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Goonch

(4,432 posts)
11. How about....
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 04:55 PM
16 hrs ago

"Same Time Next Year"
by Neal Shusterman.
It was famously published in the horror anthology Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II
(1996).

.
"Elias punched the coordinates for
1924 into the brass console, desperate to see his grandmother one last time. He pulled the lever, expecting the smell of ozone and the sight of her garden; instead, he was met with an absolute, crushing silence .
When the flash faded, there was no garden. There was no air. Through the reinforced glass of his pod, Elias stared at the cold, indifferent glow of distant nebulae [3]. He hadn't accounted for galactic drift—while he had traveled back a century in time, the Earth had continued its relentless orbit around the Sun, and the Sun had continued its 500,000-mile-per-hour sprint around the Milky Way.

He had reached the right time, but the Earth was billions of miles away . He was a ghost in the vacuum, a man who had forgotten that in the universe, you can never go back to the same place twice"

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In one of the St. Mary's books Max and Eddy leave 18th century London in a hurry end up at the beginning of time. Srkdqltr 21 hrs ago #1
Got any more details? Goonch 21 hrs ago #2
Well, I read it ages ago, so it had to have been written as early as mid 20th century. raccoon 20 hrs ago #3
I mean details in the story Goonch 20 hrs ago #4
Sorry, I can't remember. THanks. raccoon 20 hrs ago #5
Not to beat a dead horse but: Was the main character male or female ..... Goonch 20 hrs ago #6
It was a man, a short story in a collection of short stories. raccoon 16 hrs ago #9
How about.... Goonch 16 hrs ago #11
Goonch, where did you get that quote? I've looked at a number of web pages about that story, and highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #12
That might've been it fits all the criteria. raccoon 14 hrs ago #13
Raccoon, that's the same title and author I gave you earlier, with links to 4 web pages about it. But the highplainsdem 13 hrs ago #14
You're right. It was. raccoon 4 hrs ago #16
Goonch, I really would appreciate your explaining where you got that quote. If it's from a website, highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #15
You're right. AI confessed.....your point is well taken! Goonch 1 hr ago #17
The Google AI provided this... marcopolo63 19 hrs ago #7
Possibly Neal Shusterman's "Same Time Next Year" - though the time travel is to the future: highplainsdem 19 hrs ago #8
Thank you all! raccoon 16 hrs ago #10
highplainsdem is correct. AI fabricated Goonch 1 hr ago #18
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