Contemporary Time Travel Fiction

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.

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,...

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.

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...

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?

Moving to New York City is supposed to prove cynical twenty-three-year-old August right: magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist. But then, she meets this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help Jane.

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....

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.

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.

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 Kenna Scott finds herself broke and alone, she risks everything and takes a job that will set her up financially for life. She won’t be rich, but at least she’ll never have to worry about starving to death or not having a roof over her head. The wilful, independent junior lab technician from Chicago knows the job she signed up for is way over her pay grade: Time travel – she had no idea it was even possible before she agreed to this mission. Kenna travels back to the Old West to find an engineer who has vanished from a base located near the bustling town of Forest Hills. But when...

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.

Aus dem Jahr 2062 ins mittelalterliche Irland - für Zeitreise-Studentin Alison sind solche Zeitsprünge nichts Ungewöhnliches. Ungewöhnlich ist jedoch, dass sie von der unbeteiligten Beobachterin zur Beobachteten wird. Gregor ist der Name jenes Mannes, der sie auf ihrem Streifzug durch die Zeit erspäht und kurzerhand gefangen nimmt. Er sieht in ihr die Chance, mehr über seine Zukunft und eine Prophezeiung zu erfahren, die er vor vielen Jahren in einem alten Buch entdeckt hat. Gefangen in einer düsteren Zeit voller Gefahren muss Alison entscheiden, ob sie ihrem Entführer vertrauen kann.

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.

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.

Everything has changed. Buildings, the landscape, the country, the people, life. Mya remembers the past - some of it - and believes the future is too hard. It's been years and she is still alone, lost in memories, her heart aching for her love. Her Highlander. Kayden. Unsure if she can find the pieces of the puzzle of her life again, she returns to a place where all her memories seem to focus on. The crashing waves, the rolling hills...and Kayden. Will Mya and Kayden find a way through the loophole of time?

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.