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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Movie in which some teenagers (or two) were able to time travel by inserting a chip into their wrist
I can't remember the name of the movie in which some teenagers (or two) were able to time travel by inserting a chip into their wrist.
One teenager tightens his tie and gives an unimpressed gesture of ...
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Short story: typical 'time machine and kill Hitler' tactic backfires when the world is made peaceful and thus totally unprepared for alien invasion
I've googled this a few times and can't find it. Short story, 3k-5k words I suppose, likely published in the 70s-90s. I read it in the 80s or 90s.
Someone sees another human with a time machine ...
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Young Adult novel about a time traveller with AI and a haunted forest
The main thing I remember about this story is that the main character is a time-traveller who is travelling with a computerised representation of his sister. During the course of events, he forms a ...
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A short fiction about a contraption not called a "time machine", driven by the "forty-year-old itch", but that did something in the past
I read this SF short fiction about 30 years ago. I'm pretty sure I read it in English, in a collection. I write "short fiction" because it was definitely not a novel. But much too long to ...
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Historical manhwa where the female lead has a subspace/medical kit
Looking for a historical manhwa where the female lead has a subspace/medical kit. She can get guns, medicine and other modern equipment. The subspace or medical kit doesn't run out.
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Manhwa/webcomic about a noble lady reincarnated after dying?
I'm looking for this manhwa/webcomic forgot the name this lady was on her sick bed she was married and had kids but when she died she went back in time and she woke up next to her husband who she didn'...
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Manga where girl goes back into time to save her boyfriend
I'm looking for a manga where this girl goes back in time to save her boyfriend. I forgot if it was set in a historical fantasy setting or a more modern setting.
All I remember is that the plot twist ...
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Young adult urban fantasy series, teens given artifacts that grant unique powers per artifact, monsters want those artifacts
I read a series of books in sometime between 2016-2020 where there are specific artifacts that whoever holds them and is the "owner" of them both can make use of its abilities and become ...
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Story about a time traveler who is accused of counterfeiting when attempting to spend contemporary currency in the past
I’m sorry I don’t remember any more details, but I’m looking for a time travel story, probably a book. I was exposed to it in the 1990s. All I can remember is that there was a protagonist (possibly a ...
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Old episode from the 60s in which two pilots landed at their base and realized they had somehow traveled ahead through time
Two pilots landed at their base and realized they had somehow traveled ahead through time. One pilot went home and could see that his little girl (who, along with everyone else, was in slo-mo) would ...
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What is the time-travel story where "ugly chickens" are trapped in the past and brought to the present to become ingredients for a soup?
I read this short story in a collection about 30 years ago but it might be older than that.
The main character has a "soup of the day" in his usual restaurant. He finds out it is mostly ...
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Book series about a guy who is saved from an assassin by a crew, taken to their lair and taught magic, before being sent back in time
Looking for a series of books featuring sci-fi, time-travel and magic that I read around 10 years ago.
Plot points I remember:
Book opens up with the MC having a family and living in a well-guarded ...
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Short story in which a man sends his mind back in time to change the outcome of a battle, leading to unintended consequences
Trying to find a short story, read ca. 1989.
A man, angry over a past infantry battle with artillery raining down, signs up for a trip back to "fix" things - somewhat like PKD's "We Can ...
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A man is kidnapped by his future descendants and isolated his whole life to prevent a bad thing; they accidentally undo their own births
This a short story, told from the man's perspective. He's just an ordinary man, living on ordinary Earth, in "the present day" (relative to when the story was written). He is kidnapped by ...
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Regression manhwa in which the female lead returns to the past, when she was a noble, and decides to try to marry the male lead
I don't remember the names of the female lead and male lead, but I remember that the female lead was an old woman working together with the male lead, helping ill people. She returns to the past when ...
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