The trouble is that the fiction of time travel can all too easily stumble over the potentially infinite convolutions and paradoxes inherent in the subject matter. Well, of course they’re implausible, everyone but Ronald Mallett might say - they’re stories about time travel. But fiction only has to work on its own terms, not reality’s. Alas, it has seldom delivered on that promise: whether their characters jump forward into the future, backward into the past, or both, the past 125 years of time-travel stories have too often suffered from inelegance, inconsistency, and implausibility. Wells’ 1895 novel The Time Machine, time travel has been a promising storytelling concept.
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