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by Mary Rose-Shaffer Review by Mary Rose-Shaffer *Essay
 ISBN/ITEM#: ESAYTimeTravel Date: 01 October 2008 /  Who hasn't
wanted to travel in time? Going to the future to scope things
out, going to the past to correct a wrong or to re-experience a
fond memory – a very natural human impulse. You know why you
want to be a time-traveler, but why do others? Authors from many
ages have speculated and continue to muse upon the motivations
for, methods of, and the possible repercussions of time travel.
(Please note I do not address parallel universes here because
these concepts are not time travel.)  The great-grandfather of
nearly all time travel stories is, naturally, H.G. Wells' The
Time Machine. Wells' Time Traveler ventures not into the past
but into the distant future, and then again into the extremely
far future. He is motivated by curiosity and desire for
exploration. The scientist is an observer of his surroundings,
making both biological and soci