The Time Traveler's Almanac: A Time Travel Anthology

by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765374240
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/18/2014
Pages:	960
Sales rank:	239,474
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

ANN VANDERMEER is the Hugo Award–winning former editor of Weird Tales magazine and has worked with her husband, Hugo–nominated and World Fantasy Award–winning writer JEFF VANDERMEER on the genre-defining anthologies The New Weird, Steampunk, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, and the World Fantasy Award–winning The Weird. They live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface / Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Introduction / Rian Johnson

Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers / Charles Yu

EXPERIMENTS
Death Ship / Richard Matheson
Ripples in the Dirac Sea / Geoffrey A. Landis
Needle in a Timestack / Robert Silverberg
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea / Ursula K. Le Guin
Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters / Alice Sola Kim
How the Future Got Better / Eric Schaller
Pale Roses / Michael Moorcock
The Gernsback Continuum / William Gibson
Threads of Time / C. J. Cherryh
Triceratops Summer / Michael Swanwick
The Most Important Thing in the World / Steve Bein
Himself In Anachron / Cordwainer Smith
The Time Machine / H.G. Wells
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe / Douglas Adams

Time Travel in Theory and Practice / Stan Love

REACTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
A Sound of Thunder / Ray Bradbury
Vintage Season / Henry Kuttner
Thirty Seconds from Now / John Chu
Forty Counting Down / Harry Turtledove
The Final Days / David Langford
Fire Watch / Connie Willis
Noble Mold / Kage Baker
Under Siege / George R. R. Martin
Where or When / Steven Utley
Time Gypsy / Ellen Klages
On the Watchtower at Plataea / Garry Kilworth
Alexia and Graham Bell / Rosaleen Love
A Night on the Barbary Coast / Kage Baker
This Tragic Glass / Elizabeth Bear
The Gulf of the Years / Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties / Max Beerbohm

Genevieve Valentine / Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers

MAZES AND TRAPS
The Clock That Went Backward / Edward Page Mitchell
Yesterday Was Monday / Theodore Sturgeon
Is There Anybody There? / Kim Newman
Fish Night / Joe R. Lansdale
The Lost Pilgrim / Gene Wolfe
Palindromic / Peter Crowther
Augusta Prima / Karin Tidbeck
Life Trap / Barrington J. Bayley
Lost Continent / Greg Egan
The Mouse Ran Down / Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Great Clock / Langdon Jones
Traveller's Rest / David I. Masson
Delhi / Vandana Singh
Come-From-Aways / Tony Pi
Terminos / Dean Francis Alfar
The Weed of Time / Norman Spinrad
The Waitabits / Eric Frank Russell

Music for Time Travelers / Jason Heller

COMMUNIQUES
What If / Isaac Asimov
As Time Goes / by Tanith Lee
At Dorado / Geoffrey A. Landis
3 RMS, Good View / Karen Haber
Twenty-One Counting Up / Harry Turtledove
Loob / Bob Leman
The House That Made the Sixteen Loops of Time / Tamsyn Muir
Against The Lafayette Escadrille / Gene Wolfe
Swing Time / Carrie Vaughn
The Mask of the Rex / Richard Bowes
Message in a Bottle / Nalo Hopkinson
The Time Telephone / Adam Roberts
Red Letter Day / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Domine / Rjurik Davidson
In The Tube / E. F. Benson
Bad Timing / Molly Brown
If Ever I Should Leave You / Pamela Sargent
Palimpsest / Charles Stross

Editorial Reviews

This standard-setting compilation is a deeply affectionate and respectful history of speculative fiction's blurry edges, and its stunning diversity, excellent quality, and extremely reasonable price point will entice a wide variety of readers-including those who think they don't like 'weird.'” —Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Weird

From the Publisher

★ 05/19/2014
Time travel stories move sharply in and out of vogue, but they have an enduring history in speculative fiction. The VanderMeers' latest giant anthology (after The Weird) does the genre a great service, reaching back through that history for classics as well as newer pieces readers might have missed. Standouts include Charles Stross's epic "Palimpsest", Connie Willis's stark portrayal of WWII England in "Fire Watch," and the delicious ambiguity of "Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters" by Alice Sola Kim. There is room for the wistful, courtesy of Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer," and Genevieve Valentine's intermission feature "Trousseau" is half-practical and half-poetic. Every aspect of time is explored and shared, from whole multiverses being created and eliminated with hardly a thought, to the realization that the here and now can be the best thing there is. Agent: Sally Harding, The Cooke Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly