Contemporary Time Travel Fiction

After eight years of brutal war, victory is finally in sight. The forces of North America stand united, one final enemy stronghold left to conquer. Santiago Silva—Santi to those who know him—leads the charge, his magic commanding the winds. But just as the end seems near, a desperate enemy ritual goes awry, flinging Santi back in time.

After becoming trapped in present-day Bath due to a mishap with her time-traveling charm, Jane Austen is safe and sound back in the 1800s thanks to Rose Wallace’s help. Now, Rose is ready to focus on her fledgling romance with dreamy Dr. Aiden Trevellyan. But when Jane reappears in the present, it looks like Rose and Aiden have no choice but to follow her back to 1813....

In a world where death has become predictable, one girl holds the key to saving time itself. Sixteen-year-old Lena Mitchell has always seen people's death dates floating above their heads—a curse she's kept secret her entire life. But when everyone in her small town suddenly shares the same expiration date, she realizes her curse might be the only thing standing between her community and annihilation. As a shadowy tech corporation's temporal experiment spirals out of control, Lena must join forces with Marcus, a mysteriously immune teenage barista, and Jimmy, the son of a brilliant ...

Imogen and her family are in hiding on Earth. It is only a matter of time before they are hunted down by the dark forces of the corrupt Holan regime. Imogen has stolen Kekara’s sacred stone, but can she uncover the shocking secret it hides? Or learn the truth behind the powerful Tractus technology, capable of jumping a person through space and time?The future of both her own people and the human race is at stake. With Araz and Naomi held prisoner on Holis, Imogen must uncover the terrible secrets alone and decide if her destiny lies on Earth or Holis. "A wonderful reading experience." 5* ...

Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different.

Freddy doesn't want people to think she's weird. Her family makes that difficult, though: her deaf stepbrother Roland's a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel's training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. All Freddy wants is to survive high school. Then two extremely odd neighbors move in next door. Cuerva Lachance and Josiah definitely aren't normal. Neither is their house, which defies the laws of physics. Neither is Freddy's situation, when she suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors.

After accidentally triggering a time portal they didn’t even know existed, Tinker, Nicole, and Cade find themselves lost in time. Among strangely familiar faces and events no one should ever relive, they are urged to work together to find a way to get home. But time is not the only thing triggered, and when Nicole begins to slowly get her memories back, new challenges arise, proving that she is more powerful than she remembers. As new revelations make her doubt everything she believes, she’ll need to understand what the Corpse King wants before it is too late.

Zara and Merlin secretly married on earth. Family chaos ensues. Her grown sons must be included in the Royal Wedding. A meddling mother-in-law who can change her molecular structure in an instant. Meddlesome wizards are keeping tabs on their protégé. Powerful, demanding, aggravating brothers. Traveling between worlds with different time spans and different terminology. A royal wedding the likes Quixotic hasn’t seen in decades. Unexpected news. Can Zara handle the beings she’s encountered, the shifting world of Quixotic; the changes her mind and body are experiencing? The intrigue? ...

"Every bit as mind-bending and captivating as classic Murakami." -- Rusted Reviews “Stick with it to the plot twist and then you won’t want it to end.” -- A Feast of Books -------------------------------------------------- Why did she die? How much did I really know her? These are the questions Benny asks himself after finding Staci in the bathtub with her wrists slit. He spirals into a bout of depression. Two weeks later, she reappears as if nothing happened. But only for one night, and then she’s gone again. Two weeks later, it happens again, forcing Benny to ask himself a new set...

Volume Three. Once Kahlil had been entrusted with a holy duty: to watch over the Rifter and protect him in the world of Nayeshi until the Issusha’im Oracles decided whether to summon the destroyer god or kill him while he remained a mortal in Nayeshi. But Kahlil failed his duty, slipping away to rescue his sister from a fire and in that moment allowing the Rifter to cross into the world of Basawar. Desperate, Kahlil followed the Rifter. But the Great Gate had been shattered, and Kahlil suffered catastrophic injuries to both his body and his mind during the crossing between worlds. He has ...

Kelly’s favorite aunt Claudia has passed away, and Kelly has come to Pasadena to settle her aunt’s estate and prepare her bungalow to put up for sale. It’s while she’s cleaning out the attic that she discovers things about her aunt’s past that make her question everything. Was her aunt married? If so, who was that man at the cemetery? After reading the stack of love letters between Claudia and William, Kelly sees that a simple wrong assumption changed everything. If only she could go back and make things right…

This collection of unabridged, unforgettable tales, written by some of science fiction's most esteemed authors, pays homage to one of the genre's most cherished story types. Whether time travel stories leap forward in time or slip into the past, they remain popular with fans.

When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends (including his betrothed, Kat) find themselves stranded in modern-day LA via a magical portal and an evil traitor named Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum - soon. Then they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants to get out of the system and on with her life. As she and Cedric bond, they'll discover that she's more connected to his world than they ever could've imagined...and that finding home is no easy task.

Try as we might, rarely do we receive second chances to fix previous indiscretions… In the case of Dez Hourie, a sergeant in the top-secret Hyperphonic division of the U.S. Air Force, she’s about to experience one of those supposed instances. With her superiors clamoring to shut down the program due to their dissatisfaction with the results thus far, Dez is backed into a corner considering the military’s reluctance to use human test subjects. If the program is disbanded, who knows where they’ll send her next? Things become even more complicated once she runs into an old “friend,...

Some lives are bigger than one reality. Because they have to be. The day Mara Lantern meets herself, her life gets bigger. When she meets her brother from an alternate universe, it becomes more complicated. And when her new mentor says creatures from other realms are invading this world, she thinks it’s absurd. Until he explodes into a cloud of dust and reassembles himself. That makes her doubt. Then he says only she can stop the invaders. That makes her afraid. -------- Join Mara Lantern and her companions in a seven-volume science fiction adventure through reality, time and space, where...

The purpose of this audiobook was to explain something beautiful that doesn't exist yet. It explores time travel as precognitive dreaming, dematerialization with secret time machine technology and through consciousness travel, lucid dreaming, and remote viewing. It also examines various reports of time slips, dimensional doorways, claims of time travel, the physics of time travel, and the nature of timelessness and non-linear causality.

Bite-Sized Books, in conjunction with Schmall World Publishing brings you - TIME TRAVEL UNRAVELLED: From Sci-Fi Fantasy to Scientific Fact. The concept of time travel has captivated human imagination for centuries, appearing in various forms across cultures and eras. From ancient myths to modern literature, time travel serves as a narrative device that allows exploration of past events, future possibilities, and the consequences of altering timelines. In many cultures, stories of time manipulation often reflect deeper philosophical questions about fate, destiny, and the nature of existence....

GENIES GRANT YOU THREE WISHES RIGHT? When Langley Roberts releases a genie from a vintage purse, he expects her help in ending the witch's spell that trapped him inside. How's she supposed to do that? Oh, sure, just fall in love with him! Ha! So not happening. Genie Russell Carr's experience with women taught him their love can be bought. So all he has to do is give Langley three wishes, and like other women, she'll fall in love, returning him to his life as a successful bootlegger in 1929. Langley's not playing the love game, but her heart goes out to Russ for being dumped into her world. ...

In Book four, the saga rewinds back to Hamilton, Nebraska as the Ennis family struggles for answers for Devon and Chris’ disappearance near the great tree, Idresil. With Thomas Hayden, Jr also missing and presumed dead, the towns people, including his father and Sheriff Callahan, are at a loss to understand their fate. The search for answers, led by Benjamin Ennis takes many twists and turns as his own life as well as Abby Callahan Middleton’s is in compromise. When history repeats itself and old threats become new again, he calls upon the spirits that reign in the lights to help him ...

Vier Geschichten, die uns lehren, aus der Vergangenheit über die Zukunft zu lernen und den Blick nach vorn zu öffnen. Was wäre, wenn du in die Vergangenheit reisen könntest? Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird erzählt die Geschichte von einem magischen Sessel in einem sehr besonderen Café in Japan. Wer sich in diesen Sessel setzt, darf in die Vergangenheit zurückreisen, aber nur solange, bis »der Kaffee kalt wird«. Das Café trägt den Namen »Funiculi Funicula« und zieht viele Menschen unwillkürlich an, weil sie das Bedürfnis verspüren, die Vergangenheit noch einmal zu durchleben.