History Literature / ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree

* TakeThat: Jake is thoroughly creeped out by Dallas and flees to Jodie because he can't spend another night there. He finds it ugly, smelly, racist and utterly miserable. And he can sense a great evil in the city, as he did in Derry. King noted in the afterward that some thought he was too hard on Dallas, but claims that, if anything, he was not nearly hard enough on the Dallas of the early 60's. And King made clear that he doesn't think the Dallas of the 2010s is much better.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.

* AnachronismStew: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.

* ShoutOut: The male protagonist of a TimeTravel story falls in love with a girl whose (married) name is "Clayton". Said Time Traveller also funds their stay by gambling on longshot sports upsets with future information. Does this remind you of [[Film/BackToTheFuture anything]]?

* OneSteveLimit: Averted all over the place. The pseudonym the protagonist uses in the past is George, and he has dealings with [[HistoricalDomainCharacter George de Mohrenschildt]] and observes another George interacting with Marina and Lee Oswald. His girlfriend, Sadie Doris Dunhill, has a very similar name to a woman in Derry with the surname of Dunning, who Jake comes back in time to save. Of course, [[ArcWords the past harmonizes.]]

** The number 19 crops in a few places. An example would be Jake's safe deposit box number being 775. This may make this book fit in with The Dark Tower series.

* SeriesContinuityError: while in Derry in 1958, Jake is told the body of Patrick Hockstetter, one of the victims of Pennywise, has recently been found in The Barrens. However, in "{{Literature/IT}}" Patrick was dragged into the tunnels underneath Derry by Pennywise and remained there undiscovered for decades. The Losers encounter his (skeletal) remains down in the tunnels in both 1958 and again in 1985.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted all over the place. The pseudonym the protagonist uses in the past is George, and he has dealings with [[HistoricalDomainCharacter George de Mohrenschildt]] and observes another George interacting with Marina and Lee Oswald. His girlfriend, Sadie Dolores Dunhill, has a very similar name to a woman in Derry with the surname of Dunning, who Jake comes back in time to save. Of course, [[ArcWords the past harmonizes.]]

** Jake fears killing Frank Dunning could result in his imprisonment in [[Literature/{{TheShawshankRedemption}} Shawshank State Prison]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One of King's earlier ideas for the story:
-->I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.

** Jake's attempts to save the Dunnings become this. [[spoiler: The first time he does it, one of the Dunning children still ends up dead, and in that timeline, Harry died in Vietnam. In the spectacularly BadFuture creating by saving Kennedy, Harry is still alive, but still paralyzed in the Vietnam War.]]

** Jake's attempts to save the Dunnings become this. [[ spoiler: The first time he does it, one of the Dunning children still ends up dead, and in that timeline, Harry died in Vietnam. In the spectacularly BadFuture creating by saving Kennedy, Harry is still alive, but still paralyzed in the Vietnam War.]]

* TimePolice: There are 'guardians' of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them [[spoiler:, along with the time-space continuum itself]] worse for the wear.

* PhonyDegree: Jake has a genuine degree ... from 2011, and knows better than to produce it to get a job in 1963. So he gets a second degree from a diploma mill.

* OhCrap: When Jake [[ItMakesSenseInContext hears cheerleaders chanting "Jim-La!".]]

* IdiotBall: Two major ones, relating to the fact that every trip through the time portal is a ResetButton.
** Al wants to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but he only feels 95% sure that Lee Harvey Oswald is the real killer and acted alone, so he (and later, Jake) spends five years in the past attempting to make sure. Why not just track down and kill Oswald right away, head back through the portal, and spend five minutes on the Internet checking to see if Kennedy was still killed? You can always just hit the ResetButton and try again if you got it wrong.
** By the time Al gets back from his mission to save Kennedy, it has become clear that the timeline resists change, that the resistance is proportional to the magnitude of the change, and that it will resist a large change like preventing the Kennedy assassination with near-irresistible lethal force. Being too ill to complete the mission himself, he passes it on to Jake... who proceeds to go on a potential suicide mission without informing anyone else of what he's up to. Okay, granted, he wants to keep the time portal a secret, but surely he could have found ONE trustworthy person to sit outside the portal with instructions that if Jake is not back in two minutes (meaning he has died in the past), to find ANOTHER trustworthy person to wait while the first attempts to complete the mission that both Al and Jake have failed.

* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Girl Suffers Most]]: Lee's Russian bride Marina certainly has it worst.

** By the time Al gets back from his mission to save Kennedy, it has become clear that the timeline resists change, that the resistance is proportional to the magnitude of the change, and that it will resist a large change like preventing the Kennedy assassination with near-irresistible lethal force. Being too ill to complete the mission himself, he passes it on to Jake... who proceeds to go on a potential suicide mission without informing anyone else of he's up to. Okay, granted, he wants to keep the time portal a secret, but surely he could have found ONE trustworthy person to sit outside the portal with instructions that if Jake is not back in two minutes (meaning he has died in the past), to find ANOTHER trustworthy person to wait while the first attempts to complete the mission that both Al and Jake have failed.

A movie version is, of course, in the works.

** [[{{Christine}} A red Plymouth Fury keeps turning up as well, particularly as it's driven by Sadie's psychotic ex]].