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The Time Traveller's Almanac
Author: Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Editor)

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. The book is like a time machine of its very own, cov... more »ering 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.

Contents, 65 stories + essays:

Preface (The Time Traveller's Almanac) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Introduction (The Time Traveler's Almanac) • essay by Rian Johnson
Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers • essay by Charles Yu
I. EXPERIMENTS
Death Ship (1953) / shortstory by Richard Matheson
Ripples in the Dirac Sea (1988) / shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
Needle in a Timestack (1983) / shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Island Sea / novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters (2010) / shortstory by Alice Sola Kim
How the Future Got Better (2010) / shortstory by Eric Schaller
Pale Roses [Tales from the End of Time • 1] (1974) / novelette by Michael Moorcock
The Gernsback Continuum (1981) / shortstory by William Gibson
The Threads of Time (1978) / shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Triceratops Summer (2005) / shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Most Important Thing in the World (2011) / novelette by Steve Bein
Himself in Anachron [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1993) / shortstory by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
The Time Machine (excerpt) / shortfiction by H. G. Wells
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] (1986) / shortstory by Douglas Adams
Time Travel in Theory and Practice / essay by Stan Love
II. REACTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
A Sound of Thunder (1952) / shortstory by Ray Bradbury
Vintage Season (1946) / novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Thirty Seconds from Now (2013) / shortstory by John Chu
Forty, Counting Down (1999) / novella by Harry Turtledove
The Final Days (1981) / shortstory by David Langford
Fire Watch [Time Travel] (1982) / novelette by Connie Willis
Noble Mold [Company] (1997) / shortstory by Kage Baker
Under Siege (1985) / novelette by George R. R. Martin
Where or When (1991) / novelette by Steven Utley
Time Gypsy (1998) / novelette by Ellen Klages
On the Watchtower at Plataea (1988) / novelette by Garry Kilworth
Alexia and Graham Bell (1987) / shortstory by Rosaleen Love
A Night on the Barbary Coast [Company] (2003) / shortstory by Kage Baker
This Tragic Glass (2004) / novelette by Elizabeth Bear
The Gulf of the Years / shortstory by George-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties / novelette by Max Beerbohm
Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers • essay by Genevieve Valentine
III. MAZES AND TRAPS
The Clock That Went Backward (1881) / shortstory by Edward Page Mitchell
Yesterday Was Monday (1941) / shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
Is There Anybody There? (2000) / novelette by Kim Newman
Fish Night (1982) / shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
The Lost Pilgrim (2004) / novelette by Gene Wolfe
Palindromic (1997) / novelette by Peter Crowther
Augusta Prima (2011) / shortstory by Karin Tidbeck (trans. of Augusta Prima 2009)
Life Trap (1979) / shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
Lost Continent (2008) / novelette by Greg Egan
The Mouse Ran Down / shortstory by Langdon Jones
The Great Clock (1966) / shortstory by Langdon Jones
Traveller's Rest (1965) / shortstory by David I. Masson
Delhi (2004) / shortstory by Vandana Singh
Come-From-Aways (2009) / shortstory by Tony Pi
Terminós (2005) / shortstory by Dean Francis Alfar
The Weed of Time (1970) / shortstory by Norman Spinrad
The Waitabits (1955) / novelette by Eric Frank Russell
Music for Time Travelers • essay by Jason Heller
IV. COMMUNIQUES
What If. . . (1952) / shortstory by Isaac Asimov
As Time Goes By (1983) / shortstory by Tanith Lee
At Dorado (2002) / shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
3 RMS, Good View (1990) / shortstory by Karen Haber
Twenty-One, Counting Up (1999) / novella by Harry Turtledove
Loob [Goster County] (1979) / novelette by Bob Leman
The House That Made the Sixteen Loops of Time (2011) / shortstory by Tamsyn Muir
Against the Lafayette Escadrille (1972) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Swing Time (2007) / shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
The Mask of the Rex [Files of the Time Rangers] (2002) / novelette by Richard Bowes
Message in a Bottle (2004) / shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
The Time Telephone (2004) / shortstory by Adam Roberts
Red Letter Day (2010) / shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Domine (2007) / shortstory by Rjurik Davidson
In the Tube (1922) / shortstory by E. F. Benson
Bad Timing (1991) / shortstory by Molly Brown
If Ever I Should Leave You (1974) / shortstory by Pamela Sargent
Palimpsest (2009) / novella by Charles Stross

ISBN-13: 9781781853900
ISBN-10: 1781853908
Publication Date: 11/1/2013
Pages: 960
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Publisher: Head of Zeus
Book Type: Hardcover
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