About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Time Travel: A Foundational Theme in Science Fiction

Time travel stories date back to the 1700s. This anthology collects some of the earliest short stories that explore the fascinating subject of time through fantasy and science fiction.

The 15 time travel stories here include popular classics and rarely-seen gems. This enjoyable collection is for the science fiction enthusiast who wants to investigate the roots of time travel, time slips, and other temporal anomalies.

Rip Van Winkle (1819), Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man (1824), William Austin
An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach (1838), Anonymous
A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843), Charles Dickens
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), Edgar Allan Poe
An Uncommon Sort of Spectre (1879), Edward Page Mitchell
The Clock That Went Backward (1881), Edward Page Mitchell
Newton’s Brain (1892), Jakub Arbes
John Bartine’s Watch (1893), Ambrose Bierce
The Hour-Glass (1898), Robert Barr
The New Accelerator (1901), H. G. Wells
“Wireless” (1902), Rudyard Kipling
Phantas (1910), Oliver Onions
Accessory Before the Fact (1914), Algernon Blackwood
Enoch Soames (1916), Max Beerbohm