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Shortly before the turn of the twentieth century, in 1895, the first time machine story was published by Herbert George Wells, titled (I’m sure you’ve guessed) The Time Machine . Science fiction, as a distinct commercial and literary means of speculative story-telling, has a long pre-history, at least from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818, to Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889). Even so, Wells can be seen fairly as the initiator of what we now regard as a fresh genre, or—better still—fresh narrative mode.
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Isaac Asimov, The Collapsing Universe (1977), 219.
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See the partial list of peer-reviewed papers by these scientists and their colleagues, at the end of this volume.
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See, for example, three recent academic collections: Broderick and Goertzel, eds., Evidence for Psi (McFarland 2015), May and Mahawa, eds., Extrasensory Perception, 2 volumes (Praeger 2015), and Cardeña, Palmer and Marcusson-Clavertz, eds., Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century (McFarland 2015), plus the long-classified documentation from the US government psi program, May and Mahawa, eds., The Star Gate Archives: Remote Viewing, vols 1 and 2 of 4 (McFarland 2018).
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Clifford A. Pickover: Time: A Traveler’s Guide (NY: Oxford University Press, 1998)
J. Richard Gott: Time Travel In Einstein’s Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel through Time (Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
Paul Davies: How To Build a Time Machine (London NY: Allen Lane, 2001)
Lisa Randall: Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions (NY: Ecco Press, 2005)
Ronald Mallet, with Bruce Henderson: Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006)
Sean Carroll: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (NY: Dutton, 2010)
Dave Goldberg and Jeff Bloomquist: A User’s Guide to the Universe (Hoboken, 2010) —see Chapter 5, “Time Travel,” pp. 131–164
James Gleick: Time Travel: A History (NY: Vintage Random House, 2016)
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Broderick, D. (2019). Time Travel Unraveled. In: The Time Machine Hypothesis. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16178-1_1
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