I remember an SF short story where somebody tried to time travel to the past and ended up way out in space.

[raccoon]

Might have been Asimov, not sure. Anyone know?

[Srkdqltr]

1. 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.

[Goonch]

2. Got any more details?

[raccoon]

3. Well, I read it ages ago, so it had to have been written as early as mid 20th century.

[Goonch]

4. I mean details in the story

[raccoon]

5. Sorry, I can't remember. THanks.

[Goonch]

6. Not to beat a dead horse but: Was the main character male or female .....

was there a time machine involved? Could this have been a tv episode or was it a magazine?

[raccoon]

9. It was a man, a short story in a collection of short stories.

[Goonch]

11. How about....

"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"

[highplainsdem]

12. Goonch, where did you get that quote? I've looked at a number of web pages about that story, and

the time traveler who dies is a girl named Marla. The other main character is a boy named Ford, whose scientist father had disappeared.

The pages I looked at included the ones I mentioned in my earlier reply here, and an Amazon review. All referring to Marla. No mention of any character named Elias.

Google

"neal shusterman" "same time next year" marla

I tried googling several different sentences from the quote you have there, and Google couldn't find any of them.

The Neal Shusterman story I posted about earlier is in that anthology. But what you have as a quote there sure doesn't match the descriptions of the story I found on multiple sites.

[raccoon]

13. That might've been it fits all the criteria.

All the criteria that I remember, which isn’t much. Thanks.

[highplainsdem]

14. Raccoon, that's the same title and author I gave you earlier, with links to 4 web pages about it. But the

quote Goonch has there could not have come from that Neal Shusterman story, where the time traveler is a girl named Marla who travels exactly one year into the future (hence the title, Same Time Next Year).

https://readmeastoryink.com/stories/same-time-next-year/

Marla Nixbok thinks she is a girl of the future and can't stand the dweebs surrounding her. A perfect candidate for the dusty and forgotten time machine in the dead professor's basement. Too impatient to test the machine, she hops aboard and heads one year into the future where she belongs... And she materialize in the exact same spot, exactly one year ahead, but the earth and the sun have moved on and Marla has a fleeting second to see the infinite cold and empty space which surrounds her.

That's nothing like the quote Goonch posted:

Goonch
11. How about....
3:55 PM
"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"

Which is why I asked where he got that quotation.

I googled it, and none of the sentences turned up in search results.

I also searched for time travel stories with a main character named Elias, and couldn't find one.

[highplainsdem]

15. Goonch, I really would appreciate your explaining where you got that quote. If it's from a website,

it should be corrected, and Neal Shusterman should be told about it so he can contact them.

If it was in a reply from some AI model - you have referred to AI before - then it's important to remember that chatbots are infamous for inventing fake quotes, even if they refer to real sources. The need to check every single thing AI says is why it's usually a waste of time to ask an AI model anything.

[marcopolo63]

7. The Google AI provided this...

- "The Seesaw" by A.E. van Vogt: The protagonist travels further and further into the past and future, eventually causing the Big Bang by releasing accumulated temporal energy, placing him outside normal space-time.

- Doctor Who (The TARDIS): The TARDIS is designed to travel through both time and space simultaneously. While it often lands on Earth, it frequently lands in deep space or on alien planets throughout the series.

- "The Star Diaries" by Stanislaw Lem: The main character, Ijon Tichy, travels in a "chronocycle" and frequently crashes into objects because his calculations fail to account for where Earth was previously located in space.

- Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005): Two brothers find a board game that transports their house directly into outer space.

- Time Trap (2017): A group of students exploring a cave experience time dilation, where they find themselves in a drastically different, futuristic setting that is isolated from the rest of the world.

- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Spider Robinson): A short story features a character who nearly asphyxiates because a time jump miscalculation leaves her floating in Earth's orbit.

[highplainsdem]

8. Possibly Neal Shusterman's "Same Time Next Year" - though the time travel is to the future:

And no, I haven't read it. I simply googled

time travel end up in space story

and the very first link was this Reddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/zyxm7h/tomt_book_a_short_story_about_time_travel_that

Short summary of the story on another website:

https://readmeastoryink.com/stories/same-time-next-year/

It was first published in 1993.

Another description of the story here:
https://jojosbizarrebookblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/darkness-creeping-twenty-twisted-tales-by-neal-shusterman-part-1/

The web page below mentions a number of possibilities:

https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Time_and_Relative_Dimensions_In_Space

[raccoon]

10. Thank you all!

It might have been one of the stories someone mentioned. I guess now a lot of writers have used this idea.

You guys came up with some good suggestions to read.