Misplaced Pages

#52947

43-855: Hiatt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brenda Hiatt , American author Fred Hiatt (1955–2021), American journalist Howard Hiatt (1925–2024), American medical researcher, father of Fred Hiatt Jack Hiatt (born 1942), American former baseball player John Hiatt (born 1952), American musician Lester Hiatt (1931–2008), Australian anthropologist Phil Hiatt (born 1969), American former baseball player Ruth Hiatt (1906–1994), American actress Sam Hiatt (born 1998), American soccer player Shana Hiatt (born 1975), American model Fictional characters [ edit ] Kevin Hiatt , fictional television character on The Shield See also [ edit ] Hiatt, Missouri ,

86-437: A respirator . Objects left behind by time travellers obey 'reverse thermodynamics;' for example, bullets shot or even simply deposited while traveling backward fly back into (forward traveling) guns. Protagonists do not travel in time but perceive other times through a record . Depending on the technology, they can minimally consult the record or maximally interact with it as a simulated reality that can deviate causally from

129-643: A self-published six book young adult science fiction romance series. Hiatt's first single title historical romance, Scandalous Virtue , was named Best Romance Novel of 1999 by the American Book Readers Association and, like many of her books, is of the Regency Romance genre. Her one time travel romance , Bridge Over Time , presents an unusual spin in the time travel genre as it features two heroines who trade places in time and gives equal time to both. Her works include

172-416: A "necessary distancing effect" that allows science fiction to address contemporary issues in metaphorical ways. Time travel in modern fiction is sometimes achieved by space and time warps , stemming from the scientific theory of general relativity . Stories from antiquity often featured time travel into the future through a time slip brought on by traveling or sleeping, in other cases, time travel into

215-626: A career in romance fiction, since 1990. She participates every year in the organization's Readers for Life Literacy Autographing, which has raised more than $ 300,000 for adult literacy. In 1999, Hiatt won the American Book Readers Association Award for best romance novel for the book Scandalous Virtue . Time travel in fiction Black holes in fiction • Portable hole • Teleportation in fiction • Wormholes in fiction • Stargate • Warp drive • Hyperspace • Time travel in fiction Time travel

258-670: A community in the United States Hiatt & Co. A defunct UK based handcuff manufacturer best known for their Speedcuffs . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Hiatt . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hiatt&oldid=1211574604 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

301-404: A device again. In the meantime, two versions of the time traveller coexist (and must not meet, lest they mutually destruct): the one that had been 'traveling forward' (existing normally) until entering a turnstile and the one traveling backward from the turnstile. The laws of thermodynamics are reversed for time traveling people and objects, so that for example backward travel requires the use of

344-457: A fictional war that is "fought across time, usually with each side knowingly using time travel ... in an attempt to establish the ascendancy of one or another version of history". Time wars are also known as "change wars" and "temporal wars". Examples include Clifford D. Simak 's 1951 Time and Again , Russell T Davies' 2005 revival of Doctor Who , Barrington J. Bayley 's 1974 The Fall of Chronopolis , and Matthew Costello 's 1990 Time of

387-520: A means of tourism, with travelers curious to visit periods or events such as the Victorian Era or the Crucifixion of Christ , or to meet historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln or Ludwig van Beethoven . This theme can be addressed from two or three directions. An early example of present-day tourists travelling back to the past is Ray Bradbury 's 1952 A Sound of Thunder , in which

430-506: A six book Regency Historical Romance series featuring "the Saint of Seven Dials," a series of successive rogue heroes who victimize the rich to help impoverished residents in London's notorious Seven Dials slum. In September 2013, she released Starstruck , her first teen science fiction themed novel that is the first of a four-book series. The second book in the series, Starcrossed,

473-416: Is a plot device in which periods of time are repeated and re-experienced by the characters, and there is often some hope of breaking out of the cycle of repetition. Time loops are sometimes referred to as causal loops , but these two concepts are distinct. Although similar, causal loops are unchanging and self-originating, whereas time loops are constantly resetting. In a time loop when a certain condition

SECTION 10

#1732787360053

516-502: Is a common theme in fiction , mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media , such as literature, television, film, and advertisements. The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells ' 1895 story, The Time Machine . In general, time travel stories focus on the consequences of traveling into the past or the future. The premise for these stories often involves changing history, either intentionally or by accident, and

559-549: Is an extraordinarily long sleep. Mark Twain 's 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court had considerable influence on later writers. The first novel to include both travel to the past and travel to the future and return to the present is the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol . Time slip is one of the main plot devices of time travel stories, another being a time machine . The difference

602-625: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Brenda Hiatt Born in Washington, D.C. , Hiatt graduated from the College of William and Mary , in Williamsburg, VA , with degrees in biology and psychology in 1978, before attending graduate school at Texas A&M University 1979–81. She has since lived in Hawaii, South Carolina, Texas, Indiana and now Key Largo, FL. She

645-688: Is married and has two children. On starting her career, Hiatt declared, "I began writing in 1988, an army wife at home with two preschool children. I promised myself that, if nothing sold before my youngest began school, I'd get a 'real job,' so I was thrilled to sell a Regency romance novel to Harlequin six months ahead of that deadline." To date, Hiatt's published novels include six Harlequin Regency Romances, one Harlequin Superromance, two single title historical romances with HarperCollins , six historical romances with Avon Books , and

688-516: Is met, such as a death of a character or a clock reaching a certain time, the loop starts again, with one or more characters retaining the memories from the previous loop. Stories with time loops commonly center on the character learning from each successive loop through time. In some media, certain characters are presented as moving through time backwards. This is a very old concept, with some accounts asserting that English mythological figure Merlin lived backwards, and appeared to be able to prophesy

731-414: Is possibly a ghost). Ackerman's anthology also highlights a 1972 short story by Robert Silverberg , "What We Learned From This Morning's Newspaper". In that story, a block of homeowners wake to discover that on November 22, they have received The New York Times for the coming December 1. As characters learn of future events affecting them through a newspaper delivered a week early, the ultimate effect

774-540: Is that in time slip stories, the protagonist typically has no control and no understanding of the process (which is often never explained at all) and is either left marooned in a past or future time and must make the best of it, or is eventually returned by a process as unpredictable and uncontrolled as the journey out. The plot device is also popular in children's literature. The 2011 film, Midnight in Paris similarly presents time travel as occurring without explanation, as

817-446: Is that this "so upsets the future that spacetime is destroyed". The television series Early Edition , similar to the film It Happened Tomorrow , also revolved around a character who daily received the next day's newspaper, and sought to change some event therein forecast to happen. A newspaper from the future can be a fictional edition of a real newspaper, or an entirely fictional newspaper. John Buchan 's 1932 novel The Gap in

860-533: Is well known within the industry for her annual "Show Me the Money" survey of writers' earnings, the results of which she frequently presents at speaking events and on her website. She also teaches an online writing seminar. Hiatt has been an active member of the Romance Writers of America , a national non-profit genre writers association that provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing

903-542: The Cassandra complex , where the protagonist who travels back in time explains that he can't change the past. The protagonist of the short story Story of Your Life experiences life as a superimposition of the present and the totality of her life, future included, as a consequence of learning an alien language . The mental faculty is speculation based on the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis . A "time loop" or "temporal loop"

SECTION 20

#1732787360053

946-631: The USA Today bestsellers list. It then also reached #4 on the New York Times combined fiction print and ebook sales bestseller list. In April 2015, Hiatt released her first three published books, Gabriella , The Cygnet and Lord Dearborn's Destiny , as an ebook compilation entitled Hiatt Regency Classics 1, 2 & 3 . On April 23, 2015 the ebook reached #133 on the USA Today Bestsellers List. This compilation

989-589: The Curtain , is similarly premised on a group of people being enabled to see, for a moment, an item in The Times newspaper from one year in the future. During the Swedish general election of 2006 , the Swedish liberal party used election posters which looked like news items, called Framtidens nyheter ("News of the future"), featuring a future Sweden that had become what the party wanted. A communication from

1032-563: The Galaxy series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , which, as the title indicates, includes a restaurant that exists at the end of the universe. In the restaurant, people time-traveling from all over the space-time continuum (especially the rich) came to the restaurant to view the explosion of the universe put on repeat. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes a time war as

1075-817: The International Digital Awards, and second place in the Ancient City Romance Authors Readers Choice Award in the young adult category for each contest. In March 2015 Hiatt released Rigel's Jewel , an eShort retelling the first few chapters of Starstruck from the hero's perspective and made available for free to subscribers to her newsletter. In January 2014, Hiatt was one of four authors of Scandalous Brides , an ebook "box set" compilation of four full length Regency Romance novels, with Hiatt's earlier published work, Scandalous Virtue , being her contribution. Scandalous Brides premiered at #12 on

1118-605: The character use the Time Stone, one of the Infinity Stones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , to reverse time, experiencing time backwards while so doing. In the film Tenet , characters time travel without jumping back, but by experiencing past reality in reverse, and at the same speed, after going through a 'turnstile' device and until they revert to normal time flow by going through such

1161-410: The director "eschews a 'realist' internal logic that might explain the time travel, while also foregoing experimental time Distortion techniques, in favor of straightforward editing and a fantastical narrative set-up". In literature, communication from the future is a plot device in some science fiction and fantasy stories. Forrest J. Ackerman noted in his 1973 anthology of the best fiction of

1204-526: The future because for him it was a memory. This tradition has been reflected in certain modern fictional accounts of the character. In the Piers Anthony book Bearing an Hourglass , the second of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series, the character of Norton becomes the incarnation of Time and continues his life living backwards in time. The 2016 film Doctor Strange has

1247-609: The future raises questions about the ability of humans to control their destiny. The visual novel Steins;Gate features characters sending short text messages backwards in time to avert disaster, only to find their problems are exacerbated due to not knowing how individuals in the past will actually utilize the information. Precognition has been explored as a form of time travel in fiction. Author J. B. Priestley wrote of it both in fiction and non-fiction, analysing testimonials of precognition and other "temporal anomalies" in his book Man and Time . His books include time travel to

1290-525: The future through dreaming, which upon waking up results in memories from the future. Such memories, he writes, may also lead to the feeling of déjà vu , that the present events have already been experienced, and are now being re-experienced. Infallible precognition, which describes the future as it truly is, may lead to causal loops , one form of which is explored in Newcomb's paradox . The film 12 Monkeys heavily deals with themes of predestination and

1333-447: The future to the past effected a change that alters the future. Alternative histories may exist "side by side", with the time traveller actually arriving at different dimensions as he changes time. The butterfly effect is the notion that small events can have large, widespread consequences. The term describes events observed in chaos theory where a very small change in initial conditions results in vastly different outcomes. The term

Hiatt - Misplaced Pages Continue

1376-645: The longstanding heroine, Marsha. In October 2018 she released another Starstruck novel, The Handmaid's Secret, focusing on Marsha's close friend Molly. Brenda has indicated that she plans more books in the Starstruck series. Starstruck has won numerous awards including first place in the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, first place in the I Heart Indie Contest, first place Book Buyers Best Contest, first place in

1419-478: The original timeline from the point of interaction. A record can be consulted multiple times, thus providing a time loop mechanism. Philip K. Dick 's novel The Man in the High Castle features books reporting on an alternate timeline. The TV series transposes the mechanism of the books to newsreels . Incidentally, the alternate timeline is the historic timeline , as opposed to the alternate history of

1462-418: The past gave rise to the idea of "time police", people tasked with preventing such changes from occurring by themselves engaging in time travel to rectify such changes. An alternative future or alternate future is a possible future that never comes to pass, typically when someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternative future cannot occur, or when a communication from

1505-474: The past in a way that affects their own future, such as by killing their own grandparents. The engineer Paul J. Nahin states that "even though the consensus today is that the past cannot be changed, science fiction writers have used the idea of changing the past for good story effect". Time travel to the past and precognition without the ability to change events may result in causal loops . The possibility of characters inadvertently or intentionally changing

1548-411: The past through supernatural means, for example brought on by angels or spirits. A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving 's 1819 Rip Van Winkle , where the mechanism of time travel

1591-403: The protagonists are big game hunters who travel to the distant past to hunt dinosaurs . An early example of another type, in which tourists from the future visit the present, is Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner 's 1946 Vintage Season . The final type in which there are people time-traveling to the future is experienced in the second book of Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to

1634-552: The ways by which altering the past changes the future and creates an altered present or future for the time traveler upon their return. In other instances, the premise is that the past cannot be changed or that the future is determined, and the protagonist's actions turn out to be inconsequential or intrinsic to events as they originally unfolded. Some stories focus solely on the paradoxes and alternate timelines that come with time travel, rather than time traveling. They often provide some sort of social commentary, as time travel provides

1677-426: The works, so that the records also function as meta-references to the timeline experienced by the authors and the consumers of the works. The plot of the film Source Code features a simulated and time-looped reality based on the memories of a dead man. The idea of changing the past is logically contradictory , creating situations like the grandfather paradox , where time travellers go back in time and change

1720-453: The year that "the theme of getting hold of tomorrow's newspaper is a recurrent one". An early example of this device can be found in H. G. Wells 's 1932 short story " The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper ", which tells the tale of a man who receives such a paper from 40 years in the future. The 1944 film It Happened Tomorrow also employs this device, with the protagonist receiving the next day's newspaper from an elderly colleague (who

1763-562: Was coined by mathematician Edward Lorenz years after the phenomenon was first described. The butterfly effect has found its way into popular imagination. For example, in Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder , the killing of a single insect millions of years in the past drastically changes the world, and in the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect , the protagonist's small changes to his past results in extreme changes. A "distinct subgenre" of stories explore time travel as

Hiatt - Misplaced Pages Continue

1806-706: Was followed in December 2015 with Hiatt Regency Classics 4, 5, & 6 consisting of Daring Deception , Christmas Bride and Azalea . In February 2016, Hiatt returned to her Saint of Seven Seven Dials books, after a thirteen-year hiatus in the series, with the publication of Gallant Scoundrel . Starting in 2017 Hiatt has released German and Italian translations of many of her books, which have enjoyed significant success in those countries. An active member of Romance Writers of America since 1990, Hiatt has also served as President of Novelists, Inc, an international organization of over 800 multi-published novelists. Hiatt

1849-590: Was released in late January 2014. Book 3 in the series, Starbound , was released in June 2014 with Book 4, Starfall , released in February 2015 as the conclusion to the series. Successful sales of the series and demand from readers for more of it promptedher to release Fractured Jewel, A Starstruck Novella in July 2016. In June 2017 Hiatt released The Girl From Mars featuring a new heroine who despises and challenges

#52947