Questions tagged [time-travel]
For use on questions regarding travel forwards or backwards (or both!) in time. This tag should be used in conjunction with the universe it is found in. Can also be used to signify that the question contains time travel when asking in relation to an identification question: [story-identification], [episode-identification], [character-identification] and [object-identification].
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Short story a watcher who sleeps ten thousand years and wakes to destabilize stagnant civilization if needed 1980s or earlier
I need to find the author and title of a short story, but I only remember the plot.
In the story, we follow a mysterious human with advanced technology. He is in a hill country and encounters tribes ...
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A novel where a time traveler arrived by mistake at the peak of the Black Death
I read this novel about 20 years ago. But it could be older than that.
A time traveler is sent to England in the Middle Ages. She was supposed to arrive before the Black Death (or maybe somewhat later?...
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A confusing Fantasy novel about re-establishing magic [duplicate]
I read this Fantasy novel only shortly ”before COVID” and I think it was not much older. It was rather confusing.
In this novel, magic had existed in the past, but has stopped functioning because of ...
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Woman from future describes dystopian society
What SF novel has this plot?
A small woman with amnesia appears in the present-day.
A man, who has a background in therapy and who becomes her lover, takes her in and tries to help her recover her ...
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Time travel story where a man goes to rob an Egyptian tomb, but meets his earlier self and kills him
I want to find this story in a classic comic. I read a reprint of it. The original might be from the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s.
A man travels back in time to rob an Egyptian tomb before it gets buried by ...
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Book in which a woman went through a mirror and found herself in a medieval castle back in time
Looking for the name of a time traveling book from the 90s/early 2000s.
I believe the cover of the book had a woman looking in a long mirror, and she saw a pack of wolves running in the snow. She ...
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What is the earliest work of SF to mention a concern about time travel causing unintended space travel
Answers to the off-topic question How does time travel take into account the rotation/revolution of the Earth? mention several stories in which this issue is discussed. Asimov's The End of Eternity ...
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Fantasy book about a boy who is transported back to the age of dinosaurs by spinning a globe
I read it around the middle 2010s. I remember there being a boy who took a globe from a school or somewhere and whenever the globe was spun, it took him back in time to the age of dinosaurs. That’s ...
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Time travel novel where a police officer mentally travels to the future
I read in the 1970s so it dates back to at least then. I remember the following details:
The main character, I think he was a police officer, mentally travels to the future. His future self has ...
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Time-travel drug that give a view of the past
A group of people take a drug that allows them to see the past. They go on a cross country expedition led by a woman who hasn't taken the drug. Some are more affected than others and I think some ...
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Chinese romance manhua in which the female lead is warned by her future self about her fiancé cheating on her
Details I remember:
It’s a Chinese full-color romance manhua set in modern-day China.
The female lead receives a phone call from her future self (10 years later) warning her about her fiancé cheating.
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Person from Ancient Greece is brought via time machine to the present day
I would like to know the title of a science fiction story in which a person from Ancient Greece is brought via time machine to the present day, and then the world begins to behave according to this ...
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Time-travel story where a team disguised as 19th-century U.S. cavalry try to find where a Spanish expedition was defeated
I read this in the 1990s, probably (but not definitely) in an anthology.
I don't remember much of the set-up, but I do recall the protagonists were cosplaying as U.S. cavalry while trying to chase ...
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1980s novel about archaeologists discovering evidence of an army platoon that traveled back in time and was killed by native Americans
1980s paperback novel. I think it was some variant of Ace Books that was supposed to be high quality new works...but weren't always.
Hazy memory, but as I recall there was some excavation of ...
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1960-80s short story about rebirth in post apocalyptic future - radioisotope, changeling
I'm trying to track down a pre-1980s SF short story (I believe I read it in a 1980s anthology).
The details I seem to recall are: injured young woman in a post-nuclear field hospital has an “isotope” ...
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Short story. Lady with amnesia and agoraphobia is helped by the performers in a theatre. We later find out the theatre travels through time
I remember reading this short story at about the same time, that I read this other story I asked about recently.
Short Story. Every time a child is born, the oldest person in the world dies
So it is ...
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1980s? Novel. Time travelers explore dinosaur era. When they try to return a Brontosaurs(?) bumps into the portal slicing a chunk out of its leg [duplicate]
USA in English. Maybe a Library book from the 1970s or paperback from the 1980s.
A group of explorers (4-10 people?) have traveled back in time to the age of the dinosaurs.
The time travel portal ...
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What is the actual role of the "watchers" in "The Final Days" by David Langford?
I recently asked a story-identification, A SF short story about “spy cameras” (“observers” ?) sent from the future to observe a present close to ours, focusing on a candidate for President, to find a ...
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A time-travel short fiction where a graphologist falls in love with a girl for having read letters she has not yet written… to another man
I read this short story, or maybe a novelette, about twenty years ago in a collection that was certainly much older.
An extremely bright scientist was killed in an accidental explosion of the ...
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Time traveler named Tom/John forgets device, Penelope Weschler, machine harvests Earth's spin
I'm looking for a science fiction novel. The plot is complex:
A man (named Tom or John) from a hypothetical future travels back to the late 20th century (like the 1970s/80s).
He forgets to activate a ...
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A SF short story about “spy cameras” (“observers” ?) sent from the future to observe a present close to ours, focusing on a candidate for President
I read this SF short story at least 20 years ago, probably in a collection that might have been older.
The society where it takes place is very close to ours. There will soon be an election for the ...
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Book where everyone except for the main character can time travel and have sex with their future/past/alternate selves
It's more independent author, I think off of Amazon when Amazon's search was more detailed & broken down to search by. Came out between 2000-22.
Because everyone can time travel (not sure the ...
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Woman on a road trip stops at a hotel/motel in America - ends up trapped in time with ghosts of other people. 80s/90s Movie
What is this movie? Movie is about a woman on a trip who stops at a hotel/motel in America. It's night time and ends up trapped in time there with ghosts of other people. It's from 90s or maybe 80s.
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manhwa about a regressed FL who needs to find a jewel to become stronger
a manhwa about a FL that regresses in time
in the manhwa people need to find their jewel/daimond in order to become stronger and this time she teams up with a guy in order to find her jewel/daimond in ...
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Birth control and the ambassador of the 22nd century
Since it is about birth control and population explosion, this story must be from the 1960s or 1970s.
The story takes place in a world in which time travel technology has developed in such a way that ...
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A story about time travel
I remember reading this sci-fi story about people who escaped into the past from dystopian time of the future where there was war and tyranny.
But they were chased by agents from their time to get ...
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Time travel short story. Man meets his friend after 50 years
An old man is living in a place similar to an old London gentlemen's club. It is in the future, they are waited on by robots.
The old men all sit together in the club. One of the club rules is that ...
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Were the Voyagers given any tools or guidebooks for their OmniChronometers?
In the TV show Voyagers! (1982), when a Voyager was issued an OmniChronometer, were there tools issued along with it and a guidebook in order to keep it operational?
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What book tells of a psychic time traveler to the Cretaceous. He carries a spiked double-bit axe
Protagonist can time travel psychically at will, as far back as the Mesozoic. His only weapon is a double bit throwing axe with a spike. He’s unique in his ability to travel that far in time. He ...
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Manhwa where the male lead keeps the corpse of the female lead frozen until he can finally let go of her
I'm looking for a manhwa where the FL dies at the end and the ML freezes her because he can't let her go but at the funeral he finally does. And then at the very end she regress in time and she is ...
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State where time travel is forbidden, protagonist acquires a small portable time machine with a dial
Looking for a novella or novel (pre-1985, read in Russian, probably a translation) with these details:
The setting is a future repressive state where time travel is forbidden.
The protagonist ...
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Book about an apparent time travel, which turns out to be clone
Years ago, I read a sci-fi book in German, possibly for teenagers.
I remember it starting with a visit to science location to earn some pocket money with friends for harmless experiment.
Suddenly, ...
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Manga where the female protagonist time travels into her younger self but get killed by a killer who's aware of it?
The plot afterwards the guy or strangers explained the tree as timelines in some urban locations when explained about the time travel mechanic
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Short story about the mind of a man being sent back in time into a body about a century earlier to retrieve a lost play, and what ensues
I read this SF short story at least 30 years ago, most probably in a collection that could have been even older.
It is a time-paradox story without any "physical" time travel.
The story is ...
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Man uses time travel to move about in space, ends up going back to big-bang
A story I read in the 1970s or 1980s. Could be a short story, could be a novel. A device has been built which can temporarily send a man back in time. Since the Earth is always moving, the effect of ...
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Time travel book using photographs to go to the past
I read this book in the late 90s, and I remember it because it was extremely similar to Back to the Future. The main character reads about someone who is able to time travel by focusing on a ...
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An SF movie where efforts to use time travel to prevent an epidemic fail
I saw this SF movie about 20 years ago, on French television, probably a rather early airing. So it was probably first shown in movie theaters in France only a few years before, roughly around 2000.
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Anime where a team travel through multiple dimensions to find swords
I tried my best to search for an Anime in which there was a team who travel in the multiple dimensions to find the swords. Because the sword has the power to provide them an armored suit.
It's really ...
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Book about a boy transported to an old confederate soldier's coffin after gazing in a mirror in an antique shop
This book was set in modern era. There are horror, fantasy as well as time-travel as sub-plots.
I remember the little boy was found by his father (a police detective) after people searching for him ...
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A fantasy novel (probably originally in French) where a room in a basement is an uncontrollable time machine
I read this fantasy novel not so long ago, maybe only 5 or 6 years (late in my "pre-Covid" first existence).
I am positive I read it in French, because it was a paperback of one of the ...
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Science fiction story (read in Italian) about a writer who receives messages from the future via typewriter
I'm looking for the title (and possibly the original author) of a science fiction story I read over 40 years ago, likely translated into Italian.
Here’s what I remember:
The protagonist is a ...
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Cartoon about two kids who time travel
I watched this cartoon show that was about a girl and a boy (possibly brother and sister) who traveled back in time, some of the episodes were them traveling to the gold rush, to ancient Egypt, and to ...
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Science fiction children's book about three children who travel to a future where humans live alongside aliens [duplicate]
A science fiction children's series with two books (as far as I know).
The focus characters are three children, two boys and one girl. One of the boys is the "nerd" of the group. The other ...
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Time travel novel. The main character visits the Roman Empire. His friend buries a chess set to prank future archaeologists
Trying to find this SciFi book I read about 20/25 years ago.
The main character discovered he could time travel by solving complex math equations.
He ended up in the Roman empire. I think some of his ...
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Book where a prison is sent back in time to the age of dinosaurs
What I remember of this book is that a whole prison is sent back in time, to the age of the dinosaurs. When the prisoners revolt, the guards escape, and they encounter a group of Indians & ...
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Time travel to a future library
This is an old story (probably from before 1950) that I read in an old anthology, I think, and the story is possibly by an author known for non-genre works. In the story, the first person narrator ...
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Short story about getting stuck between two moments in time
A story a few pages long, in English from the 20th century. Two people are using a newly invented elevator sized time machine. They try to time travel, but end up in an empty void. They realize time ...
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Story about a time rift, where objects from different times are washed up. People can view by using a powered suit which can run if a time shift comes
I used to read the Science Fiction anthologies, with a yellow cover, and I am fairly sure this was in one of them. The time rift is constantly and unpredictably shifting, and to be caught would be ...
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Alternate future novel
Trying to find book length sci-fi story about man sent into future by a capsule? in a cave. Something goes wrong, and when it stops the cave looks out over a glacial?? (post-nuclear?) valley which has ...
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Looking for a short story about time travel
In the story time travel to the past to witness historic events is normal. The story explains the name for them and that it is an event when they come & the whole neighborhood hears of it. Three ...
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