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Algernon Blackwood
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Short Story
Accessory Before the Fact
- by Algernon Blackwood
- in The Westminster Gazette, 23 February 1914
An English man on a walking holiday experiences a short time in another man’s future and struggles with the ethics of whether and how to deliver a warning to that other man.
Although the method of time travel is fantasy, the man’s struggles with the ethics of time travel put the story soundly in the realm of foundational science fiction. —Michael Main
Although the method of time travel is fantasy, the man’s struggles with the ethics of time travel put the story soundly in the realm of foundational science fiction. —Michael Main
He had been an eavesdropper, and had come upon private information of a secret kind that he had no right to make use of, even that good might come—even to save life.
Short Story
The Pikestaffe Case
- by Algernon Blackwood
- in Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (Herbert Jenkins, 1924)
Short Story
The Man Who Lived Backwards
- by Algernon Blackwood
- in World Radio, 12 December 1930
Professor Zeitt posits that all of time always exists and he should be able to break the usual serial traversal of time in order to influence his earlier self to not get into a bad marriage.
Novelette
Elsewhere and Otherwise
- by Algernon Blackwood
- in Shocks (Grayson and Grayson, 1935)
A young soldier’s elderly cousin disappears after not having aged for more than two decades. But now, after the way, a spectre of the cousin reappears, needing to talk about where he’s been outside the plane of our existence and the great debt he owes. —pending