the Time Machine (a time machine)
time shuttles and timecycles (space-time machines)
mutant power (for time travel, not for space-time travel)
time corridors (built in space, rotated onto the temporal axis)
the time projector (a time machine)
the TARDIS (a space-time machine, extra-dimensionally bigger inside than outside)
Wardens and Rangers use time corridors whereas their successors, the time wardens, use flying carriers which are also time machines.
That is all for this post but it is a lot.
8 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Until Stirling joined him Anderson was the best at writing time traveling stories.
Ad astra! Sean
I left out the means of time travel that simply puts someone into the past.
Kaor, Paul!
Such as accidents like the American soldier thrown back to Viking age Iceland in "The Man Who Came Early."
Ad astra! Sean
That as well.
I was thinking of machines that send or project the traveller as in BRING THE JUBILEE, "The Little Monster" or SM Stirling's new series.
Kaor, Paul!
All of these are good examples. Did you get a copy of TO TURN THE TIDE yet?
Ad astra! Sean
Not yet. Probably waiting for paperback.
Note that since I'm not a physicist and don't have any earthly idea how time travel would work, I usually depict it from the viewpoint of characters who have no earthly idea what's going on. They just get transported in time and it's a complete mystery to them.
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: A trade paperback of Stirling's book might be one option.
Mr. Stirling: I noticed that in TO TURN THE TIDE. I do understand not all SF writers will be scientists, as were Hal Clement, Pournelle, and Anderson.
Ad astra! Sean
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