The Clock that Went Backward

"The Clock That Went Backward" is a short story by Edward Page Mitchell.[1][2][3][4] The story was published in The Sun on September 18, 1881 and is the first instance of using a time machine for time travel, and the first instance of a temporal paradox in fiction.[5][6]

See also

List of time travel science fiction

References

  1. ↑ Vandermeer. The Time Traveler's Almanac. TOR. pp. 154, 450. The Clock That Went Backward, released in 1881 in The Sun is the first time-travel story ever published, coming out several years before HG Well's The Time Machine. Although it is popularly believed that The Chronic Argonauts was the first fiction published with a time-travel theme, another story, also in this anthology, predates it by almost a decade: Edward Page Mitchell's The Clock That Went Backward
  2. ↑ Toomey, David. The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics. p. 26.
  3. ↑ The Time Chronicles. p. 5.
  4. ↑ The Science Fiction Handbook. p. 15.
  5. ↑ "Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction". p. 55. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Pickover. Time: A Traveler's Guide. pp. xiv.