Time Travel. A History

Sources and Further Reading

These are some of the works on which this one depends.

STORIES

Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland, 1884.

Douglas Adams, “The Pirate Planet” (Doctor Who), 1978.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980.

Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973.

Midnight in Paris, 2011.

Kingsley Amis, The Alteration, 1976.

Martin Amis, “The Time Disease,” 1987.

Time’s Arrow, 1991.

Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity, 1955.

John Jacob Astor IV, A Journey in Other Worlds, 1894.

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, 2013.

A God in Ruins, 2014.

Marcel Aymé, “Le décret,” 1943.

John Banville, The Infinities, 2009.

Ancient Light, 2012.

Max Beerbohm, “Enoch Soames,” 1916.

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888.

Alfred Bester, “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed,” 1958.

Michael Bishop, No Enemy but Time, 1982.

Jorge Luis Borges, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941.

El aleph, 1945.

Nueva refutación del tiempo, 1947.

Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder,” 1952.

Ted Chiang, “Story of Your Life,” 1998.

Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom, 1922.

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, 1962.

Counter-Clock World, 1967.

“A Little Something for Us Tempunauts,” 1974.

Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand, 1969.

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, 1943.

Harlan Ellison, “The City on the Edge of Forever” (Star Trek), 1967.

Ralph Milne Farley, “I Killed Hitler,” 1941.

Jack Finney, “The Face in the Photo,” 1962.

Time and Again, 1970.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” 1922.

E. M. Forster, The Machine Stops, 1909.

Stephen Fry, Making History, 1997.

Rivka Galchen, “The Region of Unlikeness,” 2008.

Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, 1925.

David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself, 1973.

William Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum,” 1981.

The Peripheral, 2014.

Terry Gilliam, Twelve Monkeys, 1995.

James E. Gunn, “The Reason Is with Us,” 1958.

Robert Harris, Fatherland, 1992.

Robert Heinlein, “Life-Line,” 1939.

“By His Bootstraps,” 1941.

Time for the Stars, 1956.

“ ‘—All You Zombies—,’ ” 1959.

Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” 1819.

Henry James, The Sense of the Past, 1917.

Alfred Jarry, “Commentaire pour servir à la construction pratique de la machine à explorer le temps,” 1899.

Rian Johnson, Looper, 2012.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, 1971.

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, 1994.

Muray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), “The Runaway Skyscraper,” 1919.

Stanisław Lem, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, 1961.

The Futurological Congress, 1971.

Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams, 1992.

Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, 1733.

Chris Marker, La jetée, 1962.

J. McCullough, Golf in the Year 2000; or, What Are We Coming To, 1892.

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.