Wells' Time Traveler seated on his Time Machine fast forwards, then rewinds, the rest of the universe.
Poul Anderson's Time Patrolmen seated on their timecycles disappear from one set of spatiotemporal coordinates and appear at another.
Anderson's mutant time travelers, not needing time machines, fast forward, then rewind, the rest of the universe.
In Anderson's "Flight to Forever," passengers enclosed in the time projector see not fast forwarded or rewound events but featureless grayness through its port hole.
Anderson's Wardens and Rangers walk or drive along long corridors that have been rotated onto the temporal axis.
There is a discernible Wellsian heritage in each of these four very different Anderson scenarios. In these five examples of fictional time travel, only the Wardens and Rangers literally move along the fourth dimension and their motion in that direction takes time in another dimension.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you forgot to mention THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS. The time traveling device in that story is a bit like both the Time Patrol's timecycles and the enclosed time projector in "Flight to Forever." That story also uses the immutable time line idea: known events cannot be changed.
Sean
Sean,
That device is much more like the time projector but, instead of remaining in one position, it follows a great circle around the Earth's surface.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
DANCER uses a time projector much like a jet plane or rocket.
Sean
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