The common root is probably the story of Epimenides of Knossos, who supposedly slept in a cave for 57 years before waking with the gift of prophecy. In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), meanwhile, Mark Twain’s ‘Hank Morgan’ receives a severe blow to the head, which pretty much amounts to the same thing. Hudson’s A Crystal Age (1887), and ‘William Guest’ in News From Nowhere (1890) by William Morris. Mercier’s Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1771), Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’ (1819), ‘Smith’ in W.H. Until then, fictional time travellers tended to just fall asleep, like the narrator of L.S. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) wasn’t the first novel to deal with time travel, but it was the first to posit an actual ‘time machine’, coining the term in the process. ‘Heirs to the Ages’ – ‘The Time Machine’, History, and the Class War
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