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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