The genre of science fiction and all its themes have become subjects of scholarly criticism in recent decades. As for Time, one of the genre's major topics, it has been so since the first scientific approaches attempting to understand the notion of Time. In this concise study, I intend to outline the history of science fiction, highlighting - due to formal limitations - only major trends and events as well as general topics of the genre. This historical and thematic background is followed by the analyses of time travel and time machines in some exemplary works of significant science fiction...