Time Travel, the Flipside and Home

Time Travel, the Flipside and Home

What is science fiction?

It’s a writer imagining some event that defies logical explanation. It’s a fantasy that is created in the mind of a writer. Certainly time travel doesnot exist — otherwise we’d see it, experience it, already have built a ride at Disneyland for it. But it only exists in the mind of a writer… or does it?

First let’s examine where time travel originated in terms of story telling. Was it the first science fiction story? Did someone write up a story about traveling outside of time and that became the first known incidence of time travel in fiction?

According to a search on the topic, we’re told that the first “popular incidence of time travel” was at the hands of H.G. Wells: The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells’ 1895 story, The Time Machine. In general, time travel stories focus on the consequences of traveling into the past or the future. Wiki. (Here’s a list of popular titles dating back to 1733) (Unless the author came back to current day and created this wiki entry.)