 The story was rediscovered in the 1970s, and published in 1973 by Sam Moskowitz in his collection "The Tachypomp and Other Stories" which assembled Mitchell's seven fantasy and science-fiction stories published from 1874-1881.The story is now regarded as the first known instance of using a device for time travel and the first instance of a temporal paradox in fiction.Any influence it may have had on later writers is however uncertain.