The Night That All Time Broke Out

{{Infobox short story

| name = The Night That All Time Broke Out

| author = Brian W. Aldiss

| country =

| language = English

| series =

| genre = Science fiction

| published_in = Dangerous Visions

| publication_type = anthology

| publisher = Doubleday

| media_type = Print (Hardcover)

| pub_date = 1967

}}

"The Night That All Time Broke Out" is a short story by Brian W. Aldiss from Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions.{{Cite book |last=Collings |first=Michael R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2IqGPZnVAAC |title=Brian Aldiss |date=1986-01-01 |publisher=Wildside Press |isbn=978-0-89370-955-6 |pages=97 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Westfahl |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Westfahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7WREAAAQBAJ |title=The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters |date=2022-10-07 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-1-4766-8659-2 |pages=91 |language=en}}

Plot

The story presents a future world where time itself can be concentrated into a substance which is inhaled and used as a drug, causing the user to temporarily regress to an earlier time period. There is an explosion at the factory which produces the gas, causing a widespread regression of civilization (though it is unclear as to the extent).

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Category:1967 short stories

Category:Short fiction about time travel

Category:Dangerous Visions short stories

Category:Works by Brian Aldiss