The Time Traveller's Almanac
100 Stories Brought to You from the Future
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
960 pages
978-1-78185-389-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology covers millions of years of Earth's history - from the age of the dinosaurs to strange and fascinating futures, through to the end of Time itself. The Time Traveller's Almanac will reacquaint readers with beloved classics and introduce them to thrilling contemporary examples of the time travel genre.
The Time Traveller's Almanac includes stories from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and, of course, H.G. Wells.
The Time Traveller's Almanac includes stories from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and, of course, H.G. Wells.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-389-4 (9781781853894)
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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
- Introduction
- Top Ten Tips for Time Travellers
- 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
- Time Travel in Theory and Practice
- Fast Forward
- Rewind
- Back to the Present
- REACTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
- A Sound of Thunder
- Vintage Season
- Thirty Seconds from Now
- Forty, Counting Down
- The Final Days
- Fire Watch
- Noble Mold
- Under Siege
- Where or When
- Time Gypsy
- On the Watchtower at Plataea
- Alexia and Graham Bell
- A Night on the Barbary Coast
- This Tragic Glass
- The Gulf of the Years
- Enoch Soames: a Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties
- Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travellers
- MAZES AND TRAPS
- The Clock That Went Backward
- Yesterday Was Monday
- Is There Anybody There?
- Fish Night
- The Lost Pilgrim
- Palindromic
- Augusta Prima
- Life Trap
- Lost Continent
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- The Mouse Ran Down
- The Great Clock
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Traveller's Rest
- Delhi
- Come-From-Aways
- Terminós
- Mr. Henares thinks about time
- Mr. Henares makes some sales
- Mr. Henares prepares for bed
- Miguel Lopez Vicente's drought
- Miguel Lopez Vicente selects an ending
- Mr. Henares looks at his inventory
- The Weed of Time
- The Waitabits
- Music for Time Travellers
- A Time Travel Playlist
- COMMUNIQUÉS
- What If
- As Time Goes By
- At Dorado
- 3 RMS, Good View
- Twenty-One, Counting up
- Loob
- The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time
- Against the Lafayette Escadrille
- Swing Time
- The Mask of the Rex
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- FINALE
- Message in a Bottle
- The Time Telephone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Red Letter Day
- Domine
- In the Tube
- Bad Timing
- If Ever I Should Leave You
- Palimpsest
- FRESH MEAT
- This will never happen:
- Yellowstone
- Paying Attention in Class
- HACKING HISTORY
- Pleasure Empires
- Palimpsest Ambush
- Internal Affairs
- ELITE
- Slow Recovery
- Empty Mansions
- THE LIBRARY AT THE END OF TIME
- Continent of Lies
- Spin Control
- Unhistory
- REPEATEDLY KILLING THE BUDDHA
- Graduation Ceremony
- The Trial
- Funeral in Berlin
- REDUX
- Army of You
- He Got Your Girl
- Nation of Me
- RESEEDING
- The Kindest Lies
- Saying Good-bye to Now
- Acknowledgements
- About this Book
- About the Editors
- About the Non-Fiction Contributors
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
- Extended Copyright
