FROM ANCIENT HINDUS TO 18TH CENTURY DUKES BY CAR OR HYPNOTISM IT’S VERY POPULAR

Almost 90 here today…I had to have the air on last night to get a decent sleep. I KNOW SHUT THE UP.

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What would help my sleep:

“He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

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Today I thought I’d do another time thing to celebrate the jump forward

TIME TRAVEL HAS BEEN A POINT OF INTEREST IN MANKIND LONG BEFORE CLAIRE WENT THRU THE STONES TO MEET HER SCOTTISH SOUL MATE JAMIE in the books 20 years ago and in the OUTLANDER TV show in 2014.

Modern fiction is full of the genre. While Claire’s journey appears to be some type of portal which I accessible at only given times of year and accessible by only certain persons other writers have used multiple ideas. in LADY OF HAY Barbara Erskin has her heroine Jo pitched back in time when she is hypnotized for a series of articles she is writing. During the hypnotic sessions she finds herself reliving the life of Matilda The Lady of Hay in the time of King John. But even after the episode is over she continues to return to the past at increasingly frequent intervals until she is enmeshed in the life of the woman dead centuries before.

But we are not original in our stories of time travel. There are Hindu stories (Mahabharata) in 700 B.C. which deal with traveling to many worlds and returning to find centuries have passed….not quite time travel but close?

Maybe one of the best remembered in “Modern” fiction is Dicken’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL where Scrooge travels to his past and future though this one again doesn’t quite make my requirements as it does not involve any real interaction of the character and the times, people and places he was viewing.

The late 19th century seemed very fruitful for time travel with authors like Mark Twain (A Yankee in the Court of King Arthur/1889) and H. G. Well (The Time Machine/1895) writing of time travel with Well’s book seeming to me to be one of the definitive early time travel examples, though I loved Twain’s story more. It also might be noted that Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in Godey’s Lady Book (A Tale of the Ragged Mountain/April 1844) much earlier in the same century though I’ve never read that one.

The best selling Time travel book of all time: according to Good Reads is THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE By Audrey Niffenegger (With the original OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon coming in 2nd and H.G. Well’s classic third and a novel by Stephen King and one by James Finney rounding out the top 5 )

In modern fiction time travel continues to take some bizarre turns with Lauren Beukes’ novel The Shinning Girls dealing with a serial killer who is a time traveler and Michael Crichton (best known for his restored dinosaurs) gave us archeologist (in Timeline) who find an up close and personal involvement with the past they are studying when they are returned in time to rescue a colege.

And of course there were movies with one of the best considered to be Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox seeming to garner the most popular across the board with a car time machine and a young man trying to remake his life in three different movies and time periods. In most top 5’s are 12 Monkeys (now a TV show too) with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, a bizarre movie of time travel and insane assylums, The several versions of Well’s Time Machine (the most notable being one made in the 60’s) are varied but popular as well as Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the Terminator 2.

My favorite in the category is a silly little piece where Hugh Jackmon, an English nobleman in New York to find a Rich American wife in the 18th century follows a man back thru a time warp into 20th century where he falls in love with a very modern young woman, Meg Ryan. Kate & Leopold will never win any Sci-fi awards but it qualities for Fairy Tale TIME TRAVEL. And makes me smile so that works for me.

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Mar 11, 2015 13:00:21 PDT