We’re all time travellers, whether we know it or not.
We go into the future at a steady rate of one second per second, and we leave the past behind.
New things come along.
Old things are forgotten.
My own lifetime—neither especially long nor especially short these days—has seen the rise of antibiotics, AIDS, space travel, television, CDs, videotape, DVDs, Richard Nixon (twice), civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, cell phones, the computer, and the Internet. It’s seen the fall of Communism, segregation, records, smallpox (we hope!), polio, Richard Nixon (twice), the Twin Towers, and the idea that smoking is cool.
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The short fiction collected here looks at similar ideas and some wildly different ones. The pieces speak for themselves; anything I say about them, I fear, would only get in the way. The only thing I can be fairly sure of is that you’ll like most of them. Enjoy!
Table of Contents
Introduction by Harry Turtledove
Yesterday Was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon
Time Locker by Henry Kuttner
Time’s Arrow by Arthur C. Clarke
Death Ship by Richard Matheson
A Gun for Dinosaur by Lyon Sprague De Camp
The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson
Rainbird by R. A. Lafferty
Leviathan! by Larry Niven
Anniversary Project by Joe Haldeman
Time Tipping by Jack Dann
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
The Pure Product by John Kessel
Trapalanda by Charles Sheffield
The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
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