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Not in Our Stars

by Conrad Arthur Skinner
After a meteor strike and some scientific mumbo-jumbo, Felix Menzies wakes up in a jail cell on the day before his execution for murdering the man he wrongly thought was his wife’s lover—an act he doesn’t remember—, and then he starts waking up on each previous morning, whereupon he begins to think he can cheat Destiny by not murdering the guy in the first place.
— Michael Main
If he did meet Savile, he was prepared to shake hands with him in the old way, and to realize what a neurotic fool he had been: also that Destiny had made an idiot of itself with the careless blundering born of the knowledge that nobody would ever know, nobody, that is, except himself; and, of course, Destiny safely relied on the assumption that nobody would believe him.
Not in Our Stars by Conrad Arthur Skinner (T. Fisher Unwin, 1923).

Star Trek (s01e04)

The Naked Time

by John D. F. Black, directed by Marc Daniels
After an alien spore infects the entire Enterprise crew with madness, it seems that the only available action to save the ship from a rapdidly decaying orbit is a cold restart of the engines.
— Michael Main
You know, Dr. McCoy said the same thing.
Star Trek (s01e04), “The Naked Time” by John D. F. Black, directed by Marc Daniels (NBC-TV, USA, 29 September 1966).

Himself in Anachron

by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
Tasco Magnon, time traveler, decides to take his new bride on his next trip through time—a quest to find the mythical Knot in Time—where the two of them get trapped, and only one can return.

After Smith’s death in 1966, the story was completed by his wife, Genevieve Linebarger, and sold to Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Vision, but that anthology was endlessly delayed. So in 1987, a translated version of the story was published in a French collection of Smith’s stories, and that was the first published version (although we’ve listed it as an English story, since that’s how it was written). The English version was finally published in Smith’s 1993 complete short science fiction collection by NESFA. By then, Ellison’s rights to the story had expired, although that didn’t stop him from suing NESFA.

— Michael Main
‘Honeymoon in time,’ indeed. Why? Is it that your woman is jealous of your time trips? Don’t be an idiot, Tasco. You know that ship’s not built for two.
“Lui-même en Anachron” by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger, in Les puissances de’espace [The powers of space[/em] (Presses Pocket, September 1987).

Time’s Arrow

by Geeoff Hart
A physicist with a dead girlfriend experiences various precognition episodes leading up to his attempt to travel to the past to undead the girlfriend, or at least plant the seeds for the precognition.
— Michael Main
I’m certain I didn’t send myself any mail recently, but then again, I have plans to do so in the near future—or near past, I suppose.
“Time’s Arrow” by Geeoff Hart, in Short Stories by Geoff Hart (no specified publisher, added 10 February 2009) [ongoing e-collection at www.geoff-hart.com/fiction/short-stories/, accessed 20 December 2021[/d[/ex].

2nd Door

written and directed by Umesh Verma
Two men—a garage shop owner and a mad scientist—loop through 13 days, meeting and shooting each other and themselves, but not so that we could understand much (beyond that there was a time portal made of hubcaps and blue electricity).
— Michael Main
This freak made a mess of our garage.
2nd Door written and directed by Umesh Verma (Youtube: 2nd Door Channel, 8 December 2017).
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