Timeline for What is the first instance of a portal to another world?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
8 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | Matthew Najmon | The 1940s doesn't come anywhere close to being first. I'd argue this isn't even an early portal, let alone the earliest. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 5:20 | comment | added | Joe L. | @Don Wakefield: Like most prolific writers, Simak sometimes recycled ideas. The Big Front Yard was written some years after Aesop. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 3:43 | comment | added | Don Wakefield | The ideas in Aesop sound remarkably similar to the Clifford Simak story The Big Front Yard. Is one a repackaging of the other? | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | K-H-W | C.S. Lewis included a few portals in the Narnia books (the Wardrobe in TLTWATW, the Doorway made of sticks in Prince Caspian, the painting in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, etc.), but the first of those came out in 1950. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | Joe L. | Asimov's It's Such A Beautiful Day (portals used so often for transport nobody goes outside anymore) was first published in 1954 in Star Science Fiction Stories No.3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Such_a_Beautiful_Day | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:44 | history | edited | Joe L. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarification
|
| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:42 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | If anyone's wondering, Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky came out in 1955: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 14:22 | history | answered | Joe L. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |