The Time Traveler's Almanac

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

ANN VANDERMEER is the Hugo Award-winning former editor of Weird Tales magazine and has worked with her husband, Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning writer JEFF VANDERMEER on the genre-defining anthologies The New Weird, Steampunk, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, and the World Fantasy Award-winning The Weird. They live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Preface / Ann & Jeff VanderMeer Introduction / Rian Johnson Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers / Charles Yu EXPERIMENTS Death Ship / Richard Matheson Ripples in the Dirac Sea / Geoffrey A. Landis Needle in a Timestack / Robert Silverberg Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea / Ursula K. Le Guin Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters / Alice Sola Kim How the Future Got Better / Eric Schaller Pale Roses / Michael Moorcock The Gernsback Continuum / William Gibson Threads of Time / C. J. Cherryh Triceratops Summer / Michael Swanwick The Most Important Thing in the World / Steve Bein Himself In Anachron / Cordwainer Smith The Time Machine / H.G. Wells Young Zaphod Plays It Safe / Douglas Adams Time Travel in Theory and Practice / Stan Love REACTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES A Sound of Thunder / Ray Bradbury Vintage Season / Henry Kuttner Thirty Seconds from Now / John Chu Forty Counting Down / Harry Turtledove The Final Days / David Langford Fire Watch / Connie Willis Noble Mold / Kage Baker Under Siege / George R. R. Martin Where or When / Steven Utley Time Gypsy / Ellen Klages On the Watchtower at Plataea / Garry Kilworth Alexia and Graham Bell / Rosaleen Love A Night on the Barbary Coast / Kage Baker This Tragic Glass / Elizabeth Bear The Gulf of the Years / Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties / Max Beerbohm Genevieve Valentine / Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers MAZES AND TRAPS The Clock That Went Backward / Edward Page Mitchell Yesterday Was Monday / Theodore Sturgeon Is There Anybody There? / Kim Newman Fish Night / Joe R. Lansdale The Lost Pilgrim / Gene Wolfe Palindromic / Peter Crowther Augusta Prima / Karin Tidbeck Life Trap / Barrington J. Bayley Lost Continent / Greg Egan The Mouse Ran Down / Adrian Tchaikovsky The Great Clock / Langdon Jones Traveller's Rest / David I. Masson Delhi / Vandana Singh Come-From-Aways / Tony Pi Terminos / Dean Francis Alfar The Weed of Time / Norman Spinrad The Waitabits / Eric Frank Russell Music for Time Travelers / Jason Heller COMMUNIQUES What If / Isaac Asimov As Time Goes / by Tanith Lee At Dorado / Geoffrey A. Landis 3 RMS, Good View / Karen Haber Twenty-One Counting Up / Harry Turtledove Loob / Bob Leman The House That Made the Sixteen Loops of Time / Tamsyn Muir Against The Lafayette Escadrille / Gene Wolfe Swing Time / Carrie Vaughn The Mask of the Rex / Richard Bowes Message in a Bottle / Nalo Hopkinson The Time Telephone / Adam Roberts Red Letter Day / Kristine Kathryn Rusch Domine / Rjurik Davidson In The Tube / E. F. Benson Bad Timing / Molly Brown If Ever I Should Leave You / Pamela Sargent Palimpsest / Charles Stross