DeLorean time machine DeLorean time machine The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the "Back to the Future" franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean DMC-12 car, to gain insights into history and the future. Instead, he ends up using it to travel over 30 years of Hill Valley history (from 1985 to 2015) with Marty McFly to change the past for the better and to undo the negative effects of time travel. One of the cars used in filming is on display at Universal Studios Hollywood
Time travel in fiction the past is Ray Bradburys "A Sound of Thunder" (1952), in which the protagonists are big game hunters who travel to the distant past to hunt dinosaurs. An early example of the other type, in which tourists from the future visit the present, is Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttners "Vintage Season" (1946), a story which was selected for inclusion in Volume Two of "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame" collection. Instances of immortality are prevalent in time travel fiction. Oxford defines immortality as "the ability to live forever; eternal life." A distinct sub-thematic characteristic is warnings of said time-traveling