Scientists invent a substance which allows time travel. A physicist is stuck in a time machine that only can travel forwards in time. If you watched Hamilton and are interested to learn more about this Founding Father, Ron Chernow's biography will be a fascinating read. A pilot flies faster than the speed of light, from 1960 to 2024, into a dystopian future divided by two populations: the submissive humans who have retreated underground and the savage mutants who have taken over the surface. A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. This story was the basis of the comic strip. The film stars. But they must travel back to their time to ensure her birth. In the late 19th century, Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes 113 years later.
Five college boys in a sci-fi club break their air-conditioner's remote control.
Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. A sailor is pulled into the portal at the same time, and finds himself in a version of 1993 where the Nazis won World War II. This revisionist history book presents Genghis Khan and his accomplishments in a brand new light.
A cop from the year 2088 (Abbott) is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather (Maher) in pursuing the crook.
A man struck by lightning in 1930, wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letter- and digit-based names, pill meals, and government-determined marriages. Featuring over a thousand interviews, records, and new data, this book is as well-researched as it is gripping. George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. This page was last edited on 11 October 2020, at 08:28. The first Indian (Tamil) science fiction movie.
It transports her from 1998 back to the same place in other years, depending on the order of buttons pushed. Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara have travelled from the future to observe a girl who is unaware that she possesses destructive reality warping powers.
A 16-year-old girl discovers that she has inherited her family's time-travel gene. In the first book in the series, Bury the Living, we meet our time traveling heroine, Nora O’Reilly, a former IRA fighter from Belfast.Nora ends up traveling back in time to 1923, at the height of the brutal Irish Civil War, in search of a stranger from her dreams (who turns out to have secrets of his own). A history student is inadvertently sent to 1348 England, at the beginning of the Black Death pandemic. A made-for-television adaptation of the Wells novel, updating the initial setting to the contemporary 1970s, with the main character working for an American defense contractor. During the "Black Out" the consciousness of the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future, where they see what could occur that day.
A professor travels back in time and kills his wife's grandfather so that his wife will never have existed. That night, during a storm, Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. He learns of a way to go back to the past. A.J. When a scientist on a team working on a time travel project successfully travels one hour into the future, he returns with shocking news.
A man inherits his uncle's mansion that has a computer that can function as a time machine, although they are slow to realize it. In his biography of John Lewis, Jon Meacham illuminates this civil rights leader's path to preaching non-violence and unwavering hope.
A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time.
The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. Discover the best Time Travel Romance in Best Sellers. Collection of short stories, including two about a man's attempt to save his failing marriage by travelling back to the time he first met his wife. Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. The captain of a Romulan mining ship blames Spock, and both the Romulans and Spock fall through a black hole to the past, creating an alternate reality. His coverage spans events from the first Thanksgiving to the Iraq War, while offering a plea for greater truth in education. Events in Eon take place in 2005, when the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear war. The Professor and the Madman details the ambitious and dramatic making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1850s.
In Megamorph 2, the same concept is used to send the animorphs back to 65 million BC. Follows Captain Dylan Hunt after he travels 300 years into the future as the result of, Various species from the 30th century are having a "Temporal Cold War" that is interfering with life in the 22nd century, which affects the lives of the crew of the. He finds more people like him in the Cronus club. In Salt, he demonstrates how this substance has inspired everything from trade routes to revolutions since the beginning of civilization. A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with revisiting his past – no matter what the cost. He finds himself in the building's garden of the 1880s and there is a girl there with whom he can play. A mysterious girl, named Homura Akemi, has made a contract with a being known as Kyubei, to go back in time and save the titular character. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965, In 2005, a completely average private named Joe Bowers, After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the convenience store, and start the cycle over again. Michelle Alexander's book has had a profound impact on recent U.S. history. A pastiche wherein a future Tarzan (using the name John Gribardsun) orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC.
To return to present time, both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick. The Devil in the White City is an incredibly popular historical book so vibrant that it almost reads like fiction.
The Doomsday Book is one of the finest written time travel books in my opinion. He falls in love, and decides to stay. A remake of.
A time traveller from an alternate reality travels back to the. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. James Cole is sent back in time to acquire an unmutated form of a virus that has nearly wiped out humanity. A drug-induced journey to a Cornish village in the 14th century. Rather than focusing on the highest offices, Zinn writes about the perspectives women, Native Americans, factory workers, and other marginalized groups throughout our country's past. Gully Foyle lives in a future where self-. When he has the chance to go through his life again, he has interesting discoveries and decisions. US soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan are transported in time to the. Hall, who started out as a Baltimore socialite, quickly rose the ranks and ultimately became the first Allied woman to conduct secret warfare behind enemy lines. You might not have thought something commonly found on your kitchen table could provide an overarching view of world history, but Mark Kurlansky proves otherwise. Scientists find that their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time and they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. A woman from the 1940s time travels through, A crime scene investigator who has gained the power to move at superhuman speeds becomes a superhero crime-fighter.
An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster. A winner of numerous awards, Purnell's biography tells the story of Virginia Hall, an unlikely American spy during World War II. A man once exposed to films from the future is drawn into an adventure to become part of a group of time travellers linked by a special building. Here are 10 great history books that drop brilliant knowledge. The Ministry of Time is a Spanish government institution. A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is created to prevent alterations to the past.
A boarding-school story where the protagonist, Charlotte, travels back in time to be Claire in 1918. Winner of the National Book Award and recently adapted into a major motion film, In the Heart of the Sea tells the exhilarating survival tale of the sailors aboard an 1820 Nantucket whaleship. A naval task force from 2021 is accidentally sent back to just before the. A woman time travels from the 1940s to the 1740s by stepping through the. Baime takes readers through the first four months of his administration filled with global conflicts and incredibly high stakes at home and abroad. As she tries to alter the events of the past, she will eventually face the perilous consequences of time travel. Jonah and Katherine go on a mission to return a missing child, named Andrea (really. By infusing familiar tales such as Pandora's Box with humor and fresh historical perspective, his take on the Greek classics feels impressively modern. Weatherford paints a picture of Khan as far more progressive than his European counterparts, and underscores his impact on trade, communication, and modern civilization as a whole. Soon, Shel discovers that the devices can take you anywhere at any point in time. Unfreezing and freezing of time using a small mechanism. The movie is based on the novel.
Distraught over his girlfriend's drug addiction, small-time dope peddler Art (, For an extraordinary price, Time Safaris, Inc. will take clients through a wormhole to hunt dinosaur game.
Islamic adventure of a teacher who found a time machine. 14-year-old Susan Shawson travels in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel.
Detectives investigate images being broadcast to the laboratory of eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Christian King (Emun Elliott), which appear to show catastrophic events in the future. The list below covers films for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work.
Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future where the earth is in peril and the distant past, to the age of the dinosaurs. Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's, Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet, In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. An official selection of the 2006, Alien scammers discover the code for time travel tattooed on. A woman who went on a yacht trip with her friends jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying time loop. While it is (still) impossible to travel through time, reading historical books is the best way to get a sense for how others lived in generations past. Apocalyptic disasters happen and the characters travel back and forth in an attempt to prevent them. A father and daughter meet travelers are from the future, who intend to witness an impending catastrophe. An unforeseen change in the past necessitates the use of psychic abilities to reset the present and future. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Trapped in Time: A Historical Time Travel Romance. A man discovers that he is living in the worst possible timeline (ours) and also that he shouldn't exist. Two teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the United States.
Peggy Sue Bodell faints at her high school reunion. Through first-hand interviews, letters, and memoirs, Midnight in Chernobyl casts an intimate light on the worst nuclear disaster in history. A teenage girl uses psychometry to alter events in the past, changing the present and future.