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''''''Harrison, Harry. ''The Technicolor Time Machine''.'''''' New York: Doubleday, 1967, 1968. For further bibliographic information, see the entry for the novel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1042]
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'''Harrison, Harry. ''The Technicolor Time Machine''.''' New York: Doubleday, 1967, 1968. For further bibliographic information, see the entry for the novel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1042]
  
 
Comic SF on time-travel and its possible paradoxes and potential. The potential is for a failing film production company to make a historical drama on the cheap by sending a minimal crew back in time through the "vremeatron" device and shoot the actual history. Except how actual the actual history is — the Vikings on Vinland — gets complicated.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine#Plot_summary]  
 
Comic SF on time-travel and its possible paradoxes and potential. The potential is for a failing film production company to make a historical drama on the cheap by sending a minimal crew back in time through the "vremeatron" device and shoot the actual history. Except how actual the actual history is — the Vikings on Vinland — gets complicated.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine#Plot_summary]  
  
 
Briefly discussed and put into context by Stephen Baxter, "[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]]," our initial source; q.v. for relationship of this novel to J. G. Ballard's "The Greatest Television Show on Earth" (''Ambit Magazine'' no. 53, 1972). The novel was adapted for a radio play on BBC ''Saturday Night Theatre'' 5 September 1981.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine#Adaptations]
 
Briefly discussed and put into context by Stephen Baxter, "[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]]," our initial source; q.v. for relationship of this novel to J. G. Ballard's "The Greatest Television Show on Earth" (''Ambit Magazine'' no. 53, 1972). The novel was adapted for a radio play on BBC ''Saturday Night Theatre'' 5 September 1981.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine#Adaptations]
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Latest revision as of 01:24, 18 March 2019

Harrison, Harry. The Technicolor Time Machine. New York: Doubleday, 1967, 1968. For further bibliographic information, see the entry for the novel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.[1]

Comic SF on time-travel and its possible paradoxes and potential. The potential is for a failing film production company to make a historical drama on the cheap by sending a minimal crew back in time through the "vremeatron" device and shoot the actual history. Except how actual the actual history is — the Vikings on Vinland — gets complicated.[2]

Briefly discussed and put into context by Stephen Baxter, "The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction," our initial source; q.v. for relationship of this novel to J. G. Ballard's "The Greatest Television Show on Earth" (Ambit Magazine no. 53, 1972). The novel was adapted for a radio play on BBC Saturday Night Theatre 5 September 1981.[3]


RDE, Initial Compiler, 17Mar19