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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]
Timeline: Michael Crichton: Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J. K. Rowling: Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, acquires a Time-Turner, which allows her to take a large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to free two prisoners.
Book features two agents from two warring factions (called 'Red' and 'Blue'), who traverse multiple different timelines in a form of time war. One timeline they encounter features a world where the Aztecs were not colonised, multiple worlds where Atlantis exists and falls, and one where the Earth was destroyed in a nuclear holocaust.
Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor.
While science fiction stories have many themes, exploration and discovery in space is a recurring focus. The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction . Overarching themes
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
The time loop is a popular trope in Japanese pop culture media, especially anime. [15] Its use in Japanese fiction dates back to Yasutaka Tsutsui's science fiction novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1965), one of the earliest works to feature a time loop, about a high school girl who repeatedly relives the same day.
The book met with positive reviews from critics. [3] [4] [6] Imogen Rusell Williams of The Guardian praised the book's narration and illustration, writing, "Timeline: A Visual History of Our World, with its ribbons of pitch black winding through subtly-coloured, deeply involving pages, perfectly lives up to Gecko Press's avowed championing of work 'rich in language and illustration'. [7]