Regrets. Everyone has them. I should have. I would have. I could have. These phrase have shown up in countless stories because nearly everyone can relate to them and because nearly every author can "write what they know" when writing regrets.
In science fiction this often takes the form of time travel stories. What if you could go back and change whatever you regret? What if you just had five more minutes?
There are the big names of course. Dr. Who is based on this concept. Quantum Leap is too. But nearly every science fiction franchise has done an episode, a chapter, a book on time travel.
One of the classics is "A Sound of Thunder" that uses the imagery of the butterfly effect to illustrate the concept of changing time. But the trope of wanting five more minutes go back even further. There is the ancient tale of the lover who ventures down into the underworld to retrieve a lost mate (and ruins it for the rest of us).
So what is your favorite take on getting five more minutes?
In science fiction this often takes the form of time travel stories. What if you could go back and change whatever you regret? What if you just had five more minutes?
There are the big names of course. Dr. Who is based on this concept. Quantum Leap is too. But nearly every science fiction franchise has done an episode, a chapter, a book on time travel.
One of the classics is "A Sound of Thunder" that uses the imagery of the butterfly effect to illustrate the concept of changing time. But the trope of wanting five more minutes go back even further. There is the ancient tale of the lover who ventures down into the underworld to retrieve a lost mate (and ruins it for the rest of us).
So what is your favorite take on getting five more minutes?
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