Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Gary Westfahl

With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War. Writers ranging from Dante and Lewis Carroll to Philip K. Dick and Martin Amis have probed into the workings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313317062
• ISBN13: 9780313317064
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.9"