The Time Traveller's Almanac Part I - Experiments
A Treasury of Time Travel Fiction - Brought to You from the Future
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
250 pages
978-1-78185-733-5 (ISBN)
Description
Here are 14 daring experiments in time travel from Richard Matheson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, and, of course H.G. Wells.
Intrepid chrononauts Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have scoured time itself to bring you this instalment (the first of four) from their über-guide to exploring the fourth dimension, THE TIME TRAVELLER'S ALMANAC. Be warned: reality will be warped, wormholes opened, paradoxes woven and parallel universes breached.
Just as well then that within these pages you'll also find Charles Yu's Top Ten Tips For Time Travellers...
Intrepid chrononauts Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have scoured time itself to bring you this instalment (the first of four) from their über-guide to exploring the fourth dimension, THE TIME TRAVELLER'S ALMANAC. Be warned: reality will be warped, wormholes opened, paradoxes woven and parallel universes breached.
Just as well then that within these pages you'll also find Charles Yu's Top Ten Tips For Time Travellers...
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-733-5 (9781781857335)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Hugo Award winner Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer are editors of the definitive compilations 'Steampunk', 'Weird' and 'The New Weird'. They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with four cats and ten thousand books.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Preface
- EXPERIMENTS
- Death Ship
- Ripples in the Dirac Sea
- Needle in a Timestack
- Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
- Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters
- How the Future Got Better
- Pale Roses
- I. IN WHICH WERTHER IS INCONSOLABLE
- II. IN WHICH YOUR AUDITOR INTERPOSES
- III. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS A SOUL MATE
- IV. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS SIN AT LAST
- V. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS REDEMPTION OF SORTS
- VI. IN WHICH WERTHER DISCOVERS CONSOLATION
- The Gernsback Continuum
- The Threads of Time
- Triceratops Summer
- The Most Important Thing in the World
- Himself in Anachron
- The Time Machine
- III
- Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
- Music for Time Travellers
- A Time Travel Playlist
- Acknowledgements
- About this Book
- Reviews
- About The Time Traveller's Almanac
- About the Editors
- About the Non-Fiction Contributors
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
- Extended Copyright
