The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
{5/5} “On the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.” (from “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury)
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry N. Malzberg, published in 2003
In “The Battle of Long Island” Susan is an army nurse stationed near an anomaly out of which men from the Revolutionary War are appearing. In “The Man Who Came Early” a soldier stationed in Iceland is thrown back 1000 years, and finds that he then has no useful skills. In “Hall of Mirrors” a time traveller doesn’t realize that he’s time travelled but finds a letter from himself saying he has a decision to make — and there’s only one choice. In “Hawksbill Station” in 2030 political prisoners are sent 2 billion years into the past — and then the government changes.
The time travellers in these stories often find that time travel doesn’t work out so well for them. The stories explore different eras and different intentions on the part of the time travellers.
You may or may not agree with the title, but these stories are worth reading.
Authors include Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Nancy Kress, and James Tiptree, Jr.
One story, Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” is here as a comic book adaptation — which Bradbury adapted himself.
I’d read one story before and one novel based on a story. The novel is Jack McDevitt’s Time Travelers Never Die.
This is the 1st book I’ve read from Malzberg.