Time Travel. A History

Louis-Sébastien Mercier, L’an deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fût jamais, 1771.

Edward Page Mitchell, “The Clock That Went Backward,” 1881.

Steven Moffat, “Blink” (Doctor Who), 2007.

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor, 1969.

Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet, 1906.

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife, 2003.

Dexter Palmer, Version Control, 2016.

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Power of Words,” 1845.

“Mellonta Tauta: On Board Balloon ‘Skylark,’ April 1, 2848,” 1849.

Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913–27.

Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin, Groundhog Day, 1993.

Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, 2004.

W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz, 2001.

Clifford D. Simak, Time and Again, 1951.

Ali Smith, How to Be Both, 2014.

George Steiner, The Portage to Cristóbal of A.H., 1981.

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993.

William Tenn, “Brooklyn Project,” 1948.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889.

Jules Verne, Paris au XXe siècle, 1863.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895.

The Sleeper Awakes, 1910.

Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, 1992.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.

Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, 2010.

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Back to the Future, 1985.

ANTHOLOGIES

Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, 2013.

Peter Haining, Timescapes, 1997.

Robert Silverberg, Voyagers in Time, 1967.

Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, The Best Time Travel Stories of the Twentieth Century, 2004.

Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, The Time Traveler’s Almanac, 2013.

BOOKS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL AND TIME

Paul E. Alkon, Origins of Futuristic Fiction, 1987.

Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell, 1960.

Isaac Asimov, Futuredays, 1986.

Anthony Aveni, Empires of Time, 1989.

Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, 2001.

Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher, 2015.

Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here, 2010.

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, 2008.

Paul Davies, About Time, 1995.

How to Build a Time Machine, 2001.

John William Dunne, An Experiment with Time, 1927.

Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928.

J. T. Fraser, ed., The Voices of Time, 1966, 1981.

Peter Galison, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, 2004.

J. Alexander Gunn, The Problem of Time, 1929.

Claudia Hammond, Time Warped, 2013.

Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann, eds., Time: Histories and Ethnologies, 1995.

Robin Le Poidevin, Travels in Four Dimensions, 2003.

Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, 1928.

Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time, 2005.

J. R. Lucas, A Treatise on Time and Space, 1973.

John W. Macvey, Time Travel, 1990.

Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines, 1993.

Charles Nordmann, The Tyranny of Time (Notre maître le temps), 1924.

Clifford A. Pickover, Time: A Traveler’s Guide, 1998.

Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative (Temps et récit), 1984.

Lee Smolin, Time Reborn, 2014.

Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Discovery of Time, 1965.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, 2014.

David Foster Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language, 2010.

Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and David Leiby, eds., Worlds Enough and Time, 2002.

David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative, 2013.

Illustration Credits

Credit 1.1: From The Dublin Review, January–June 1920, vol. 166. Courtesy of Stanford University Library.

Credit 1.2: Courtesy of the New York Public Library.