The Time Machine

by Ray Bradbury

Release: 2 June 1955
Format: Short Story
Genre: Mainstream
Audience: Families
Content: No Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Charlie takes his pals Douglas and John to visit the old Colonel who—says Charlie—has a time machine that travels in the past.

— Michael Main

War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose al the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it.

DEBUT

“The Last, the Very Last,” The Reporter, 2 June 1955.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

4 translations

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time period

Themes

Despite Title, No Time Penomena

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Later Derivatives—part of the fix-up novel <em>Dandilion Wine</em>

ITTDB Work #3753: by Ray Bradbury
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
as of 12:58 a.m. MDT, 6 May 2024
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