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You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result f...

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I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key ...

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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time ...

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I love you always. Time is nothing.

When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a ...

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

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Connie WillisTo Say Nothing of the Dog

Time travel is awesome....And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it...The first time.

Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.

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David GerroldThe Man Who Folded Himself

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...

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When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet...

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He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dr...

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the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, ...

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own f...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering wi...

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You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled t...

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The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man ...

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Eoin ColferThe Reluctant Assassin

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger se...

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I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that ...

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In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country o...

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Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke ...

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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a...

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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could loo...

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The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

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I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton-...

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I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I d...

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But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend...

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I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and fu...

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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is ...

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Michio KakuEinstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the e...

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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...

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You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You ...

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Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phr...

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To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicat...

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Robert SilverbergNeedle In A Timestack

He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having t...

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Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appe...

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In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

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Stephen HawkingA Brief History of Time

Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to...

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History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the ...

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The past is obdurate.

Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, bu...

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Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten...

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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear...

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At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Ban...

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