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In reply to the discussion: I remember an SF short story where somebody tried to time travel to the past and ended up way out in space. [View all]highplainsdem
(61,086 posts)14. Raccoon, that's the same title and author I gave you earlier, with links to 4 web pages about it. But the
quote Goonch has there could not have come from that Neal Shusterman story, where the time traveler is a girl named Marla who travels exactly one year into the future (hence the title, Same Time Next Year).
https://readmeastoryink.com/stories/same-time-next-year/
Marla Nixbok thinks she is a girl of the future and can't stand the dweebs surrounding her. A perfect candidate for the dusty and forgotten time machine in the dead professor's basement. Too impatient to test the machine, she hops aboard and heads one year into the future where she belongs... And she materialize in the exact same spot, exactly one year ahead, but the earth and the sun have moved on and Marla has a fleeting second to see the infinite cold and empty space which surrounds her.
That's nothing like the quote Goonch posted:
Goonch
11. How about....
3:55 PM
"Same Time Next Year"
by Neal Shusterman.
It was famously published in the horror anthology Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II
(1996).
.
"Elias punched the coordinates for
1924 into the brass console, desperate to see his grandmother one last time. He pulled the lever, expecting the smell of ozone and the sight of her garden; instead, he was met with an absolute, crushing silence .
When the flash faded, there was no garden. There was no air. Through the reinforced glass of his pod, Elias stared at the cold, indifferent glow of distant nebulae [3]. He hadn't accounted for galactic driftwhile he had traveled back a century in time, the Earth had continued its relentless orbit around the Sun, and the Sun had continued its 500,000-mile-per-hour sprint around the Milky Way.
He had reached the right time, but the Earth was billions of miles away . He was a ghost in the vacuum, a man who had forgotten that in the universe, you can never go back to the same place twice"
Which is why I asked where he got that quotation.
I googled it, and none of the sentences turned up in search results.
I also searched for time travel stories with a main character named Elias, and couldn't find one.
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I remember an SF short story where somebody tried to time travel to the past and ended up way out in space. [View all]
raccoon
Thursday
OP
In one of the St. Mary's books Max and Eddy leave 18th century London in a hurry end up at the beginning of time.
Srkdqltr
Thursday
#1
Well, I read it ages ago, so it had to have been written as early as mid 20th century.
raccoon
Thursday
#3
Goonch, where did you get that quote? I've looked at a number of web pages about that story, and
highplainsdem
Thursday
#12
Raccoon, that's the same title and author I gave you earlier, with links to 4 web pages about it. But the
highplainsdem
Thursday
#14
Goonch, I really would appreciate your explaining where you got that quote. If it's from a website,
highplainsdem
Thursday
#15
Thank you, so much, for explaining what happened! I thought it could be a chatbot, but without
highplainsdem
Friday
#19
You may quote my posts in context if you also quote entirely my following inquiry to and responce from Google AI
Goonch
Friday
#20
I'm just going to summarize what happened, because with that long message you just posted from that
highplainsdem
Friday
#21
Thanks! It can be hard to keep track of all the various AI and chatbot models.
highplainsdem
Friday
#24
Possibly Neal Shusterman's "Same Time Next Year" - though the time travel is to the future:
highplainsdem
Thursday
#8