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The Night That All Time Broke Out

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"The Night That All Time Broke Out"
Short story by Brian W. Aldiss
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inDangerous Visions
Publication typeanthology
PublisherDoubleday
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Publication date1967

"The Night That All Time Broke Out" is a short story by Brian W. Aldiss from Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. 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).