The Time Traveler's Almanac

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Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
Macmillan, Mar 18, 2014 - Fiction - 948 pages

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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Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’s best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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