# Time Travel in fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-in-fiction/1019240 "2025-06-05T18:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-in-fiction/1019240/57 "2025-06-05T19:25:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > As far as which one did the best job with the time travel, my pick is 12 Monkeys. I agree that is a very good pick, but I think the end of _2001: A Space Odyssey_ is even better, because nobody understands it; it makes no sense. Which seems fittingly unsatisfactory to me. Another thing that worries me is that nobody in this thread has mentioned Stanislaw Lem’s Ijon Tychy, in particular [The Seventh Voyage](https://nwbooklovers.org/2019/12/16/the-seventh-voyage-star-diaries-by-stanislaw-lem/). Is Lem that little known in the USA? That would be a pity. I think I should page the guy who is **[pretty good at SF Story Identification](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417)**: @Andy_L, what is your take on Lem? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-in-fiction/1019240)._