Time-Travel Fiction

  Storypilot’s Big List of Adventures in Time Travel


The Time Hackers
by Gary Paulsen
First publication: 2005
Twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman lives in a future where viewing the past is commonplace, but he and his friend Frank are being unpredictably pulled into the past!

Janet found this for me at the library in 2010. [-] [Dec 2010]

“A Few Good Men”
by Richard A. Lovett
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2005
Time travelers from a future without many men come back to our time to import what they need most, but they accidentally snatch Tiffany Richardson as well. [Dec 2005]

There were eight good prospects back there, and I’d have had them all if this bitch hadn’t shown up.


Slipstream
by Louis Morneau and Philip Badger (David van Eyssen, director)
First release: 4 Feb 2005
Sean Astin plans to use his 10-minute time machine to repeatedly withdraw the same money from a bank teller that he’s chatting up, but a violent gang of other bank robbers throws a wrench into his plan. [Apr 2012]

Did you ever wish you could keep doing the same thing over and over again?


“Letters of Transit”
by Brian Plante
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, Apr 2005
A scientist on the first near-lightspeed ship to Centauri A exchanges letters with his underaged girlfriend back on Earth through a wormhole for which time passes at the same rate on both ends. When the ship returns to Earth with its end of the wormhole, the hole will act as a time machine for messages, but the clichéd paradox police won’t let scientist send girlfriend any information about the future. [Jan 2006]

You wouldn’t want to cause any of those nasty paradoxes, would you?


Here, There & Everywhere
aka Expanded from Any Time at All
by Chris Roberson
First publication: 30 Apr 2005
After boarding-school student Roxanne Bonaventure stumbles across a bloody old woman who gives her a bracelet, she begins to find herself in different times and alternate universes with different Beatles’ songs and alternate Beatles. [Aug 2012]

Roxanne smiled awkwardly, and looked over Julien’s shoulder at the open stall. It looked unremarkable now, drab green-painted metal walls and a white porcelain toilet. Hardly the thing you’d expect from some sort of door in time. At least proper English children in books got to travel through wardrobes and garden holes, not through unhygenic high school bathrooms.


“Working on Borrowed Time”
by John G. Hemry
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, Jun 2005
Tom and his implanted AI Jeannie (from “Small Moments in Time”) are back again, this time trying to stop future Nazis from destroying Edwardian London. [Jul 2005]

What? The British Empire started coming apart in the 1920s?


“The Time Traveler’s Wife”
by Scott William Carter
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2005
No, we’re not talking about that wife; we’re talking about Scott William Carter’s version—Yolanda Green, an even-keeled, mostly content wife of a university professor time traveler—and the story of what she does when he goes off into the future, failing to return for dinner. [Sep 2012]

“We’ve done it,” he said. “Three times with a mouse and five times with a monkey. The university has approved my request for a manned test run. We’re going into the future!


Time Warp Trio
adapted by Kathy Waugh, et. al.
First publication: 9 Jul 2005

Ten-year-old Joe and his two mates Fred and Sam travel back and forth in time in these 22-minute Discovery Kids cartoons based on Jon Scieszka’s story series. [Mar 2013]

Ever wonder how three kids from Brooklyn got their hands on a time-traveling book?

Part of a painting of Sci Fiction editor Ellen Datlow by photo-realist artist Sarah Clemens
(© 2005)
“Gauging Moonlight”
by E. Catherine Tobler
First publication: Sci Fiction, 20 Jul 2005

The alien narrator loves Alice Oxbridge, although the word love does not capture the feeling any more accurately than space travel captures climbing into a vehicle capable of carrying you off-planet. And our narrator has the power to erase the the moments of tragedy in Alice’s life, he cannot do so without breaking his one unbreakable tenet and becoming the prime example of sentient idiocy. [Oct 2012]

Alice’s was not the first birth I witnessed, nor even the most unusual. The first time I saw Alice’s birth, I bypassed the event, skimming ahead to the advent of the automobile. Gears fascinated me more. But on reflection, something drew me back to Alice in the garden, newborn on the rain-wet grass. The world seemed to move beneath her.

Kat Beyer’s
illustration for her story
“The Strange Desserts of
Professor Natalie Doom”
by Kat Beyer
First publication: Strange Horizons, 22 Aug 2005
For Natalie, it isn’t easy growing up as the only human creation of a mad scientist (including a time machine, of course) and his gorgeous, shapely wife— especially when you have the name of Natalie Doom and a leaning toward feminism). [Oct 2012]

Apparently I inherited Mama’s looks and Papa’s brains. Again and again in my life I’ve gotten the best of a bad bargain.


“Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law”
by Kevin J. Anderson
First publication: Analog Science Fiction, Sep 2005
Marty Paramus and his partner specialize in legal nuances arising from the new time-travel technology. [Aug 2005]

So you figured that if you kept Franklin’s biological mother and father from meeting, he would never have been born, your parents’ marriage would have remained happy, and your life would have remained wonderful.


Hyams’ Sound of Thunder
adapted by Donnelly, Oppenheimer, Poirier (Peter Hyams, director)
First release: 2 Sep 2005
The time safari is not improved by 90 minutes of melodramatic nonsense. [-] [Jul 2011]

A butterfly caused all this?

12 items are in the time-travel list for this year.
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)