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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]
Other science fiction authors and fans claim "that slipstream is a term that lumps together metafiction, magical realism, surrealism, experimental fiction[,] counter-realism", and postmodern writing, and/or applies to a story with themes coming from one or more of these literary influences.
Many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book concerns the events of a famous work of literature. In the first, time travelers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. 1985 The Proteus Operation: James P. Hogan
An accidental time travel classic. Accidental travel is a speculative fiction plot device in which ordinary people accidentally find themselves outside of their normal place or time, often for no apparent reason, a particular type of the “fish-out-of-water” plot.
Right place, right person ... wrong time? "The Seven Year Slip" by Ashley Poston, out June 27, is a romantic comedy about two people who meet thanks to a trick in the time-space continuum.
The English author J. B. Priestley wrote a number of dramas during the 1930s and 40s, which have come to be known as his Time Plays. [1] They are so called because each constructs its plot around a particular concept of time. In the plays, various theories of time become a central theatrical device of the play, the characters' lives being ...
Time slip, plot device used in fiction in which a person can travel in time; Time slip recording, a feature of some digital video recorders allowing earlier parts of a program to be viewed while later parts are being recorded; Timeslip, in drag racing, a record of the vehicle's elapsed time, top speed, and the driver's reaction time; Time slip ...
Research has long been a backbone of the genre. But beyond the textbooks, there's a whole world of family stories that have not yet become history. They deserve their place in fiction, too.