time travel machine story

The short stories on this page all contain some form of time travel, including time loops. Some of them contain time machines or other technologies that makes the trip possible; in other stories the jump in time doesn’t have an obvious explanation.

Two couples (after getting married) travel in a space-time machine that can travel in the three normal spatial dimensions and in three distinct temporal dimensions. They encounter malevolent aliens, visit fictitious worlds such as Oz, and meet characters from Heinlein's other works.

Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine. [1]

Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements. [1] [2] The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells' 1895 story, The Time Machine.

Time travel is used with enormous poignancy to explore race, gender and power dynamics through the eyes of a woman with modern sensibilities: a woman who cannot escape the time she has been thrown into, or the inevitable pain and struggle that comes with it.

The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week, the guests return, to find their host stumble in, looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the Time Traveller begins his story.

Time after time. Wells provided one of the most enduring time-travel plots in his 1895 novella "The Time Machine," which included the innovation of a craft that can move forward and...

1. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Shop Now. Arguably the classic time travel book, published all the way back in 1895, The Time Machine is one of the oldest time travel stories and is...

The level of imagination shown in the story is especially impressive when the reader considers Wells published The Time Machine in 1895. The story was the first to help Wells breakthrough as an author and remains essential reading for time travel fans.

1 The Moberly–Jourdain Incident. Zhao Liu/iStock Unreleased/Getty Images. In 1901, two Englishwomen, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, took a vacation to France. While they were there,...