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{{Infobox book
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| title = 11/22/63
| caption = First edition cover
| author = Stephen King
| central theme = Time Travel, Destiny
| elevator pitch = Upon learning of a portal leading to the late 1950s, an English teacher pledges to spend five years in the past, so he can prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
| genre = [[Historical Fiction]]
| publication date = November 8, 2011
| source page exists =
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
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'''''11/22/63''''' is a [[Historical Fiction]] novel written by [[Stephen King]].
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* [[The Alleged Car]]
* [[Anachronism Stew]]:
▲* [[The Alleged Car]] - When Jake tries to change the past, every single car he touches turns into this.
* [[And I Must Scream]]:
▲* [[Anachronism Stew]] - One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.
▲* [[And I Must Scream]] - The Guardians. They are not only confined to an extremely small area (in this case over a [[Squick|broken sewer pipe]]), {{spoiler|but the Time Travelers' effects drive them all insane.}}
* [[Arc Words]]: '''JIMLA!'''
** Life turns on a dime.
** The past harmonizes.
* [[The Alcoholic]]:
*
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]:
* [[Butterfly of Doom]]:
* [[CIA Evil, FBI Good]]:
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** The number 19 crops in a few places. An example would be Jake's safe deposit box number being 775. This may make this book fit in with The Dark Tower series.
*** One of the cars seen in the {{spoiler|[[Bad Future]]}} is a Takura Spirit, also from The Dark Tower series.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]:
* [[Cool Car]]:
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]
* [[Domestic Abuser]]:
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]:
* [[The Fifties]]:
* [[For the Evulz]]
* [[Grandfather Paradox]]:
* [[Historical Domain Character]]:
* [[Grays Sports Almanac]] - Al's notes. Some of which are actual sports scores for betting purposes.▼
* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]:
▲* [[Historical Domain Character]] - A chunk of the book is Epping keeping a close eye on Lee Harvey Oswald and monitoring his life and relationships with friends and family.
* [[It's for a Book]]:
▲* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]] - Extends it to every major event in history. {{spoiler|It turns out that changing such events can and often ''will'' lead to a slow-but-certain [[Time Crash]], other nasty side effects notwithstanding. Jake finds this out the [[Bad Future|hard]] [[Crapsack World|way]].}}
▲* [[It's for a Book]] - Jake's original cover story as to why he was traveling to Dallas. Eventually, he actually started writing a book.
* [[The Mafia]]:
▲* [[John F. Kennedy]] - Saving him from death is the main plot point.
▲* [[The Mafia]] - Jake wins a few longshot bets from them to fund his time in the past. {{spoiler|It burns him when he doesn't account for their ''interstate'' connections.}}
* [[My Beloved Smother]]{{context}}▼
▲* [[Mommy Issues]] - Oswald has these.
* [[Politically-Correct History]]:
▲* [[My Beloved Smother]]
* [[Portal to the Past]]:
▲* [[Politically-Correct History]] - Averted. While traveling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
* [[Reset Button]]:
▲* [[Portal to the Past]] - At the back of a diner. Turns out that's where the owner is [[Mundane Utility|getting an amazing deal on meat]].
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]:
▲* [[Reset Button]] - Anyone who travels through the portal overwrites the actions of the previous person. {{spoiler|Zack Lang a.k.a. the Green Card Man hints that there may be a lot more work involved offstage.}}
▲* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]] - Affects anyone in immediate proximity to the portal. Although {{spoiler|having to reconcile multiple alternate realities can be bad for your mental health.}}
▲* [[Russian Guy Suffers Most]] - Lee's Russian bride Marina certainly has it worst.
* [[Shown Their Work]]:
▲* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] - That's the plan at least.
* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]:
* [[Time Travel for Fun and Profit]]:
▲* [[Shown Their Work]] - King did extensive research on what life on the 50s and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.
▲* [[
▲* [[Somebody Else's Problem]] - Jake notes humorously that the broken sewer pipe never gets fixed in any of the alternate realities.
▲* [[Time Travel for Fun and Profit]] - Al Templeton used the portal to get meat from the same day in 1958 and make a profit selling it for cheap in the present. As a result, everyone assumes that he's using roadkill in his burgers.
* [[Time Crash]]:
▲* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] - Jake and Sadie.
* [[Time Police]]:
▲* [[Time Crash]] - {{spoiler|As it turns out, changing major events in history usually causes this to happen, albeit slowly. While the time-space continuum can handle minor, insignificant changes to the past, it ''isn't'' strong enough to handle the two radically different timelines that result from major alterations such as the one Jake causes}}.
▲* [[Time Police]] - There are 'guardians' of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them{{spoiler|, along with the time-space continuum itself,}} worse for the wear.
* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]:
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]:
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
{{quote|I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.}}
* [[Who Shot JFK?]]:
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]:
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[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Literature]]
[[Category:Literature]]▼
[[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]
[[Category:Literature of the 2010s]]
▲[[Category:English Literature]]
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