The Time Traveler's AlmanacAnn VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life. |
Contents
Charles Yu Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers | 1 |
Geoffrey A Landis Ripples in the Dirac Sea | 21 |
Robert Silverberg Needle in a Timestack | 31 |
Ursula K Le Guin Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | 44 |
Alice Sola Kim Hwangs Billion Brilliant Daughters | 71 |
Eric Schaller How the Future Got Better | 77 |
William Gibson The Gernsback Continuum | 107 |
J Cherryh The Threads of Time | 115 |
Peter Crowther Palindromic | 511 |
Karin Tidbeck Augusta Prima | 529 |
Barrington J Bayley Life Trap | 536 |
Adrian Tchaikovsky The Mouse Ran Down | 561 |
Langdon Jones The Great Clock | 571 |
Masson Travellers Rest | 584 |
Vandana Singh Delhi | 596 |
Tony Pi ComeFromAways | 609 |
Steve Bein The Most Important Thing in the World | 130 |
Cordwainer Smith Himself in Anachron | 148 |
H G Wells The Time Machine | 154 |
Stan Love Time Travel in Theory and Practice | 166 |
Ray Bradbury A Sound of Thunder | 174 |
Henry Kuttner C L Moore Vintage Season | 183 |
John Chu Thirty Seconds from Now | 215 |
Harry Turtledove Forty Counting Down | 222 |
David Langford The Final Days | 257 |
Kage Baker Noble Mold | 289 |
George R R Martin Under Siege | 304 |
Steven Utley Where or When | 325 |
Ellen Klages Time Gypsy | 338 |
Garry Kilworth On the Watchtower at Plataea | 359 |
Rosaleen Love Alexia and Graham Bell | 373 |
Kage Baker A Night on the Barbary Coast | 379 |
Elizabeth Bear This Tragic Glass | 394 |
GeorgesOlivier Châteaureynaud The Gulf of the Years | 417 |
A Memory of | 425 |
Fashion for Time Travelers | 445 |
Theodore Sturgeon Yesterday Was Monday | 460 |
Kim Newman Is There Anybody There? | 473 |
Joe Lansdale Fish Night | 486 |
Gene Wolfe The Lost Pilgrim | 492 |
Dean Francis Alfar Terminós | 622 |
Norman Spinrad The Weed of Time | 630 |
Eric Frank Russell The Waitabits | 636 |
Jason Heller Music for Time Travelers | 668 |
COMMUNIQUÉS | 678 |
Tanith Lee As Time Goes By | 688 |
Geoffrey A Landis At Dorado | 699 |
Karen Haber 3 RMS Good View | 708 |
Harry Turtledove TwentyOne Counting Up | 717 |
Bob Leman Loob | 750 |
Tamsyn Muir The House that Made the Sixteen | 770 |
Gene Wolfe Against the Lafayette Escadrille | 780 |
Richard Bowes The Mask of the Rex | 796 |
Nalo Hopkinson Message in a Bottle | 813 |
Adam Roberts The Time Telephone | 826 |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch Red Letter Day | 832 |
Rjurik Davidson Domine | 845 |
E F Benson In the Tube | 859 |
Molly Brown Bad Timing | 869 |
Pamela Sargent If Ever I Should Leave You | 882 |
Charles Stross Palimpsest | 892 |
Acknowledgements | 944 |
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