{
  "name": "Time-travel fiction to 1895: ten stories by first print and device",
  "desc": "Ten time-travel stories from 1785 to 1895, one per row: first print date and its qualifier, venue, language, byline and attribution, the device used, its relation to The Time Machine and the evidence, and public-domain status in the US, Germany and France, with a source on every row.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Genre Fiction Lineage",
  "url": "https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/time-machine/",
  "from": [
    "Enrique Gaspar, El anacronópete (Barcelona, 1887), Project Gutenberg eBook #62359 (read 2 November 2026)",
    "\"The Clock That Went Backward\" (The Sun, 1881), transcribed at Wikisource (read 2 November 2026)",
    "H. G. Wells, \"The Chronic Argonauts\" (1888) and Experiment in Autobiography (1934), Project Gutenberg Australia (read 2 November 2026)",
    "H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895), four texts transcribed at Wikisource (read 2 November 2026)",
    "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: \"Time Travel\" entry and the Mitchell, Gaspar and Wells entries (read 2 November 2026)",
    "Anno 7603 (Copenhagen, 1785), title page of Project Gutenberg eBook #48962 and its catalogue record (read 2 November 2026)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Genre Fiction Lineage from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Bibliographic facts checked against the public-domain texts and the entries of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. John Clute, David Langford and Graham Sleight (sf-encyclopedia.com), listed on the entry page"
  ]
}