H.G. Wells vs. Mark Twain: The Original Time Travel Rivalry

In 1889, Mark Twain sent a Connecticut Yankee backward to King Arthur's court. In 1895, H.G. Wells launched his Time Traveller 800,000 years into the future. These two literary giants created the blueprint for every time travel story that followed—but their visions couldn't have been more different. We explore how their contrasting approaches still shape how we imagine moving through time today.

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