Seems to me like HG Wells had a similar idea in one of his short stories. IIRC from my teenage reading, it was a fantasy where time stopped for all but one person. I'd say about 80% of the more popular SF story ideas either originated with or were popularized by HG Wells. They don't seem as original now to an SF reader because writers have been milking his stuff for over 100 years, but at the time, he was radically innovative.