History TimeTravel / Literature

* In ''Literature/TempestANovel'' the main super power so far is the ability to time travel. In the beginning, the time travel works more like an inverse of RippleEffectProofMemory where the main character goes back in time to an alternate past, but cannot change anything in the present. Actually time travel comes up but it involves AlternateTimelines and other complicated rules which have yet to be fully explained.

** "Literature/TheImmortalBard": Dr Welch calls it "temporal transference", and uses it to bring many different people to the present-day, such as UsefulNotes/{{Archimedes}}, [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton Newton]], [[UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei Galileo]], and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. The Bard stays around long enough to enroll in a course dedicated to analyzing Shakespeare's plays.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons'': In "Camouflage 2020", the main character's final exam at the magical academy he attends involves projecting him to the time of the Punic Wars.

* ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons'': In "Literature/Camouflage2020", the main character's final exam at the magical academy he attends involves projecting him to the time of the Punic Wars.

* The Stephen Leacock story "The Man in the Asbestos Suit" treats the whole issue of time travel with complete flippancy, accomplished by eating too much junk food (a pork pie and a bag of doughnuts) and reading the London Weekly World News.

* ''Literature/TheManWhoAwoke'' by Laurence Manning has a rich New Yorker of 1935 create an underground vault shielded from cosmic rays and drugs himself into a coma. A timer activates an X-Ray tube thousands of years later to revive him. (Not implausible by the popular science of the 1930s.) Notable for suggesting the people of the future would revile our age for wasting natural resources. Also, one future age is dominated by VirtualReality, another by a MasterComputer, another by AnarchyIsChaos.

* The novelization of the ''Series/{{Merlin 1998}}'' series implies that Lancelot came from a place in the future, or in a possible future, and was brought from it to the time of Arthur, by Merlin, to act as the king's champion. When Merlin first arrives there, they seem to have heard of him, though they never bring up what the history of their land says about it all.

* In ''Literature/{{Millennium}}'' ([[Film/Millennium1989 and the film of the same name]]) the world is badly contaminated, so the government sends people to go backward in time, capturing everyone who was on a transport (plane, train, or ship) where all of the people on the transport were killed, or an event (a war, an attack, an explosion) where everyone in the area dies, and replacing them with cloned dead bodies so as not to change history. The problem is that once anyone goes to a particular time, no one can ever go back to anywhere during that period, the time period -- an hour, two hours, whatever -- is blacked out and unreachable. Visit a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean for an hour and you can't go to Paris, New York or Antarctica at the same time later on.