Reality-Fiction Interactions

See Some Common Themes.

Did Stoker help the Shadowspawn by concealing their true nature and also by giving the impression that such predatory beings were just fictions?

In the passage quoted from There Will Be Time, an older time traveler, Wallis, addresses a younger one, Havig. We owe the terms "time machine," "time traveler" and "time traveling," shortened to "time travel," to Wells. Twain, writing earlier, referred not to "time travel" but to "transposition of epochs." (I read A Connecticut Yankee just to check on that one point.)

In There Will Be Time:

Wallis, whose name suddenly seems significant, gave "'...that time travel...'" idea to Wells;

Wells gave the time travel terminology to the world and thus to Wallis;

as Havig goes on to say, by his time, time travel was so common a fictional theme that he did not know how to set about trying to contact fellow time travelers without generating unwanted publicity or attracting cranks;

time travel had become a common fictional theme because of Wallis and Wells.

Well, well...