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![]() Before H.G. Wells, there was Enrique Gaspar!
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Compare to the time machine from The Time Machine (1895) by HG Wells, the Dutch clock from The Clock That Went Backward (1881) by Edward Page Mitchell, precogs from The Minority Report (1956) by Philip K. Dick, the chronoscope from Legion of Time (1938) by Jack Williamson, and the time-telespectroscope from The Exile of Time (1931) by Ray Cummings. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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