Editing Time travel

'''Time travel''' is a plot device which has become a recognized staple of [[science fiction]] and [[fantasy]]. It involves sending people and/or objects from one time to another. No analog of time travel has ever been known to exist in documented reality.

==Time travel in "[[The Barbecue, the Movie, & Other Unfortunately Not So Relevant Material]]"==
Sometime between the 500th and 600th centuries, '''time travel''' permission was rationed out to certain individuals for a variety of reasons. For example, graduate student [[Lasoporp Rof]] was permitted to travel to 13th-century [[Mongol Empire (Barbecue)|Mongolia]] to interview [[Genghis Khan (Barbecue)|Genghis Khan]]. However, he mistakenly landed in 1980s [[Los Angeles (Barbecue)|Los Angeles]] in the office of a different [[T.G. Kahn|Genghis Kahn]].

==Time travel in ''[[Broadway Revival]]''==
The key to '''time travel''' was discovered in the mid-21st century. It was limited to only traveling back in time; going forward was still impossible in 2079. Time travel was controlled by a multinational organization, dubbed the [[Rippers]] (a nod to Rip van Winkle), which kept all but the basics of the process a secret.<ref>''[[Broadway Revival]]'', pg. 6, loc. 54, ebook.</ref> 

One of the loudest opponents of time travel was the government of [[China (Broadway Revival)|the People's Republic of China]]. Indeed, the Chinese government worked very hard to keep even the concept of time travel out of popular culture. However, there was little doubt that the Chinese government had built its own time machine separate from the international body.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

During the course of their travels, the Rippers learned that changes in the past did not rewrite the present. Instead, changes created parallel timelines, dubbed [[Splinterverse]]s. The first Spinterverse was formed in [[Germany (Broadway Revival)|Germany]] in September 1524. The second was formed in [[England (Broadway Revival)|England]] in 1796. These were both accidents, and were first formed/detected by the Rippers in 2074. The third, a world where [[Franz Ferdinand (Broadway Revival)|Franz Ferdinand]] was not assassinated, was deliberately created with the financial backing of [[France (Broadway Revival)|France]].<ref>Ibid. pg. 76, loc. 1084.</ref>

[[David Greenbaum]] created a fourth Splinterverse when he traveled back to 1934 in to try to prevent the premature deaths of several key figures of [[Broadway]] theatre.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was largely successful, and the main timeline began to obtain the projects that were unique to that Splinterverse. In response, in 2089, the German government created a Splinterverse where [[Wolfgang Mozart (Broadway Revival)|Wolfgang Mozart]] didn't die at age 35. The entertainment world began proposing Splinterverses centered on a number of artists throughout history who died prematurely.<ref>Ibid., pg. 456, loc. 6638.</ref>

==Time travel in "[[The Catcher in the Rhine]]"==
[[Regin Fafnirsbruder (The Catcher in the Rhine)|Regin Fafnirsbruder]] discovered the magic of '''time travel''', and used it to transport a young 20th-century man, whose name sounded like [[Hagen Kriemheld]], to ancient [[Isenstein]]. Regin's plan was to drive the young man like a wedge between [[Brunhild (The Catcher in the Rhine)|Brunhild]] and [[Siegfried (The Catcher in the Rhine)|Siegfried]], but this did not work out.

==Time travel in "[[Character (F&SF Story)|Character]]"==
Fictional character [[Steve (Character F&SF Story)|Steve]], who knew he was a fictional character, was initially irritated that his [[Unnamed Author (Character F&SF Story)|author]] decided to use Steve in a '''time travel''' story, as he was of the opinion that there was nothing new to add to the "drop-someone-into-the-past" genre. However, after he spent the story in medieval [[Japan (Character F&SF Story)|Japan]] inside the body of the legendary [[Benkei (Character F&SF Story)|Benkei]], Steve appreciated the journey.<ref>''Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', March/April 2021</ref>

==Time travel in [[Crosstime Traffic Series|Crosstime Traffic]]==
Although [[Galbraith and Hester]] invented travel between [[alternate]] present days in the mid 21st century, '''travel back and forth in time''' remained eternally elusive from science.

==Time travel in "[[Death in Vesunna]]"==
The [[Time Patrol]] was the official arbiter of '''time travel''', but outlaw commerce also existed.

[[Mark Alvarez]] and [[Lou Muller]] traveled back in time from 2059 to 147 in the [[Roman Empire (Death in Vesunna)|Roman Empire]], evading the Patrol. Intending only to purchase lost works of literature, they wound up [[Clodius Eprius|murdering a local]], and were captured by [[Vigil|period law enforcement]].

==Time travel in ''[[The Guns of the South]]''==
'''Time travel''' was possible by 2014 in the [[OTL|original timeline]] whence the "[[Rivington Men]]" of "America Will Break" (a group of ''Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging'' members) originated. The machine had a limitation in that it could send people and things exactly 150 years back and forward in time. In 2014 they stole a machine and imported men and materiels to 1864 to alter the course of the [[American Civil War (The Guns of the South)|American Civil War]].

The Rivington Men succeeded in creating a [[Confederate States (The Guns of the South)|Confederate]] victory in the "[[Second American Revolution]]". However, they were unable to maintain their hold on the government in the post war years and [[Richmond Massacre|rebelled]]. In the government's [[Rivington|hunting down]] of the terrorists, all of the AWB men were killed or captured, and their time machine was destroyed in the battle.

==Time travel in "[[Hatching Season]]"==
'''Time travel''' was commonly used to study animals of the Mesozoic Era.

==Time travel in "[[Hindsight]]"==
[[Michelle Gordian]] '''traveled from 1988 to 1949''' to save [[America]] from its dark history in the intervening decades of the [[OTL|original timeline]]. By 1953, she had popularized several true stories of her world's 1960s and '70s in the form of pulp fiction, but history as a whole had not yet shown any appreciable signs of [[Point of Divergence|change]].

==Time travel in ''[[Household Gods]]''==
In 1999, obscure [[Roman Empire (Household Gods)|Roman]] deities [[Liber and Libera (Household Gods)|Liber and Libera]] were more than happy to grant [[Nicole Gunther]]'s wish that she could live in the days whence they came, instead of modern [[los Angeles (Household Gods)|Los Angeles]]. The two gods, taking the wish for a real prayer, obliged by sending Gunther to ancient [[Carnuntum (Household Gods)|Carnuntum]], and placing her consciousness into the body of [[umma|a local woman]] in the year 170.

After a year and a half of living in the 2nd century, Gunther begged the two gods to return her to the 20th century. Though puzzled, as they regarded Roman times as much the better period of the two, the good-natured gods again granted her wish.

==Time travel in [[Justin Kloster Stories]]==
[[Justin Kloster]] invented '''time travel''' in 2018 based on the [[Superstrings (Justin Kloster Stories)|theory of superstrings]].

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==Time travel in "[[Lure]]"==
'''Time travel''' made the [[San Diego Cenozoic Zoo]] possible.
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==Time travel in "[[A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]"==
In 1963, disgusted with the idea that the [[John F. Kennedy (Massachusetts Yankee)|Kennedy Administration]] had taken the nickname "Camelot", a young [[British]] druid named [[Duncan Morris]] cast a spell that '''sent Kennedy back in time''' to the original [[Cam'lod'n|Camelot]]. Kennedy had an erotic misadventure in the past with [[Guinevere (Massachusetts Yankee)|Guinevere]], wife of the absent [[King Arthur (Massachusetts Yankee)|King Arthur]]. Guinevere and Kennedy blackmailed [[Merlin (Massachusetts Yankee)|Merlin the magician]] into sending Kennedy back to his own time, and he returned to the exact instant he had left.

==Time travel in "[[Under Coogan's Bluff]]"==
After '''time travel''' was invented in the 21st century, it became a fad for modern [[baseball (Under Coogan's Bluff)|baseball]] teams to go back into the past to play against historic legends. An example was the game where the [[Los Angeles Angels (Under Coogan's Bluff)|Los Angeles Angels]] from 2040 faced off against the [[New York Giants (Under Coogan's Bluff)|New York Giants]] on their home turf in 1905.<ref>https://sabr.org/journal/article/under-coogans-bluff/</ref>

==Time travel in "[[We Haven't Got There Yet]]"==
An unknown force sent a troupe of actors performing on [[London (We Haven't Got There Yet)|London's]] stages '''from 2066 to 1606'''.

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