Time-Travel Fiction

  Storypilot’s Big List of Adventures in Time Travel


Caballo de Troya Series
by Juan José Benítez
First novel: 1984
L.S. Thomas kindly sent me a copy of her English translation of the first of nine books in this series of time travelers who visit the life of Christ. I will read it this summer and provide more details. Another translation, by Margaret Sayers Peden, is scheduled for publication this year. [not yet read]

Norby Books
by Janet and Isaac Asimov
First time travel: 1984
In the second book of this children’s series (Norby’s Other Secret, 1984), the precocious robot reveals his time-travel powers to his pal Jeff; their mishaps in time continue in at least three later books (#5 Norby and the Queen’s Necklace, #6 Norby Finds a Villian, and #8 Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure). [Jul 1985]

“The Toynbee Convector”
by Ray Bradbury
First publication: Playboy, Jan 1984
You’ll enjoy this story (which was also an episode of Ray Bradbury Theater), but I’ll give away no more beyond the quote below. By the way, if you get the original publication, you’ll also acquire the last nude photo of Marilyn Monroe, although (to my knowledge) she never traveled through time.  [Mar 2012]

What can I do to save us from ourselves? How to save my friends, my city, my state, my country, the entire world from this obsession with doom? Well, it was in my library late one night that my hand, searching along shelves, touched at last on an old and beloved book by H.G. Wells. His time device called, ghostlike, down the years. I heard! I understood. I truly listened. Then I blueprinted. I built. I traveled...


“Twilight Time”
by Lewis Shiner
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr 1984
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. [-] [Jun 1984]

The Philadelphia Experiment
by Wallace C. Bennett, Charles Berlitz, et. al. (Stewart Rafill, director)
First release: 3 Aug 1984
Seaman David Herdeg and his pal are thrown from 1943 to 1984 during a naval experiment gone awry, and in that future, 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]

Navy owes me 40 years back pay.


The Terminator
by James Cameron and William Wisher, Jr. (Cameron, director)
First release: 26 Oct 1984
Artificially intelligent machines from 2029 send a killer cyborg back to 1984 to kill the mother of John Connor because, in 2029, John will lead the resistance against the machines’ rule. [Oct 1984]

Come with me if you want to live.
—Kyle to Sarah at the Tech-Noir Club


The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
by Robert A. Heinlein
First publication: 1985
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. [-] [Dec 1985]

“Sailing to Byzantium”
by Robert Silverberg
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Feb 1985
Charles Phillips is a 20th-century New Yorker in a 50th-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~ [-] [Mar 1985]

Trancers
by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo (Charles Band, director)
First release: 22 May 1985
In the first of the six (really!) Trancer movies, heroic trancer-hunter Jack Deth follows evil trancer-maker Martin Whistler from 2247 to 1985 via a drug-induced time-travel that can take you back to the body of an ancestor. What I don’t fully understand is how they blackmailed Helen Hunt to appear in the first three as Deth’s 1985 love interest, even though this was in her pre-Mad about You days. [Apr 2013]

Grettings to the council. As you may have gathered, I have survived the pathetic trap set by Trooper Deth on Mecon 7. For twelve long years, you have hunted my disciples like dogs. Now, my day of vengence is at hand. I’v synthesized a time drug, and in a moment shall retreat down the dark corridors of history. Know that it is I who is solely responsible for your demise. One by one, your ancestors shall be murdered, and you, their progeny, shall cease to exist. Then shall I return, join my legion, and claim the seat of power for my own. Adieu...adieu...


Back to the Future
by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (Zemeckis, director)
First release: 3 Jul 1985
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 now send Marty back to the future. [May 1985]

Next Saturday night, we’re sending you...back to the future!


1985 Pepsi Commercial
First aired: Summer 1985


Relax, Smith. What could 12 oz. of Pepsi possibly change?


My Science Project
by Jonathan R. Betuel (Betuel, director)
First release: 9 Aug 1985
Not even the support of a young Fisher Stevens (Gary’s friend Chuck from Early Edition) could rescue this story of a high school motorhead who steals a power-sucking, space-time transforming orb from a miltary base for his science project. [Mar 2013]

Now that sounds like we’re dealing with a time-space warp.


Contact
by Carl Sagan
First publication: Sep 1985
Sagan’s philosophical opus centers around Dr. Ellie Arrowway, the discovery of a radio message from Vega, and the subsequent building of a machine in accordance with directions in the message. A key twist in the plot requires Ellie to briefly posit time travel as the only explanation that fits her scientific viewpoint. [Jul 2012]

You know, it’s not called a space-time continuum for nothing. If they can make tunnels through space, I suppose they can make some kind of tunnels through time.


The Twilight Zone (2nd Series)
created by Rod Serling
First time travel: 6 Jan 1985
Three seasons with 7 time-travel episodes. Harlan Ellison was a consultant on the series that included an adaptation of his “One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty.” The series also adapted Sturgeon’s “Yesterday Was Monday’, altering the plot and renaming it to “A Matter of Minutes,” and George R.R. Martin did the script for the time-travel episode “The Once and Future King” based on an idea submitted by Bryce Maritano. [-] [Sep 1985]

 TitleEvent 
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (6 Dec 1985)   Hero to his childhood
A Matter of Minutes (24 Jan 1986)From 9:33 AM to 11:37 AM
Profile in Silver (7 Mar 1986)Kennedy in 1963
The Once and Future King (27 Sep 1986)Elvis in 1954
The Junction (21 Feb 1987)To 1912
Time and Teresa Golowitz (10 Jul 1987)Hero to his youth
Extra Innings (1 Oct 1988)Baseball in 1910

Conrad Stargard’s Adventures
by Leo Frankowski
First publication: Feb 1986

Conrad Stargard, 20th century Polish engineer, stumbles through a time portal that was accidentally left open by those meddlers in the Historical Corps, and finds himself in 13th century Poland, whereupon he does any Connecticut Yankee proud.

One night when we were playing duplicate bridge, Bryan Campbell told me that this was the favorite time-travel series of a friend of his, which goes to show that just because my rating of a story is low, doesn’t mean that you (or Bryan’s friend) won’t enjoy it. [Jun 2012]

“This country and this century are in horrible shape because of the lack of socialism!”
   “You are absolutely right, Sir Conrad! What is socialism?”


“The Pure Product”
by John Kessel
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Mar 1986
A cynical psychopath from the future takes a road trip (sometimes with random blood, sometimes with trite tripping) across 20th-century North America. [-] [Jul 2011]

Highway of Eternity
by Clifford D. Simak
First publication: June 1986
Jay Corcoran and Tom Boone are trying to track down a missing client when the building they are in is demolished and the two of them jump into a time machine that takes them to one of the pockets of rebels from the far future who are resisting the decorporealization of man. [Jun 2012]

Horace, the hardheaded, practical lout, the organizer, the schemer. Emma, the moaner, the keeper of our consciences. Timothy, the student. Enid, the thinker. And I, the loafer, the bad example, the one who makes the others feel virtuous.


Flight of the Navigator
by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton, Matt MacManus (Kleiser, director)
First release: 30 Jul 1986
Twelve-year-old David Freeman stumbles down a ravine and wakes up eight years later without having aged, but that’s not the time travelin’, which occurs only after he becomes the pilot of a small space ship that’s been collecting specimens from around the galaxy.

Janet said that I had to mention I fell asleep during this one. [Jun 2012]

This is totally rad. You’re like my big little brother.


Peggy Sue Got Married
by Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner (Coppola, director)
First release: 10 Oct 1986
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? [-] [Oct 2010]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer, Have Bennett, Leonard Nimoy
First release: 26 Nov 1986
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 then proceed to do).

I saw this in the theater with Deb Baker and Jon Shultis during a winter trip to Pittsburgh for a small computer science education conference. [-] [Dec 1986]

McCoy: You realize that by giving him the formula you’re alterning the future.
Scotty: Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?


A Handful of Time
by Kit Pearson
First publication: 1987
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. [Dec 1998]

The wind in the trees sounded like rain. Patricia shivered and drew the flannelette sheets and heavy satin quilt closer around her neck. She didn’t get to sleep for a long time.


Project Pendulum
by Robert Silverberg
First publication: 1987
Ricky and Sean Gabrielson, 23-year-old identical twins, are the first men to travel through time, taking ever larger swings that send one backward and one forward.

This was the first book that I read in the rare books room of the University of Colorado library from the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. [Apr 2012]

Hi there. You’re not going to believe this, but I’m you of the year 2016, taking part in the first time-travel experiment ever.


To Sail Beyond the Sunset
by Robert A. Heinlein
First publication: 1987
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] [-] [Dec 1987]

Timestalkers
by Ray Brown and Brian Clemens (Schultz, director)
First aired: 10 Mar 1987
After the death of his wife and child, Dr. Scott McKenzie stumbles upon a tintype photograph from the old west with three corpses, a shooter and a modern Magnum 357, leading him to develop a theory of time travel that is soon confirmed when a beautiful woman of the future appears to take him back to the old west in order to chase the shooter, save President Cleveland, and pursue other obvious plot developments. [Dec 2012]

Georgia: Very impressive, professor. It’s a small wonder you were considered one of the world’s foremost authorities.
The Professor: [incredulously] Were?


Amazing Stories
created by Steven Spielberg
First time travel: 20 Mar 1987

Steven Spielberg brought Amazing Stories to tv in two seasons of an anthology format. At least one time-travel story—Jack Finney's venerable “Such Interesting Neighbors”—appeared in the second season (20 Mar 1987).

Janet and I bought our first color tv for these episodes, a Sony of course. [Mar 1987]

Oh, Randy, neighbors are always strange; those are the rules.


“Traplandia”
by Charles Sheffield
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Jul 1987
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 darned story in The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th 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]

Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
First time travel: 31 Aug 1987

 [-]

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


Replay
by Ken Grimwood
First publication: Sep 1987
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]

The Time Guardian
by John Baxter and Brian Hannant (Hannant, director)
First release: 3 Dec 1987
When terminatoresque cyborgs attack a future Australian city (headed by Quantum Leap’s favorite scoundrel, Dean Stockwell, and defended by everyone’s favorite princess, Carrie Fisher), the scientists taken them all back in time—a fine plan until the evil cyborgs follow. [Apr 2013]

One city attempted to escape their onslaught by unravelling the secrets of time and travelling back in a desperate search for a safer age....they succeeded and time was their friend until the arrival yet again of their relentless enemy.


The Devil’s Arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
First publication: 1988
In fifth grade, Hannah read this intense novel of a young modern Jewish girl thrown back to the concentration camps of World War II Germany. [-] [May 1989]

Lightning
by Dean Koontz
First publication: 1988
Right from her birth, Laura Shane has had a quick wit, a fateful loss of those close to her, and a time-traveling guardian angel from who is himself chased by his evil compatriots. [Aug 2012]

One of the things he had learned from the experiments in the institute was that reshaping fate was not always easy. Destiny struggled to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. Perhaps being molested and psychologically destroyed was such an immutable part of Laura’s fate that Stefan could not prevent it from happening sooner or later.

Young Asimov
“The Turning Point”
by Isaac Asimov
First publication: The Drabble Project, 1 Apr 1988
In exactly 100 words, Madison goes back in time to meet himself at the turning point of his young life.

Thanks to Marc Richardson for sending this one to me. [Mar 2012]

He was a clerk.


Star Trek: The Next Generation
created by Gene Roddenberry
First time travel: 2 May 1988
I watched the premier with Harry and Cathy just four weeks before Hannah was born. In the seven seasons, there were 12 time-travel episodes. [-] [Sep 1987]

 TitleEvent 
We’ll Always Have Paris (2 May 1988)Repeated seconds
Time Squared (3 Apr 1989)Back six hours
Yesterday’s Enterprise (19 Feb 1990)Enterprise C from 2344 to 2366
Captain’s Holiday (2 Apr 1990)Vorgans from 27th century
A Matter of Time (18 Nov 1991)Historian from 26th century
Cause and Effect (23 Mar 1992)Time loop
Time’s Arrow I/II (15 Jun / 21 Sep 1992)   To 1890s San Francisco
Tapestry (15 Feb 1993)Picard’s earlier life
Firstborn (25 Apr 1994)Worf’s son from 40 years ahead
All Good Things I/II (23 May 1994)Jumping between three times


Make it so.


“Ripples in the Dirac Sea”
by Geoffrey A. Landis
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct 1988
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. [-] [Nov 1988]

“The Instability”
by Isaac Asimov
First publication: The London Observer, 1 Jan 1989
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]

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon (Stephen Herek, director)
First release: 17 Feb 1989
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. [-] [Jul 2010]

Most excellent!


Quantum Leap
created by Donald Bellisario
First aired: 26 Mar 1989
Physicist and all-around 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]

Oh boy!


“The Price of Oranges”
by Nancy Kress
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr 1989
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. [-] [May 1989]

Field of Dreams
by Phil Aldin Robinson
First release: 23 Apr 1989
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]

If you build it, they will come.


Mixed Doubles
by Daniel da Cruz
First publication: Aug 1989
Justin Pope, a music major (like Paul Eisebrey!), 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).

Paul Eisenbrey introduced me to this author in college, but I found Mixed Doubles on my own some years later. [-] [May 1990]

Ray Bradbury Theater
created by Ray Bradbury
First time travel: 11 Aug 1989

Ray Bradbury Theater ran for two seasons on HBO starting 21 May 1985. It then shifted to the USA Network for four seasons which had three time-travel adaptations. [Mar 2012]

 TitleEvent 
A Sound of Thunder (11 Aug 1989)Dinosaur hunt
Touch of Petulance (12 Oct 1990)Newspaper from the future
The Toynbee Convector (26 Oct 1990)   100 years into the future


Dinosaurs large and small fill my junkyard workroom.
This one given to me by a friend 30 years ago. These given as toys to my daughters, and when they didn’t play with them I simply took them back. So with dinosaurs coming into my life, I often wondered what would happen if I could go back into theirs. Dinosaurs, time machines, put them together and you have a
tale one billion years old.
—Bradbury’s introduction to “A Sound of Thunder”


Millennium
by John Varley (Michael Anderson, director)
First release: 25 Aug 1989
Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore opposite Kris Kristopherson’s Bill Smith. [-] [Aug 2011]

Back to the Future II
by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (Zemeckis, director)
First release: 3 Jul 1989
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. [-] [Jul 1989]

The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe—women!


12:01 P.M.
by Richard Lupoff, Stephen Tolkin, Jonathan Heap (Heap, director)
First release: 1990 (27 minute short film)

Kurtwood Smith brings Myron Castleman’s 59 minutes to life. [Dec 2011]

You see, it’s like...it’s like we’re stuck. You know, like a...like a needle on a scratched record. It all starts at 12:01, and everything goes along fine until one o’clock and then Bam! the whole world snaps back to 12:01 again.


Eternity Comics’ The Time Machine
adapted by Bill Spangler and John Ross
First publication: Apr 1990
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]

Back to the Future III
by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (Zemeckis, director)
First release: 25 May 1990
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. [-] [May 1990]

It means your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it.


Alvin and the Chipmonks
by Dianne Dixon
First time travel: 8 Sep 1990

It was not until the final season of the Alvin revival (nearly two decades after creator Bagdasarian’s death) that the Theodore, Simon and Alvin had a series of movie take-offs including Dianne Dixon’s episode, “Back to Our Future,” in which the quirky inventor Clyde Crashcup (filling in for Doc Brown) brings the 90s trio back to the 50s to stop the original trip from giving up their singing careers. [Sep 2012]

Now remember boys, you must convince the old Alvin to stick with his musical career, so you can all be stars in the future!


Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Animated)
produced by David Kirschner, Paul Sabella, and Andy Heyward
First aired: 15 Sep 1990

...featuring the outstanding voices of the original Two Great Ones, but bogus plots and dialog. [-] [Jul 2010]

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
created by Reed Shelly and Bruce Shelly
First time travel: 29 Sep 1990
The animation and sound effects are a good reflection of the video game. In one episode (“Toddler Terrors of Time Travel”), the son of King Bowser invents a time machine to go back in time and stop Mario, Luigi and Toad from ever coming to their kingdom. The heroes stow away, and everyone ends up as toddlers in Brooklyn. [Sep 2012]

Maybe we can go back and change history, King Dad. All we need is a little time travel.


“The Time Traveler”
by Isaac Asimov
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Nov 1990
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. [-] [Dec 1990]

“Ben Franklin’s Laser”
by Doug Beason
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, mid-Dec 1990
It appears that the sun will go nova in 75 hours, which leaves Grayson to go back in time to give a boost to science in Ben Franklin’s time. [Aug 2012]

It sounded nice and simple: allow Ben Franklin to invent the laser and let the technology casade. Grow enough so that in five hundred years we’d have something to get us out of this mess.


“3 RMS Good View”
by Karen Haber
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, mid-Dec 1990
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! [-] [Dec 1990]

“Robot Visions”
by Isaac Asimov
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr 1991
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. [-] [May 1991]

Outlander Series
by Diana Gabaldon
First publication: 1 Jun 1991
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 with ripped bodices! [-]

T2: Judgement Day
by James Cameron and William Wisher, Jr. (Cameron, director)
First release: 1 Jul 1991
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. [Jul 1991]

Come with me if you want to live.
—The T-800 to Sarah at the Pescadero State Hospital


Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon (Stephen Herek, director)
First release: 17 Feb 1989
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. [-] [Jul 2010]

Quantum Leap Comic Books
edited by George Broderick, Jr.
First publication: Sep 1991

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’s in Memphis. [-] [Dec 2010]

Back to the Future (Animated)
created by Bob Gale
First aired: 7 Sep 1991
After III, Doc Brown and Clara settle and raise a family in Hill Valley, though &ldqup;settle” might be the wrong word when you once again have a working DeLorean. [-] [Sep 1991]

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures (Live)
created by Darren Starr
First aired: 28 Jun 1992
The Two Great Ones become the two lame ones, although the Elvis episode has some redeeming factors. [-] [Dec 2010]

The Ugly Little Boy
novelization by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
First publication: Sep 1992
The story of Ms. Fellowes and Timmie is augmented by the story of what his tribe did during his time away. [-] [Nov 1992]

Darkwing Duck
created by Tad Stones
First time travel: 18 Sep 1992
The crimefighting duck (or his pals) time traveled at least five times, some of which used arch-nemesis Quackerjack’s Time Top (no word on whether it was stolen from Brick Bradford). [-] [Sep 1991]

 TitleEvent 
ParaducksTo earlier in DW’s life
Quack of AgesBack to 1921
Time and Punishment   Gosalyn to the future
Inherit the WimpDW’s ancestors to the present
Extinct PossibilityTo the time of the dinosaurs

Quantum Leap Novels
First publication: Nov 1992
 [-]

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

“The Battle of Long Island”
by Nancy Kress
First publication: Omni Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993
Major Susan Peters is in charge of all the nurses at “The Hole” where a series of soldiers from alternative past Revolutionary Wars keep appearing. [-] [May 1993]

Bradbury Comics’ “A Sound of Thunder”
adapted by Richard Corben
First publication: Ray Bradbury Comics #1, Feb 1993
In addition to reprinting Williamson’s 1954 adaptation, Ray Bradbury Comics #1 had a new 12-page adaptation by Richard Corben. [-] [Jun 2011]

My god! It could reach up and grab the moon.


Groundhog Day
by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis (Ramis, director)
First release: 12 Feb 1993
A jaded weatherman, Phil Connors (no relation to John Connor), is in Punxsutawney to cover the Groundhog Day goings-on, continually repeating the day and—after losing his jaded edge—striving for Rita’s heart. [-] [Feb 1993]

Army of Darkness
by Sami Raimi and Ivan Raimi (Sami, director)
First release: 19 Feb 1993
A Connecticut Yankee (or maybe Michigan) in King Arthur's Court meets the Living Dead and their kin. [Apr 2012]

This is my boom stick. It’s a 12-guage, double barreled Remington—S-mart’s top-of-the-line. You’ll find them in the Sporting Goods Department.


X-Men Cartoon
created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
First time travel: 13 Mar 1993
Even though the 1992 cartoon had all them new-fangled X-Men and their funky costumes, I still got some enjoyment from the Kirby-designed villians, such as the Sentinels in the two-part time-travel story, “Days of Future Past” (which, not coincidentally, will also be the name of the upcoming X-Men movie). Well, they were sort of Kirby-designed: He penciled the cover and sketched the layouts of X-Men #14. [Mar 1993]

We rebels have a theory: If the assasination of the 90s never occurred...


12:01
by Richard Lupoff, Jonathan Heap, Richard Morton (Jack Sholder, director)
First release: 5 Jul 1993
Trapped in a one-day time loop, Barry Thomas tries to bring down the company that’s causing the loop, hopefully coming to a happy ending with the gorgeous scientist who runs the project. [Jan 2011]

Barry: Oh my God. It’s twelve o’clock.
Lisa: No! We’ve got to do something!
Barry: There’s no time. Quick, tell me what your favorite color is.


Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction
by Paul J. Nahin
First publication: Sep 1993
If you have only one reference book on your shelf—on any topic—this must be it. Get the second edition. [Dec 2008]

This is, I believe, a book for the adventurous in spirit.


“The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George.”
by William Tenn
First publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct 1993
A pretty, young time traveler from the future visits the most fascinating person she can think of in the past—that would be playboy George Rice, coincidentally her great-great-grandfather—but she won’t tell George what makes him so fascinating. [Apr 2012]

That left the incest angle, and I asked him about that. He says that making it with your great-great-granddaughter from the twenty-first century is not much different from making it with your clothes-designer neighbor from across the hall.


Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
created by Reed Shelly, Bruce Shelly, Phil Harnage and Kent Butterworth
First time travel: 10 Nov 1993
Video game character Sonic and his sidekick Tails repeatedly foil the evil Dr. Robotnik, including a four-part quest to the past where Robotnik seeks the four all-powerful chaos emeralds in the times of Blackbeard, King Arfur, Sonic’s ancestors and prehistory. [Sep 2012]

I can’t go through with this. My theories of time and space were developed for peace, not for your evil schemes.


Philadephia Experiment II
by Wallace C. Bennett, et. al., (Stephen Cornwell, director)
First release: 12 Nov 1993
At the end of the first movie, David Herdeg was left in 1983 America; ten years later, another experiment sends a nuclear bombed to 1943 Germany and David must go back to stop from creating a Nazi-ruled world. [Mar 2012]

That plane got sucked back there. Landed in the heart of Nazi Germany.


Dilbert
by Scott Adams
First time travel: 19 Dec 1993



Make sure nothing changes because of my visit or it will kill everyone in the future.

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