The Time Traveller's Almanac : 100 Stories Brought to You From the Future

The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology covers millions of years of Earth's history – from the age of the dinosaurs to strange and fascinating futures, through to the end of Time itself. The Time Traveller's Almanac will reacquaint readers with beloved classics and introduce them to thrilling contemporary examples of the time travel genre. The Time Traveller's Almanac includes stories from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and, of course, H.G. Wells. Cover; Welcome Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Top Ten Tips for Time Travellers; EXPERIMENTS; Death Ship; Ripples in the Dirac Sea; Needle in a Timestack; Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea; Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters; How the Future Got Better; Pale Roses; I. IN WHICH WERTHER IS INCONSOLABLE; II. IN WHICH YOUR AUDITOR INTERPOSES; III. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS A SOUL MATE; IV. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS SIN AT LAST; V. IN WHICH WERTHER FINDS REDEMPTION OF SORTS; VI. IN WHICH WERTHER DISCOVERS CONSOLATION; The Gernsback Continuum; The Threads of Time; Triceratops Summer You are about to embark on a journey that will take you from the beginning of time to its very end. Reality will be warped, wormholes and rifts will pull you into strange and terrifying futures, maroon you in distant, hostile pasts, and threaten - beware the Butterfly Effect! - to transform the era from whence you came forever Your own time machine: the ultimate treasury of time travel stories, from the beginning of time to its very end.