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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd 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