The Grandfather Paradox
Travel back in time and stop your own grandparents from ever meeting. Then who was it that went back?
1943 (Barjavel's novel), with antecedents from the 1920s18 min read
French science fiction and journalism
René Barjavel
1911 – 1985
French novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His 1943 novel "Le Voyageur Imprudent" ("The Imprudent Traveller") contains the scene generally credited with fixing the grandfather paradox in its now-standard form: a time traveller who kills his own ancestor. He later wrote "La Nuit des Temps" (1968) and worked on the screenplays of the "Don Camillo" films.