"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once."

—Ray Cummings, “The Girl in the Golden Atom”

All good science fiction draws us into the author’s dreamworld, 

but seminal science fiction possesses something beyond riveting plotlines.  Read my essay on literary time travel in The Decadent Review.

Read the Essay

Rags of Time: Studies in Fictional Travels in Time

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