About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Chad Arment (Editor)

Time travel stories date back to the 1700s. This anthology collects some of the earliest short stories that explore the fascinating subject of time through fantasy and science fiction. The 15 time travel stories here include popular classics and rarely-seen gems. This enjoyable collection is for the science fiction enthusiast who wants to investigate the roots of time travel, time slips, and other temporal anomalies.

Rip Van Winkle (1819), Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man (1824), William Austin
An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach (1838), Anonymous
A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843), Charles Dickens
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), Edgar Allan Poe
An Uncommon Sort of Spectre (1879), Edward Page Mitchell
The Clock That Went Backward (1881), Edward Page Mitchell
Newton’s Brain (1892), Jakub Arbes
John Bartine’s Watch (1893), Ambrose Bierce
The Hour-Glass (1898), Robert Barr
The New Accelerator (1901), H. G. Wells
“Wireless” (1902), Rudyard Kipling
Phantas (1910), Oliver Onions
Accessory Before the Fact (1914), Algernon Blackwood
Enoch Soames (1916), Max Beerbohm

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Two of the first "real" authors I read when I was young were Alistair MacLean and Rex Stout, and those remain favorites. Today, for personal reading, there are several mystery authors I enjoy; for non-fiction, I jump around a bit depending on what I'm interested in. (At the moment, suiseki and dragonflies, go figure.)
In 2004, I self-published my first print-on-demand book, on cryptozoology. Since then, I've added several other of my own titles, a fair number by other authors, and a whole lot of reprints (both public domain and licensed). Titles can be seen at www.coachwhipbooks.com.
I currently live in Ohio.