I quote Anderson's introduction to 'The Man Who Lived Backwards': Hall's story was reprinted in Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, an anthology of literary influences on C. This would have been an easy mistake for him to make, as Tales of Wonder was one of the first British science fiction magazines, preceded only by the juvenile Scoops most of the magazine science fiction available at the time would have been in American magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, and Astounding Science-Fiction (ancestor of today's Analog). It should be noted that Tales of Wonder was a British magazine, not American as stated by Lewis. Hall, published in Tales of Wonder #3, Summer 1938. Lewis is 'The Man Who Lived Backwards', a short story by Charles F. I concur with Zeiss Ikon's answer: the story that inspired C. It seems like it's a bit of a long shot, but any chance that anyone can identify this story? While there, the protagonist can't directly influence the world in any way.Has a protagonist that travels to the past.Was published 'several years' before 1944.Was published in an American science fiction magazine.To summarize the points above, the story he's referring to: I must acknowledge my debt to a writer whose name I have forgotten and whom I read several years ago in a highly coloured American magazine of what they call 'Scientifiction'.His Hero traveled into the past: and there, very properly, found raindrops that would pierce him like bullets and sandwiches that no strength could bite–because, of course, nothing in the past can be altered. In the preface to this story, Lewis says that this was not entirely his own idea, but instead: Water is essentially solid, blades of grass don't bend under their feet, small apples seem to weigh tons, and so on. While there, they are unable to interact with the world around them. Lewis's The Great Divorce, originally published in serial form in 1944, Jesus drives a flying bus of denizens of hell/purgatory to heaven, where they get to be tourists. As such, I unfortunately can't offer any more details or more clarification beyond what's already in this question.

This isn't a typical story-identification question, since it's not a story I've read myself.

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