Contemporary Time Travel Fiction

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....

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.

He loved to jump out of planes, jump off buildings, and jump her pants any chanes he got. Cadence is forced to answer this challenging question when her daredevil fiancée is involved in a helicopter crash. She feels helpless, wishing she could turn back the clock and prevent her love from attempting his death defying stunt. Watching the rescue attempt play out on live television, Cadence nervously fiddles with an antique music box, a comforting inheritance from her deceased parents. The winding key, forever frozen, suddenly moves, and Cadence is transported twenty four hours into the past,...

Thora and Santi have met before. Under the clocktower in Central Cologne, with nothing but the stars above and their futures ahead. They don’t know it yet, but they’ll meet again: in numerous lives they will become friends, colleagues, lovers, enemies - meeting over and over for the first time, every time; each coming to know every version of the other. Only they can make sure it’s not for the last time. But as they’re endlessly drawn together and the lines between their different lives begin to blur, they are faced with one question: why?

Middle school is the worst, especially for David Bravo. He doesn’t have a single class with his best (okay, only) friend, Antoine. He has to give a class presentation about his heritage, but he’s not sure how—or even if—he wants to explain to his new classmates that he’s adopted. After he injures Antoine in an accident at cross-country practice, he just wishes he could do it all over.

One day, NICK and BEE cross paths over a misdirected email. The connection is instant, electric, they feel like they’ve known each other forever. Nick buys a new suit, gets on a train. Bee steadies her nerves, gets a pep talk from her best friend Leila. This is it. Except it isn’t. Because as they prepare to meet under the clock at Euston station, the universe throws in a twist you’d never see coming . . .

Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom, Priscilla, who is a first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader and expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge fight, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s...alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla.

For stage magician Quinn Bradley, he thought his time in Alissia was over. He’d done his job for the mysterious company CASE Global Enterprises, and now his name is finally on the marquee of one of the biggest Vegas casinos. And yet, for all the accolades, he definitely feels something is missing. He can create the most amazing illusions on Earth, but he’s also tasted true power. Real magic. He misses it. Luckily - or not - CASE Global is not done with him, and they want him to go back.

When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.

Es ist wirklich nicht leicht, die Auserwählte der Elfenwelt zu sein, wie Felicity Morgan täglich feststellen muss. Statt der erwarteten Lobeshymnen steht sie jetzt plötzlich unter Mordverdacht und der Elfenkönig ist persönlich hinter ihr her. Da hilft es auch nicht wirklich, Leander FitzMor, den bestaussehendsten Typen Londons, an seiner Seite zu haben, vor allem nicht, wenn man sich seiner Absichten nie ganz sicher sein kann.

Alice Stern isn't ready to turn 40. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard Stern, an eccentric novelist—but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a 16th birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood.

Three-year-old Vangie is mute and unresponsive. She shows no interest in the people or world around her, much to the frustration of her callous foster parents. Little do they know, Vangie is otherwise occupied observing “ghosts”—an infinite number of versions of herself, in an infinite number of parallel universes. When a tornado hits their trailer and Vangie is severely injured, she makes a desperate leap into another timeline where she survives the tornado, but her foster parents do not.

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...

Reaching through The Knot Hole to past moments in time....Taryn always wondered about how realistic her mothers’ tales were that she was told. They seemed like fantastic and fun adventures. Now with Taryn's mother gone, she will realize that her mother wasn't just telling stories....she was really living them. Time has passed and Taryn has uncovered the power of The Knot Hole and the travels that await her. The Knot Hole, The Passage, and The Muse - the three audiobooks in The Crossing Series - will take you on a journey from many years past to the present.

Eine Liebe durch Raum und Zeit. Die Geschichte um Alison und Gregor geht weiter. Nach den tragischen Ereignissen der letzten Monate will Alison nur eins: zurück zu Gregor. Doch als sie sich im Venedig der 18. Jahrhunderts auf die Suche nach ihm macht, erlebt sie eine böse Überraschung. Denn ihre große Liebe tritt unter dem Namen des berühmtesten Schürzenjägers der Geschichte auf – Giacomo Casanova.

Alisons Reise ins Holland des 17. Jahrhunderts beginnt dramatisch: Erst stürzt sie in eine Gracht und ertrinkt fast, und dann sieht sie sich auf einmal Gregors Ehefrau gegenüber. Hat ihre große Liebe sie etwa nach all den Jahren vergessen? Dass Alison nicht auf dem Absatz kehrtmacht und zurück in ihre Zeit reist, hat sie ihrer besten Freundin Melissa zu verdanken, die plötzlich vor Gregors Türschwelle auftaucht. Ihr ist es gelungen, Alison durch die Zeit zu folgen.

Erst die schmerzhafte Trennung von Gregor, und dann gibt es auch noch Streit zwischen Alison und ihren besten Freunden Melissa und Ben. Da kommt die Flucht in eine andere Zeit gerade recht. Alison reist ins Norwegen des 8. Jahrhunderts. Eigentlich hatte sie gehofft, Gregor wiederzusehen und mehr über die apokalyptische Prophezeiung in Erfahrung zu bringen. Doch dann kommt alles anders: Alison gerät in den erbitterten Kampf zwischen zwei Wikinger-Clans und muss sich in einer Welt voller blutiger Schlachten und nordischer Götter-Mythen behaupten.

Alison et Grégoire Entretemps. Der Eintrag in das Personenregister des Französischen Hofes führt Alison geradewegs in das Jahr 1558. Schon bald findet sie sich inmitten von höfischen Intrigen, romantischen Liaisons und Machtkämpfen rund um die schottische Königin Maria Stuart wieder. Und dann ist da natürlich noch der Kuss mit Gregor, der Alison nicht aus dem Kopf gehen will... Gar nicht so einfach, dabei die eigentliche Aufgabe im Blick zu behalten: Denn Alison und Gregor müssen den Zeitreisenden finden, der im 16. Jahrhundert alles durcheinanderwürfelt und dadurch die Zukunft in Gefahr bringt.

Die Fortsetzung des Welt-Bestsellers "Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird" mit vier magischen Geschichten aus dem magischen Café. Wenn du in die Vergangenheit reisen könntest, wen würdest du gern wieder treffen? Der zweite Teil der magischen Cafè-Reihe "Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird", erzählt vier berührende Geschichten von Menschen, die in die Vergangenheit reisen. Sie erhalten die Chance, vergangene Situationen zu verändern, Dinge, die sie bereuen, wieder gut zu machen.

When the World Was Younger is the story of a Princeton grad student whose life takes a drastic turn when she agrees to meet three fellow researchers for drinks one Friday evening. Two years later, after scientific breakthroughs, the world's first trip back in time, an attempted rape, and a suicide, she is the last of the four remaining on the field, and decides to use the device they have built, to trade her quiet life of research for one of adventure and glamour.