Time Travel Anthology

A dying man discovers that he has the power to rewind time.

The reenactment of the iconic battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, is in its second day, and the paramedics at Aid Station Three have seen their share of cuts and scrapes and heat exhaustion. With 20 minutes until the start of the next battle scenario, Eric, the senior EMT, sends the minor injury cases on their way. Suddenly, a cannon shot booms, followed by more in quick succession, followed by thunder. Has the battle started early? Strangely, it sounds more like the sounds of battle are coming from the actual site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

“Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again...oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can’t just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin, the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can’t go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it."

This love story for nerds initially appeared in the author's anthology Elemental Tales and Other Unusual Adventures.

Professional money manager Jim Peters believes his family's well-being and his dreams are in jeopardy, as he is being pushed out of his job by unscrupulous competition and younger tech-savvy workers. On the brink of making costly decisions, Jim is sensing that he's losing his grip on everything that is important to him, including his legacy. Jim, however, is about to discover an old way of living that will create a new way of thinking, and it will come from a most unusual place.

Michelangelo Fazio, autore di tre racconti di fantascienza, capace di coniugare divulgazione scientifica e racconto, introduce il lettore nel mondo delle leggi dello spazio-tempo e della relatività di Einstein. La comicità di Fazio e la sua passione per la scienza trovano collocazione ideale in queste storie brevi ambientate in mondi fantastici.

There's a girl in Tim's room that claims she's from the future. Should he believe her? A short story about future glory.

Twenty-six short stories that will amaze you. Among others: Curiosity Rover discovers a locked door in the side of Mount Sharp, on Mars, and three scientists are sent on a mission to discover what lies within the ancient structure. Will they locate the mysterious libraries of a civilization lost, and survive to tell about their discoveries in "The Mars Tetrahedron"? Plus, you'll hear "The Day Satan Quit" and much much more.

"One Giant Step" mixes time travel, dinosaurs, and treachery, for a new take on how the dinosaurs went extinct. OGS is a short story (approx 2,300 words) from the Nebula Award-nominated author of REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS and MANHATTAN TRANSFER. The story was originally published in the anthology DINOSAUR FANTASTIC, 1993, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. Narrated by Rich Adams, who has been a professional actor, voice actor, director, and scenic and lighting designer for the past thirty-five years.

Professor Otto Bendner vom europäischen Kernforschungszentrum CERN erhält den Nobelpreis für Physik. Seine Entdeckungen im größten Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt verändern alles. Bendner freut sich über die Auszeichnung, aber die massive Kritik der Öffentlichkeit an seinen Experimenten sorgt ihn. Dann wird er in Stockholm von einem geheimnisvollen Kollegen kontaktiert. Eine verrückte Zeit beginnt.

What if a simple trip to a street market resulted in a brand new life? What if stumbling over a flower cart led to a whole new identity? What if a misstep caused your entire existence to be wiped out, only to start over hundreds of miles, and years, away?

Un ya no tan joven aspirante a escritor, a quien la rutina y la necesidad de ganarse la vida han hecho desistir de sus aspiraciones, descubre que uno de sus viejos textos de juventud ha sido plagiado. ¿Cómo conseguir que los demás crean en lo que dice cuando ni él mismo se atreve a hacerlo? La cuestión resulta especialmente difícil si el supuesto plagiario es un autor fallecido hace un siglo y medio.

Un ja no tan jove aspirant a escriptor, a qui la rutina i la necessitat de guanyar-se la vida han fet desistir de les seves aspiracions, descobreix que han plagiat un dels seus vells textos de joventut. Com pot aconseguir que els altres creguin en el que diu quan ni ell mateix s'atreveix a creure-ho? Això resulta especialment difícil si el suposat plagiari és un autor mort fa un segle i mig.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

Fashion shifts into fast-forward for Beverly Hills designer Sophie Duchamp one fateful summer day. "Pourquoi?", you ask. It's the day that her four future selves, each carrying a stolen time device, show up in her studio! But will Sophie's destiny - and humanity's future, for that matter - be irrevocably changed by what they tell her?

From one of the most prestigious literary science fiction writers in modern times, Robert Silverberg's Hunters in the Forest explores a distant future where vacationers travel back to the time of dinosaurs; one such traveler finds himself questioning whether to return to civilization. Browse more Silverberg.

They had a doorway into the past. But it didn't just open on a specific place on a certain day. There was a sort of flutter, and it caused spatial drift and temporal spread. Two probes might go through together on the 21st-century side but come out miles and years apart on the Silurian side. So, when the second of two people going through a portal into the past is lost, the first feels an abstract guilt that eats into her pleasure at having traveled through time.

Set on the brink of war, Frances, an alien in fear for her life, tries to make her escape before an enemy invasion. Embark on her adventure with Laitel, her lover and servant of Lohno, a fugitive of sorts whose philosophy of life has left him alone and in hiding.

Cycling through Time is about second and third chances. Trevor Rogers is one of the few people in the world who has access to his own past. Trevor's wife, Susan Rogers, a physicist, works in a highly contained government facility. The news of her pregnancy came the same week as news that Trevor had only a few months to live. The numbers all added up in her head. They did not look good.... Once she sent him to the past, they would both have to work smart and fast. When he returned from the past, they would hop into the gate together in their future.

Timothy Travels considered himself the luckiest person in the world. He wanted nothing more than to go on a grand adventure. Little did he know, he was about to embark upon a journey that would change his life forever. On the day of his departure, he received a gift from a stranger that set him on an adventure in a world he never imagined. An adventure that challenged his luck every step of the way. Timothy would never be the same.