Physics:Time slip
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means.[1][2][3]
The idea of a time slip was used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep.[4] Time-slip stories were popularized at the end of the century by Mark Twain's 1889 historical novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which had considerable influence on later writers.[5]
Time slip is one of the main plot devices of time travel stories, another being a time machine. The difference is that in time slip stories, the protagonist typically has no control and no understanding of the process (which is often never explained at all) and is either left marooned in a past or future time and must make the best of it, or is eventually returned by a process as unpredictable and uncontrolled as the journey out.[6] In realistic fiction and memoir, the research and archival processes are often built into the story, as part of the protagonist's, and reader's, journey of discovery.
The plot device is also popular in children's literature.[7][8]
See also
- Time travel in fiction
- Time loop
- Accidental travel
References
- ↑ Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature, "Timeslip romance", p. 357
- ↑ Anders, Charlie Jane (12 June 2009). "Timeslip romance". io9. http://io9.com/tag/timeslip-romance.
- ↑ Palmer, Christopher (2007). Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Reprint ed.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-853236184. https://books.google.com/books?id=fsaGaFoH8UYC&pg=PA146. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ↑ Lee, Maggie (12 April 2016). "Film Review: 'A Bride for Rip Van Winkle'". https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/a-bride-for-rip-van-winkle-film-review-1201739913/.
- ↑ James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9781107493735. https://books.google.com/books?id=zWzlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA106. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ↑ Schweitzer, Darrell (2009). The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews (1st ed.). Rockville, Maryland: Borgo Press. p. 112. ISBN 9781434403209. https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-vjhQqE_cC&pg=PA112. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ↑ Lucas, Ann Lawson (2003). The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-313324833. https://books.google.com/books?id=3mBA_EHrxvEC&pg=PA153.
- ↑ Cosslett, Tess (1 April 2002). ""History from Below": Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity". The Lion and the Unicorn 26 (2): 243–253. doi:10.1353/uni.2002.0017. ISSN 1080-6563. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/35545/pdf. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
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