Can you imagine a time before we dreamed about time travel? The idea of altering an unpleasant future disclosed by an oracle, and the associated paradoxes of Fate, have been with us for millennia; but before H.G. Wells' The Time Traveller, in 1895, the concept of time travel was wispy and of very little cultural import. Wells' thrilling tale of adventure catapulted it into the popular imagination.
Because Wells popularized time travel, his description of time travelling is allowed to be blurry; he was exploring brand-new territory, after all. Stories since then have had to be just as inventive, and most opt to take the concept in a new direction. (Read "A Nonlinear History of Time Travel," James Gleick's Nautilus feature, to appreciate the concept's journey.) From the physics-challenging to the paradox-inviting, here are some of my favorite time travel narratives.
1. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
Illustrations by Nicholas LittleIntrepid young universe travelers Meg and Charles Wallace fold, or "wrinkle," space-time, an act not unlike traveling through a wormhole. L'Engle calls this sort of traveling 'tessering,' or performing a 'tesseract'—a concept loosely borrowed from the four-dimensional cosmological construct of the same name, recently popularized…
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