The Time Traveler's Almanac

Stan Love is a planetary scientist, NASA astronaut, and lifelong science fiction fan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College, where they use rhinoceroses to teach relativity, and a master’s and doctorate in astronomy from the University of Washington. He gives frequent public presentations on space science and exploration based on his professional background and his experience as a Space Shuttle crewmember. Dr. Love admires the interplay between speculative fiction, which can imagine better futures, and science and technology, which can make them real.

Dominik Parisien is a Franco-Ontarian living in Montreal, Quebec. He holds an MA in English literature from the University of Ottawa. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Goblin Fruit, Stone Telling, Mythic Delirium, Ideomancer, Shock Totem, Strange Horizons, and Tesseracts Seventeen, amongst others. Dominik provides editorial support to Cheeky Frawg Books and is a former editorial assistant for Weird Tales.

Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, Mechanique, won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the Nebula. Her second, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, is forthcoming from Atria in 2014. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award; her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, and others, and anthologies Federations, The Living Dead 2, After, Teeth, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, Strange Horizons, io9.com, Weird Tales, and Tor.com, and she’s a coauthor of pop-culture book Geek Wisdom (Quirk).

Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his short-story collection, Third Class Superhero. His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, was a New York Times Notable Book and named by Time magazine as one of the Best Books of 2010. His latest book is Sorry Please Thank You, which was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Santa Monica.

EXTENDED COPYRIGHT

Unless otherwise stated the following were reprinted by permission of the authors.

Douglas Adams: ‘Young Zaphod Plays It Safe’, © 2003 by Douglas Adams. Originally published in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986), The Salmon of Doubt (2002). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Macmillan Publishers.

Dean Francis Alfar: ‘Terminós’, copyright © 2005 by Dean Francis Alfar. Originally published in Rabid Transit: Menagerie, edited by Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl, Velocity Press, 2005.

Isaac Asimov: ‘What If’, copyright © 1952 by the estate of Isaac Asimov. Originally published in Fantastic Story Magazine (Summer 1952). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and Trident Media Group.

Kage Baker: ‘Noble Mold’, copyright © 1997 by estate of Kage Baker. Originally published in Asimov’s (March 1997). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and the Linn Prentis Literary Agency.

Kage Baker: ‘A Night on the Barbary Coast’, copyright © 2003 by estate of Kage Baker. Originally published in The Silver Gryphon (June 2003). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and the Linn Prentis Literary Agency.

Barrington J. Bayley: ‘Life Trap’, copyright © 1979 by Barrington J. Bayley. Originally published in The Seed of Evil. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

Elizabeth Bear: ‘This Tragic Glass’, copyright © 2004 by Sarah Wishnevsky. Originally published in SciFiction (April 7, 2004).

Max Beerbohm: ‘Enoch Soames’. Originally published in The Century Magazine, May 1916.

Steve Bein: ‘The Most Important Thing in the World’, copyright © 2011 by Steve Bein. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (March 2011).

E.F. Benson; ‘In the Tube’. Originally published in Hutchinson’s Magazine, 1923.

Richard Bowes: ‘The Mask of the Rex’, copyright © 2002 by Richard Bowes. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2002).