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:	479,240
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