Time and Again | Literary Precedents
Travel through time is an old fictional device, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century. Nineteenth-century novels of time travel such as Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) or Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) depended upon the hero falling asleep to change eras. H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) introduced the notion of constructing a machine that would allow a voyager to travel forward or backward. Much popular science fiction about time-travel relies upon the device of a time-machine to generate the story. Finney provides an...
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