List your favorite time-travel stories

[pokerfan]

from film, television, literature, etc.

Film
Time Bandits
Time After Time
The Terminator
Back to the Future
Bill and Ted
Star Trek IV
Twelve Monkeys
Frequency

Literature
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Slaughterhouse-Five
Replay - Grimwood
By His Bootstraps - Heinlein
Time Enough For Love - Heinlein

Television
Time Tunnel
Doctor Who
Seven Days
Quantum Leap

I know I'm forgetting a lot that don't spring to mind and leaving off many that I've never experienced.

[khashka]

1. Mostly Heinlein

By His Bootstraps
Time Enough For Love - but Heinlein starts his incest thang.
Number of the Beast - not really time travel, but they do go back and rescue Maureen
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - time gets all messed up at the end and he fathers a child with a girl he hasn't even had sex with yet.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and.. - Charles Sheffield. His wife is sick and dying. She's put in suspension until the medtech can heal her. He goes in too and is woken up every so often to check on her. Strange and very sad.

Houston,Houston,Do You Read.-James Tiptree Jr. Weird story and very gripping.

Doctor Who, of course, but that's a given.

Khash.

[pokerfan]

5. Thanks, I will check out the Tiptree novel

I wonder if Haldeman 's The Forever War qualifies as a TT story. It's exclusively Lorentz travel into the future, but not backwards.

They say that reverse time travel is prohibited by Special Relativity. That it violates causality. Well, so what? Simply posit alternate universes. So what if you kill your great grandfather? You simply aren't born in that alternate universe but only exist as a visitor from another dimension.

[PassingFair]

2. What??!!!

No "Fifth Element"?

[pokerfan]

3. Gah! How could I forget

[PassingFair]

4. Also, there was a short-lived TV series with D.B. Sweeney called...

Strange Luck....

about a guy that got a newspaper a
day in advance.

LOVED IT!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338465/

[pokerfan]

6. Thanks

Just started the download.

[pokerfan]

35. I'm reading about Strange Luck

And I'm not seeing anything about a day in advance newspaper. Are you sure you have right series?

[PassingFair]

36. ACK!! I confused it with "Early Edition"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Edition

But Strange Luck is good, too!

[pokerfan]

40. Haven't seen that one either but i will check it out

[siligut]

39. I think it was called Early Edition. nt

[billyoc]

10. What's the title of that one, again?

:hi:

[pokerfan]

15. The Fifth Element?

[Xipe Totec]

8. I like it, but it's not time travel

Not to put too fine a point on it :hi:

[Orrex]

16. Maybe I saw a different version. I'm thinking of the one with Gary Oldman

No time travel there as far as I can recall.

:shrug:

[Catch22Dem]

28. Happens in the future, but not really time travel

Great movie though. Chris Tucker. LOL

[PassingFair]

33. Well, it DOES have an Egyptian interlude....

and the 5th Element travels through time, no?

[Catch22Dem]

34. This is true

She does. The movie really doesn't explore the time travel angle though. Gary Oldman was awesome in that movie. HAHA.

[Dr. Strange]

7. Two more I'll add:

Heinlein's "All You Zombies" (a short story)
and David Gerrold's "The Man Who Folded Himself" (a novella).

They're almost the same story, although Gerrold's is a little kinkier.

[Ivan Sputnik]

9. More and more, "Lost"

is turning out to be a time-travel story. It always was, in a way, with its constant flashbacks and (now) flash-forwards. But actual time-travel is becoming an important plot element in recent episodes.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Okay, I'll play

TV---

STO:
City on the Edge of Forever

STNG:
Time's Arrow
Yesterday's Enterprise
Time Squared

Outer Limits:
A Stitch in Time
Tribunal
Patient Zero


Movies---

12 Monkeys
The Time Machine
The Terminator Series

Books---

Thrice Uppon A Time
Timeline


Cartoons---

Futurama (any)
Futurama - Roswell That Ends Well
Futurama - Luck of the Fryrish

[mzteris]

14. the book/story The 12 Monkeys

was even better!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I can't believe nobody has mentioned Jack Finney's Time and Again

It's about a secret government experiment to send a contemporary (1970s in that case) man back to the 1880s on a mission that will be revealed to him later. In the meantime, his girlfriend tells him about a mystery that has plagued her family since the 1880s, so he secretly resolves to solve that mystery on the side.

It's the only time travel novel I know of that doesn't rely on fancy machinery and that fully explores how a 1970s man would react to the very different culture of the 1880s. One of the great scenes is when he sees his first genuine 1880s person and realizes that nineteenth century people were in color.

The ending is one of those where you first go "Huh?" and then think about it and realize what has just happened.

[JeffR]

21. Great choice.

NanceGreggs introduced me to that book. It's worth reading more than once. It would also make a great movie.

[JeffR]

22. Frankenstein Unbound by Brian Aldiss

made into a not-so-great-but-still-sorta-interesting movie by Roger Corman.

[Crabby Appleton]

25. I really like that book,

re-read it every few years.

[mzteris]

13. Corrupting Dr. Nice

by John Kessel.

[seemunkee]

17. A Wrinke in Time

Loved the book as a kid. Should probably read it again.

[fishwax]

18. A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury

[Initech]

19. The Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well"

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Good episode.

I miss that show.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Lost, 12 Monkeys/La Jetée, Back to the Future

[jobycom]

24. Les Visiteurs, and The Navigator.

Les Visiteurs was remade as an American film, but not very well. "Just Visiting." Jean Reno was in both, but played different roles.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I saw Les Visiteurs a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it

For those of you who don't know it, it's about a medieval French knight who is magically transported into the present day with his servant and who meets up with one of his own descendants.

[shanti]

27. somewhere in time!

how could you forget that one?

[Catch22Dem]

29. Inexplicably missing "The Time Machine"

I even thought the remake was respectable.

[pokerfan]

30. I grouped it under literature

[Catch22Dem]

31. Inexplicably missing - My skills of observation

DUH! :D

[Dr. Strange]

37. "Nice re-post, Hitler"

It's the story of a DUer named Catch22Dem who goes back in time and edits an error in one of his posts.

:)

[jobycom]

32. Wow, no "Groundhog Day" or "Donnie Darko" yet?

[ghostsofgiants]

41. Ahhh, I totally forgot about Donnie Darko.

[pokerfan]

42. I can't believe that I left it off the OP

since it was a Groundhog Day discussion here that led me to Replay which led me to musing about other time travel stories.

[arcadian]

38. How about Land of the frikken Lost?

n/t

[pokerfan]

43. Was that really time travel

or some other world? Was it really supposed to be Earth's past? I only caught a couple of episodes.

[csziggy]

44. One of my favorite genres!

I'll try to not mention stuff that has been listed before

"Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (made into movie with Jeff Daniels called "Timescape" aka Grand Tour: Disaster in Time")
"All You Zombies" by Robert Heinlein (HAD to list this one since it is my first favorite time travel story)
Any of several books by Andre Norton on time travel (and alternative universe travel) especially the Time Agents series with Travis Fox


Movies - "Late for Dinner" (came out the same time as "Forever Young" but was much better)
Just Visiting - remake of Les Visiteurs
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Army of Darkness
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
When Time Expires (strange TV movie with poor production but the plot always engages me)