Explore Time Travel in an Excerpt of ‘Here and Now and Then’
Read an excerpt from Mike Chen’s upcoming time travel novel, ‘Here and Now and Then’!
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Tag: Time Travel
Stack Overflow: Time Travel Books … for Kids!
Want a little more time travel than setting your clocks back an hour? Here are some fun stories about time travel … for kids!
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Stack Overflow: 5 Time Travel Stories
Guess what? It’s time for some more time travel stories!
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Stack Overflow: Double Time
Today’s column is about one of my favorite topics again: time travel.
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Stack Overflow: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey
As promised in my Reading Resolutions, I’ve been collecting more time travel stories. Here are a few titles coming next month (plus one older book) about going backward, forward, and sideways in time.
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Stack Overflow: Best Books of 2016
I always like to look back on what I read in the previous year, because it reminds me of things I enjoyed, things I learned, and things that surprised me. Here, a few of us share our favorite reads of 2016.
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Stack Overflow: Out of Order
Maybe we’re uncomfortable with our present and wish we could change it. Maybe we’re optimistic about the future and can’t wait to get there—or pessimistic but we want to get a glimpse for ourselves. Maybe we just want to see some dinosaurs. Whatever the reason, it seems we never run out of stories to tell about manipulating time.
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Stack Overflow: Progress Report
At the beginning of this year, I made a list of “Reading Resolutions,” books that I resolved to read during the course of 2016. As we approach the last quarter of the year (how did that happen?), I thought I’d check in and what I’ve done so far, and what I’ve got left.
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Stack Overflow: It’s About Time
Following up my Stack Overflow column about double lives, today’s column is all about time—time machines and time manipulation. And one that’s not exactly about time travel but uses a writing structure that lets the reader manipulate time.
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Stack Overflow: Double Lives and Second Chances
I’ve always loved time travel stories, although I have to admit that my own use of time travel would probably be most like the dad in that movie ‘About Time’: when asked what he did with his ability to time travel, he said mostly he read a lot of good books.
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Binge Watch ‘Outlander’ Before April 9th
If you’ve never had the chance to watch ‘Outlander,’ Starz is giving you a chance to catch up before the second season begins. After April 9, you’ll need a Starz subscription or to buy the series on DVD/streaming media (currently about $40).
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Timelooper: The App That Turns Your Phone Into a Time Machine
Why do we love to visit locations with historic significance? Because in our minds, we’re LARPing! But what if we didn’t have to rely on our imaginations to experience noteworthy events in history when we travel? What if we could effectively travel back through time to see what happened at the very spot where we stand?
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Review: ‘Seconds’ by Bryan Lee O′Malley
How many times can you change the course of your life? What if you knew you could go back and fix it? The author of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ tackles this question in one epic graphic novel.
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'Medusa's Web' — Time Travel With a Twist
At least once or twice a year, I manage to luck into discovering a book or two that offers up a truly new twist on a traditional science fiction element. Well, 2016 is off to a great start because I’ve just had a new novel drop onto my doorstep that has shown me that good authors aren’t running out of new ideas any time soon, especially when it comes to time travel tales.
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Top 9 ‘Back to the Future’ Trilogy Questions Left Unanswered
Since you’re on the internet, you know today is the day Marty McFly arrives from 1985. But what questions do the ‘Back to the Future’ films leave unanswered?
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Can “Regular Show: The Movie” Cash in With Streaming?
While her tween sons enjoyed “Regular Show: The Movie”, Patricia is still flummoxed at the blatant “Back to the Future” and “Bill & Ted” references and that the ovie would be for sale in September…before it’s to be shown on Cartoon Network in November.
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Same Geek Channel Review: ‘Flash’ Episode 116 “Rogue Time”
We all knew this week was going to be a reset but who knew that reset would be so anti-climatic?
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Same Geek Channel Review ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Episode 318 “Tempus Fugit”
‘Sleepy Hollow’ has its season finale… or is it series finale? We’ve no word yet. Is this the end of the show for our favorite Witnesses? If so, was it a worthy send-off?
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Same Geek Channel Review ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Episode 217 “Awakening”
With the short second season almost over, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ brings an episode that will leave you wanting more.
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Tragedy Looper: A Puzzle of a Game
Tragedy Looper is a game about a group of Protagonists traveling back in time to prevent a Mastermind from instigating various tragedies. Or it’s a game about a Mastermind plotting various tragedies while meddling time-travelers keep getting in the way.
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Random Geek Roundup #8
Welcome to the eighth irregular installment of Random Geek Roundup! This is where I collect a variety of links and sites and products that have come across my virtual desk in recent days. Just because you’ve discovered a specific interesting tidbit doesn’t mean that everyone has. So in the spirit of sharing awesome, here is the next collection of links.
Continue ReadingTravel Through Time in Legacy: Gears of Time
Time travel to the past is a tricky subject. Never mind that it’s impossible; what about the tech tree? If nobody discovered writing, what would become of the Internet? That’s the sort of question that you’ll get to explore in …
Continue ReadingAfter This, There Is No Other Story
Do you need a bit more silliness in your life? Would you like it to come along with a healthy dose of family devotion, stick-to-it-iveness, and time travel? Then the newest and last book in Dr. Cuthbert’s fantastic series of …
Continue Reading10 Things You Should Know About Looper – With a Few Spoilers!
Leave the kids at home when you head out to see the new time travel flick Looper, opening today. In the future, the mob uses outlawed time travel to send victims 30 years into the past where they are executed …
Continue ReadingMad Genius Girl Is Back in Oh No! Not Again!
The little girl whose science project nearly destroyed the world is back, and this time she’s messing with the space-time continuum. You see, she missed a question on her history test about the location of prehistoric cave paintings. Obviously the …
Continue ReadingWould You Save the Titanic?
If someone were to give you a time machine set to April 14, 1912, and asked you to go back in time and save the Titanic, would you do it? Before you answer that question, you’ll probably want to first …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Giveaway: Gadabout TM 1050 Manual
If you read about the Gadabout TM 1050 owner’s manual on Wednesday and really wished you could have one for yourself, here’s your chance to win one for free! Curio & Co., purveyors of fine imaginary nostalgic items, is providing …
Continue ReadingTime Travel Is a Breeze With the Gadabout TM 1050
Ever feel like you just don’t have time? Of course you do. That’s the nature of our world. We have too much to do, not enough time to do it. If only you had a time machine, you could read …
Continue ReadingRidiculous Awesomeness From Another Whole Nother Story
Sequels. Some are bad. Some are worse. But some match the quality and excitement of the first, perhaps even surpassing it. The sequel to 2009′s A Whole Nother Story, Another Whole Nother Story is everything a sequel should be. It …
Continue ReadingVive la Resistance! Terminator: 1984
With the upcoming cinematic re-release of Back to the Future, you’ll get a chance to head back to 1985 and hang out with Marty McFly and Doc Brown. And now, thanks to Dark Horse Comics, you can step back one …
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