J.R.R. Tolkien’s attempted science fiction Time-traveler was began in contest with CS Lewis (who chose to work on space travel). But Tolkien posited the impossibility of time travels, and we see his hostile skepticism toward analogue machine technology when he uses a character wanting to go backward, not forward, on the lost road of time. Albion wanted to experience old and forgotten landscapes, smells, to see and hear the ancients.
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