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Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Oral Tradition

Οι εν Εφέσω επτά παίδες

  • Oi en Efeso epta paides
  • The seven children of Ephesus
  • The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
  • early Christian legend, circa AD 400
Seven or eight young Christian children—or possibly young men or even soldiers—hide in a cave to escape Roman persecution, but once in the cave, they fall asleep for centuries. —Michael Main
A painting with no perspective sowing seven men and their dog sleeping in a cave.
  • Religion
  • Time Phenomena
Novel

News from Nowhere

  • by William Morris
  • 39-part serial, The Commonweal, 11 January 1890 to 4 October 1890
Via a dream, the “Guest”—most likely Morris himself—travels a century or more into the future where he finds an almost communistic society working smoothly. —based on Frank J. Bleiler
The date shut my mouth as if a key had been turned in a padlock fixed to my lips; for I saw that something inexplicable had happened, and that if I said much I should be mixed up in a game of cross questions and crooked answers.
Front page of The Commonweal from 11 January 1890
  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Miniature

Jedediah Amberson, a economist at Columbia University, steps into the main branch of his bank and finds himself in year 83 of the Gradzinger calendar, where he tries to guess how money has evolved. —Michael Main
“Why, I walked through your front door.” Jed suddenly frowned. “There was a strange jar as I did so. A dislocation, a feeling of being violently twisted in here.”
Black-and-white drawing of a miniature man in a handheld box.
  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Remington Mansion 2

The Tinseltown Murderer

Josie Matthews and her husband, David Remington, travel to 1936 Los Angeles after discovering that her prior trip to 1929 has changed history—specifically by prolonging World War II. They meet up with friends from 1929 and attempt to find and fix the problem. While doing so, they encounter communists, Nazis, the Los Angeles chapter of the Hitler Youth, movie studio executives, and several murders. —Tandy Ringoringo
“What? You live almost a hundred years in the future and you’ve never seen microfilm before?” asked Grant, who shook his head. “Women.”

“We have computer code which can store a warehouse of microfilm in a space the size of a pinhead.”

“How the hell do you do that?”

“With a series of zeros and ones.”

“That makes no sense whatsoever.”

“Yeah, I don’t really understand it myself.”
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  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Escape 2120

  • written and directed by Brian K. Bennett
  • (premiered at the Peoples Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio, 10 July 2020)
A young man, orphaned as a child, is taken in by an elderly couple who want his help traveling a century into the future. —from publicity material
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase “suspended animation.” Well, forget everything you knew about that. Thats not what happens here, but its close enough.
A teenage boy stands in wilderness with a modern city seen behind him through a transparent clockface.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

夏への扉 -キミのいる未来へ-

  • Natsu e no tobira: Kimi no iru mirai e
  • The door to summer: To the future with you
  • The Door into Summer
  • by 菅野友恵 [Kanno Tomoe], directed by 三木孝浩 [Miki Takahiro]
  • (theatrical release, Japan, 25 June 2021)
All the crucial pieces of Heinlein’s novel are here, including Pete (the cat) and a single, consistent timeline. —Michael Main
A montage of characters from the Japanese adaptation of Heinlein’s The Door into Summer.
  • Honorable Mention Eloi
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Time Bandits, s01e04

Prohibition

Kevin and the gang face literal gangsters in Harlem during the prohibition era; Saffron cohorts with Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai in feudal Japan. —Michael Main
Kevin: Then after that day, no one ever saw him again.
Gangsters: Oh! You had him disappeared? 
Kevin: Moved to Preston.
Gangsters: Ahem. Moved to Preston? That’s cold.
Kiera Thompson (as Kevin’s sister, Saffron) holds up a hand drawing of Kevin dressed as a medieval page boy.
  • Undetermined
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel