John Beal, a London businessman, is given a magic crystal that allows him to go back in time and change one act; he is happy with his current life, so he decides to merely go back to catch a train that he was annoyed about missing ten years ago—but the resulting changes are more than he ever expected.

This is the earliest story that I’ve seen where the hero goes back into his earlier body and relives something differently. Some of the later stories have no actual time travel, but merely give knowledge of an alternate timeline (e.g., Asimov’s “What If?”); others live out the two timelines in parallel (e.g., the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, also set in motion by a missing/caught train); and some, like If, are couched in terms of time travel (e.g., the 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married). [Jan 2012]

He that taketh this crystal, so, in his hand, at night, and wishes, saying ‘At a certain hour let it be’; the hour comes and he will go back eight, ten, even twelve years if he will, into the past, and do a thing again, or act otherwise than he did. The day passes; the ten years are accomplished once again; he is here once more; but he is what he might have become had he done that one thing otherwise.

Perhaps the first time travel in cartoons is Felix in “Trifles with Time,” where the silent, surreal cat negotiates with Father Time for a trip to a better age. After appropriate payment, Father Time obliges and Felix goes back to a stone age with dinosaurs. [Dec 2010]

A cat can’t live nowadays—turn me back to a better age, just for a day.

After a car crash, Cuddles, our favorite flapper, finds herself in Camelot where she is unflappable. [Jan 2012]

P-p-peace! Ye half d-d-d-dressed dragon! Ye wot not w-w-what ye good Kynge Arthur will think of such an t-t-t-tantalizing reflection of c-c-cr-creation!

Harl Swanson and Bill Kressman leave Denver in their flying time machine, aiming to travel five millennia, but they end up some five million years later in a desolate world ruled by the evil and cruel brain Golan-Kirt.

I read this in Asimov’s anthology Before the Golden Age, which was the first SFBC book to arrive in my mailbox after going to college in Pullman in the fall of ’74. [Oct 1974]

The twentieth century. It had a remote sound, an unreal significance. In this age, with the sun a brick red ball and the city of Denver a mass of ruins, the twentieth century was a forgotten second in the great march of time, it was as remote as the age when man emerged from the beast.

Stephen’s rich inventor uncle sends him on a trip to the moon in an antigravity capsule without realizing that a side-effect also sends the capsule back to when the moon was young, green, and populated by the evil Eternal Ones and the last of the Mothers. [Jan 2012]

Time was a fourth dimension, he had said. An extension as real as the three of what we call space, and not completely distinguishable from them. A direction in which motion would carry one into the past, or into the future.

Bold and bored soldier-of-fortune Eric Rosner meets a scientist who sends him skipping through time, always meeting the same beguiling girl with the smoke-blue eyes. [May 2011]

Terry Donovan realizes that it’s possible to travel through time in 60,000,000-year increments, so naturally he travels back to the time of dinosaurs and visiting aliens. [Oct 2010]

I’m sad that I’ve now read all the extant Heinlein fiction, this posthumous (and first) novel being the last piece for me. It certainly held 3.5 stars worth of enjoyment for a Heinlein fan, but much of that was in seeing the nascent ideas of the writer that I would devour in my childhood. In the story, a military pilot from 1939 dies, and his consciousness is thrown forward to 2086 where social and economic aspects of society are hugely altered, though technological advances are more conservative (except for the ubiquitous flying cars, of course). [Jun 2011]

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of time travelers? I found one time travel episode of The Shadow: the Jan 1, 1939 NBC radio broadcast of “The Man Who Murdered Time”: My machine bends the staight track of time, curves it, curves it, so that the time track forms a perfect circle! [Jun 2011]

Six years into his escapades (1939), Alley Oop ran into Dr. Wonmug (or perhaps One Mug, or even the German Ein Stein) and his time machine, which happily brought the insights of the boisterous caveman to the 20^th century and elsewhen in time. The image is of Cleopatra in Alley Oop #12 (1948). I don’t have a list of all the time travel capers, but they were numerous.

I haven’t yet read this, though I will eventually get it through ILL. But Jamie Todd Rubin wrote about it as part of his Vacation in the Golden Age. He said it was a short short story, along the lines of the current Probability Zero series in Analog, and that the plot involved time-traveling weapons that could target where the enemy was in the past.

Years ago, engineer Bill Webster abandoned Earth for the employ of the piratical Astrarch; now the Astrarch is aiming the final blow at a defeated Earth, and Bill wonders whether the gunsites that he invented can site—and change!—events in the past. [Jun 2011]

Emir Ismail (a soldier and scientist in a Muslim-led 20^th century) travels back to the crucial Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.

This is the first story that I read via electronic interlibrary loan with the help of the University of Colorado librarians. [Aug 2011]

see “Who’s Cribbing”

Dear Mr. Gates,    ...Please write and tell me what you think of my theory. Respectfully, Jack Lewis

“Read the News Before It Happens!” That's the slogan that reporter Mike Hamilton proposes when the Globe buys a time machine. But when Mike goes onto the future beat, it’s more than just the stock market and the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game that he runs into—it’s the world of 2450 with only scattered population. [Aug 2011]

Slightly mad scientist Burman invents a time machine that lets him see the future, from whence he brings back other inventions including a swarm of reproducing mechanical beasties. [Aug 2011]

I do like the verb that de Camp coined for forward time travel—vanwinkling—but when the hero, De Witt, chases Hedges back in time, they start changing things and everyone (including them) remembers both the old time and the new. It’s beyond me to grok that form of time travel, but I give credit for creativity.

The accountant, Mr. Face, joins the poker game and, among other things, has the remarkable ability to rig any deal without even touching the cards—what else would you expect for a man who’s traveled some 30,000 years from the future? [Jul 2001]

As Earth's first starship passes the light-speed barrier, strange things happen to its acceleration—and to the passage of time. This is the earliest sf story that I’ve seen with a time loop, although there was the earlier 1939 episode of The Shadow. [Dec 2011]

Pulp writing at its finest: He could feel the supple firmness of her body even through the folds of her undistended pressure suit. After seeing a skeleton with a well-known ring on its finger, a spaceship is thrown back in time and the crew believes that one of them is fated to become that skeleton. This is an early story that addresses the question of whether something known about the future must become true, although “The Clock That Went Backwards” (1881) might be the first such story. [Dec 2011]

Harry Wright goes to bed on Monday night, skips over Tuesday, and wakes up in a Wednesday that’s not quite been built yet. [Jul 2001]

Years before The Demolished Man, there was Bester’s probable man. I looked forward to reading it as the first story of my retirement, and I enjoyed the time travel model that Bester set up: David Conn travels backward from 2941 to World War II, but then returns to a vastly changed future. For me, though, I found the naïve attitude toward war unappealing. [Jan 2012]

Time travel plays only a small role in Van Vogt’s three stories and a serial (which were fixed up into two books, The Weapon Shops of Isher and The Weapon Makers). The stories follow the immortal founder of The Weapon Shops, an organization that puts science to work to ensure that the common man is never dominated by government or corporations. Along the way, a 20^th century man becomes a time-travel pawn, a young man seven millennia in the future takes advantage of a much shorter time-travel escapade, and you’ll spot at least one other time travel moment. [Jul 1969]

“The Seesaw”	Astounding Jul 1941
“The Weapon Shop”	Astounding Dec 1942
“The Weapon Shops of Isher”	Wonder Stories Feb 1949
“The Weapon Makers”	Astounding Feb-Mar-Apr 1943

Although it doesn't involve Hitler by name, this story may be the start of the Use-a-Time-Machine-to-Kill-Hitler subgenre. [Dec 2011]

Professor Arthur Frost has a small but willing class of students who explore elsewhere and elsewhen. It’s part of Heinlein’s 1953 collection, Assignment in Eternity.

As in the June story, “Time Wants a Skeleton”, our hero, Mark Livingston, finds a dead human body that is older than the human race—but this time it is quite clearly his own body along with a highly evolved traveling companion. Note the cover illustration to the left for Asimov’s “Nightfall”. [Dec 2011]

Bob Wilson, Ph.D. student, throws himself 30,000 years into the future, where he tries to figure out what began this whole adventure.

After a banner year (1941) in the sf magazines, time travel finally made it to the superhero comics in 1942, or at least the the earliest instance that I’ve spotted was a Captain Marvel story of that year (“The Amazing Trip into Time” in Whiz Comics #26 from Jan 1942). Between then and the lawful demise of Fawcett’s Marvels, the whole family (the Captain, Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., the Lieutenant Marvels) and the evil Dr. Sivana had a myriad of time travel episodes by various means from Father Time to the doctor’s time pill to the captain’s time chair, all of which I’ll list on my my time travel comics page as I experience them.

OMIGOSH! Now I remember everything! I went to the past in order to prevent Captain Marvel from ever existing! But when I got to the past, all I did was re-live the same events as before! Curses! —Dr. Sirvana from Captain Marvel Adventures #80

Once again, drunken genius Gallegher invents something without knowing that he has done so—this time, a box that swallows things up until they reappear at now + x.

If Charlie Wills and you have patience, then Charlie will figure out what’s causing those strange occurrences (such as an angleworm turning into an angel) and you will figure out that angels can time travel (“We can drop you anywhere in the continuum.”). [Aug 2011]

This story was in the first book that I got from the SF Book Club in the summer of 1970, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 (edited by Robert Silverberg). I read all those stories until the book fell apart.

A scientist in the far future sends back two boxes of educational toys to test his time machine. One is discovered by Charles Dodgson’s niece in the 19th century, and the other by two children in 1942. [Jul 1970]

Neither Paradine nor Jane guessed how much of an effect the contents of the time machine were having on the kids.

I haven’t yet seen the movie that was inspired by the story.

Bored student Shorty McCabe slips into a time machine wherein a lunatic takes him to shoot dinosaurs and to his own future (momentarily) so he can pull the hair of a redhead. [Oct 2011]

I’d like to know more about time travel by Riverdale’s upstanding citizens. The earliest I found was in “Time Trouble” from Archie 7 (Mar 1944), which did get the jump on Batman by five months. Two later episodes were in Archie’s Madhouse #45 (Feb 1966) and Archie 170 (Feb 1967), with nothing else that I found in the comic books until after that chaotic 1970 barrier. As I find more, I’ll list them on my time travel comics page.

Here’s a table of notable DC time travel firsts that I’ve found through 1969 (after that, everything was time travel chaos):

		First time travel of...	written/drawn by...	in...
		Batman and Robin	Samachson/Sprang	Batman 24 (Aug 1944)
		Superman	Siegel/O’Hearn/Sikela	Superman 48 (Oct 1947)
		Rip Hunter	Miller/Moreira	DC Showcase 20 (May 1959)
		Blackhawk Commandos	?/Dillin	Blackhawk 147 (Apr 1960)
		Aquaman	Miller/Cardy	Aquaman 3 (Jun 1962)
		The Atom	Fox/Kane	The Atom 3 (Nov 1962)
		Green Lantern	Haney/Fradon	The Brave and the Bold 59 (May 1965)

more to come...

See also: my complete list of time travel in the comics.

Jack Hearne’s illustrations provided an abbreviated but accurate adaptation of Hank Morgan’s medieval travails. [Jun 2011]

Ah! I’ve got it! On June 21st, 528, there was a total eclipse of the sun, but in 1879 there was none...now to wait...that will prove everything!

I’m always on the lookout for early depictions outside of sf with a climb-in-able time machine where you set the dials and go. Briefer’s humorous Frankenstein had just a such a machine in a 9-page story in issue #3 (Jul 1946). Frankenstein runs into Professor Goniph, and they travel in his machine to 2046 and 1646, although there is a twist at the end. [Jun 2011]

More and more strange people are appearing each day in and around Oliver Wilson’s home; the explanation from the euphoric redhead leads him to believe they are time travelers gathering for an important event. [Jun 2011]

As an experiment, a scientist sends unemployed strongman Cartney back 110 million years to make a small change. He makes this first change, which changes things in the present, and then he must go back again and again, whereupon he meets himself and him. I keep finding earlier and earlier stories with the idea of destroying mankind by squishing a bug, and I am wondering whether this is the earliest linchpin bug y(although that doesn’t actually happen here). [Jan 2012]

Perhaps man began as some little animal at that time. If you stand on it you could destroy us all.

The story presents a fixed series of events, which includes a man disappearing at one point in the future and (from his point of view) reappearing at the start of the story to then interact with himself, his own wife, and the evil alien. It’s nice that there’s no talk of the universe exploding when he meets himself, but even so, the story suffers from a murkiness that is often part of time travel stories that are otherwise enjoyable. The murkiness stems from two points: (1) That somehow the events are repeating over and over again—but from who’s viewpoint? (2) The events are deterministic and must be acted out exactly the same each time. I enjoy clever stories that espouse the viewpoint of the second item (“By His Bootstraps” comes to mind). But this does not play well with the first item, and (as with many stories), Harness did not address that conflict nor the consequent issue of free will. Still, I enjoyed the story and wish I’d met Harness when I traveled to Penn State University in the spring of 1982. [Jul 2011]

So far, this is the earliest story that I’ve read with the thought that a miniscule change in the past (...shifting a molecule of hydrogen that in our past really was never shifted.) can cause major changes to our time. The setting is a press conference where the Secretary of Security presents the time travel device to twelve reporters. [Jul 2011]

The prototype of the comic book weird story anthologies were EC’s titles that began in April 1950 with Crypt of Terror. I don’t know whether that title and EC’s other horror comics had any time travel (because I was forbidden from reading those!), but Harry Harrison, Wally Wood and their fellow artists managed some in the titles that were more geared to sf.

I’m aiming for a complete list of EC’s time travel vignettes, but the list as of now is only partial. The first one I found was in Weird Fantasy #13 (May/Jun 1951), which was actually its first issue. That was part of a ruse to take over a second-class postage permit from A Moon, a Girl...Romance (which ended with #12). They stuck with that numbering through the fifth issue (#17) when the postmaster general took note, and the next one was #6. I did kinda wonder how many of those romance readers were surprised when Weird Fantasy #13 showed up in their mailboxes.

There was a sister title, Weird Science, which began in May/Jun 1952 with #12 (taking over the postage permit after the 11^th issue of Saddle Romance). It had many time travel stories, starting with “Machine from Nowhere” in #14 (the 3^rd issue).

Weird Science and Weird Fantasy were not selling that well, so EC combined them into a single title—Weird Science-Fantasy—with #23 in March 1954. Alas, there was but one time travel story, “The Pioneer” in #24 (Jun 1954), about which EC’s site says A man attempts to be the first to successfully time travel, but there are some casualties on the way.... By the way, the whole run of EC comics would be 4 stars, but it gets an extra ½ star because of the beautiful Frank Frazetta cover on the final issue (#29) of Weird Science-Fantasy. The image to the right is #11 of 50 hand-colored prints that Frazetta did of that cover in 1972, with a bonus vamp in the bottom right corner. The cover had a gladiator fighting cave men, but it was not a time travel story.

In 1955, the Comics Code Authority banned the word “Weird,” so the title became Incredible Science Fiction with #30 (Jul/Aug 1955). The four-issue run had only one time-travel tale (“Time to Leave” by Roy G. Krenkel in #31).

Barton and Davis, assistants to Professor Fowler, are on an archaeological dig when a physicist sets up camp next door and speculates abound about viewing into the past...or is it only viewing?

A midwestern professor tells a half-drunken story of time travel and the real cause of the dinosaur extinction.

Joseph Schwartz takes one step from 1949 to the year 847 of the Galactic Era, where he meets archaeologist Bel Arvardan, Earth scientist Dr. Shekt, the doctor's beautiful daughter Pola, and a plot to destroy all non-Earth life in the galaxy.

Al Lewis and his wife Nell have new neighbors, an inventor who talks of time travel from the future and his wife Ann. [Mar 2005]

Grandpa is over 100 now, so surely his promise to General Grant no longer binds him to keep quiet about a time-travel expedition and a biplane. [May 2011]

A retired man investigates scores of cases of the past impinging itself on the present and speculates about the cause and the eventual effect. [Mar 2005]

A sleepless man, struggling with a business decision, sees an earlier occupant of his apartment who is struggling with a decision of his own. [May 2011]

Mighty Mouse saved the day many a time, so doubtlessly he has saved the day in many other times, too, but so far I’ve seen only one such episode (“Prehistoric Perils”, 1952) in which our mouse goes in our villian’s machine back to the dinosaurs to save Pearl Pureheart. I also spotted two-page text item called “The Time Machine” in Mighty Mouse Comics #11 (Jun 1949), but I don’t know whether it’s fiction or something else. [Dec 2011]

Jack Lewis finds that all his story submissions are being returned to him with accusations of plagerizing the great, late Todd Thromberry, but Lewis has another explanation. [Jan 2012]

Dear Mr. Lewis,    We think you should consult a psychiatrist. Sincerely, Doyle P. Gates Science Fiction Editor Deep Space Magazine

Harry Smith has an eccentric scientist uncle who needs to make some money from his astonishing invention that can bring one gram of material from the past.

This story is in The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, so it’s gotta have time travel, right? For me, though, it was a Flying Dutchman story with the heroes’ ghosts visiting their own crash site in normal time fashion. However, at the end of the Twilight Zone version, the ghosts appear to be in a time loop, doomed to repeated visits to the same crash site. [Jul 2011]

You have invented a time machine of sorts that can, at any time, replace yourself with an exact duplicate of your body—and mind—from any time in the past. [Jul 2011]

Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don’t interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine. [Jul 2011]

Blish’s story “Beep” appeared in 1954 with a casual mention of time-travel when a message is overheard from a future spaceship that’s following a worldline backwards through time. The main story follows video reporter Dana Lje who stumbles upon the newly invented Dirac radio which allows instantaneous communication and, as only she realizes, also carries a record of every transmission ever made, both past and future.

At Larry Shaw’s request, Blish expanded “Beep” into the short novel The Quincunx of Time, and both these stories share a background wherein the work of Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein) provides an ftl-drive (the Haertel Overdrive, later called the Imaginary Drive), an antigravity device (the spindizzy), and an instantaneous communicator (the Dirac Radio). I read many of these in the early 70s, but don’ remember any other time travel beyond that one communiqué that Lje overheard. Still, I’ll list everything and reread them some day! [Jan 2012]

“Beep”, in Galaxy (Feb 1952)

The Quincunx of Time, novelization (1973)

...and the related Haertel Scholium stories:

The Pantropy and Seedling Stars stories (1942...)

The Cities in Flight stories (1952...)

“Common Time” (1953)

“Nor Iron Bars” (1957)

The After Such Knowledge stories, including “A Case of Conscience” (1958...)

“A Dusk of Idols” (1961)

The Heart Stars stories, including The Seedling Stars (1961...)

Midsummer Century, novel (1972)

...It is instead one of the seven or eight great philosophical questions that remain unanswered, the problem of whether man has or has not free will. —from The Quincunx of Time

Dr. Phineas Welch tells an English professor a disturbing story about a matter of temperal transference and a student in the professor's Shakespeare class.

Tim McLean’s ordinary family awakens on an ordinary day to find themselves in a war zone seven years in the future. [Jan 2012]

We fought in Korea. We fought in China. In Germany and Yugoslavia and Iran. It spread, farther and farther. Finally the bombs were falling here. It came like the plague. The war grew. It didn’t begin.

A government project sends a Time Dip into the future just to observe whether their actions have turned out well, but subsequent observations show that the act the observing has somehow eliminated mankind, so Hasten (the world’s most competent histo-researcher) must now go forward to find out what caused the lethal factor. [Jan 2012]

We sent the Dip on ahead, at fifty year leaps. Nothing. Nothing each time. Cities, roads, buildings, but no human life. Everyone dead.

I’ve seen only the second episode, “Time Is Just a Place” (in color!), in which a happy 1950s couple (one of whom is Mr. B from Hazel) get new neighbors who have escaped from the future. [Sep 2011]

In the first episode of Season 3, “Through the Time Barrier” (4/23/1955), Professor Twiddle’s time machine takes the staff of the Daily Planet back to prehistoric times.

The humor didn’t quite click for me, but I did enjoy other parts including Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, the John Williams score, and a well-presented Superman mythos including his first time travel rebellion against the “don’t mess with history” edict of Jor-El.

S02x18	“Tempus Fugitive”	to 1966 with H.G. Wells and Tempus
S02x22	“And the Answer Is...”	time traveler’s diary (Tempus)
S03x14	“Tempus Anyone?”	a villain (Tempus) from the future in alternate universe
S04x04	“Soulmates”	back to prevent a curse
S04x11	“Twas the Night before Mxymas”	Christmas Eve time loop
S04x14	“Meet John Doe”	Tempus from the future runs for president
S04x15	“Lois and Clarks”	Tempus from the future traps Clark

S03x16	“Crisis”	phone call from the next day
S05x12	“Reckoning”	back in time to save Lana
S07x17	“Sleeper”	Kara and Braniac back to infant Kal-El
S07x18	“Apocalypse”	Clark back to stop Kara and Braniac
S08x11	“Legion”	The Legion (and the Persuader) from 31st century
S08x15	“Infamous”	Clark goes back to stop Lois from writing a story
S08x22	“Doomsday”	Lois to the future
S09x01	“Doomsday”	Lois returns from the future followed by villianous Alia.
S10x04	“Homecoming”	Clark to his own past and future

Richard Donner, the original director of Superman II, was replaced partway through the production. Almost 30 years later, a dvd the movie was put together with mostly his footage and a time-travel ending that was pretty much identical to the end of Donner's first Superman movie (and just as lame). [Aug 2011]

It the midst of McCarthyism, Dick wrote this story about an accidental travel through time to the 1950s by a swibble repairman, whereupon Mr. Courtland and his colleagues pry information out of the repairman about exactly what a swibble is and how it has stopped all war. [Jan 2012]

—remember the swibble slogan: Why be half loyal?

Andrew Harlan, Technician in the everwhen of Eternity, falls in love and starts a chain of events that can mean the end of everything.

Time traveler and historian George tries to travel back to World War II without making any changes to the world.

Dinosaur hunters Reggie Rivers (no relation to the Denver Bronco) and his partner, the Raja, organize time travel expeditions in a world with a Hawking-style chronological protection principle. [Jul 2011]

“A Gun for Dinosaur”   [read]	Galaxy Mar 1956
“The Big Splash”	Asimov’s Jun 1992
“The Synthetic Barbarian”	Asimov’s Sep 1992
”Crocamander Quest“	The Ultimate Dinosaur Oct 1992
“The Satanic Illusion”	Asimov’s Nov 1992 (novelette)
“Rivers of Time”	In anthology of same name Nov 1993
“The Mislaid Mastodon”	Analog May 1993
“The Cayuse”	Expanse #1 Jan 1993
“Miocene Romance”	In Rivers of Time anthology Nov 1993
“The Honeymoon Dragon”	In Rivers of Time anthology Nov 1993
“Gun, not for Dinosaur” (by Chris Bunch)	In Rivers of Time anthology Nov 1993

A college student lovingly restores a 1923 Jordan Playboy roadster—a restoration that takes him back in time. [Mar 2005]

An explosion throws Sergeant Gerald Robbins from the 1950s to about 990AD Iceland where, dispite his advanced knowledge, he had trouble fitting in. [Jul 2011]

Inventor Dan Davis falls into bad company and wakes up 30 years later, but he gets an idea of how to put things right even at this late point.

Isidore Wellby makes a timely pact with the devil’s demon.

Dr. Edward Barron has a theory that time is arranged like a series of particles that can be traveled up or down; his colleague and hesitant collaborator August Pointdexter isn't so sure about the application of the theory to reality.

Master criminal Montie Stein has found a way around the statute of limitations.

“I’m not kidding you at all,” Barney insisted. “I have produced a workable Time Machine, and I am going to use it to go back and kill my grandfather.”

The para doesn’t quite dox for me, but the story is still enjoyable as Busby’s first publication. [Jun 2011]

A 1950s version of the grandfather paradox with a resolution that's not quite satisfying (branching universes, I think, but it’s unclear). The cover of the 1958 paperback is by Hieronymus Bosch (Grzegorz’s favorite painter) with an owl in the background (Grzegorz’s favorite bird)! [Aug 2011]

Edith Fellowes is hired to look after young Timmie, a Neanderthal boy brought from the past, but never able to leave the time statis bubble where he lives.

The story of Ms. Fellowes and Timmie is augmented by the story of what his tribe did during his time away.

Serling wrote this one-hour time-travel episode that aired on the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse; the traveler, Pete Jensen, couldn’t stop the attack on Pearl Harbor, but he could make his mark as the Twilight Zone precursor.

S01x05 [watch]	“Walking Distance”	hero to time of his youth (1934)
S01x10 [watch]	“Judgement Night”	time loop in World War II
S01x18 [watch]	“The Last Flight”	from World War I to 42 years in the future
S01x26 [watch]	“Execution”	from 1880 Old West to 1960 New York
S02x09 [watch]	“The Trouble with Templeton”	to 1927
S02x13 [watch]	“Back There”	to 1865 (Lincoln)
S02x18 [watch]	“The Odyssey of Flight 33”	to age of dinosaurs and more
S02x23 [watch]	“A Hundred Yards over the Rim”	from 1847 to 1961 in New Mexico
S03x13 [watch]	“Once Upon a Time”	from 1890s to the present<
S04x06	“Death Ship”	time loop at the end?
S04x10 [watch]	“No Time Like the Past”	to 1881 Indiana
S04x15 [watch]	“The Incredible World of Horace Ford”	hero to time of his youth
	also live as a 1955 episode of Westinghouse Studio One
S04x18 [watch]	“The Bard”	Shakespeare, et. al., to the present

S01x05	“Cradle of Darkness”	to kill baby Hitler
S01x22	“Found and Lost”	relive your past
S01x28	“Rewind”	short time in the past
S01x33	“Memphis”	to 1968 (MLK)

A garden of thyme and a magic frog (aka the Natterjack) take four children to times past. [Mar 2011]

When young Tom is sent to live in a flat with his aunt and uncle, all he longs for is a garden to play in; when he finds it during midnight wanderings, it takes him a few nights to realize that the garden and his playmate Hattie are from the previous century. [Mar 2011]

A wealthy man's father was a time travel researcher who died some years ago, but not before leaving a legacy for all mankind.

A 25-year-old man, originally born as an orphan girl named Jane, tells his story to a 55-year-old bartender who then recruits him for a time-travel adventure.

A young man looking for love in 1959 Brooklyn finds and answers a letter from a young woman in 1869 Brooklyn. [Mar 2005]

The wife of Lancelot Stebbins (not his real name) tells of the difficulties of being married to a man who is obsessively driven to find fame as a physicist, even to the point of worrying about what his obituary will say—but perhaps time travel can put that worry to rest.

The genius dog, Mr. Peabody, and his boy Sherman travel back in the Wayback Machine to see what truly happened at key points of history.

The second comic book adaption was drawn by the talented storyteller and artist Alex Toth who closely followed the movie script in Dell’s Four Color #1085. Online sources indicate that this was March of 1960, though that would be several months before the movie.

Reporter Oscar Mannheim has many opportunities in his long life, but never wants to leave the midwest Galesburg that he grew up in--and neither do its many other citizens and artifacts of the past. [Mar 2005]

The time traveller now has a name—H. George Wells (played by Rod Taylor)—and Weena has the beautiful face of Yvette Mimieux.

In each of the 39 short episodes (aired as part of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects), young Tooter would visit Mr. Wizard with the latest passionate idea of what he wanted to be. Mr. Wizard would magically make him into his wish (often back in time), but it would always end up with the lesson “Be just vhat you is, not vhat you is not. Folks vhat do zis are ze happiest lot.”

At the end of this life, Higgston Rainbird, a prolific inventor of the late 18^th century, invents a time machine to go back in time to tell himself how to be even more prolific. [Jul 2011]

By my count, 23 of those 831 issues in the ’60s involved superhero time travel, starting with Fantastic Four #5 in July 1962. After 1969, there was no time travel in comic books, not ever (or, if you prefer, you may count everything as time travel, but never mind).

Are you suprised that Spider-man never took off in time during the 60s? He did come close in Avengers #11, but in any case, here are those occurrences:

		Time Travel Event	written/drawn by...	in...
		F.F. to time of Blackbeard	Lee/Kirby	Fantastic Four 5 (Jul 1962)
		Thor vs. Zarkko, the Tomorrow Man	Lee/Kirby	Journey into Mystery 86 (Oct 1962)
		Thor travels to future to be Zarkko’s slave	Lee/Kirby	Journey into Mystery 101 (Feb 1963)
		Thor returns to present	Lee/Kirby	Journey into Mystery 102 (Mar 1963)
		Iron Man to time of Cleopatra	Lee/Bernstein/Heck	Tales of Suspense 44 (Aug 1963)
		F.F. to ancient Egypt	Lee/Kirby	Fantastic Four 19 (Oct 1963)
		Doc Strange sends Thor’s hammer back	Lee/Ditko	Strange Tales 123 (Aug 1964)
		Kang the Conqueror from the future	Lee/Kirby	Avengers 8 (Sep 1964)
		F.F. vs. Rama-Tut	Lee/Kirby	Fantastic Four Annual 2 (Sep 1964)
		Doc Strange to time of Cleopatra	Lee/Ditko	Strange Tales 124 (Sep 1964)
		Immortus (a Kang alias) from the future	Lee/Heck	Avengers 10 (Nov 1964)
		Kang (again) and Spider-Man (sort of)	Lee/Heck	Avengers 11 (Dec 1964)
		Doc Strange travels back an hour or so	Lee/Ditko	Strange Tales 129 (Feb 1965)
		F.F. vs. Kang	Lee/Powell	Strange Tales 134 (Jul 1965)
		Avengers defeated by Kang in the future	Lee/Heck	Avengers 23 (Dec 1965)
		Avengers defeat Kang in the future!	Lee/Heck	Avengers 24 (Jan 1966)
		Book of Vishanti to ancient times	O’Neil/Everett	Strange Tales 148 (Sep 1966)
		Doc Strange to ancient Babylonia	Thomas/Everett	Strange Tales 150 (Nov 1966)
		Thor vs. Growing Man (Kang’s minion)	Lee/Kirby	Thor 140 (May 1967)
		To World War II	Thomas/Buscema	Avengers 56 (Sep 1968)
		The Scarlet Centurion (another Kang alias)	Thomas/Heck	Avengers Annual 2 (Sep 1968)
		Guardians of the Galaxy from the future	Drake/Colan	Marvel Super-Heroes 18
		To the future and back by traveling fast	Lee/Buscema	Silver Surfer 6

See also: my complete list of time travel in the comics. [Jun 1962]

And now I shall send you back...hundreds of years into the past! You will have forty-eight hours to bring me Blackbeard’s treasure chest! Do not fail! —Dr. Doom from Fantastic Four #5

Young physics Professor Weygand is questioned by Instructor Martin O. Ihren about the disappearance of several recent criminals who have shown up in very old photos. [Mar 2005]

All you really need to be a superhero is to be really smart. That’s Brain Boy, and he battled a time machine in #4 (Mar/May 1963).

Aaron Tozzo and his colleague Gilly travel back to a 1950s science fiction convention (to them, a Pre-Cog Gathering) to ’nap Poul Anderson because they believe that sf writers have pre-cognition of their own time that can solve their current space travel problem. A cute story with descriptions of many writers of the time, but the ending takes that turn that I never like of Tozzo slowly losing his memory of the original world after they inadvertantly change something. [Dec 2011]

“Yes,” he said to Poul, “you do strike me as very, very faintly introve—no offense meant, sir, I mean, it’s legal to be introved.”

Herbie Popnecker was the prototypical cool nerd before there were cool nerds, and his lollipops and grandfather clock took him to different eras 13 times, the first episode being in #1 of his own comic (after five non-traveling appearances in ACG’s Forbidden Worlds). He also had an early cameo in a time-travel story in Unknown Worlds #20 (Dec 1961). All in all, the fat fury time traveled in Herbie #1, #2, #4, #6, #8, and the odd issues in #9 through #23 (not to mention a 1994 cameo in Flaming Carrot #31).

Hugh Farnam makes good preparations for his family to survive a nuclear holocast, but are the preparations enough to survive a trip to the future?

For the most part, this story is about a cantankerous inventor who merely listens in on past historical events— which, of course does not qualify as time travel. But there’s that for the most part...

Jake Pelman is hopelessly in love with Jessica, the breathtaking movie star in a movie that he works on, but it takes a breathless trip to the 1920s for Jess to realize what her feelings for Jake might be. [May 2011]

All time travel occurs with Martin's CCTBS, a cathode-ray, centrifugal, time breakascope, the first of which aired on Jun 20, 1965.

S02x37	“Time Out for Martin”	to 1215 England
S03x01-03	“Go West, Young Martian”	to 1849 St. Louis
S03x11	“The Time Machine Is Waking Up...”	Jesse James from 1870
S03x15	“The O’Hara Caper”	back to lunchtime
S03x17	“Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow”	to 1920/45 Cleveland
S03x24	“When You Get Back to Mars...”	back to the morning
S03x28	“Martin Meets His Match”	Da Vinci from 1400s
S03x32	“Pay the Man the $24”	to 1626 Manhattan

S01x02	“My Hero?” (9/25/65)	to ancient Babylon
S02x25	“My Master, the Pirate”	to Captain Kidd’s time
S02x28	“My Master, Napoleon's Buddy”	to Napolean’s time

When Bob Miller’s dad invents a time machine and sends Doc Tom gets trapped in the time of the dinosaurs, there’s only one possible solution: send a pair of 17-year-olds (including Bob) back on a rescue mission!

This was the first book that I got through the Scholastic Book Club when we moved to Bellevue in 1968. Each month, the club would give you a flier where you ticked off the books that you wanted, and the next month the books would magically show up at school! [Apr 1968]

S02x36 [watch]	“What Every Young Man Should Know”	Sam goes back to courtship days
S03x05 [watch]	“A Most Unusual Wood Nymph”	to 1300s (Darrin the Bold)
S03x13 [watch]	“My Friend Ben”	Ben Franklin to the present
S03x14 [watch]	“Samantha for the Defense”	Ben continues
S03x26 [watch]	“Aunt Clara’s Victoria Victory”	Queen Victoria to the present
S04x12 [watch]	“Samantha’s Thanksgiving to Remember”	to 1620 pilgrim times
S04x17 [watch]	“Samantha’s Da Vinci Dilemma”	Da Vinci to the present
S05x02	“Samantha Goes South for a Spell”	to 1868 New Orleans
S05x07	“Samantha’s French Pastry”	Napoleon to the present
S06x03	“Samantha’s Caesar Salad”	Julius Caesar to the present
S07x04	“Samantha’s Hot Bedwarmer”	to Salem in 1600s
S07x06	“Paul Revere Rides Again”	Paul Revere to the present
S07x08	“Samantha’s Old Salem Trip”	to Salem in 1600s
S07x17	“The Return of Darrin the Bold”	Serena to 1300s
S08x01	“How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII” (Part I)	to time of Henry VIII
S08x02	“How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII” (Part II)	to time of Henry VIII
S08x21	“George Washington Zapped Here” (Part I)	Washington to the present
S08x22	“George Washington Zapped Here” (Part II)	Washington to the present

S01x04	“The Naked Time”	back 71 hours
S01x19	“Tomorrow Is Yesterday”	to 1969
S01x28	“The City on the Edge of Forever”	to the 1930s
S02x55	“Assignment: Earth”	to 1968
S03x23	“All Our Yesterdays”	5000 years ago

I bought each of these volumes of short story adaptations as they came out in the ’60s and ’70s (plus Blish’s original novel Spock Must Die!). I don’t know that they deserve four stars except that at that point in my life, I could recite them by heart. Here are the time-travel adaptations:

S01x04	“The Naked Time”	in Star Trek (1967)
S01x19	“Tomorrow Is Yesterday”	in Star Trek 2 (1968)
S01x28	“The City on the Edge of Forever”	in Star Trek 2 (1968)
S02x55	“Assignment: Earth”	in Star Trek 3 (1969)
S03x23	“All Our Yesterdays”	in Star Trek 4 (1971)

S01x02 (9/15/73) “Yesteryear” by D.C. Fontana: Spock returns from a time-traveling mission to find that he’s now in a reality where he died at age 7, and hence he returns to his 7th year to save himself.

As the brave crew of the Enterprise are returning to Earth to stand trial for the events of the previous movie, Spock determines that Earth’s demise is imminent unless they can return to 1986 and retrieve a humpback whale (which they proceed to do).

S01x24	“We’ll Always Have Paris”	repeated seconds
S02x13	“Time Squared”	back six hours
S03x15	“Yesterday’s Enterprise”	Enterprise C from 2344 to 2366
S03x19	“Captain’s Holiday”	Vorgans from 27th century
S05x09	“A Matter of Time”	historian from 26th century
S05x18	“Cause and Effect”	time loop
S05x26-S06x01	“Time’s Arrow”	to 1890s San Francisco
S06x15	“Tapestry”	Picard's earlier life
S07x21	“Firstborn”	Worf’s son from 40 years in future
S07x25-26	“All Good Things”	jumping between three times

S03x11-12	“Past Tense”	back 3 centuries
S03x17	“Visionary”	jumps forward several hours
S04x03	“The Visitor”	Sisko skips through alternative timeline
S04x08	“Little Green Men”	to 1947 Roswell
S04x17	“Accession”	Akorem, a poet, from 2 centuries past
S05x06	“Trials and Tribble-ations”	back to Kirk's time
S05x22	“Children of Time”	Defiant crew visit their own descendants
S06x17	“Wrongs Darker than Death or Night”	Kira back to mother's time

What’s that? You didn’t realize that Tim’s favorite childhood cartoon was part of the Star Trek universe? And I suppose you also believe that Doc Brown had nothing to do with Brownian motion?! According to the creator, this universe has a fixed time line in which you may travel but not change things—what he calls “working paradoxes.”

S03x11-12	“Time and Again”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Eye of the Needle”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Future’s End”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Before and After”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Year of Hell”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Timeless”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Relativity”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Fury”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Shattered”	back 3 centuries
S03x11-12	“Endgame”	back 3 centuries

Picard and the Enterprise travel back to 2063 to stop the Borg from preventing Zefram Cochrane’s invention of the warp drive.

Througout the series, the Enterprise was caught up in the Temporal Cold War.

S01x11	“Cold Front”	temporal cold war
S01x26-S02x01	“Shockwave”	forward to 31st century
S02x16	“Future Tense”	temporal cold war
S03x08	“Twilight”	future T'Pol tries to correct the past
S03x11	“Carpenter Street”	2004 Detroit
S03x18	“Azati Prime”	temporal cold war
S03x21	“E²”	meet your own descendants
S03x24	“Zero Hour”	back to World War II
S04x01-02	“Storm Front”	back to World War II
S04x18-19	“In a Mirror, Darkly”	23rd century Defiant comes back

Young Kirk and Spock meet future Ambassador Spock who has come back in time to stop Nero from destroying Vulcan.

I knew that if I watched these reruns long enough, the space-time continuum would bend. In the episode “Dance, Monkee, Dance” (Dec 12, 1966), Martin Van Buren himself comes for a free dance lesson. [Aug 2011]

Jim Barrett was one of the first political prisoners sent on a one-way journey to a world of rock and ocean in 2,000,000,000 BC; now a secretive new arrival threatens to upset the harsh world that he looks after. [Jul 2011]

I haven’t yet read this novelization of the short story.

S03x02 [watch]	“Visit to a Hostile Planet” (9/13/67)	to 1947
S03x18 [watch]	“Time Merchant”	back to the launch

The Robinsons hope to open up a new planet for colonization—and if they fail there is always Dr. Smith’s time machine to let them try again, unless perhaps Smith goes back even farther and...

I first read these stories in Didcot in 1980, collected in the UK edition of The Flight of the Horse. You might say that these are not time travel (which Niven does not believe in), since whenever our svelte hero, Svetz, tries to retrieve an animal from the past, he ends up with a fantasy version instead. I haven't yet read the 1999 Svetz novel, Rainbow Mars. The stories include: [Jul 1980]

“Get a Horse” (aka ”The Flight of the Horse“)	F&SF Oct 1969
“Leviathon!” [read]	Playboy Aug 1970
”Bird in the Hand“	F&SF Oct 1970
”There’s a Wolf in My Time Machine“	F&SF Jun 1971
”Death in a Cage“	in collection Sep 1973
Rainbow Mars	Mar 1999 novel

Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and sometimes zoo occupant on a far-off planet, lives one moment of his life, then he’s thrown back to another, then forward again, and so on amidst the sadness of what men do to each other in this deterministic and fatalistic universe. [Jan 1975]

At 42, Gus Rosenthal is in a place of security, importance, recogntion—in short, the perfect time to dig up that toy soldier that he buried in his back yard 30 years ago with the knowledge that doing so will take him back to that time to be an influence on an angry, bullied 12-year-old Gus.

The story was the basis for a 1985 Twilight Zone episode. [Jan 2012]

My thoughts were of myself: I’m coming to save you. I’m coming, Gus. You won’t hurt any more ... you’ll never hurt.

A Teacher takes a group of disinterested children on a field trip through time to see the evolution of life.

This is Janet’s favorite time-travel novel in which Finney elaborates on themes that were set in earlier stories such as “Double Take.” In the story, Si goes back to 19th century New York to solve a crime and (of course) fall in love.

At 75, heiress Loolie Aerovulpa travels back to her nubile teenaged body to throw herself at her one true love, Dovy Rapelle. [Aug 1972]

Jackson, a reporter, wants proof that a time machine really works, and he also wouldn’t mind proof about who killed Seantor Burton 20 years ago. [Jun 2011]

Nick and Jane are disappointed when they discover that they are not the only ones from their social group to have time-tripped to see some aspect or other of the end of the world. [Jan 2012]

“It looked like Detroit after the union nuked Ford,” Phil said. “Only much, much worse.”

When Ralph Ascione dies, he is reincarnated as a female baby—but in what year and exactly which female?

Reluctant college student Danny Eakins inherits a time belt from his uncle, and he uses it over the rest of his life to come to know himself. [Dec 2010]

The time travelin’ didn’t start until the 1973 novel, but trust me and read this one anyhow to get Lazarus’s back story.

During his 2000 years of misadventures, Lazarus Long has loved and lost and loved again, so now he’s to die, unless Minerva can think of an exciting adventure: perhaps visiting his own childhood?

Semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest Zeb Carter, and Hilda Corners ("Aunt Hilda" if you prefer) use Gay Deceiver to visit many time periods in many universes (including that of Lazurus Long), soon realizing the true nature of the world as multiperson pantheistic solipsism.

Richard Ames doesn't like the fact that a new acquaintance was killed while dining at his table. Killed, why? and by whom? and why won't that cat stay put? The eventual answers could lead Richard to Lazarus Long, the Time Corps, and more multiperson pantheistic solipsism.

In the 19th century, Maureen Johnson grows up near Kansas City, eventually marrying and raising her own brood, including Lazarus Long (the original) and Lazarus Long (from the future). [Image by Luis Royo]

Professor Eli Segal and her students at Western Michigan College created quality new productions of radio shows that were mostly taken from old episodes of X Minus One and Dimension X. According to otr.org, the first season of Future Tense 18 stories (13 based on X-1 scripts, two based on DX scripts, and 3 original scripts) and these first aired as 16 episodes in May of 1974. The second season had ten episodes (8 based on X-1 scripts and 2 original scripts) which aired in July 1976, At least two episodes involved time travel. Now why couldn’t I have gone to WMC? [Jan 2012]

		Title	by...	Time Travel Event
		“The Old Die Rich” (5/7/74)	H.L. Gold	slueth forced into time machine
		“An Imbalance of Species” (7/76)	Bradbury (John Scott adaptation)	from “A Sound of Thunder”

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Haldene tracks down a man named Cochrane, who turns out to be a killer from the future.

Larry Garth skips from year to year in his life (not linearly, of course), waiting to meet his once and future wife, Elaine.

Jack Trent hears a half-drunken story of time travel and the real cause of the dinosaur extinction.

Asimov wrote this story in 1941, but it was lost until I found it in the Boston University archives in the early ’70s. Okay, maybe that fan who found it wasn’t me, but it could have been! [Oct 1974]

Jack looked at Hornby solemnly. “You invented a time machine, did you?”    “Long ago.” Hornby smiled amiably and filled his glass again. “Better than the ones those amateurs at Stanford rigged up. I’ve destroyed it, though. Lost interest.”

Addison Doug and his two fellow time travelers seem to have caused a time loop wherein everyone is reliving the same events with only vague memories of what happened on the previous loop.

People, animals (or at least parts of them), and a reluctant wandering Jew are tossed back and forth through alternate realities at various times. [Jul 2011]

One million years after the invention of writing, Three-Phasing (nominally male) brings a 20^th century man and his wife forward in time to teach the ancestors of man how to read. [Jul 2011]

There’s a papal dispensation (straight from Clifford Simak) that allows me to list all comic book adaptations of The Time Machine, even if they appeared after 1969. This Alex Niño comic was the first version I ever saw (in Pullman in 1976). The storyline follows the 1960 movie closely. It was reprinted as a graphic novel at least twice (Pendulum Press B&W 1981 and Academic Industries Pocket Classics 1984,).

The world’s first time traveler, Simeon Weill, goes back to 1925 and gives some ideas to Hugo.

Mandy snatches doomed people from the past in order to populate her war-decimated time. [Jul 2004]

When the snatchers leave two stun guns in the 20th century, we see the story from the viewpoints of Louise Baltimore (Mandy’s boss) and Bill Smith (head of an NTSB investigation, no relation to Woodrow “Bill” Smith as far as I know). [Dec 2010]

Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore opposite Kris Kristopherson’s Bill Smith. [Aug 2011]

This half-hour Warner Brother’s cartoon was shown on tv a few times and then released on VHS as Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court. With the help of Way Bwadbuwy, Bugs finds himself in Camelot, whereupon he brings about a dragon-powered steampunk age. [Jun 2011]

Never again—never, never again—do I take travel hints from Ray Bradbury! Huh! Him and his short cuts!

I read this story as I was starting my graduate studies in Pullman in 1978.

John Sylva has invented a temporal transference device that allows his friend Herb to enter the mind of a man in 1871 London and to thereby attend three performances of a lost Gilbert & Sullivan play. [Sep 1978]

Janet and I read this in April, 2011. In 1978, 20-year-old Boulder woman exchanges places with her grandmother on the eve of their respective weddings. [Apr 2011]

Deborah Baker first introduced me to this series of books in 1982, and I read the first nine in the 1980s. The books are set in a pun-infested world in which people have individual magic powers that they must discover. The first time travel that I remember was in the 1979 Castle Roogna where characters could step into a tapestry that took them to the past. [Sep 1982]

Apart from the hero in The Time Machine movie, this is the earliest that I've seen of the “H.G. Wells as time traveler” subgenre. Our hero chases Jack the Ripper into the 20^th century. [Sep 1979]

Centuries in the future, Orion throws an illicit party in which the partygoers get to experience complete death in the past.

Observer Warren Lasky is aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz when a storm takes her back to World War II, and then they are returned to the present before they can do anything vaguely cool. [Dec 2010]

A woman presses a pocketwatch into a man's hand, beseeching him to come find her in time, so he does.

A boy grows up hating his father; hence, when he invents a time machine, he uses it to go back and kill his father before his own conception.

A boy’s bedroom is invaded by six midgets who have stolen The Almighty One’s map which then leads the whole lot of them on adventures through time. [Dec 2010]

A graduate student in the history department at Oxford travels back to the World War II bombing of St. Paul’s for his practicum. [Dec 2010]

Graduate student Kivrin Engle is sent to 14^th-century England to study the times, but she can’t remember where and when her pickup will be.

Bright, young orphan Jeffrey and ladies’ man Phineas Bogg leap from one moment in history to another, righting those moments that have gone wrong in this Quantam Leap progenitor. [Dec 2011]

Now that I know that one of the Monkees wrote this time travel yarn (motorcycle racer goes back to the old west), the world begins to make sense. [Apr 2011]

Jonas Dinsmore is not half the physicist as his colleagues, the politically astute Adams and the brilliant Muller, but in their presence, he claims to have figured out how to interpret Muller’s Grand Unified Theory to allow time travel.

Troy Harmon , a black army sergeant, follows Colonel McCulloch back to 1859 to prevent the colonel from giving modern-day technology to the South.

Travis goes back to 1961 and the dance where he met his now-departed sweetheart, but he also has memories of aliens who quietly took over the world.

Seaman David Herdeg and his pal are thrown from 1943 to 1984 during a naval experiment gone awry, and in that future, it seems that David is the only one who can save a missing town (provided he can dodge enough bullets and perhaps win the heart of the lovely Allison Hayes). [Jan 2011]

Artificially intelligent machines from 2029 send a killer cyborg back to 1984 to kill the mother of John Connor who, in 2029, leads the resistance to the machines’ rule.

Once more, the machines from 2029 send back a killer cyborg, this time a T-1000 to kill John Connor himself in 1995, but Connor of the future counters by sending one of the original Model 101s to save himself.

It seems there are interminable Terminator spin-offs. I enjoyed the first book of this series, T2: Infiltrator, set after the second movie with Sarah and 16-year-old son on the run in Paraguay.

If they can't get John Connor, then the machines from 2029 will send a T-X terminator for his lietenants in 2004, but they don't count on John sending back another Model 101 to work with John and his future wife Kate.

After the events of the second movie, Sarah and teenaged John are trying to lay low when Cameron, a beautiful young terminator, arrives from 2027 and tries to take them away from their problems with a jump to 2007; other terminators follow and violence ensues. [Jan 2008]

In the second book of this children’s series (Norby’s Other Secret), the precocious robot reveals time travel powers to his pal Jeff; their mishaps in time continue in three later books (and maybe others that I don’t recall):

Norby’s Other Secret (#2) (1984)

Norby and the Queen’s Necklace (#5) (1986)

Norby Finds a Villain (#6) (1987)

Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure (#8) (1989)

Charles Phillips is a 20^th-century New Yorker in a 50^th-century world of immortal leisurites who recreate cities from the past. The one item that you should find out for yourself, I’ll put into a cypher: rgwew ua bi runw relcwk~ [Jul 2011]

Typical teenager Marty McFly meets Doc Brown for the first test of his DeLorean time machine, but when Libyan terrorists strike, things go awry, Marty and the DeLorean end up in 1955 where his parents are teens, and Doc must send Marty back to the future. [Jul 1985]

Doc Brown takes Marty and Jennifer from 1985 to 2015 to save their children from a bad fate, but the consequences pile up when Biff also gets in on the time travel action.

Marty and 1955 Doc travel back to the old west where the older Doc is trapped along with various Biff ancestors and a possible love interest for Doc.

After III, Doc Brown and Clara settle and raise a family in Hill Valley, though “settle” might be the wrong word when you once again have a working DeLorean.

A cynical psychopath from the future takes a road trip (sometimes with random blood, sometimes with trite tripping) across 20^th-century North America.e [Jul 2011]

Middle-aged Peggy Sue has two grown children and an adulterous husband whom she married at 18, so will she do things the same when she finds herself back in 1960 in her senior year of high school?

As a service to all you time travelers in wwwland, I’m including this story in my adventures page, but only to give fair warning of the third damned story in The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20^th Century with nary a lick of time travel. What was that crazy pair of editors (Turtledove and Greenberg) thinking? Still, it’s an enjoyable Lovecraftian tale with well-drawn characters meeting time anomolies as they search for a lost city in Patagonia. [Jul 2011]

“Relax! We’ll be back as soon as we go.”

After 43-year-old radio newsman Jeff Winston dies, he finds himself back in his 18-year-old body in 1963--an occurrence that keeps happening each time he dies again in 1988; eventually, in one of his lives, he finds Pamela, another replayer, and they work at figuring out the meaning of it all (without success). [Jun 2011]

When twelve-year-old Patricia is sent to Western Ontario for the summer to let her parents sort out a divorce agreement, she is bored and ostracized by her cousins until she finds a pocketwatch that takes her back to the time when her mother was twelve. Actually, Patricia only views the past, so perhaps this isn’t time travel, but never mind because this was Hannah’s favorite book pre-HP.

A physics guy invents a time machine that can go only backward and must always return the traveler to the exact same present from which he left. [Jul 2011]

Hannah Stern, reluctant to listen to her elders’ talk of their Jewish heritage, finds herself thrown back to the time World War II Germany. [May 2011]

Professor Firebrenner explains to Atkins how they can go forward in time to study a red dwarf and then return back to Earth. [Dec 1999]

The Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted “Theodore” Logan, are the subjects of time-traveler Rufus’s mission, but instead they end up using his machine to write a history report to save their band Wyld Stallyns.

...featuring the outstanding voices of the original Two Great Ones, but bogus plots and dialog.

Two Evil Robots come from the future to kill Bill and Ted and destroy their babes, and after that happens, the Two Great Ones begin a journey that starts with Death and ends with Two Little Ones.

The Two Great Ones become the two lame ones, although the Elvis episode has some redeeming factors.

Physicist and bright, good guy Sam Beckett rushes his time machine into production—funding is about to be cut!—and as a consequence, he shifts from one life to another, always with a moral mission and his holographic cohort Al. [Mar 1989]

Little known fact: The Quantum Leap comic books were actually written and drawn two decades before the birth of their creators, which is the only reason they have been given a special temporal dispensation overriding the law that forbids post-1969 comic books in this list. In the first issue, Sam desperately wants to save Martin Luther King Jr., but he realizes that’s not the reason he’ in Memphis.

I haven’ yet read any of these, so I can offer but a list:

The Novel (aka Carny Knowledge) (#1)	by Ashley McConnell	(Nov 1992)
Too Close for Comfort (#2)	by Ashley McConnell	(Apr 1993)
The Wall (#3)	by Ashley McConnell	(Jan 1994)
The Beginning (UK)	by Julie Robitaille	(Jan 1994)
The Ghost and the Gumshoe (UK)	by Julie Robitaille	(Jan 1994)
Prelude (#4)	by Ashley McConnell	(Jun 1994)
Knights of Morningstar (#5)	by Melanie Rawn	(Sep 1994)
Search and Rescue (#6)	by Melissa Crandall	(Dec 1994)
Random Measures (#7)	by Ashley McConnell	(Mar 1995)
Pulitzer (#8)	by L. Elizabeth Storm	(Jun 1995)
Double or Nothing (#9)	by C.J. Henderson	(Dec 1995)
Odyssey (#10)	by Barbara E. Walton	(Mar 1996)
Independence (#11)	by John Peel	(Aug 1996)
Angels Unaware (#12)	by L. Elizabeth Storm	(Jan 1997)
Obsessions (#13)	by Carol Davis	(Mar 1997)
Loch Ness Leap (#14)	by Sandy Schofield	(Jul 1997)
Heat Wave (#15)	by Melanie Kent	(Nov 1997)
Foreknowledge (#16)	by Christo Defillipis	(Mar 1998)
Song and Dance (#17)	by Mindy Peterman	(Oct 1998)
Mirror’s Edge (#18)	by Esther D. Reese	(Feb 2000)

Corn farmer Ray Kinsella is called to build a ballpark in his cornfield (with part of his calling resulting from a trip to 1972); once the field is built, various ballplayers from the past come. [Dec 1992]

Harry’s closet takes him back to 1937 where his social security income buys cheaper oranges, treats for his friend Manny, and possibly a companionable man for his jaded granddaughter Jackie. [Jul 2011]

Paul Eisenbrey introduced me to this author in college, but I found Mixed Doubles on my own some years later. Justin Pope, a music major (like Paul!), stumbles upon a time machine that he uses to kidnap Franz Schubert from his deathbed; Pope cures Franz and uses him as a source of compositions to create a magnificent career of his own (with the help of Angelica), until Franz turns the tables (with the help of Philipa). [Aug 1989]

This three-issue black-and-white adaptation has some creative twists such as when it occurs to the time traveller how to use the machine to destroy the Morlocks. [Jan 2012]

The little demon Azazel (the hero of many Asimov tales) sends a world-renowned writer travels back in time to see his first writing teacher at a 1934 school that is remarkably like Asimov’s own Boys High in Brooklyn.

When a lawyer from the future decides to rent an apartment in 1968 San Francisco, she must first sign your standard temporal noninterference contract—yeah, like that one ever holds up in court!

A team of Temporalists send robot RG-32 200 years into the future where it seems to almost all that mankind is doing better than expected on Earth and in space.

I admit that I had one of my reading minions (Janet) assay this series for me. She reported that there are endless books about Housewives in Time!

S01x11	“Paraducks”	to earlier in DW’s life
S01x51	“Quack of Ages”	back to 1291
S01x52	“Time and Punishment”	Gosalyn to the future
S02x02	“Inherit the Wimp”	DW’s ancestors to the present
S02x13	“Extinct Possibility”	to the time of dinosaurs