He remembers it involved a modern day guy getting off of a school bus and suddenly being in Arthurian times. This of course rules out "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", and several others I've found on google. Does anyone remember a book with this specific scenario? Thanks.
posted by Jandoe
on Mar 13, 2013 -
6 answers
What is this children's book (and its sequel, if I recall correctly?) A girl takes an elevator in an old house/building to a floor that opens up several generations ago. She meets children from the past there. There is a scene where the narrator finds an old photograph and sees the girl in it. In this book, or possibly its sequel, there is some going back and forth in time to find buried treasure at the house in modern times. I don't remember the reading level but it may be considered a children's book or YA book. It was probably written sometime between 1960 and 1980, and I think I read it in the early 1990s.
posted by michaelh
on Dec 24, 2012 -
3 answers
A friend and I had a friendly disagreement about whether society as a whole has changed significantly since the 1980s. Can you help me bolster my side?
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posted by suburbanbeatnik
on Jul 24, 2012 -
71 answers
I'm writing a series of time travel novels. Since my first one is scheduled to be published in November, I've been debating what my next one should be. One idea I have is for a young woman in San Francisco or Los Angeles to find herself 100 years in the future (in 2110 or so), but I need some help imagining a realistic future.
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posted by suburbanbeatnik
on Jun 14, 2012 -
29 answers
BookFilter: This book had some futuristic name for Australia. What's the name of the book?
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posted by Heretical
on May 20, 2012 -
7 answers
I'm hosting a NYE party. The theme is time travel. I have a few ideas for food and drinks (and friends are bringing things, too), but can you give me some awesome ideas for making this party really fun and memorable? Any and all ideas are welcome!
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posted by two lights above the sea
on Dec 23, 2011 -
35 answers
I really like birthdays. I want to have the longest birthday that is technically possible. How do I achieve this?
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posted by v.barboni
on Oct 15, 2011 -
11 answers
Whovians: What are the essential non-TV series Doctor Who stories? Best novels, TV series novelizations, radio dramas, etc?
posted by Saxon Kane
on Sep 15, 2011 -
14 answers
Trying to remember the name of a sci-fi novel that involved time travelers. I *seem* to remember there was an organization dedicated to keeping the space-time continuum in order, and that organization consulted with human intelligences along the timeline, including vastly advanced human intelligences that basically weren't human anymore.
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posted by audiodidactic
on Aug 25, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm looking for recommendations for time travel novels-- ones that I might specifically like-- and I'd like to ask the HiveMind what they think.
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posted by suburbanbeatnik
on Aug 7, 2011 -
60 answers
I'm trying to find a SciFi short story I read as a kid - I read this story as a kid in the '70s or '80s. It was in a paperback collection of SF short stories I got from the school library, it could have been published anytime from the '50s to the late '70s. I have no idea of the title or the author, just my memory of the story. It involved someone who was walking backwards through time to get home. Some scientific accident had propelled him hundreds of years forward in time. On the wreckage of the lab, he appeared, briefly, once every year (or maybe every decade or century?). From an observer's point of view, someone flashed in and out of existence predictably on that spot. I think a holiday formed around the appearance. From the person's point of view, he was walking backwards through time, from the far future back towards the date of the accident. Each "flash" was a step in that walk.
Anyone know what this story is called or who wrote it?
posted by Cranialtorque
on Aug 4, 2011 -
14 answers
I just watched the
Back to the Future trilogy (for like the millionth time) and I have a question I’m hoping the Hive Mind can help me reconcile a question I have.
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posted by Effigy2000
on Jul 18, 2011 -
33 answers
Fiction filter: A science fiction book I recall reading in my youth involved a cabin or shed in which time goes by several times faster inside rather than outside.
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posted by oceanjesse
on Jun 20, 2011 -
4 answers
Give your best examples of the SF/ Survivalist/ Wish Fullfillment sub-genre "libertarian engineers do everything better" or "objectivist superman saves history". More specifically ones where someone is the last man on earth/sendt back in time and constructs a free market utopia through sheer smarts and rationality ( with himself on the top of it, of course).
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posted by The Whelk
on Jun 9, 2011 -
28 answers
Another forgotten YA book title. I would have read it in 1985 or so - elementary school. Two kids from modern times are led through a portal (maybe?) or time travel (??) into a medieval/fantasy setting with (or possibly, where they meet?) a ranger type character.
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posted by lilnublet
on Feb 11, 2011 -
9 answers
I'm looking for a science fiction short story, probably from a science fiction magazine from the mid-1990s, involving time travel; a female graduate student from the future visits a contemporary ladies' man to figure out why he, alone in a family of very successful people, never excelled at anything in life.
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posted by mistersix
on Nov 22, 2010 -
2 answers
My daughter's birthday is coming up, and I'm looking for book recs. Lately, she's fascinated by time travel and, to a lesser extent, World War II. I'd love to buy her some books about these subjects, but am sort of stuck on what, exactly, to buy.
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posted by MeghanC
on Oct 24, 2010 -
46 answers
What kinds of pranks and/or practical jokes could a time traveller pull on people from the past without changing history?
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posted by amyms
on Aug 8, 2010 -
22 answers
Trying to find out the title of a book or series of books from when I was a kid: time travel on horseback a key plot element, of course.
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posted by tracicle
on Jun 24, 2010 -
9 answers
I need help finding this short story I read in 5th grade, around 1985. It was a sci-fi time travel story, possibly written for a middle grade/YA audience, and it was anthologized in a school textbook/reader.
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posted by suburbanbeatnik
on Jun 11, 2010 -
2 answers
Help me find the title of this YA book I've been searching for for 30 years! Two female friends time travel back to old New York. Published in the late '60's or early '70's in hardcover. That's all I recall, except that I loved it.
Thanks!
posted by kidelo
on May 28, 2010 -
9 answers
Please identify this Tom Baker-era Doctor Who episode. I saw it once when I was a child. All I remember from it was the Doctor fixing K-9 and time becoming a loop around him.
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posted by Sticherbeast
on May 24, 2010 -
8 answers
Can you recommend any good stories/books that deal with unobtrusive time travel tourism? Tourists from the future going back in time to view historical events, or catch a glimpse at a historical person, but not interacting or interfering in any way, shape, or form... read-only time travel, if you will.
posted by bjork24
on Sep 14, 2009 -
15 answers
Another forgotten book from childhood. Time travel/survival. Dinosaurs. And yes, it vibrates. Help?
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posted by rokusan
on Aug 26, 2009 -
9 answers
Want to help remember a book title? 'Course ya do! It's from the 80s and, if I remember correctly, involves some kids that discover a new game at the local arcade. There's a pilot's helmet on top of the machine, and when they try it on and attempt the game they find they can travel through time. I believe the cover was a picture of the machine and the helmet. At one point they use it to break into a research facility or something, but before that I think they go back too far and it's still being built (leading to some fretting about jumping forward in time and ending up halfway through a wall or floor). I know somebody out there can field this one!
posted by Monster_Zero
on Jun 23, 2009 -
2 answers
Looking for science fiction movies/TV shows in which a military force (consisting of aliens or humans, good or evil) has tactically used time travel as a means to win a war.
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posted by np312
on Apr 18, 2009 -
16 answers
What is the name of this children's novel that includes time travel, Ben Franklin, some kids and a professor, and two versions of the same character, one of which is from several days in the future?
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posted by Tin Man
on Mar 28, 2009 -
12 answers
Help with my homework filter!! I want to compile a list of time travelers from literature, television and cinema. I am looking for a couple specific attributes.
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posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Mar 9, 2009 -
35 answers
What is the "striped time line" theory of time travel? My coworker keeps talking about it and can't quite catch it. It is apparently explored in one of the Dragonball series, but I can't find anything about it online. This is, of course, flabbergasting because, well, Anime + time travel /= Google paydirt?!?!?! Anyone got the skinny?
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posted by es_de_bah
on Feb 2, 2009 -
4 answers
Young adult novel filter: A child visits a place (house? castle? other world?) and gets stuck in time there. Eventually he goes back and visits his parents, who are horrified that he has stayed the same age.
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posted by NoraReed
on Jan 22, 2009 -
7 answers
I am looking for a movie I saw clips from back around 2000 or so. It is a movie about time travel. I think someone from the future is coming back to kill or kidnap a scientist.
The distinct part is, the visual style. I remember it being still pictures with transitions between them, with the actors talking. Sometime like 1 picture ever 1-2 seconds.
posted by JonnyRotten
on Jan 21, 2009 -
8 answers
Which-Movie-Filter: A movie about a girl who travels in time, and is possibly dead.
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posted by esilenna
on Nov 15, 2008 -
7 answers
[Irritating-mystery filter] Of magical elevators, murder mysteries, Kenwood mixers and time travel: please help me identify this tv programme I watched once as a child!
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posted by badmoonrising
on Oct 13, 2008 -
8 answers
How do I deal with new iPhone calendaring weirdness? Bonus difficulty: live in one timezone, work in another.
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posted by griffey
on Jul 18, 2008 -
2 answers
How do I find the modern geographical location of an old Hawaii address that no longer exists?
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posted by zippy
on Jun 30, 2008 -
6 answers
There was a post (I believe on Boing Boing) a few months ago about a sci-fi short story in the form of an internet message board. The message board was for a group of time travelers, and the new members were always being scolded for going back in time and killing Hitler (this was against the rules, as without Hitler we wouldn't have many technologies, etc etc). I have Google strings that I've tried inside...
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posted by pedmands
on May 14, 2008 -
14 answers
I'm trying to make an expansive and widely-varied reading list of time-travel books and stories. Suggestions?
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posted by scarylarry
on Mar 11, 2008 -
43 answers
Kennedy assassination time traveller short story - anybody know who wrote it or what it was called?
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posted by joannemerriam
on Feb 24, 2008 -
9 answers
Can you think of time-travel puzzle rooms for my D&D mini-campaign? (2 other categories of puzzles I'd like are described inside)
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posted by TimeTravelSpeed
on Jan 6, 2008 -
10 answers
DoctorWhoFilter: When something bad happens to the doctor, why doesn't he just go back in time and fix it? He doesn't seem to have a problem with fiddling with time, so why not?
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posted by ranglin
on Dec 19, 2007 -
17 answers
In middle school I read a story about time-travel. Can you help me identify it based on these inaccurate and erratic details?
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posted by sambosambo
on Dec 14, 2007 -
4 answers
Is there any time travel fiction based on the idea of only sending signals/information into the past?
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posted by clockworkjoe
on Dec 9, 2007 -
41 answers
They tell us that future travelers in high-speed spaceships will have their perception of the passage of time distorted by relativity effects, but what about the more mundane problem of earth-bound time zones? I can't figure out when my birthday is...
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posted by woodblock100
on Jun 20, 2007 -
16 answers
Yet another Sci-Fi ID request: I once read a tongue-in-cheek short story involving a fidgety time travel portal, dinosaurs, and culinary adventures.
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posted by Johnny Assay
on Apr 15, 2007 -
6 answers
