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A clock takes people back in time. The first story to use a machine for time travel. [5] 1887 El Anacronópete: Enrique Gaspar: An electrically powered machine takes Don Sindulfo García and his companions back to several places in history. [6] 1887 Looking Backward: 2000–1887: Edward Bellamy
A must-read for any fans of time travel fiction, The Time Traveler's Almanac is "the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled." In it, editors Ann and Jeff ...
Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories; Tales in Time; Thiotimoline; The Time Traveler's Almanac; Time's Arrow (short story) Timegates; Timescapes: Stories of Time Travel; The Toynbee Convector; Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle; Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
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. [12] [13] 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 is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]
Not all time travel stories involve a person literally moving through time. Peggy Sue doesn’t actually go back to high school in Peggy Sue Got Married; rather, she dreams it (although there is ...
Science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz rediscovered Mitchell's stories and collected them in The Crystal Man: Landmark Science Fiction (1973). [6] [7] Since then, "The Clock That Went Backward" has been regarded as the first known instance of using a mechanical device for time travel [2] [8]: 55 [9] and the first story using a temporal paradox as a central premise.
Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a device known as a time machine. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time ...
The Masks of Time; Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O. A Matter of Time (Cook novel) Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; Mendoza in Hollywood; Millennium (novel) The Mirror (novel) The Missing (novel series) Mists of Dawn; Monday Begins on Saturday; The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time; The Morgaine Stories; Morlock ...