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Time travel in fiction

Index Time travel in fiction

Time travel is a common theme in fiction and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements. [1]

83 relations: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A Sound of Thunder, Abraham Lincoln, Alison Uttley, American Journal of Physics, Android (robot), Angel, Barbara Sleigh, Big-game hunting, Butterfly effect, C. L. Moore, Cassandra (metaphor), Causal loop, Chaos theory, Charlotte Sometimes (novel), Communication, Contradiction, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Crucifixion of Jesus, Déjà vu, Dinosaur, Early Edition, Edward Norton Lorenz, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Eternal return, Fantasy, Fiction, Forrest J Ackerman, Future, General relativity, Goodreads, Grandfather paradox, H. G. Wells, Helen Cresswell, Henry Kuttner, It Happened Tomorrow, J. B. Priestley, Jessamy, John Buchan, Liberals (Sweden), List of fictional newspapers, List of games containing time travel, List of television series that include time travel, List of time travel works of fiction, Liverpool University Press, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mark Twain, Mary, Queen of Scots, McFarland & Company, Moondial, ..., Motivation, Newcomb's paradox, Past, Paul J. Nahin, PBS, Philippa Pearce, Playing Beatie Bow, Plot device, Precognition, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Ruth Park, Science fiction, Short story, Swedish general election, 2006, Sydney, The Butterfly Effect, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Fall of Chronopolis, The Gap in the Curtain, The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, The Time Machine, The Times, Time travel, Time viewer, Tom's Midnight Garden, Tor Books, Victorian era, Vintage Season, World War I, Wormhole, 12 Monkeys. Expand index (33 more) »

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain.

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A Sound of Thunder

"A Sound of Thunder" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952, issue and Bradbury's collection The Golden Apples of the Sun in 1953.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Alison Uttley

Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a British writer of over 100 books.

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American Journal of Physics

The American Journal of Physics is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics.

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Android (robot)

An android is a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance.

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Angel

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies.

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Barbara Sleigh

Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh (1906–1982) was an English children's writer and broadcaster, known best for her Carbonel series about a king of cats.

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Big-game hunting

Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game, almost always large terrestrial mammals, for meat, other animal by-products (such as horn or bone), trophy or sport.

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Butterfly effect

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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Cassandra (metaphor)

The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra syndrome, complex, phenomenon, predicament, dilemma, or curse) occurs when valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.

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Causal loop

A causal loop in the context of time travel or the causal structure of spacetime, is a sequence of events (actions, information, objects, people) in which an event is among the causes of another event, which in turn is among the causes of the first-mentioned event.

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Chaos theory

Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.

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Charlotte Sometimes (novel)

Charlotte Sometimes is a children's novel by the English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969 by Chatto & Windus in the UK, and by Harcourt in the United States.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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Contradiction

In classical logic, a contradiction consists of a logical incompatibility between two or more propositions.

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

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Déjà vu

Déjà vu is the feeling that the situation currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Early Edition

Early Edition is an American television drama series that aired on CBS broadcast network from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000.

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Edward Norton Lorenz

Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a Scottish-founded, now American company best known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopedia.

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Eternal return

Eternal return (also known as eternal recurrence) is a theory that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest J Ackerman (born Forrest James Ackerman; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films, and acknowledged as the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

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Future

The future is what will happen in the time after the present.

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General relativity

General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

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Goodreads

Goodreads is a "social cataloging" website that allows individuals to freely search its database of books, annotations, and reviews.

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Grandfather paradox

The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction.

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Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

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It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.

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Jessamy

Jessamy (1967) is a children's book by Barbara Sleigh, author of the Carbonel series.

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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Liberals (Sweden)

The Liberals (Liberalerna, L) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Sweden.

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List of fictional newspapers

This is a list of fictional newspapers from forms of media such as films, television, and books.

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List of games containing time travel

Many games contain time travel elements.

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List of television series that include time travel

This is a list of television series which are not primarily time travel series but include one or more episodes about time travel.

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List of time travel works of fiction

The lists below describes notable works of fiction involving time travel, where time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work.

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Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press, founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Moondial

Moondials are time pieces similar to a sundial.

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Motivation

Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

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Newcomb's paradox

In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also referred to as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom purports to be able to predict the future.

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Past

The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time.

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Paul J. Nahin

Paul J. Nahin (born November 26, 1940) is an engineer and author who has written 18 books on topics in physics and mathematics, including biographies of Oliver Heaviside, George Boole, and Claude Shannon, books on mathematical concepts such as Euler's formula and the imaginary unit, and a number of books on the physics and philosophical puzzles of time travel.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Philippa Pearce

Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books.

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Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book written by Ruth Park and first published on 31 January 1980.

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Plot device

A plot device, or plot mechanism, is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.

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Precognition

Precognition (from the Latin prae-, "before" and cognitio, "acquiring knowledge"), also called prescience, future vision, future sight is an alleged psychic ability to see events in the future.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Ruth Park

Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Swedish general election, 2006

A general election was held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Riksdag, the Swedish national legislature.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Fall of Chronopolis

The Fall of Chronopolis is the fifth novel by the science fiction author Barrington J. Bayley.

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The Gap in the Curtain

The Gap in the Curtain is a 1932 borderline science fiction novel by the Scottish author John Buchan.

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The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper

"The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in the February 1932 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two is an English language science fiction two-volume anthology edited by Ben Bova and published in the U.S. by Doubleday in 1973, distinguished as volumes "Two A" and "Two B".

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Time travel

Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine.

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Time viewer

A time viewer is a fictional device that can display events occurring in another time, either the past or (less commonly) the future.

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Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's fantasy novel by Philippa Pearce.

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Tor Books

Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, a publishing company based in New York City.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Vintage Season

"Vintage Season" is a science fiction novella by American authors Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, published under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell" on September, 1946.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Wormhole

A wormhole is a concept that represents a solution of the Einstein field equations: a non-trivial resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox structure linking separate points in spacetime.

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12 Monkeys

12 Monkeys, also known as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée, and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction

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