Genre & subgenre
Time-travel fiction
A genre built around movement through time and its paradoxes, consequences, and altered histories.
Time-travel fiction in fiction: 3 works
It is a foundational work of the time-travel genre, coining the notion of a purpose-built time machine.
Involuntary time slips between present and slavery-era past structure the narrative.
Its causality games and paradoxes make it a defining popular time-travel film.