| The Night That All Time Broke Out | |
| Author: | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Language: | English |
| 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.[1] [2]
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).