Ten of the best time travelers

At the Guardian, Tom Lamont came up the ten best time travelers. Most are from the big and small screens, but the list includes a couple of figures with prominent literary pedigrees, including:

Ebenezer Scrooge

Dickens got in early on the time-travel game, publishing A Christmas Carol in 1843, a good few decades before Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and HG Wells’s The Time Machine. Ebenezer Scrooge was whisked back several decades by the Ghost of Christmas Past, and then forward a year by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, where he was shown his own grave. “Assure me that I yet may change...by an altered life!” Scrooge begged, and on his return to the present he became (prefiguring many a time traveller) an improved person.

Read about another entry on the list.

Ebenezer Scrooge also appears among Alan Glynn's seven notable one percenters from film & fiction.

Also see: Top ten time travel books; Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books; Linda Buckley-Archer's's top ten time-travelling stories.

--Marshal Zeringue