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* In the second or third ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' book, {{spoiler|Scatty and Joan get sent back in time by Dee. They are both immortal, so it is rather puzzling why they don't show up again older, having waited through the intervening millennia. Maybe they got killed in the meantime? Or they could show up, I've only read through the third book. }}

* In Robert Wilson's ''[[Spin]],'' the Earth has been trapped in ''fast'' time. Our near-future heroes decide to use slow time to find a solution, by sending a colony ship to Mars, outside the time-effect. A week after launch, the distant descendants of the colonists return to Earth...

* In [[Harry Harrison]]'s ''The Technicolor Time Machine'', the plot follows a film crew who use a [[Mad Scientist]]'s time machine to film a movie about [[Horny Vikings|Vikings]] for cheap. They use The Slow Path approach several times, such as leaving a script writer on an uninhabited island in the past for several months (his time), which for them took several seconds. They also end up sending a Viking named Ottar to Vinland by ship in order to film him getting there, while all they have to do is use the time machine. They also end up accidentally leaving their star actress behind when jumping forward by a year. They find her again as Ottar's wife and the mother of his child.

* Shows up in the final ''[[Time Scout]]'' book. It's a very risky maneuver; time gates aren't permanent. No matter how stable, any gate risks going unstable and disappearing.