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Stack Overflow: Space-Time Sci-Fi

June 22, 2026June 22, 2026Jonathan H. Liu

The reason I’m calling today’s column “space-time” is because I’ve got two books set in space and two about time travel.

Stack Overflow: “Great Scott!” 6 Books About Time Travel

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack is about—you guessed it!—time travel.

Stack Overflow: Tripping Through History

July 14, 2025July 13, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack: time travel books about visiting the past!

Stack Overflow: Portals to the Past

May 26, 2025May 25, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

If I’m going to finish all the time travel books in my queue, I’ll need a time machine!

Stack Overflow: 4 Time Travel Tales

April 28, 2025May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

It’s that time again … again! Today’s stack includes four very different stories involving time travel.

Stack Overflow: Out of Time

July 29, 2024May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack involves characters moving through time in unusual ways.

Stack Overflow: Lost in Time

March 4, 2024May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack includes several books about jumping around in time—not all of them are exactly time travel, but they do involve moving through time in an unconventional manner. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard This story takes place in a valley with an unusual geography: across the mountains to either side of the valley […]

Stack Overflow: Time Tripping

February 5, 2024May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

It’s been a little while since my last time-travel column, but I’ve got a couple of books for you this week!

Kickstarter Tabletop Roundup: Time Travel, Spooky Stories, and Mysterious Messages!

July 16, 2020May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Perhaps to make up for the lack of a convention season, publishers are launching Kickstarter games at a dizzying pace, and it’s awfully hard to choose what to back.

Trick-Taking + Time Travel = ‘Time Chase’

October 20, 2019May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

You’ve invented a time machine—but your colleagues are trying to go back in time and take the credit for themselves! (Or maybe that’s what you’re doing?) At any rate, it’s time for a ‘Time Chase’!

Kickstarter Tabletop Roundup: Folding Time, Folding Space, Folding Wings

April 17, 2019May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

It’s Kickstarter board game season! Here are several games I’m following lately.

Explore Time Travel in an Excerpt of ‘Here and Now and Then’

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019Jonathan H. Liu

Read an excerpt from Mike Chen’s upcoming time travel novel, ‘Here and Now and Then’!

Introducing the ‘Recorded Tomorrow’ Podcast

November 17, 2018May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

My friend Jesse Ferguson and I have now started a podcast all about time travel called ‘Recorded Tomorrow,’ and the first two episodes are live now!

Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Travel Back in Time to ‘The Perfect Moment’

November 7, 2018May 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

If only. Those two short words divide what actually happened from what could have been. Now’s your chance—can you go back and create ‘The Perfect Moment’?

Stack Overflow: Time Travel Books … for Kids!

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Jonathan H. Liu

Want a little more time travel than setting your clocks back an hour? Here are some fun stories about time travel … for kids!

Stack Overflow: 5 Time Travel Stories

October 30, 2017December 30, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

Guess what? It’s time for some more time travel stories!

Stack Overflow: Double Time

July 3, 2017Jonathan H. Liu1

Today’s column is about one of my favorite topics again: time travel.

Stack Overflow: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey

January 23, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

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.

Stack Overflow: Best Books of 2016

January 9, 2017Jonathan H. Liu3

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.

Stack Overflow: Out of Order

October 24, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

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.

Stack Overflow: Progress Report

September 12, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

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.

Stack Overflow: It’s About Time

June 20, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

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.

Stack Overflow: Double Lives and Second Chances

May 23, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

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.

Binge Watch ‘Outlander’ Before April 9th

March 29, 2016Marziah Karch2

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).

Timelooper: The App That Turns Your Phone Into a Time Machine

March 18, 2016December 13, 2017Lisa Natcharian1

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?

Review: ‘Seconds’ by Bryan Lee O′Malley

March 1, 2016Mariana Ruiz

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.

'Medusa's Web' — Time Travel With a Twist

January 18, 2016James Floyd Kelly1

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.

Top 9 ‘Back to the Future’ Trilogy Questions Left Unanswered

October 21, 2015Matt Blum9

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?

Can “Regular Show: The Movie” Cash in With Streaming?

August 29, 2015Patricia Vollmer

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.