The Time Traveler's Almanac Explained

The Time Traveler's Almanac
Genre:Fantasy, sci-fi
Publisher:Tor Books
Pub Date:March 18, 2014
Pages:960
Isbn:978-0-7653-7424-0

The Time Traveler's Almanac (British title: The Time Traveller's Almanac[1]) is a 2013 anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It contains stories that focus on time travel. It was released in November 2013 in the UK and on March 18, 2014, in the US.[2]

Background

Regarding the motivation behind Time Traveler's Almanac, Ann VanderMeer said that there were two main reasons. First was that Ann and Jeff needed "a break from the seriousness of The Weird." Secondly, they felt they could offer something different from existing time travel anthologies.[3]

Contents

Sixty-five short stories and five essays are featured in The Time Traveler's Almanac.

Fiction

Stories are listed in alphabetical order by author.

  1. "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" by Douglas Adams
  2. "Terminós" by Dean Francis Alfar
  3. "What If—" by Isaac Asimov
  4. "Noble Mold" by Kage Baker
  5. "A Night on the Barbary Coast" by Kage Baker
  6. "Life Trap" by Barrington J. Bayley
  7. "This Tragic Glass" by Elizabeth Bear
  8. "Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties" by Max Beerbohm
  9. "The Most Important Thing in the World" by Steve Bein
    1. "In The Tube" by E. F. Benson "The Mask of the Rex" by Richard Bowes
  10. "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
  11. "Bad Timing" by Molly Brown
  12. "The Gulf of the Years" by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
  13. "The Threads of Time" by C. J. Cherryh
  14. "Thirty Seconds From Now" by John Chu
  15. "Palindromic" by Peter Crowther
  16. "Domine" by Rjurik Davidson
  17. "The Lost Continent" by Greg Egan
  18. "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson
  19. "3 RMS, Good View" by Karen Haber
  20. "Message in a Bottle" by Nalo Hopkinson
  21. "The Great Clock" by Langdon Jones
  22. "Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters" by Alice Sola Kim
  23. "On the Watchtower at Plataea" by Garry Kilworth
  24. "Time Gypsies" by Ellen Klages
  25. "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
  26. "At Dorado" by Geoffrey A. Landis
  27. "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey Landis
  28. "The Final Days" by David Langford
  29. "Fish Night" by Joe Lansdale
  30. "As Time Goes By" by Tanith Lee
  31. "Another Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin
  32. "Loob" by Bob Leman
  33. "Alexia and Graham Bell" by Rosaleen Love
  34. "Traveller's Rest" by David I. Masson
  35. "Death Ship" by Richard Matheson
  36. "Under Siege" by George R. R. Martin
  37. "The Clock That Went Backwards" by Edward Page Mitchell
  38. "Pale Roses" by Michael Moorcock
  39. "The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time" by Tamsyn Muir
  40. "Is There Anybody There?" by Kim Newman
  41. "Come-From-Aways" by Tony Pi
  42. "The Time Telephone" by Adam Roberts
  43. "Red Letter Day" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  44. "The Waitabits" by Eric Frank Russell
  45. "If Ever I Should Leave You" by Pamela Sargent
  46. "How the Future Got Better" by Eric Schaller
  47. "Needle in a Timestack" by Robert Silverberg
  48. "Delhi" by Vandana Singh
  49. "Himself in Anachron" by Cordwainer Smith
  50. "The Weed of Time" by Norman Spinrad
  51. "Palimpsest" by Charlie Stross
  52. "Yesterday Was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon
  53. "Triceratops Summer" by Michael Swanwick
  54. "The Mouse Ran Down" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  55. "Augusta Prima" by Karin Tidbeck
  56. "Twenty-One and Counting Up" by Harry Turtledove
  57. "Forty, Counting Down" by Harry Turtledove
  58. "Where or When" by Steven Utley
  59. "Swing Time" by Carrie Vaughn
  60. excerpt from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  61. "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
  62. "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" by Gene Wolfe
  63. "The Lost Pilgrim" by Gene Wolfe

Non-fiction

  1. "Introduction" by Rian Johnson
  2. "Music for Time Travelers" by Jason Heller
  3. "Time Travel in Theory and Practice" by Stan Love
  4. "Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers" by Genevieve Valentine
  5. "Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers" by Charles Yu

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Time Traveller's Almanac.
  2. Web site: TOC: "The Time Traveler's Almanac" Edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Plus: US and UK Covers!). 14 August 2013.
  3. Web site: Interview with Ann VanderMeer on the Time Traveller's Almanac | No Cloaks Allowed . 2014-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140311230250/http://nocloaksallowed.com/2013/12/03/interview-with-ann-vandermeer-on-the-time-travellers-almanac/ . 2014-03-11 . dead .

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