{"id":25018,"date":"2025-06-22T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25018"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:43:05","slug":"the-best-time-travel-stories-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-best-time-travel-stories-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;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.&#8221; (from &#8220;A Sound of Thunder&#8221; by Ray Bradbury)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time<\/strong> edited by Barry N. Malzberg, published in 2003<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Battle of Long Island&#8221; Susan is an army nurse stationed near an anomaly out of which men from the Revolutionary War are appearing. In &#8220;The Man Who Came Early&#8221; a soldier stationed in Iceland is thrown back 1000 years, and finds that he then has no useful skills. In &#8220;Hall of Mirrors&#8221; a time traveller doesn&#8217;t realize that he&#8217;s time travelled but finds a letter from himself saying he has a decision to make &#8212; and there&#8217;s only one choice. In &#8220;Hawksbill Station&#8221; in 2030 political prisoners are sent 2 billion years into the past &#8212; and then the government changes.<\/p>\n<p>The time travellers in these stories often find that time travel doesn&#8217;t work out so well for them. The stories explore different eras and different intentions on the part of the time travellers.<\/p>\n<p>You may or may not agree with the title, but these stories are worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Authors include Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Nancy Kress, and James Tiptree, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>One story, Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8220;A Sound of Thunder,&#8221; is here as a comic book adaptation &#8212; which Bradbury adapted himself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read one story before and one novel based on a story. The novel is Jack McDevitt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/time-travelers-never-die\/\"><strong>Time Travelers Never Die<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book I&#8217;ve read from Malzberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;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.&#8221; (from &#8220;A Sound of Thunder&#8221; by Ray Bradbury) The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,7,5,8],"class_list":["post-25018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-anthologies","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25018"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25055,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions\/25055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}