The DeLorean, classy though it may be, has a serious drawback, the whole 88 MPH thing. And unless you’ve got the deluxe package having to come up with plutonium for every trip can be a real hassle. Just thought of another one, the timebelt from “The Man who folded Himself”. Some nifty features on that one, including a recall button which takes you back to your last point of departure just in case you land in the middle of nasty goings on.
Another serious drawback is that it can be programmed for Year Zero. There was no such thing; the calendar went directly from 1 BC to 1 AD.
Does stopping time count as time travel? If so, I would go with the gold watch from “The Girl, The Gold Watch And Everything” by John D. MacDonald.
“Tempus unum hominem manet” - “Time Waits For One Man”
I vote Ziggy from Quantum Leap.
1 BC = 0 AD; problem solved. Just hope that Doc never slipped up on any Y2K compatibility or Julian calendar conversion or precession of the equinoxes or something, or you could end up in big trouble.
If stopping time counts, I’m reliving certain parts of Nicholson Baker’s The Fermata. Only certain parts though. I’m not sick.
Well, I’m not *that *sick.
During the Bicentennial, the USPS issued a stamp commemorating the Boston Tea Party. A collector asked my college Astronomy professor to verify that the phase of the Moon it showed was correct. He did a string of calculations that demonstrated it wasn’t and submitted the story to ***Astronomy ***magazine, which printed it.
After a few days, he got a call from the stamp’s designers saying he’d gotten it wrong. When he asked what was wrong with his method, it became clear they hadn’t the faintest idea—they were just plugging numbers into some computer program.
He eventually realized he’d forgotten to allow for precession of the equinoxes. He redid the calculations and found the phase was indeed correct. Just goes to show… :smack:
In my experience, Tequila works in much the same fashion.
Now that is one of the best time travel books I’ve ever read. The logic of changing time, layer after layer, and multiple instances of oneself is explored in detail.
Jeepers, Mr Peabody! He can’t do that! That’ll f**k everything up! :eek:
Six tried.
It could mean that this show inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance… Almost as if it were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum.
On the other hand it could just be an amazing coincidence.
:smack:
My thought process went something like “What was the name of that novel? No, it wasn’t The Currents of Space; it was the other one.”
Now that I stop to think about it, The Stars Like Dust was the one with the hamhanded resolution based on the US Constitution. Which was utterly forgettable, which explains why I forgot it (but then had an orphaned title without a plot attached floating around in my brain).
You mean, like “The Omega Glory”? :dubious: 
Since we’re talking about time machines, that reminds me of the Omega-13, that turns back time by 13 seconds in Galaxy Quest.
Did I miss a mention of Abraham Lincoln’s time machine, as shown on SNL? It gets extra points for starting out as a paddle boat.
took 21 posts, but yes, at least it has the best style:D
Flash’s Cosmic Treadmill - Dammit, if you’re gonna break the laws of physics, you’re gonna work for it!!
also
The Mobius Chair - Nothing shows you’re the master of time and space like a throne! Badass and chill at the same time.
Something not often appreciated about the Land of the Lost was that the whole thing was one big time machine. An artificial spacetime bubble that worked by briefly intersecting with our universe at different points in space and time.
Four tried, although that turned out to be a subconscious suggestion planted by the Master and the whole effort was sabotaged.