Time travel

Keeping my notes about time travel here.

First point to be made: I am defining 'time travel' extremely loosely here. That definition is 'anything I think is anything slightly related to or that reminds me of time travel.'

Second point: I've definitely forgotten some stuff and this is a work in progress.

Posts about time travel

Thinking about time travel 3rd February 2026

Books

I've definitely read more books than this about time travel.

The Time Machine, HG Wells. Weird as all get out. By far my least favourite Wells
On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. I've read first three
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger. My problematic fave
Time Travel: A History, James Gleick. Non-fiction. Great
This Is How We Win the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I didn't like this as much as all the other lesbians did
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North. Kinda
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Psychology of Time Travel, Kate Mascarenhas
The House on the Strand, Daphne Du Maurier
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde. I should have loved this. Should have
The Door into Summer, Robert Heinlein

To read

Kindred, Octavia Butler
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson. Also a TV show?
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mandel. Did I read this? Did I start it?
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
some Stephen King
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Ryan North. I own this
Replay, Ken Grimwood
Asimov. Surely

Films

Looper
Groundhog Day
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Back to the Future
Bill and Ted
About Time
Donnie Darko
Planet of the Apes
the Terminators
12 Monkeys
First Contact. My favourite Trek film!
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
New Star Trek
Flashback. A horrible human being is sent back in time by her taxi driver to learn some lessons. By the end of the film... she is still a horrible human being. But we get to see some history, lots of excellent French women, and some shenanigans
Timestalker. Is it more reincarnation? Yes. It's funny though
Deja Vu
Frequency
Tenet
Source Code
Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
La Jetée

To watch

Palm Springs
Midnight in Paris

TV

The Lazarus Project. Got two seasons. I liked it
Quantum Leap. Is Sliders time travel?
various X-Files episodes. Monday, the time loop in the bank
Goodnight Sweetheart. 1990s British show with a guy who travels back and forth to the Blitz
Vortex. No one really 'travels' through time, it's all a bit computer-AI-hand-waving-science. I really liked it
Dark

Special mentions

Ghosts. They are out of their time
Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod is out of his time
Austin Powers
Arrival. Time isn't real
My Old Ass
The Beast. Is it time travel? Kinda?
One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston

Videos

So far, just jokes.

Marie Curie Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions And Gets Utterly Disappointed by Karolina Żebrowska
Adventures of a dissatisfied Victorian time traveller by Karolina Żebrowska

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