As a lover of science fiction and the time travel stories, in 2022, I started trying to write up the types/styles of fictional time travel I’ve encountered.
By no means is this exhaustive, but it’s where I got to:
- Predestination - deterministic, will always be that way
- Butterfly effect - changes beget exponential changes
- Time as a force - resists change, often forcing a predetermined outcome
- Predictably changeable - changes what you’d expect
There are also some common scenarios: