Harry Harrison

writer, artist
Comic Book

Weird Fantasy #13 (1950)

Only Time Will Tell

Start by reading Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941), and then read this one. You’ll enjoy both and stretch your mind around the first ex nihilo idea that we’ve spotted in comic books. Note that the half blueprint itself does have an origin, and you can trace it’s timeline from that origin to the past and back again. It’s only the concept expressed in the blueprint that has no origin. —Michael Main
—are the same piece!
Sitting at a lab bench and twirling knobs on a panel, a scientist talks about a brain on the bench in front of him.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Rock Diver

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Famous First Words

For the most part, this story is about a cantankerous inventor who merely listens in on past historical events—which, of course does not qualify as time travel. But there is that for-the-most-part part.
Thor, will you please take care of. . .
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Technicolor Time Machine

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Secret of Stonehenge

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Praiseworthy Saur

At least three lizards from the future (Numbers 17, 35 and 44) project themselves into the past to protect their remote ancestor.
The centuries will roll by and, one day, our race will reach its heights of glory.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Ever-Branching Tree

  • by Harry Harrison
  • in Science against Man, edited by Anthony Cheetham (Avon Books, December 1970)
A Teacher takes a group of disinterested children on a field trip through time to see the evolution of life.
Yesterday we watched the lightning strike the primordial chemical soup of the seas and saw the more complex chemicals being made that developed into the first life foms. We saw this single-celled life triumph over time and eternity by first developing the ability to divide into two cells, then to develope into composite, many-celled life forms. What do you remember about yesterday?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Stainless Steel Rat 6

The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Time Traveller Tracked Down

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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Rebel in Time

Lt. Troy Harmon, a black army sergeant, follows Colonel McCulloch back to 1859 to prevent the colonel from giving modern-day technology to the South.
“Then you are also telling me that down there among all that stuff—that you have built a time machine?”

“Well, I think. . .” She smiled brightly. “Why, yes, I suppose that we have.”
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel