Travel Short Stories

Alayna Guim is a contract killer who wants to retire. She’s had a long and illustrious career as a clandestine hit woman and figured that it was time to call it quits. However, she has to reconsider the whole idea of “time” altogether when a rich scientist books her last job. It requires her to travel back in time to save a life rather than take it.

He seems to know everything you want before you do. He's insightful, kind, and understands you in ways you don't even understand yourself. He's everything you ever dreamed of. But there's always a catch, and now it's time for "The Man with All The Answers" to tell you the truth about his incredible, impossible gift. About the friends that died in its creation. About the terrible price he's had to pay.

In an effort to save and help her family, Penny lands the "Time Machine" and sets off on a journey to learn more about this new dark-age for humanity which is controlled by aliens trying to help. She befriends and enlists a space ship-pilot, and they embark on a way to start a fruitful business to earn more money using her abilities. Things go well at first and they soon become entangled in an deep secret underground operation to protect the free Federation of Worlds.

Philip un americano se pierde en un idílico paraje en la Bretaña francesa. Mientras está cazando, por casualidad se encuentra con Jeanne (la Demoiselle d’ys) que le invita a ir con ella al castillo donde vive, el Castillo d’Ys. Aunque a medida que avanza el relato la relación entre Philip y Jeanne va estrechándose, vemos como personajes extraños a todos los habitantes del Castillo. Inesperadamente Philipp es atacado por una serpiente y.

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.

Indigo and her friends, Bobby and Sarah, reside in a homeless community by the river until the local police raid the area. Scared they will arrest them for trespassing the trio escapes in different directions. Things look bleak for Indigo until she reunites with Bobby who finds a stopwatch which allows them to travel through time. After meeting up with Sarah, painful memories take Indigo and her friends on a grand adventure none of them see coming.

During the years before WWII, Adolf Hitler had started multiple secret weapons programs. Colonel Meier is one of the officers selected and tasked with a defense weapon agenda. It is in this short story we learn how Colonel Meier discovers time travel and begins the Die Glocke project along with the secret mission Project Umschreiben.

Ethan Duke, attorney at law, must discover a way to control the butterfly effects of time travel that have taken him hostage, using the tools familiar to him: reason and logic. But time, and those who manipulate it, just might have other ideas.

They don't alter the past. They don't spy on the future. Yet, even very cautious time-travel research leaves plenty of room to get into trouble. Time, Limited is a foremost authority on space and time research. Wary of the time travel-related doomsday scenarios described by science fiction writers, the employees of the company take every precaution imaginable and move forward carefully as slowly. But when a critical experiment is threatened by a natural disaster, even the best-laid precautions go tumbling down, and the nerds have to think on their feet to protect the research and ensure the company's recovery.

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

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.

During the time Knoll's Fly Shop and Knoll's Yellowstone Hackle has been in existence, Doc Knoll has written numerous articles for various publications. A majority of these articles are fly fishing related, and he has also taken on a few other subject matters that happen in and around Yellowstone County. The Book of Bathroom Tales is a compilation of these short stories.

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?

Time travel is a dream long held by human beings. Who hasn't had fond thoughts about showing Nicola Tesla their personal Tesla coil or taking him for a drive in an electric car that bears his name? The devil is in the details of the technology, which is what ties together this collection of short fiction. The stories in this collection appeared in Analog science fiction magazine between 1990 and 2000.

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.

A Brother's Betrayal is a poem about a brother failing to show compassion to his sister while she faces a cruel and unjust trial.