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{{quote|''Time travel is theoretically impossible, but I wouldn't want to give it up as a plot gimmick.''|'''[[Isaac Asimov]]'''}}
 
{{quote|''(For related tropes, see [[Time Travel Tropes]])''|TV Tropes}}
 
A time travel story can simply use time travel as a vehicle to get the hero to the [[Adventure Towns]], or the [[Phlebotinum]] involved can be a key plot driver. No matter what story type the hero is going to need a [[Time Machine]] or [[Time Master]] to get around. Time Travel stories seem to fall into several categories:
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See also [[Temporal Mutability]] for the very tricky problem of how (or even if) you can change the future or the past.
 
See also [[Meanwhile in the Future]], [[What Year Is This?]], the other [[Time Travel Tropes]], and this [[wikipedia:Time travel|Wikipedia entry]].
 
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Mentioned in the end, since this series uses (and spoofs) ''every single trope'' listed above:
 
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''Hanville Svetz'' series of time travel short stories, collected in ''[[The Flight of Thethe Horse]]'' - where time travel is impossible in the real world, and every excursion that the protagonist makes is into a parallel, ''fantasy'' world that then directly affects his own. The reason for the jaunts? Well, the Secretary General of the UN in the series is a ''little'' mentally retarded, and the protagonist is sent back in time to recover animals that the SG has seen in recovered children's books. You see, they don't exist in the heavily polluted future... to the extent that, in one story where the proliferation of cars did not take place due to time meddling, one of the supporting characters has to breathe ''exhaust fumes'' from a internal-combustion car to stay alive. As is the case with most of Niven's work -, it's all scientifically justifiable using the science known at the time of authorship.
 
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