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Ever since man first got drunk at a work Christ­mas party, and acci­den­tally told his boss “how to fix what’s wrong with this com­pany”, peo­ple have dreamed of time travel. The abil­ity to shift through the fir­ma­ment of time, as though it were water. To fix the prob­lems of the past, and hit on aliens in the future. Time travel really hit its stride in the late 19th and the 20th cen­turies, and became a stan­dard fix­ture of nov­els, short sto­ries, and even­tu­ally tele­vi­sion. Even though the con­cept has been used fre­quently (and often badly) there are still inter­est­ing ways to play with the idea. Here are 15 of the finest time travel sto­ries ever put on paper.”