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New Video: Time Travel in Fiction Rundown

🕑 Added 2017-10-26 15:23:25 +0000 UTC

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Kevin Iga

12 Monkeys is also self-consistent. Then there's "All You Zombies", a short story by Heinlein that is the first self-consistent time travel story as far as I can tell. The Man In the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell (book) takes the opposite approach (sort of) but goes crazy with it. Wikihistory is a short story by Desmond Warzel that you can find online, which is the most fun: there the self-consistency only happens because of internet pedants. Cursor*10 is a fun game similar to Braid, but much simpler.

Jason Hise

I am going to highly recommend checking out Predestination. I'm kind of assuming you haven't seen it yet because I think it would have been in the video if you had! It's my gold standard for sophisticated time travel governed by consistent rules.

Christopher Macrander

So I know there are endless sci fi books out there and not all could possibly be mentioned, but for fun I'd like to share some this reminds me of. The novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" is an excellent example of logically consistent, Harry-Potter-style time travel. Several different Kurt Vonnegut books fit in different places, e.g. Time Quake, where everyone goes back in time but has zero free will for the overlap. Then there's an especially weird version of time travel in The Book of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe where some characters live backwards in time... sort of. When interacting with a normal person, things seem normal, they can speak to each other and have a logical forward-in-time conversation, but on the next encounter between these characters, the backward-traveling character won't remember the first encounter because it was (is?) in their future.