The Time Traveler's Almanac

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer/Preface

Rian Johnson/Introduction

Charles Yu/Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers

EXPERIMENTS

Richard Matheson/Death Ship

Geoffrey A. Landis/Ripples in the Dirac Sea

Robert Silverberg/Needle in a Timestack

Ursula K. Le Guin/Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Alice Sola Kim/Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters

Eric Schaller/How the Future Got Better

Michael Moorcock/Pale Roses

William Gibson/The Gernsback Continuum

C.J. Cherryh/The Threads of Time

Michael Swanwick/Triceratops Summer

Steve Bein/The Most Important Thing in the World

Cordwainer Smith/Himself in Anachron

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

Douglas Adams/Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

Stan Love/Time Travel in Theory and Practice

REACTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES

Ray Bradbury/A Sound of Thunder

Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore/Vintage Season

John Chu/Thirty Seconds from Now

Harry Turtledove/Forty, Counting Down

David Langford/The Final Days

Connie Willis/Fire Watch

Kage Baker/Noble Mold

George R.R. Martin/Under Siege

Steven Utley/Where or When

Ellen Klages/Time Gypsy

Garry Kilworth/On the Watchtower at Plataea

Rosaleen Love/Alexia and Graham Bell

Kage Baker/A Night on the Barbary Coast

Elizabeth Bear/This Tragic Glass

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud/The Gulf of the Years

Max Beerbohm/Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

Genevieve Valentine/Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers

MAZES AND TRAPS

Edward Page Mitchell/The Clock That Went Backward

Theodore Sturgeon/Yesterday Was Monday

Kim Newman/Is There Anybody There?

Joe Lansdale/Fish Night

Gene Wolfe/The Lost Pilgrim

Peter Crowther/Palindromic

Karin Tidbeck/Augusta Prima

Barrington J. Bayley/Life Trap

Greg Egan/Lost Continent

Adrian Tchaikovsky/The Mouse Ran Down

Langdon Jones/The Great Clock

David I. Masson/Traveller’s Rest

Vandana Singh/Delhi

Tony Pi/Come-From-Aways

Dean Francis Alfar/Terminós

Norman Spinrad/The Weed of Time

Eric Frank Russell/The Waitabits

Jason Heller/Music for Time Travelers

COMMUNIQUÉS

Isaac Asimov/What If

Tanith Lee/As Time Goes By

Geoffrey A. Landis/At Dorado

Karen Haber/3 RMS, Good View

Harry Turtledove/Twenty-One, Counting Up

Bob Leman/Loob

Tamsyn Muir/The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time

Gene Wolfe/Against the Lafayette Escadrille

Carrie Vaughn/Swing Time

Richard Bowes/The Mask of the Rex

Nalo Hopkinson/Message in a Bottle

Adam Roberts/The Time Telephone

Kristine Kathryn Rusch/Red Letter Day

Rjurik Davidson/Domine

E.F. Benson/In the Tube

Molly Brown/Bad Timing

Pamela Sargent/If Ever I Should Leave You

Charles Stross/Palimpsest

Acknowledgements

About the Editors and Nonfiction Contributors

Extended Copyright

Copyright

PREFACE