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2. Time travel in fiction - Wikipedia

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   A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]

3. First-year composition - Wikipedia

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   First-year composition (sometimes known as first-year writing, freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in US colleges and universities. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and ...

4. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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   Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. 1982 Life, the Universe and Everything: Douglas Adams: Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet ...

5. Accidental travel - Wikipedia

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   While a Russian popadanets used to be a male, since 2000s a flood of pulp fiction emerged featuring female popadanka hero, typically in the form of romance fiction, where popadanka becomes a mighty sorceress or becomes a bride of a mighty man: a king, a sorcerer, an elf, a vampire, etc., often via an “academy of magic”. The livelib.ru ...

6. Time loop - Wikipedia

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   An early example of a time loop is the 1915 Russian novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, where the main character gets to live his life over again but struggles to change it the second time around. [3] The episode "The Man Who Murdered Time" in the radio drama The Shadow was broadcast on 1 January 1939, about a dying scientist who invents a time ...

7. Right place, right person, wrong era? ‘The Seven Year Slip ...

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   Read a preview of the Seven Year Slip with Ashley Poston and an interview with the author.

8. Transition (fiction) - Wikipedia

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   Transitions in fiction are words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation that may be used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace. [1] [2] Transitions are sometimes listed as one of various fiction-writing modes.

9. Slipstream fiction - Wikipedia

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   Slipstream fiction has been described as "the fiction of strangeness", [6] or a form of writing that makes "the familiar strange or the strange familiar" through skepticism about elements of reality. [7] Illustrating this, prototypes of the style of slipstream are considered to exist in the stories of Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges. [8]