Time Machines : The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written

by Adler, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780786710331
• ISBN10: 0786710330
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-14
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The notion of traveling forward or backward across history, of changing the events of your own life or those which came before you or those that have yet to occur - has fascinated eminent writers for a century, from Edgar Allan Poe's "Three Sundays in a Week" to Isaac Asimov's "What If" to Rod Serling's "The Odyssey of Flight 33". Time travel fiction is by no means confined to the science-fiction genre; it is one of the most fluid forms of storytelling and crosses over between literary fiction (Kipling's "Wireless") and seminal science fiction (Bradbury's "A Touch of Petulance").

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Shape in Time	p. 1
Who's Cribbing?	p. 4
The Business, As Usual	p. 12
The Third Level	p. 16
A Touch of Petulance	p. 21
The History of Temporal Express	p. 31
Star, Bright	p. 39
The Last Two Days of Larry Joseph's Life - In This Time, Anyway	p. 62
Three Sundays in a Week	p. 74
Bad Timing	p. 81
Night	p. 98
Time Travelers Never Die	p. 119
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation	p. 171
What Goes Around	p. 176
You See, But You Do Not Observe	p. 191
Ripples in the Dirac Sea	p. 207
The Odyssey of Flight 33	p. 221
Fire Watch	p. 241
What If	p. 279
There and Then	p. 292
Wireless	p. 333
The Last Article	p. 351
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