If I could live the past thrity years over I’d not make the same mistakes!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #39

I Lived Four Times!


Stefan Orjanski, a Hungarian soldier, is taken by his love to a sorcerer who can help him desert the army, but the help requires first living through part of the lives of four others. —Michael Main
I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!
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  • Fantasy
  • War
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #41

He Came from Nowhere


As a government scientist makes a breakthrough discovery, he’s confronted out of nowhere by a time traveling kidnapper from a future government. —Michael Main
Your work, this house, everything must be destroyed!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #45

Look to the Future


Now that Ben Jaremy is the last of the Jaremys, he finds himself reluctant to sell the family farm that he left forty years ago. —Michael Main
There is no money . . . just the house. As the last of the Jaremys, it’s your duty.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #47

The Blinding Flash!


In order to retrieve his cigarette lighter from a crime scene, a small-time thief agrees to be a test subject for Professor Mark Hanson’s atom-powered machine that sends an astral projection of a person into the past. Oh, I almost forgot: There’s one other volunteer, too. —Michael Main
Professor Mark Hanson has tus far been unable to get a single person to use his remarkable discovery for recovering the past!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #48

Don’t Turn Around!


Just when two burglars approach his house, reclusie scientist Frank Mulford finishes his time machine to retrieve people from the past. —Michael Main
What a mad idea . . . thinking I could bring people from the past with this machine!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #52

Travelers in Time!


Hollywood writer Norman Crane pitches an idea for a crazy new show to his boss. —Michael Main
Yes sir! It’s a story about time travel . . . time travel and haunted houses!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #53

The Stranger in Space!


On an intergalactic trip to star group M-19, Frank Mason meets an identical ship coming the other way. —Michael Main
That ship is an X-671, like mine!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #66

The Black Ray


While in prison, Hiram Drudd builds a machine that casts a black ray to send his mind back into a historical figure. —Michael Main
The fool . . . Little does he realize I’m building the instrument for my escape!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Routine Exercise


“It was like a distant depth charge, yet—” it sent Captain Harvey’s nuclear sub to a different time where “—the enemy, whoever they were, technically outclassed his own culture by about fifteen hundred years, if not more.” Or maybe it was something else out there in that fetid heat. —Michael Main
The past—could there be such a thing as a time-shift? The whole idea was a paradox, wasn’t it? Like that yarn about the chap who went back in time and murdered his own grandfather.
A man in a low-cut, high-fashion, purple dress reaches for four sparkling
                geometric shapes.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #71

The Boy Who Vanished!


A lame boy wishes he could go to the future to live the stories in his sci-fi comics. —Michael Main
Maybe—maybe I could travel into the future by thinking myself there.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #75

The Man Who Lost the World!


Just when does the professor’s time machine send things to? Nobody knows, so when the prof’s flunky feels poorly treated, he decides to find out on his own. —Michael Main
But if I could find outwhether the machine sends people intothe past or the future, then I would know something even he doesn’t know!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #81

There Dwells a Dragon


Young Tommy’s father steps into a fog at the zoo and emerges in Camelot where there’s a dragon to be slain. —Michael Main
Can it really be that I’ve gone back into . . . the past??!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #85

Filbert’s Frightful Future


Mad scientist Filbert Phelps wants to use his time machine to become the richest man in the world, —Michael Main
Yes, I am a genius . . . and that’s why I’m about to become fabuously rich! Just as soon as I finish my greatest invention . . .
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Fantastic Four #19

Prisoners of the Pharoah! [sic]


Hoping to find a cure for Alicia’s blindness, the FF travel back to ancient Egypt where they meet the time traveler Rama-Tut for the first time. —Michael Main
At the conclusion of that adventure, Doom’s castle was abandoned by him, but there is still a chance that the machine he used to send us into the past may still be operational!
Standing beside Rama Tut and dressed in red finery, Sue Storm thinks,
                "Rama Tut
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Fantastic Four #23

The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!


Darn that Johnny Storm! Doc Doom’s time platform. But look what popped outta Doc Dooms time platform while Johnny wasn’t watching! Just a comedy relief for the rest of the story, which has no time travel. —Michael Main
A baby dinosaur!! Don’t just stand there! Grab him!
Doctor Doom stands at the controls of a Kirby-esque machine, watching the
                Fantastic Four at the edge disappearing floor with outer space below.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Cameo Time Travel
Comic Book

Fantastic Four Annual #2

The Final Victory of Dr. Doom!


At the end of FF #23, Doc Doom was left floating in space. But of course, he’s too good a villain to not have someone rescue him, and that someone is Rama-Tut, fresh from FF #19 in his time ship. —Michael Main
Pen-and-ink splash page of the Fantastic Four facing motor trouble
                while riding over the city in their world-famous Fantastic-Car.
  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Aviary Hall 3

Charlotte Sometimes


Two young, boarding-school students—Charlotte in 1963 and Clare in 1918—swap minds through time every night, until one day the bed that’s causing all this magic gets moved to the hospital ward, and they are stuck in each other’s times. —Michael Main
“But I’m not Clare,” Charlotte began to say hopelessly, then stopped herself, explanation being impossible, especially since this girl seemed to think so incredibly that she was Clare.
A wide-eyed young girl stares into a tumbler full of water and small,
                transparent, green spheres.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Time Patrol 5

Gibraltar Falls

  • by Poul Anderson
  • in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1975

As part of an crew assigned to crew to observe the filling of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic in the late Micene, Patrolman Tom Nomura breaks the rules to use time travel to rescue Feliz a Rach when she’s swept over the falls. —Michael Main
The Mediterranean floor lay ten thousand feet below sea level. The inflow took most of that drop within a fifty-mile strait. Its volume amounted to ten thousand cubic miles a year, a hundred Victoria Falls or a thousand Niagaras.
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  • Science Fiction
  • 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
Picture Book

Professor Noah’s Spaceship


Professor Noah rescues all the animals from a dying planet, and during their journey of 40 days and 40 nights they plan to travel through a time-zone to take them hundreds of years into the future. At one point, the elephant must take a spacewalk to fix the time-zone guideance fin, which suggests that the time-zone is some sort of a wormhole or other time portal in space rather than mere reletavistic time dilation—and indeed there is actual time travel! —Michael Main
He put on a special space-suit, went out through the air-lock, and pulled the fin into shape.
A long parade of colorful animals marches toward a fat, finned spaceship in the
                distance.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Bank and Shoal of Time

  • by R. A. Lafferty
  • in A Spadeful of Spacetime, edited by Fred Saberhagen (Ace Books, February 1981)

Peter Luna brings five “time attempter” experts to his estate, hoping that he’ll be able to pass on his secret for getting over the time shoal that prevents them from exploring the past. —Michael Main
This was the message received by a dozen or so experts in the "time attempters" field:

"I have succeeded in establishing a creeping time-satellite or time-shuttle at my estate of Moonwick near Lunel in the Herault Department of the Peoples Republic of France. If you are really experts in your field, you will appreciate the importance of this. From this time-shuttle, which is just beyond the ‘shoal’ of all of you to whom I am sending this message, it will be possible for you to launch genuine time probes. I am sending this to a dozen or so and I hope for acceptance from at least five. I must have a matched set of at least five. Some soon. A very little bit after ‘soon’ will be too late for me to transmit the shuttle to you. Bring ideas only. Everything else for frugal and break-through living is provided. You will receive various transportation chits and enabling papers. Peter Luna.”

The World Courier Service (“No questions asked. Messages carried anywhere or anywhen in the world”) delivered these messages to the dozen or so persons who were experts in the time field. And some of the people gave assent and some didn’t. So, the next day, the Courier Service delivered airline tickets, train tickets, and International Taxi Coupons to five of the experts who had agreed to go to Moonwick.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Le temps chevauché

  • Time ride
  • Time Reversal
  • by Anne Sauvy
  • in Les flammes de pierre: Nouvelles (Editions Montalba, 1982)

An 80-year-old man thinks back to his younger days of climbing in the Alps, when he and a friend aided Xavier Berthiand after an avalanche took out his rope and two companions. —Michael Main
A wooded ridge, drawn or possibly photographed, in sepia colors.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Strip

The Far Side

Gas


Two dinosaurs, a scientist, and a time machine comprise the groundwork for the first ever of Larson’s timeless time travel gags.
—Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Strip

The Far Side

Professor Schnabel’s Cleaning Lady


In the world of The Far Side, cleaning ladies just get no respect. —Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

  • by D. C. Fontana
  • (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated]

As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful  being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself. —Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Patrick Stewart (as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) boldly stands on the bridge of the
                N C C 1 7 0 1 D.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06)

Where No One Has Gone Before


Yes, we see minor time phenomena when Picard and other members of the crew vividly experience moments and beings from their pasts, possibly created by their thoughts, but the real import of the episode is the introduction of The Traveler, who among other things is able to alter spacetime and is always on the lookout for promising individuals such as Wesley Crusher. —Michael Main
The Traveler to Picard about Wesley: In such musical geniuses I saw in one of your ship’s libraries—one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others. Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played . . .
Eric Menyuk (as the Traveler) looks knowingly at young Wil Wheaton (as Acting
                Ensign Wesley Crusher).
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Strip

The Far Side

The Cold-Blooded/Warm-Blooded Debate


We may never solve the conundrum of whether the dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded.
—Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Strip

The Far Side

Professor Feldman’s Shock


Time travel can induce various kinds of shock. —Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Strip

The Far Side

Time Log


Two unexpected time machine inventors, Thak and Gork, not to be confused with Grog (inventor of wheel) and Thag (maker of fire) from the slightly later cartoon of 3 June 1991.
—Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

Thebes of the Hundred Gates


Edward Davis, a fresh recruit to the Time Service, is hurled back to ancient Egypt to track down a pair of other travelers who disappeared during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. —Michael Main
He had made three training jumps, two hundred years, then four hundred, then six hundred, and he thought he knew what to expect, that sickening sense of breathlessness, of dizziness, of having crashed into the side of a mountain at full tilt; but everyone had warned him that even the impact of a six-C jump was nothing at all compared with the zap of a really big one, and everyone had been right.
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  • 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
Comic Strip

The Far Side

Oneupmanship


Professor Weinberg one-ups Professor DeWitt.
—Michael Main
A crew of Far Side characters construct two giant volumes titled The Complete
                Far Side.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • 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
Early Chapter Book

Geronimo Stilton nel tempo 1

Viaggio nel tempo

  • Time travel
  • The Journey through Time
  • by unknown authors
  • (Piemme, 2002)

Holey cheese! Geronimo Stilton never expected to set paw inside a time machine. But when Professor von Volt invited him and his family to travel, they soon discovered how the dinosaurs became extinct, how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, and what like was like at King Arthur’s court. —based on publicity material
I rettili attaccarono tutti insieme i gettarono a terra Trappola. Gli azzannarono un polpaccio con le zanne affilate come quelle dei piranha, e chissa come sarebbe andata a finire se non fossi arrivato io agitando un osso: — Via di qui! Viaaaaaaa!

I dromaeosaurus, colti di sorpresa, arretrarono e si diedero a una fuga precipitosa.
translate Suddenly, the pack attacked all at once. They threw Trap on the ground, and one of the grammed his arm with sharp fangs. Who know what wouldhave happened if I hadn’t furiously waved the bone and should at the top of my lungs.

“Go awayyyyyyyyyyyy!” I yelled. “Scram!”

Taken by surprise, the Dromaeosaurs retreated and swiftly took flight.
Geronimo Stilton and his mouse family peer out the porthole of the Mousemover
                3000.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Time Odyssey 1

Time’s Eye


And she was continually amazed at how easily everyone else accepted their situation, the blunt, apparently undeniable reality of the time slips, across a hundred and fifty years in her case, perhaps a million years or more for the wretched pithecine and her infant in their net cage.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Time Odyssey 2

Sunstorm


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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Time Odyssey 3

Firstborn


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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Miniseries

Paradox


D.I. Rebecca Flint quickly realizes that the mysterious photos downloading themselves to Dr. Christian King’s lab must be depicting future crimes and other calamities that only Rebecca and her team can stop. —Michael Main
Gada: Think of the implications if we do stop something . . . mess with things that we don’t understand.
Flint: You wouldn’t say that if we’d stopped the tanker.
Gada: Perhaps the tanker was meant to crash. It wasn’t our place to . . .
Flint: . . . Save lives?
Tamzin Outhwaite (as D.I. Flint) and Emun Slliot (as Doctor King) race toward
                us with a storm brewing behind them.
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Time Phenomena
Novelette

Fortunately, the Milk


When Dad is late returning from a milk (not the fat-free kind) run, he has to explain to his two kids about how he’d been delayed by sundry trips through time. —Michael Main
I am slightly lost in space and time right now and need to get home in order to make sure my children get milk for their breakfast.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Castle (s06e05)

Time Will Tell


A murder investigation leads to a suspect (Doyle) who says he traveled back in time to stop a catastrophe that will result in at least half the people on the planet dying. —Tandy Ringoringo
Ryan: I thought it was kind of derivative.
Esposito: Like a mash-up of 12 Monkeys and Terminator.
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  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Picture Book

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Time-Travel Trouble!

  • by Billy Wrecks
  • (Random House Children’s Books, July 2014)

A short picture book of the 2014 Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie. The images are all from the movie’s CGI (or at least generated by the same process). —Michael Main
Sheman was supposed to keep the time machine secret, but he broke the rules. He took his friend Penny back in time to ancient Egypt.
Animated characters Sherman and Mr. Peabody peek out of a door frame.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Lucy

  • written and directed by Luc Besson
  • (at movie theaters, Canada and USA, 25 July 2014)

Because of a massive overdose of an experimental drug, Lucy is able to use the latent part of her brain for super-speed, super-strength, super-telekinesis, super-changes to reality, and just for fun, a super montage of time travel that’s superfluous to the plot.
—Jeff Delgado
Ten percent may not seem like much, but it’s a lot if you look at all we’ve done with it.
Extreme close-up of Scarlett Johansson (as Lucy) and her green eyes.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Effect and Cause


Over dinner, a group of professional men and women called the Club discuss a recent happening at a house that’s been haunted since 1928. —Michael Main
The house Parry lived in had been built in 1928, right before the Depression hit, and the odd thing was that it apparently was haunted from the very beginning. From day one.
White logo of Bewildering Stories on a black background.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Screenplay

Star Trek

The Many and the Few

  • by Wendy Welcott
  • submission to Star Trek’s To Boldly Go Script Competition, 16 February 2016

Spock travels back and forth through time to save the Federation. —Michael Main
Peering into the murky abyss, Spock saw something he had never seen before: a window, a portal to that other world, not a vision, not a light, but a feeling, a feeling he didn’t understand—wonderment.
Pen-and-ink drawing two rabbits and a claw hammer in a small clearing
                on a solid, greenish-gold background.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel #17 (USA)

Il mistero della nave pirata [unofficial]


Holy cheese! Professor Paws von Volt has detected the Priate Cats looting cargo ships back in 18th century India! —Michael Main
My tempograph is showing an anomaly! The Pirate Cats have gone back in time to change it as they please!
The cartoon mouse Geronimo Stilton runs into a hooked hand as he carries a
                treasure chest away from a sailing ship.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 1

Pancakes and Poison

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, October 2018) [e-book]

Ella is in Oregon in the early 2000s, driving back from Thanksgiving at her parents’ house, when suddenly a flash of blinding light startles her. Within a couple of minutes, her Jeep hits a patch of ice, skids, and ends up in a snowdrift. When it won't restart, she hikes to the nearest town, past a welcoming sign stating “Visitors, turn back. Leave now.” With no other options, she continues walking and gets a room at the Keystone Inn. The next day, she discovers that Keystone is a bit strange. Ultimately she learns that it was plucked out of Colorado in 1951. The light flash occurs every few days, and the town jumps to another location and time—sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. —Tandy Ringoringo
Since she couldn’t recall having passed any cabins within the last several miles, she decided to plunge ahead into the strange, foreign landscape glittering in the cold. Because, when in doubt, go towards the creepy Twilight Zone landscape.
A skillet of pancakes and a bottle of poison with small-town storefronts in the
                background.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 2

The Body in the Boat

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, November 2018) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone for a couple of weeks. Her friend Will has cobbled together scuba diving equipment, and they plan to go to the lake to test it. Unfortunately, Will’s boat is in the middle of the lake, and when they get to it, there is a body. When Will finally gets to dive, he discovers a skeleton. As for time travel, a caravan of Romani show up and set up camp by the lake. —Tandy Ringoringo
They would be playing God, and not only that but what if their tampering resulted in making the future worse? Their altering of history could set off a chain reaction, events woven together in an unforeseen way, that resulted in World War III or the zombie apocalypse for all she knew.
A skeleton hand emerges from a rowboat on a beach with small-town storefronts
                in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 3

Christmas Corpse

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, December 2018) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone for two to four weeks. After a ride on a sled down a snow-covered hill, she discovers . . . yet another body. She also gets involved in making pumpkin pies, even thoigh baking is not her strong point. And, of course, decides to investigate the murder. —Tandy Ringoringo
Soon after her arrival, light flashed like a dome over the town. When it had dissipated, they were in a new location—and a new time. Now, just like the other citizens, she was a woman out of place and out of time.
An axe cuts into a piece of pumpkin pie on a beach with small-town storefronts
                in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 4

Phantoms and Phonographs

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, March 2019) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone for several weeks. There is a party at the Keystone Inn, in honor of the mayorial candidates. It has a 1920s murder-mystery game for the theme (don’t ask me why). Of course, soon Ella discovers Charles, one of the mayorial candidates, in the basement—murdered. —Tandy Ringoringo
Flo’s tower of hair bobbled as she moved to a different cabinet. After not-so-gracefully shoving folders aside, she came out with a medium-sized binder with the year 1961 printed on the front. It threw Ella for a moment before she realized 1961 was the year she currently resided in, although Keystone had been cut off from the outside world for ten years, thereby making it a time capsule of the early 1950s.

She shook away the impending headache that hit anytime she tried to keep straight the time travel aspect of the town.
An old-time phonograph and a gun on a street of small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 5

Perils and Plunder

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, May 2019) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone for a couple of months. This time she tries to solve the murder of a pirate, whose body disappeared shortly after she saw it. Also, she and Will have finished mapping the Keystone boundary, and she is trying to find the cause of the time-and-location jumps. Hint: The boundary seems to be a circle with Twin Hills at the center. —Tandy Ringoringo
“I only intended to make a small inter-dimensional field, so to speak,” the professor continued. “Just large enough to encompass my house. At first, it worked. The field or bubble drew the enormous energy required to create the bridge from the fifth dimension itself and folded space-time.

“But then something went wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. The bubble expanded. It kept growing, drawing more and more power from the fifth dimension. I shut off the machine, but it was of no use. The field had become independent of the device.

“Eventually, the bubble stabilized. From what I can tell, we’re stuck in an inter-dimensional, space-time feedback loop.”
A treasure chest on a street of small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 6

Gastly Glitch

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, September 2019) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone since last Thanksgiving. This time the town is in the age of reptiles. Someone gets killed by a dinosaur—but it seems the dinosaur was lured to the victim. —Tandy Ringoringo
How many people could say they slept through a herd of dinosaurs?
Part of an animal and an early Macintosh computer oozing blood on a street of
                small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

All the Turns of the Earth

  • by Matthew Claxton
  • Analog (January/February 2020)

You are an abused teen who thrives and gains confidence when a timeslip to the Age of Repiles gives you the opportunity to raise and bond with a hatchling pterosaur. —Michael Main
The yellow bill pierces the shell. A long head, beak and fine fur slick, finds its way free for the first gasp of air.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

All the Turns of the Earth

  • by Matthew Claxton
  • Analog (January/February 2020)

You are an abused teen who thrives and gains confidence when a timeslip to the Age of Repiles gives you the opportunity to raise and bond with a hatchling pterosaur. —Michael Main
The yellow bill pierces the shell. A long head, beak and fine fur slick, finds its way free for the first gasp of air.
No image currently available.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 7

Campfire Catastrophe

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, April 2020) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone over a year now. They are in a new location: “another forest of deciduous trees and low mountains. It blended nicely with the native Colorado plant life.” And they start off with a nice camping trip with some school kids. But one of the kids wanders off into a cave, and when Ella finds her, there is a dying man present. —Tandy Ringoringo
[. . .] the bubble could transfer to a flux capacitor in a DeLorean, and we could use the car to travel back to the future.
A small camping tent, campfire, and backpack on a street of small-town
                storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 8

The Secret in the Sarcophagus

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, July 2020) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone a couple of years. They are in a new location, beside the pyramids of Giza, apparently shortly after most of them were constructed. And they get to meet some ancient Egyptians, enabling Ella and a couple of archealogists to learn a bit about pronunciation of the pre-Coptic language. And discuss the possibility of the butterfly effect. —Tandy Ringoringo
“Because we don’t know how returning to our own timelines will affect things.”

She let out an exasperated noise. “For God’s sake, Will, that’s why you go back to a few seconds before you enter Keystone for the first time. It’s Time Travel 101.”
A mummy walks away from a golden sarcophagus on a street of small-town
                storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

The Shadows of Alexandrium


Up in the Citadel, we polled eight Librarians on whether this story should be included in the database. The results? Nobody thought it should be excluded, nobody thought it should be included, and eleven were certain it wasn’t a story. Probably. So with that mandate along with the fact that at one point in the narrative neither space nor time exist and at another point outside the narrative David Gerrold annouced this was an homage to Douglas Adams and Doctor Who, we hereby present the official indexing of “The Shadows of Alexandrium.” —Michael Main
If we had the time—well, actually, we do, because there isn’t any time here, just like there isn’t any space, except what we’ve been creating by being here, all this staring around—that’s making nothing into something.
A complex spaceship approaches a swirling cloud of colorful, electrified
                stellar gas.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Cat Kid Comic Club [#1]

Dennis the Toothbrush Who Wanted to Be a Dinosaur Lawyer


There may well be many moments of time travel in Dav Pilkey’s wacky tales of critters who want nothing more than to create great comic books, but the one that I spotted was from the first Cat Kid Comic Club compilation (being read by my daughter to her sons): a two-parter by Melvin the Frog titled Dennis the Toothbrush Who Wanted to Be a Dinosaur Lawyer. That says it all. —Michael Main
Afterwards they used Dennis to brush their teeth.
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  • Comedy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 9

Fesival Felony

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, January 2021) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone at least a couple of years. This story includes the construction of a memorial wall for citizens of Keystone who have been left behind, either outside of town during a jump or by dying. And a village festival, complete with a Ferris wheel, food stalls, pie-eating contests, and something that the author calls a “scavenger hunt,”involving following clues rather than collecting items. Of course, Ella finds at least one dead body, and works with her friends to solve a couple of related mysteries. But this book contains no significant time travel. The closest thing is a time-capsule. Oh, and the folks already in Keystone from prior jumps to other times and places.
—Tandy Ringoringo
“Do you know, most nights when I’m trying to fall asleep, I can still see the faces of my friends who died in the war?”

“What? I had no idea . . . do you mean WWI?”

He nodded. “I enlisted as soon as I turned eighteen. Served from 1917 to 1918.”
A candy cotton barrow, a pocketwatch with no face, and a pile of something with
                a bone on a street of small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

WandaVision


I don't understand this power, but I will.
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  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 10

The Spartan in the Speaker

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, October 2021) [e-book]

Ella has been in Keystone at least a couple of years. This time, the village travels to ancient Greece, near a camp of Spartan soldiers. There is another murder, apparently by one of the Spartans. And Ella, Wink, and Flo get into trouble again. —Tandy Ringoringo
Ella had seen the doctor’s exercise outfit on a previous occasion, but it still made her choke with stifled laughter. With the blinding neon leotard, tights, belt, and headband, she could have stepped straight out of an Olivia Newton-John music video.

Pauline caught Ella staring and sighed. “I told you, I was driving home from my Jazzercise class when I passed through Keystone just before it jumped.”
A spartan helmet and a jukebox on a street of small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

L’Enfant Terrible


When Cthylla is captured by a wizard, she finds it odd that she’s now confined to experiencing time in a linear fashion. —Michael Main
She struggled. This was not like the hold of the Old Ones, or the gentle arms of the nest, these were tiny, strong entanglements, they smelled like the traps from yesterday/tomorrow.
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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Strip

Fusco Brothers, 7 August 2022

Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen


You’re listening to the soothing sounds of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians . . .
Al Fusco relaxes on a couch while a voice to the side announces "Good evening,
                ladies and gentlemen."
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Traveling Town Mysteries 10.5

Party Pandemonium

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, October 2022) [e-book]

A jack o’lantern amid spider webs.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite 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
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
Novel

Traveling Town Mysteries 11

Sodas and Spies

  • by Ami Diane
  • (Amazon Digital Services, November 2022) [e-book]

A soda stamped as poison on a wintery street of small-town storefronts.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Flash Fiction

The Third Kind of Prophecy


A magic drink allows the narrator and her friends to see visions of the coming year. —Michael Main
Magic. I read in your face that you did not want to talk about the cocktail dream, though you were thinking about it, and I watched you read the same message in mine.
Stylized outline of a rocket launching in a green circular seal for
                Daily Science Fiction.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Cartoon

The Creature Cases, s02e01

The Missing Mammoth: A Holiday Mystery


An intense story about Sam, Kit, and R.O.N. going back in time to the ice age with wooly mammoths and how they got back to C.L.A.D.E.
—Manachu
You’re right. We’ve got to help them, even if we are stuck in the Ice Age.
Sam and Kit try to hang on the a rampaging wooly mammoth.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: Preschoolers
  • Definite Time Travel
Partially Animated TV Episode

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (s02e07)

Those Old Scientists


Ensign Boimler is pulled into a time portal to the time of his heroes, Spock and Pike. Mariner follows! —Michael Main
I know me being here wasn’t . . . ideal . . . , and potentially reality-threatening, but meeting all of you has been one of the greatest experiences of my life.
No image currently available.
  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Strip

Frank & Ernest

Microwaves


. . . and this one is our top of the line
No image currently available.
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel