The Big List of Time Travel Adventures

 2013



   Chrononauts Game
designed by Andrew Looney
First publication: 2013

Although I don’t usually put time-travel games in the list, it is my list and I can do what I want, such as listing this card game that Hannah and Paul gave to me on our ferry trip to Victoria. Each character in the game has the goal of adjusting the timeline back to their original home settings; and each character’s card includes a super-quick flash story, which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with the character, but is fun nonetheless.

 The Time Traveler swiped Shakespeare’s still-warm corpse (replacing it with a synthetic replica) and restored his health using 23rd-century medical technology. “Now write!” he commanded. 


   “Boomerang”
by Russell James
First publication: Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, 2013

When Robbie’s tenure comes to an end as a historical researcher at the Bridenbaugh Institute, he’s offered the chance to actually study the Great Depression in person—but only because another wacko has gone back to change history.

 Yes, but to do it, you are letting a kidnapper brutally murder a child. There’s a moral case for Akako’s actions. 


All royalties from Out of Time are donated to Doctors without Borders.   “The Paths We Choose”
by Paul Siluch
First publication: Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, 2013

A janitor in a physics lab uses the lab’s time travel cage to go back in time and alter the outcome of abusive moments that made him who he is.

 Intelligence was a wind blowing humanity faster and faster. But a man can hide from the wind, he thought. Even change its direction for a moment. 


The authors of the Out of Time anthology also published this second volume a year later.   “A Thousand Different Copies”
by Janet Guy
First publication: Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, 2013

Lieutenant Kyuoko Morioka travels seventy years into the past to bring the inventor of time travel to her day because strange anomalies are appearing in the time stream.

 I’m from seventy years in the future, and we need you to save us all. 


from Teresa Robeson’s website   “Unfillable Void”
by Teresa Robeson
First publication: Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, 2013

Cindy Lau’s mother died when Cindy was young, motivating adult Cindy to invent time travel in order to spend as much time as possible with her mother before the death.

 Nobody thought Cindy would devote her life to studying the nature of time solely to fill the hold in her heart, even as she immersed herself in the subject during the last year of her undergrad degree. Nobody believed she would succeed when the mechanics of temporal movement had eluded some of the greatest minds in physics. 


from Kelly Horn’s website   “The Widow in the Woods”
by Kelly Horn
First publication: Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, 2013

Grad student Max has just four hours to find his shady his shady friend's brother who's been lost in time at an old archaeological dig site.

 I didn't lose him in the woods. I lost him in time. 




   El último pasajero
English title: The Last Passenger (translated from Spanish)
by Manel Loureiro
First publication: 2013

Reporter Cataline Soto, aka Kate, takes an assignment covering wealthy Isaac Feldman’s attempt to recreate the exact situation that led to him being discovered as the only survivor on a Nazi cruise ghost ship in 1939.

 If they can go back in time, they’ll be able to help Hitler avoid making the same mistakes that led to his defeat. Stalingrad. Normandy. None of it will have ever happened. 




   Pizza Hut Commercial
First publication: Jan 2013

 Invest in the internet. 


A revised version of the story appeared as A Time Foreclosed in 2013.   “Time Out”
aka “A Time Foreclosed”
by Edward M. Lerner
First publication: Analog, Jan/Feb 2013

Ex-felon Peter Bitner jumps at the chance for a steady job with Dr. Jonas Gorski, only to end up debating time-travel paradoxes and ethics with the disgraced scientist who keeps building bigger and bigger time machines.

 Stop Hitler and what else do you alter? Millions of lives saved, sure, but billions of lives changed. 


   “The Woman Who Cried Corpse”
by Rajnar Vajra
First publication: Analog, Jan/Feb 2013

Ali Campbell-Lopez’s mother dies and comes out of a coma for the fourth time under circumstances that imply Ali has powers that will interest various national security agencies and enemy spies, prompting a violent assault on Ali and her teenage daughter, soon followed by the appearance of a much younger, time-traveling version of her mother.

 You wanted to build a time machine to go back and save my grandfather! 




   Robot Chicken
created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich
First time travel: 20 Jan 2013

Claymation Doc Brown and his somewhat faulty time machine comes to Robot Chicken in Episode 16 of Season 6 (“Eaten by Cats”). Unlike Claymation Marty, I kinda like the Weinermobile version. Bonuses in this episode: Thor’s hammer and Cap’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow, and Hulk’s cathater, and possibly Nick Fury’s gun.

 If I’m gonna build a time machine, it’s got to be iconic. I’m not gonna use a Honda f-bleep-ing Civic! 




   John Dies at the End
adapted by Don Coscarelli (Coscarelli, director)
First release: 25 Jan 2013

Dave’s friend John takes a psychedelic drug (given to him by Bob Marley—no, not that Bob Marley) giving him a distorted sense of time and pitching him into an interdimensional battle with leech monsters. It’s possible that there’s time travel, too, or at least a time telephone.

 You know what I think? You’re going to be getting phone calls from me for, like, the next eight or nine years, all from tonight. 




   Man in the Emppty Suit
by Sean Ferrell
First publication: Feb 2013

After inventing a time sled at age 18, Sean Ferrell’s hero treks through history, periodically returning to a post-apocalypse party that he holds for only himself in an abandoned New York hotel. It seems like the perfect party with the perfect company until at age 38 he takes pity on a younger self, stopping the Youngster from breaking his nose in a fall and setting off a chain of untetherings wherein the past lives of his many selves are no longer following the same path—especially that of his 39- and 40-year-old selves, the Elder of which is murdered.

 The old man’s rheumy eyes watered at me. “Welcome to the secret club of the convention, boy. Now you know. This is where you die.” 




   The Time Portal Stories
by David Erik Nelson
First story: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 2013

In the first story, Taylor, the orientation guy from HR in a fabrication company tells us how his company brings in workers from other times because they’re cheaper than contemporary labor.

In the fun second story, Travis, an HR man for the company that imports laborers from other times, begins recruiting radicals throughout time—such as Suze and her gang in 1995 Nebraska—but he and Suze soon discover that avoiding The Sound of Thunder is more difficult than killing Hitler.
  1. The New Guys Always Work Overtime (Feb 2013) Asimov’s
  2. There Was No Sound of Thunder (Jun 2014) Asimov’s
  3. Where There Is Nothing, There Is God (Dec 2016) Asimov’s

 Anyway, we tried, me and Deke. I personally tried four different times. But Hitler is a really charismatic baby. 




   Hyperfutura
by Eric Kopatz and James O’Brien (O’Brien, director)
First release: 1 Feb 2013

In the future, when a worker loses his job, he has little choice but to participate in medical experiments, such as the experiment that Adam Leben undertakes to become a new type of human who will then be sent back to seed the Earth.

 I’ve got a few kinks I’ve got to work out. You see . . . see, it fragments the personality right now, and there’s . . . no return. 




   “The Time Travel Device”
by James Van Pelt
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 7 Feb 2013

One of my rules is that time travel must involve interaction, which this story—of a literary engineer visiting deaths of his literary heroes—might not have, but I like James Van Pelt enough that I wanted to list the story anyway (and mark my first visit to Daily Science Fiction).

 Time travel existed, but I could not interact with the past or the future. 




   “Pioneers”
by Bob Newbell
First publication: 365 Tomorrows, 14 Feb 2013

When the crew of the Tsiolkovsky took off on a 100-year hibernation journey to Alpha Centauri, they didn’t quite realize what their legacy as pioneers would be

 Starship Tsiolkovsky, this is the Haven Space Station calling. Please respond. 




   Time
by Liam Connor (Connor, director)
First release: 17 Feb 2013

In this seven-minute short, Australian schoolboy Jimmy tells his three mates about the special thing his future self left for him to find.

 If time travel became possible within our lifetime, and one of us was able to use it and, perhaps, go back and leave a message or an object for ourselves to find—what would that be? It could be anything, anywhere: a note on your wedding day, a super-powerful ray gun, even some weird perpetual motion machine. 


   “Pre-Pirates”
by Don D’ammassa
First publication: Analog, Mar 2013

Somewhat lazy computer science graduate Teresa Grant has the power to see written words before they are written, whereupon she publishes the best on her website.

 Could you steal something that didn’t exist yet? 




   “Uncertainty”
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 2013

For me, the main story of time-travel agent Leah wandering from one World War II encounter with Heisenberg to another did not have a clear notion of time travel, and the ties to the uncertainty principle were not germaine to the story. The exposition of the uncertainty principle itself was also confused, conflating it with the observer effect and not correctly representing the fact that a particle cannot simultaneously possess both a sharply localized position and a sharply localized momentum. On the other hand, I did enjoy the opening scene with Moe Berg, and the mix-ups are partly from his layman’s point-of-view.

 Werner Heisenberg’s controversial uncertainty principle was one of the cornerstones of quantum physics. Heisenberg postulated that it was possible to know a particle’s position or that it was possible to know how fast the particle moved, but no one could know both the position and movement of the particle at the same time. Berg had spent quite a bit of time in Oxford, talking with leading scientists as he prepared for this job, and one of them used a description that moved away from particles into theory, which Berg appreciated. That scientist had told Berg that at its core, Heisenberg’s principle meant this: The act of observing changes the thing being observed. 




   1001 Nights
created by Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei
First time travel: 26 Mar 2013

In the one time travel episode (“The Man Who Went Back in Time”) of this Canadian cartoon, Shahrzad tells of a ne’er do well man who complains that he could been a contender had he only had the same breaks as his neighbor.

 That coulda been me. I coulda been rich and successful. But no . . . 


   “The Wall”
by Naomi Kritzer
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2013

In 1989, a college freshman named Meghan receives a visit from her future self who encourages her to investigate the fall of the Berlin Wall later that year.

 I’m you. You from the future. 




   Esurance Commercial

 Oh! And your car is a time machine. 


I like this silly image (from columbiatalk.blogspot.com) enough to use it for the story, even though these aren’t Pankau’s Eraser Men.

   “Leaving Home”
by Kurt Pankau
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 8 Apr 2013

Agents of the Temporal Response Bureau—a.k.a. Eraser-Men—protect the timeline, but given what happened to her husband, Grace does not approve when her own 17-year-old son applies to become an agent and is accepted.

 Last summer I applied to join the Temporal Response Bureau. 


   “For Fleur”
by Ian Anderson
First publication: Tales of Hope and Time, 20 Apr 2013

As John Elliot’s wife lies dying of a malignant lymphoma, his technology gathers information about cures from the future.

 Fleur’s type of lymphoma was very malignant. The specialists told them that there would be a fifty percent chance of a ’cure’. He felt helpless in the doctors hands and as a scientist he knew enough to be very frightened, but he dare not show it. 




   “Grief in the Strange Loop”
by Rhonda Eikamp
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 23 Apr 2013

A ten-year-old boy manages to first lose his sister in 11th-century Britain (via his father’s time machine) and then lose his Pop somewhere in the 9th-century Bulgarian Empire. The sister is found fairly quickly, but not until thirty years later does an archeology colleague bring a clue as to exactly where his father might be.

 When he’d left the room for a moment Sis dared me to send her somewhere. 


   The Change Storm Stories
by Rand B. Lee
First story: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/Jun 2013

For some reason, the world has splintered into a multitude of pockets from different times and different timelines. Who ya gonna call? Whitsun: pocketbuster.
  1. “Changes” F&SF, May/Jun 2013
  2. “The Judging” F&SF, Nov/Dec 2014

 But nobody had any explanations to proffer concerning why the Storm had splintered the world into probability-zones, replacing slices of the known, familiar present with slices of past, future, or alternative presents more or less probable. 

—from “Changes”




   Star Trek: Into Darkness
by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof (J.J. Abrams, director)
First release: 17 May 2013

Tim denies it, but there’s a little-known rule that says that any time Spock Prime gets to talk to new Spock, the movie is counted as possessing time travel under a grandfather clause, even if said movie contained no actual new time travel.

For me, the dark aspects of the movie were nothing but forced melodrama, although it did have great special effects, terrific casting of the principles, and fun trekkie jokes. Those positives, though, weren’t enough to cover up the plot holes and Kirk’s questionabe decisions. Good grief, just blast the bad guy with a photon torpedo rather than blasting your way through a bunch of Klingons (who never harmed you) to give the guy a fair trial. And if you don’t do that, at least blast him to bits on the bridge of that dreadnaught.

 As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk and yours alone. 




   “Private Memories”
by Michael Haynes
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 20 May 2013

The narrator loops over the same stretch of a few minutes over and over in order to talk you out of suicide, and then a second set of loops, and . . .

 I watch you commit suicide for the fourth time. This time I almost have you talked out of it. 


Betancourt is the editor of many sf story megapacks which have an occassional new story and many other fine stories that are from the public domain.

   “Try, Try Again”
by John Gregory Betancourt
First publication: The Time Travel Megapack, Jun 2013

After Dr. Keith O’Conner sends a message back in time to save his dead son, it seems that there is always one more message that needs sending.

 It was a matter of life and death for Dr. Keith O’Conner. Not his life, but the life of his son. That’s why he had invented time travel . . . the transmission of electrically charged impulses back through the years to a human brain . . . his brain, to be precise. 


The story also appeared in this 2015 anthology.

   “Jinki and the Paradox”
by Sathya Stone
First publication: Strange Horizons, 3 Jun 2013

Mathematical beings called the Rathki set up three experimental human colonies, one of which includes Jinki, a child made of light, and Mr. Quest, a trickster whose job is to generate random errors. Jinki would rather talk with Mr. Quest than anyone else, because he talks of interesting things such as Alice in Wonderland, the dangers of recursive wishes on falling stars, walking through Time, and (most importantly) avoiding pa-ra-dox!

 There’s many a reason a light baby mustn’t walk through Time. You shouldn’t, Jinki, because you’re tied with the human timeline, you’d cause a thing, a great big knot of a thing like a briar-rose patch, called a paradox. A pa-ra-dox! 


Wilson has also written a series of Flatworld books about a world beyond the void.

   “The Time Goblin”
by Clint Wilson
First publication: 365 Tomorrows, 3 Jun 2013

Wilson tells of a unique being who waits at wormholes to gobble time travelers.

 His kind has known of time travel since before ninety-five percent of all time traveling species in the known galaxy. 




   “Note to Self”
by Hans Hergot
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 4 Jun 2013

Thomas meets a messenger from the future who brings him six words.

 I am from the future. You won a contest, in the future, to send a message to your younger self. 


Shvartsman also edits the Unidentified Funny Objects series.

   “True Love”
by Alex Shvartsman
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 6 Jun 2013

Molly goes back in time to try to experience the true love of Helen of Troy of Cleopatra, but she is disappointed that she can only observe. Based on that, I was about to relegate the story to the no-time-travel pile, when I spotted something that changed my mind.

 We can only be spectators of the past. Passengers, along for the ride. 


   7 Against Chaos
by Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick
First publication: Jun 7, 2013

Paul Chadwick’s exquisitely detailed and dynamic art illustrates Harlan Ellison’s story of a band of seven resilient misfits from across the solar system who are led by the deeply scarred Roack, hoping to bring an end to the time chaos that plagues Earth.

The work comes across as dated, but still, I enjoyed seeing the latest work from my childhood friend, Paul Chadwick.

 The crisis computers say the structure of Earth’s local field of time itself is collapsing. Eras are mixing. 


   The Rewind Agency Series
by Jill Cooper
First book: 10 Jun 2013

In a world where highly regulated time travel permits only observation, teenager Lara Crane Montgomery discovers that she can interact with the past. So, she becomes determined to use her fifteen minutes in the past to prevent her mother’s murder, not knowing that those actions would lead to her father’s conviction for attempted murder (and to a series of follow-up books)
  1. 15 Minutes (10 Jun 2013) save Mom
  2. Plugged (23 Mar 2015) aftermath for Lara

 “When you go back in time, you’re a hologram. You know that, so how can you change the past?” Rick says.
I swallow hard. “When I went back on my birthday . . . I touched stuff while I was there. I helped people. I know I can do this. I know.” I shrug. “I think I’m special.” 


   “Without You”
by Craig Allen
First publication: 26 Jun 2013

In a Big Brother world, Eric is supposed to be working on eavesdropping technology for the government, but instead he builds a secret time machine to rescue Anna, a young singer who is repeatedly killed in various violent mishaps.

 No!
No, damn it! It couldn’t be.
But it was, and her young life ended like that.
But only in one timeline. 


   “Dear Tomorrow”
by Simon Clark
First publication: The Mammoth Book of Time Travel, Jul 2013

Among the myriad of sad stories of people who desperately wish to turn back the clock—John Salvin who loses his wife and child in a vanished plane, Kamana Banerjee who loses her husband to a random bullet—a reality tv program, Impossible, Isn’t It?, plans to archive the most heart-wrenching of the stories for future time travelers who may respond to those pleas by coming back to appear on the program and providing solice.

 What’s more, it’s my personal belief that time machines will be invented one day; that’s why I’m inviting time-travelling viewers from the distant future to visit us at our rendezvous point on Mount Snowden in North Wales, on the tenth of July— 




  
 Dino-Mating #1
“Not with a Bang”
by Rosemary Claire Smith
First publication: Analog, Jul/Aug 2013

Marty Zuber, a lovesick time-ship pilot and bodyguard on Dr. Derek Dill’s trip to the late Cretaceous, is sulky because the girl he’s dating keeps making eyes at Dill in the t-mail messages.

Later stories in the series continue the love triangle.

 Can you comment on the rumors that you’re secretely planning on launching missiles to knock the comet off course and save the dinosaurs? 




   The Chronic Argonauts Graphic Novel
adapted by Jason Quinn and Russ Leach
First publication: ebook, Jul 10, 2013

Writer Jason Quinn and artist Russ Leach render Wells’s Time Machine precursor as a graphics novel, expanding the story to include an alien invasion (could it be War of the Worlds?) two millenia in the future.

 They’ve got no manners, those English. 




   “Diamond Doubles”
by Eric Brown
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 16 Jul 2013

A novel writer from the fourth millennium is trapped in the 1960s and subjecting a contemporary editor to his work.

 I have first-hand experience of life in the fourth millennium as I hail from that era. 




   Timeholes
by Paul F. Taylor and Toby Williams (Ben Mallaby, director)
First release: 16 Jul 2013 (internet)

What will happen when time travel becomes as commonplace as hopping on a bus? This short film tells us in just two minutes.

 The nearest booth’s down there, on the left. 


In addition to writing fiction, Pinsker rocks out on her home page.

   “Join Our Team of
Time Travel Professionals”
by Sarah Pinsker
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 18 Jul 2013

Magda lands a job that many people would jump at: watching after time-travel tourists to make sure they don’ screw up the time line, but who watches the watchers?

 Manhattan in 1985 didn’t have jawbone communications, but it did have plenty of bag ladies who talked to themselves. Magda was temporarily one of them. 


Pickett’s first story (“Diatra”) appeared in the second DSF anthology.

   “Sticks and Stones”
by Kevin Pickett
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 24 Jul 2013

A man returns to the school where he was bullied as a child.

 The little boy crouched defensively, making a smaller target for their cruelty, but knowing their aim was good. 




   “Timeless Bore”
by Peter Wood
First publication: Stupefying Stories Showcase, 26 Jul 2013

A none-too-wealthy time traveler insists on passing the time of day in Mac’s two-pump filling station in Perdue, North Carolina.

 As the man from the future droned on and on, Mac immersed himself in the paper. He grunted every so often to feign interest. 




   Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
adapted by James Krieg (Jay Oliva, director)
First released: 30 Jul 2013 (direct-to-dvd)

By my count, the Flashpoint comics by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert had a total of 72 comics, but it all fit in 81 minutes of this animated dvd in which the Flash awakens without his powers in a world where the rest of the Justice League is at war with pretty much everyone. Initially, he blames his arch-enemy Professor Zoom for messing with the timeline, but it turns out that it’s not Zoom who needs to be stopped from time traveling.

 We have to find out what he changed and change it back before they kill everyone on the planet. 




   Rewind
by Justin Marks
First aired: 26 Aug 2013

For this rejected-series pilot, mega-handwaving went into creating a setting where a government team could send people back to change the past in a way that the team and the travelers can remember the original timeline and observe the effect of any changes—somewhat like Seven Days but without without the charm of Lt. Frank Parker. My thought is that one particular plot device totally missed the boat: The team has a technology that allows them to confidently predict the outcome of any proposed change before enacting it. Imagine how boring The Butterfly Effect would have been had Evan had such a technology in his pocket. Even so, I would have watched this series if it had ever made it into full production.

 Basically, Charlie can show us how an action in the past creates ripples in the present. 


This was the first professionally published story that I read by one of my Odyssey Workshop classmates—nicely done, Chip!

   “Flip Side”
by Chip Houser
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 29 Aug 2013

The story follows a woman in the moments after a traffic accident.

 Look before you cross, Tommy! 


   “Affirmative Auction”
by James Morrow
First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2013

A Plutonian captain in the Pangalactic Virtue Patrol brings his time-traveling spaceship to a South Carolina slave auction in 1801 for a muddled morality lesson.

 . . . we have journeyed here from our mutual sun’s ninth body to rectify an anomaly that for over two centuries has corrupted your civilization. 




   Insidious: Chapter 2
by Leigh Whannell and James Wan (Wan, director)
First release: 13 Sep 2013

The first scene goes back to the time of Josh (the dad in Insidious) as a boy when he was possessed by a woman in white. The movie then returns to the present day, just after Josh murdered the exorcist who had treated him as a child, and gives a horrorific, supernatural explanation of it all. Oh, yes: If I understood this right, the filmmakers are not the only ones who go back in time.

 Specs: Lorraine, is that Josh?
Lorraine [frightened]: How is that possible? 




   “Eternity and the Devil”
by Larry Hodges
First publication: The Haunts & Horrors Megapack, 19 Sep 2013

Dr. Virgil Nordlinger makes a deal with the devil in which Nordlinger will formulate the Grand Unified Theory of physics, live on this Earth for another fifty years, and spend the rest of eternity in hell.

 After solving GUT, I moved on to temporal studies. 




   The Rush Revere Series
aka Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans
by Rush Limbaugh and Kathryn Adams Limbaugh
First book: Oct 2013

Twenty-first century history teacher Rush Revere visits key points in American history.
  1. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims (Oct 2013)  
  2. Rush Revere and the First Pilgrims (Mar 2014)  
  3. Rush Revere and the American Revolution (Oct 2014) with K.A.L.  
  4. Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner (Oct 2015)  

 The experience over the past several months is not something I want to repeat. 


   “The Time Travel Club”
by Charlie Jane Anders
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2013

At Lydia’s second time at the Time Travel Club, she tells them of her pirate activities in the past and her solar sail demolition races in the future, which is all well and good until the outlandish Madame Alberta shows up and asks them all to help her with ethical questions of building a real time machine, not to mention figuring out a rather strange use for the thing.

 They already have warrantless wiretaps and indefinite detention. Imagine if they could go back in time and spy on you in the past. Or kill people as little children. 




   Dimensions:
a Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Threads
by Antony Neely (Sloan U’Ren, director)
First release: 9 Oct 2013

Imagine that you’re a boy in 1921 Cambridge when your sister dies falling down a well. What would you do? Naturally, you’d vow to become a great scientist in an artsy movie so you can go back in time to alter the tragic event.

 Annie: Are you ready to leave?
Stephen: Yes.
Annie: How long will it take?
Stephen: I don’t know: seconds, decades, an eternity.
Annie: An eternity? For a few moments together?
Stephen: Yes. 


Larsen’s first story appeared in this anthology.

   “Chronology of Heartbreak”
by Rich Larson
First publication: Daily Science Fiction, 10 Oct 2013

Jack heartlessly breaks up with Kristine in a restaurant.                                                                                    

 The professor was idling the time machine. 




   Free Birds
by Jimmy Hayward and Scott Mosier (Hayward, director)
First release: 1 Nov 2013

Reggie, the turkey who’s awarded the Thanksgiving presidential pardon, has it pretty cushy until he’s kidnapped by Jake for a mission (via time machine S.T.E.V.E., voiced by George Takei) to stop the first Thanksgiving.

 We’re going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get us off the menu. 




   About Time
by Richard Curtis (Curtis, director)
First release: 8 Nov 2013

Poor Rachel McAdams—always the bride, never the time traveler. This time it’s romantic comedy with Domhnall Gleeson in the time traveling co-star role. For me, the writer/director had a good vision, but couldn’t make it gel.

 I can’t kill Hitler or shag Helen of Troy, unfortunately. 




   Pete’s Christmas
by Peter McKay, Gregg Rossen and Brian Sawyer (Nisha Ganatra, director)
First release: 8 Nov 2013 (made-for-tv)

We all watched this on a visit to Colorado by Hannah and Paul, and everyone agreed that it was a nice (and moralistic) Groundhog Day take-off with 14-year-old Pete reliving Christmas until he gets it right.

 Santa forgot my present? Again?! 




   The In Times Like These Series
by Nathan Van Coop
First book: 13 Nov 2013

Athletic, twenty-something Ben Travers chases through time along with none other than a scientist’s beautiful daughter in this adventure series.
  1. In Times Like These (2013)
  2. Chronothon (2015)
  3. The Day After Never (2016)

 Next thing we know, they’ll be rolling out a Delorean. 




   “Unsolved Logistical Problems in
Time Travel: Spring Semester”
by Marissa Lingen
First publication: Nature, 21 Nov 2013

The instructor of a laboratory/field practicum in time travel presents project ideas.

 2. Queueing theory for assassination tourism: If a dozen time travellers show up to assassinate Hitler in the chaos after the Beer Hall Putsch, who gets precedence? 




   Kristin’s Christmas Past
aka Last Chance Holiday
by Rachel Stuhler
First release: 23 Nov 2013

Thirty-four-year-old Kristin, miserable and estranged from her family, is given a Christmas bottle of champaign by a New York City liquor store owner, and after taking a sip, she wakes up beside her seventeen-year-old self with a chance to fix all her past wrongs.

Janet and I watched this on Christmas Day in 2015, shortly after watching Rachel Stuhler’s similar but later movie, Back to Christmas.

 You’ve had a lotta years to make mistakes: It’s my turn now! 




   Get a Horse!
by Paul Briggs, Nancy Kruse, Lauren MacMullan and Raymond S. Persi (MacMullan, director)
First publication: 27 Nov 2013

Out on a 2-D black-and-white hayride, Mickey and the gang run afoul of Peg-Leg Pete, who knocks Mickey into a 3-D color future.

 I’m gonna knock you right inta next week! 


   “The Chorus Line”
by Daniel Hatch
First publication: Analog, Dec 2013

Billionaire Mr. Croesus thinks Eric Cunningham faked the 4-million-year-old images of our ancestors dancing that made such a hit on YouTube recently, and he intends to prove it.

 The concensus is that butterflies don’t know anything about regression analysis. Things tend to return to their mean over time 




   95ers: Echos
aka 95ers: Time Runners
by Thomas Gomez Durham, James Durham and Kip Rasmussen (T.G. Durham, director)
First release: 12 Dec 2013

At the start, a young girl’s father has died and then snow starts falling upward. Later, after a slightly creepy falling-in-love by a man named Horatio, there’s an FBI agent, quite possibly Fox Multer, who’s very good at guessing things. Then her husband dies and we discover that her good guessing comes from being able to wind back time a few seconds—and I’m lost, my patience exhausted before any meaning appears.

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And Still More Time Travel of 2013
The story pilots haven’t yet taken these adventures out for a test drive.
  “Be Patient, Brethren” by Patricia Stewart, 365 Tomorrows, 16 Jan 2013
—astronaut repeated tossed back

  “Dinner with the Morlocks” by David Barber, 365 Tomorrows, 24 Feb 2013
—blood-suckers from the future

  “Ghost in the Machine” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 7 Mar 2013
—observe but don’t be observed

  “Steampunk” by David Stephenson, 365 Tomorrows, 10 Mar 2013
—time machine blueprints are found

  “Traveller’s Mistake” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 13 Mar 2013
—jokester time traveler

  “A Swirl of Chocolate” by K. Esta, 365 Tomorrows, 11 May 2013
—stop yourself from traveling

  “It All Makes a Difference” by James McGrath, 365 Tomorrows, 8 Jun 2013
—to 1066

  “Party for Two” by Kevin Richards, 365 Tomorrows, 20 Jun 2013
—Hawking’s time travel party

  “Flux” by J.D. Rice, 365 Tomorrows, 10 Jul 2013
—robot from the future

  “Historicity” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 24 Jul 2013
—realities of time travel

  “Pulped” by Bob Newbell, 365 Tomorrows, 29 Jul 2013
—Dr. Sinistral’s evil time machine

  “Intentional Paradox” by Clint Wilson, 365 Tomorrows, 20 Aug 2013
—early humans receive tools

  “Timecasting” by Duncan Shields, 365 Tomorrows, 22 Sep 2013
—the first time traveler

  “Life Itself” by Richard Halcomb, 365 Tomorrows, 2 Nov 2013
—to Primal Earth

  “The Longest Distance” by Aaron Koelker, 365 Tomorrows, 18 Dec 2013
—a long distance relationship




Romance Time Travel of 2013
Bodice rips are a more workaday mode of time travel than time ships.
  Aura by ABRAHAM M.A. Abraham

  Aura by M.A. Abraham

  Challenge 3: Playboy's Challenge by Jo Barrett

  MacCoinnich 5: Highland Protector Vows by Catherine Bybee

  Outlander 7.2: The Space Between& by Diana Gabaldon

  Outlander 7.3: Virgins by Diana Gabaldon

  Second Chances 2: Ain't No Angel by Peggy L. Henderson

  Civil War Brides 9: The Brides United by Tracey Jane Jackson

  Slains #2 Thew Firebird by Susanna Kearsley

  Roses in Moonlight by Lynn Kurland

  Celtic Brooch 2: The Last MacKlenna by Katherine Lowry Logan

  Warrior 4: Warrior Untamed by Melissa Mayhue

  Timeless 2: Timekeeper by Alexandra Monir

  Italy 1: The Other Side of Heaven by Morgan O'Neill

  Italy 2: Time Enough for Love by Morgan O'Neill

  Heritage 2: Into the Future by Dana Roquet

  Tennessee Waltz 2: Kiss Me, I'm Yours by Bella Street

  Spirit Path 1: The Spirit Path by Tammy Tate

  Spirit Path 2: The Secret Path by Tammy Tate

  St Mary's 1: Just One Damned Thing after Another by Jodi Taylor

  St Mary's 2: A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

  St Mary's 2.5: When a Child Is Born by Jodi Taylor

  Westin 1: Living London by Kristin Vayden

  Westin 2: Surviving Scotland by Kristin Vayden

  Blue Bells 3: The Water is Wide by Laura Vosika

  After Cilmeri 7: Castaways in Time by Sarah Woodbury




No Time Travel. Move along.
  “Gazing Into the Carnauba Wax Eyes of the Future” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli, What Fates Impose, 2013 [precognition ]

  Martha Speaks (”Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur“) by Ken Scarborough, cd .. [just a dream ]

  “The Golden Age of Story” by Robert Reed, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 2013 [despite title, no time travel ]

  Martha Speaks (”Bulldozer Versus Dinosaur“) by Ken Scarborough, 1 Feb 2013 [just a dream ]

  Bones (“The Fact in the Fiction”) by Keith Foglesong, 25 Feb 2013 [despite appearances, no time travel ]

  “Ahead of His Time” by Ian Anderson, Tales of Hope and Time, 20 Apr 2013 [time phenomena without time travel ]

  “Doing Emily” by Joe Haldeman, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2013 [virtual reality ]

  “The Grande Complication” by Christopher Reynaga, Writers of the Future XXIX, Jun 2013 [stopping time ]

  “Karina Who Kissed Spacetime” by Indrapramit Das, Apex Magazine, Jun 2013 [alternate timelines ]

  “Old Dead Futures” by Tina Connolly, tor.com, 17 Jul 20913 [visions of possible futures ]

  “Hiking in My Head” by Gareth D Jones, Daily Science Fiction, 12 Aug 2013 [no definite time travel ]

  Sleepy Hollow created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman, 16 Sep 2013 [long sleep ]

  “No Others Are Genuine” by Greg Frost, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2013 [no definite time travel ]

  Bacardi Through Time Commercial, Nov 2013 [no definite time travel ]

  “Images of Undiluted Love” by Joanna Kavenna, New Scientist, 17 Dec 2013 [viewing the past ]

 

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Thanks for visiting my time-travel page, and thanks to the many sources that provided stories and more (see the Links and Credits in the menu at the top). —Michael (main@colorado.edu)