Accidental travel

In Russian fandom, the trope is known under the term popadantsy, plural form for popadanets, female: popadanka,[1] a person who accidentally finds himself elsewhere/elsewhen.

A classical example of time slip is Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), which had considerable influence on later writers.

[3] An early example of catastrophic space travel is Hector Servadac (1877) by Jules Verne, where a piece of the Earth with several Earthlings is ripped off by a comet.

Responding to the demand, the supply of the novels of this type skyrocketed, with an inevitable drop of the overall quality and degeneration of the inventiveness of the writers into a series of clichés.

[8] It was suggested that this phenomenon of Russian science fiction is characterized by two motivations: “Mary Sue”-type drive to self-fulfillment and patriotic nostalgy over the times of Soviet superpower (Communist nostalgia).