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Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories; Tales in Time; Thiotimoline; The Time Traveler's Almanac; Time's Arrow (short story) Timegates; Timescapes: Stories of Time Travel; The Toynbee Convector; Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle; Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
In 1952, Bob Wilson locks himself in his room to finish his graduate thesis on a mathematical aspect of metaphysics, using the concept of time travel as a case in point.. Bob does not care much at this point whether his thesis (that time travel is impossible) is valid; he is desperate for sleep and just wants to get it done and typed up by the deadline the next day to become an academic, since ...
The story is a fictional account of what might happen if a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of 2,200 men were to be somehow transported through time from their base in modern-day Kabul, Afghanistan to the time of the Roman Empire when being ruled by Augustus Caesar, appearing near the Tiber River in 23 BC with their full allotment of equipment - M1 Abrams battle tanks, bulletproof vests, M249 ...
The Time Traveler's Almanac (British title: The Time Traveller's Almanac [1]) is a 2013 anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It contains stories that focus on time travel . It was released in November 2013 in the UK and on March 18, 2014, in the US.
Science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz rediscovered Mitchell's stories and collected them in The Crystal Man: Landmark Science Fiction (1973). [6] [7] Since then, "The Clock That Went Backward" has been regarded as the first known instance of using a mechanical device for time travel [2] [8]: 55 [9] and the first story using a temporal paradox as a central premise.
Doug decides to sabotage "reentry" unbeknownst to the others—by smuggling a mass of car engine parts into the time machine—to both at the same time (and completely contradictorily) find resolution in death and close the time-loop, freezing all of humanity, and possibly the whole universe, in endless repetition of a single week.
Time travel in modern fiction is sometimes achieved by space and time warps, stemming from the scientific theory of general relativity. [9] Stories from antiquity often featured time travel into the future through a time slip brought on by traveling or sleeping, in other cases, time travel into the past through supernatural means, for example brought on by angels or spirits.