Not for the first time, I try to show Poul Anderson's time travel fiction as a culmination by summarizing relevant works.
Anon., "Missing One's Coach," a visit to the past, either dreamed or real;
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court, attempted historical change;
HG Wells, "The Chronic Argonauts," a temporal vehicle, circular causality;
HG Wells, The Time Machine, a temporal vehicle, human devolution, the end of life on Earth;
L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall, deliberate historical change;
Robert Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps," circular causality;
(too many other circular causality works to list here;)
Ward Moore, Bring The Jubilee, accidental historical change;
Poul Anderson, "Flight to Forever," a temporal vehicle, beyond the end of the universe;
Poul Anderson, Time Patrol series, temporal vehicles, human evolution, an organization to prevent historical changes; both causality paradoxes, mythology as well as history.
See also here.
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Kaor, Paul!
And of course we have stories set in alternate or parallel universes. They could be considered time traveling stories in a way, based on the premise on what might have happened if events had turned out differently. Anderson's contributions being THREE HEARTS AND TREE LIONS, the OPERATION books, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST. And other writers, such as Harry Turtledove and S.M. Stirling, have specialized in that branch of SF.
Ad astra! Sean
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