Ten Time Travel Links

Ten Time Travel Links

1. Modelling Time Travel in Fiction.
2. NOVA on Time Travel.  (Includes Carl Sagan on Time Travel section)
3. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Time Travel.
4. Brian's views on Time Travel--a painless, quick read.
5. Professor Ronald Malett intends to build a Time Machine.
6. Time Bandits--the best Time Travel Movie ever.
7. How Stuff Works talks about Time Travel, or perhaps you'd prefer Time Travel in Physics.
8. A nice introduction to currently trendy terms and theories for Time Travel. (With Graphics)
9. List of Time Travel in Fiction at Wikipedia as well as a good discussion of the Mechanics of Time Travel itself, plus a Bonus: Another list of 2,916 works of fiction based upon the theme of Time Travel from SciFan, and another list at Online Books, and one more at Chrononautics.
10. Adventures in the Fourth Dimension.

Bonus: We wanted to include Edmund Hamilton's pulp classic serial The Time Raiders, which originally appeared in Weird Tales during the late Twenties, but we couldn't locate an online copy, so here's a link to his excellent story The City at World's End instead. Hamilton's work is being re-issued by Haffner Press in a very nice set of collections.

Ten Public Domain Time Travel Books

1. When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells  -- details  (Classic Movie) also: The Sleeper Awakes
2. The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells  -- details (Classic Movie) also: The Angel of the Revolution (read it)  and Kipling's With The Night Mail at Forgotten Futures
3. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells  -- details  (Classic Movie)
4. A Crystal Age by W. H. Hudson -- details (or) Equality by Edward Bellamy  -- details (both Utopian/Dream stories) [or try A Week in the Future...]
5. The Nightland by William Hope Hodgson -- details  (An Essential Resource for Zalchis) [also The Dream of X]
6. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain  -- details
7. The British Barbarians by Grant Allen  --  details
8. The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit -- details  (With The Original Pictures!)
9. The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs  -- details (James D. Bozarth's excellent summary)
10. Voyage to the Land of the Fourth Dimension by Gaston de Pawlowski  -- details

There will be more Time Travel stuff to come...

In the meantime, see our posts: The Time Travelers and The Time Tunnel.

It's 1984 all over again...

Goblinoid Games has recently purchased the rights to the old Pacesetter game Timemaster. You can read the details at the Goblinoid Games site. Or you can check out the Goblinoid Games Forums.

You can get a PDF-version of the original Pacesetter rules by going to DriveThruRPG--it's $4.99 for the Core Rules, and several of the old supplements and adventures are also available.

What a fun development! We're looking forward to how this game might interact/integrate with Mutant Future, for example...though it probably won't. Unless someone goes to a lot of trouble. But if you like the system, maybe it'll serve as the engine for still more games...

Should be interesting...

Weapons of the Future (Actual Weapons)

Here's a quick list of actual real-world weapons that are just crying out to be statted-up and brought into a Mutant Future or Terminal Space game.

AA-12 Shotgun

Airborne Laser

Bangalore Blade

Battlefield Drones
Parrot
Predator

Beowulf 50-Calibre Assault Rifle

Kitty Cornershot

Mercury Round

Metal Storm

M32 Grenade Launcher

SMAW

Tavor Urban Assault Rifle

XM8 Assault Rifle

X Net Vehicle Arrest Net

Zen Buddhism  Yeah; Zen Buddhism.