The Time Stream

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The Time Stream

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author John Taine
Cover artist Allan Halladay
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher The Buffalo Book Company
Publication date 1946
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 251 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 2390104

The Time Stream is a science fiction novel by author John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in book form in 1946 by The Buffalo Book Company in an edition of 2,000 copies of which only 500 were ever bound. The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine Wonder Stories beginning in December 1931. It is the first novel to see time as a flowing stream[1]

[edit] Plot introduction

The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 125. 

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 125. 
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 36. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.