Beyond Time

David R. Daniels, Amelia Reynolds Long, Miles J. Breuer, H. G. Wells, Arthur Sellings, Alan Connell, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Peter Phillips, E. C. Tubb, Mike Ashley, Edward Page Mitchell, Robert Presslie, J. B. Priestley, J. T. McIntosh

ISBN 10: 0712353208 / ISBN 13: 9780712353205

Published by British Library Publishing, GB, 2019

About this Item

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction. Removing the bonds of time on a story allows for many interesting possibilities, but it also presents complicated problems and paradoxes.In this collection, featuring stories from the 1880s to the 1960s, we are taken to the remote future and back to the distant past. We are trapped in an eternal loop and met with visitors and objects from the future. We come face to face with our past selves, and experience the chaos of living out of sync with everyone else in the universe. These are just some of the thrilling narratives to discover as we unwind the constraints of time.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Time
• Publisher: British Library Publishing, GB
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712353208
• ISBN 13: 9780712353205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Enhanced edition.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 19.4W x 2.6H x 13.4D centimeters 19.4 centimeters width by 2.6 centimeters height by 13.4 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

'He felt his head swim as he tried to resolve the paradox. Gregor wouldn't because he hadn't. He hadn't because he couldn't. He couldn't because...?'

The threads of time run forward, backward, round in circles and side by side in this new anthology of stories from the Golden Age of science fiction. How can you comprehend a newspaper whose current events cover the distant future? How do you escape from a day at the office which cycles, cruelly, endlessly? How do you prevent monks from the future smuggling your revolutionary miracle food into the past?

Charting the chronology of the time travel narrative from the 1880s to the late 1950s, classic tales of trips to the past and their consequences run alongside rare experimental and mind-bending pieces, with paradoxes, philosophical dilemmas and every perplexing strand of time travel unravelled in between.

About the Author

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than a hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He is a longstanding expert and contributor for the British Library and is the editor of the British Library Science Fiction Classics anthologies Lost Mars, Moonrise, Menace of the Machine and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes.