The Time Traveler's Wife

Today, the Ethan Hawke-starring time travel flick Predestination hits theaters. Like many time travel movies, it pays homage to the old-school Robert A. Heinlein short story “—All You Zombies,” which established many of the tropes of the genre, but in this case at least, it’s justified: it’s actually a loose adaptation of Heinlein’s award-winning tale. Without ruining too much of […]

I will never forget the two days I lost to the astonishing novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, in which an artist falls in love with a man who travels, unwittingly and uncontrollably, through time. It wasn’t the story alone that held me rapt, but the spell the author wove, with prose so […]

It’s often noted that happiness is terrible fodder for fiction. Outside of comedies, most stories run on an engine constructed from tragedy, betrayal, and sorrow (unless we’re talking sci-fi and fantasy, which prefers vampires, ray guns, and children chosen by magical prophecy to save us all). This may explain why there are precious few happy marriages in […]

Time Travel is high on our Wish List of Impossible Things. Granted, we’re thinking of the sort of time travel you see on Doctor Who: the ability to freely travel to just about any point in time (or space), as the spirit wills us. Pull a lever, visit the end of the universe. Push a button, pop into […]