The Time Traveler's Almanac

The Time Traveler's Almanac
GenreFantasy, sci-fi
PublisherTor Books
Publication date
March 18, 2014
Pages960
ISBN978-0-7653-7424-0

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.[2]

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
  10. "In The Tube" by E. F. Benson
  11. "The Mask of the Rex" by Richard Bowes
  12. "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
  13. "Bad Timing" by Molly Brown
  14. "The Gulf of the Years" by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
  15. "The Threads of Time" by C. J. Cherryh
  16. "Thirty Seconds From Now" by John Chu
  17. "Palindromic" by Peter Crowther
  18. "Domine" by Rjurik Davidson
  19. "The Lost Continent" by Greg Egan
  20. "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson
  21. "3 RMS, Good View" by Karen Haber
  22. "Message in a Bottle" by Nalo Hopkinson
  23. "The Great Clock" by Langdon Jones
  24. "Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters" by Alice Sola Kim
  25. "On the Watchtower at Plataea" by Garry Kilworth
  26. "Time Gypsies" by Ellen Klages
  27. "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
  28. "At Dorado" by Geoffrey A. Landis
  29. "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey Landis
  30. "The Final Days" by David Langford
  31. "Fish Night" by Joe Lansdale
  32. "As Time Goes By" by Tanith Lee
  33. "Another Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin
  34. "Loob" by Bob Leman
  35. "Alexia and Graham Bell" by Rosaleen Love
  36. "Traveller's Rest" by David I. Masson
  37. "Death Ship" by Richard Matheson
  38. "Under Siege" by George R. R. Martin
  39. "The Clock That Went Backwards" by Edward Page Mitchell
  40. "Pale Roses" by Michael Moorcock
  41. "The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time" by Tamsyn Muir
  42. "Is There Anybody There?" by Kim Newman
  43. "Come-From-Aways" by Tony Pi
  44. "The Time Telephone" by Adam Roberts
  45. "Red Letter Day" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  46. "The Waitabits" by Eric Frank Russell
  47. "If Ever I Should Leave You" by Pamela Sargent
  48. "How the Future Got Better" by Eric Schaller
  49. "Needle in a Timestack" by Robert Silverberg
  50. "Delhi" by Vandana Singh
  51. "Himself in Anachron" by Cordwainer Smith
  52. "The Weed of Time" by Norman Spinrad
  53. "Palimpsest" by Charlie Stross
  54. "Yesterday Was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon
  55. "Triceratops Summer" by Michael Swanwick
  56. "The Mouse Ran Down" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  57. "Augusta Prima" by Karin Tidbeck
  58. "Twenty-One and Counting Up" by Harry Turtledove
  59. "Forty, Counting Down" by Harry Turtledove
  60. "Where or When" by Steven Utley
  61. "Swing Time" by Carrie Vaughn
  62. excerpt from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  63. "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
  64. "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" by Gene Wolfe
  65. "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

References

  1. ^ "The Time Traveller's Almanac".
  2. ^ a b "TOC: "The Time Traveler's Almanac" Edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Plus: US and UK Covers!)". 14 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Interview with Ann VanderMeer on the Time Traveller's Almanac | No Cloaks Allowed". Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  • AVClub posting of the Preface to The Time Traveler's Almanac