The Time Machine Hypothesis
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Broderick, Damien. The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction. New York (and Switzerland): Springer International Publishing, 2019.[1]
Website Blurb (edited for tone and to omit the final words "and film" following a posting by the author on the ListServ of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) saying he tends "to put film to one side when discussing sf"):
Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality—time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick [..., who] homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature [...].
Works covered, for Part Two, as indicated in SFRA post by the author (lightly edited here):
Chapter Five: The First Half Century (and a bit)
1895 The Time Machine H.G. Wells 1919 “The Runaway Skyscraper” Murray Leinster 1938 (rev 1952) The Legion of Time Jack Williamson 1941 “By His Bootstraps” Robert Heinlein 1942 “Recruiting Station” A.E. van Vogt 1946 “Vintage Season” C. L. Moore (as by Lawrence O'Donnell) 1947 “E for Effort” T.L. Sherred 1949 “Private Eye” Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (as by Lewis Padgett) 1950 “Flight to Forever” Poul Anderson
Chapter Six: Empires of Time
1953 Bring the Jubilee Ward Moore 1953, 1973 “Beep”/The Quincunx of Time James Blish 1955 The End of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955 Time Patrol sequence Poul Anderson 1956 The Door Into Summer Robert Heinlein (plus briefly 1959 “All You Zombies”) 1958 The Big Time Fritz Leiber and 1983 Changewar 1958/2002 Time Traders Andre Norton; Atlantis Endgame Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith 1958/1992 The Ugly Little Boy Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Chapter Seven: Behold the Time Machine
1962/69 Times Without Number John Brunner 1966-69 Behold the Man Michael Moorcock 1969 Up the Line Robert Silverberg 1970 The Year of the Quiet Sun Wilson Tucker
Chapter Eight: From Dinosaurs to Elsewhen
1973 The Man Who Folded Himself David Gerrold 1976 Woman On the Edge of Time Marge Piercy 1979 Kindred Octavia Butler 1980 Thrice Upon a Time James Hogan 1980 Timescape Gregory Benford
Chapter Nine: Highways to the End of Time
1982 “Fire Watch” Connie Willis (plus briefly: 1992 Doomsday Book, 1998 To Say Nothing of the Dog, 2010 [[Blackout/All Clear]) 1985 A Maggot John Fowles 1986 Highway of Eternity Clifford Simak 1989 “Great Work of Time” John Crowley
Chapter Ten: Windows Into the Past
1991 Time’s Arrow Martin Amis 1991 Outlander series Diana Gabaldon 1997 In the Garden of Iden sequence Kage Baker 2000 The Light of Other Days Arthur Clarke and Stephan Baxter
Chapter Eleven: Time’s Up
2002 Bones of the Earth Michael Swanwick 2003 The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2007 The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldeman 2008 Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait and 2012 Paradox Resolution K.A. Bedford 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North 2017 All Our Wrong Todays Elan Mastai 2018 Hazards of Time Travel Joyce Carol Oates 2019 Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape Gregory Benford
RDE, Initial Compiler, 24July19
