Travel Short Stories

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?

Richie Preston is 27 years old and still lives in his parents' house, still works at a dead end job, lost his great love, still hasn't really begun his life. One day the fates smile on him and give him the opportunity to start over, to go back to being 17 and about to start his senior year of high school, only this time with all the memories of what he did wrong the first time. All he has to do is not interfere with anyone else's life. It sounds like a great deal, but living up to his end of the bargain turns out to be harder than Richie ever imagined.

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.

Ever-turbulent humanity has reached out to the stars and found itself challenged by several “exosapient” species whose motivations are as unusual as their physical forms. But no world is defined just by the characters who occupy center stage. Lost Signals digs deep into the lives - and struggles - of those beyond the spotlight by bringing together 20 new voices and new stories.

Worlds collide when a time traveling New York mobster travels to ancient Egypt, before the Great Pyramids are constructed. He brings the Pharaoh many small, insignificant, unassuming, modern items like an iPod, a six-pack of beer, and the Encyclopedia entry "How the Great Pyramids were really built". Does he change the course of history, or does he set the present course while becoming an Egyptian God?

Taking a trip is like a having a love affair: You arrive at your destination liberated from the mundane details of ordinary life, free to shuck off your inhibitions and awaken to the landscape of the senses. In Foreign Affairs, writers from around the globe explore the romance of travel in 21 explicit stories set in evocative locales, including Rome, Brussels, Tokyo, St. Lucia, Vietnam, and Santorini. Contributors include Opal Palmer Adisa, Lisabet Sarai, and Linda Jaivin (author of the best seller Eat Me).

This collection of unabridged, unforgettable tales, written by some of science fiction's most esteemed authors, pays homage to one of the genre's most cherished story types. Whether time travel stories leap forward in time or slip into the past, they remain popular with fans.

The second Spoken Ink collection of superb short stories by H. G. Wells, who was a master of the form. Humour and wit abound in his writing, as does sharp social observation. Among the 17 stories in this collection, The Plattner Story tells of a chemistry teacher who analyses a most unusual powder one of the boys brings to class, in The Cone a woman married to a bullying industrialist is having an affair with his young friend.

I have little time to waste. I don’t really know where I am or what year it is—the details are a bit fuzzy and so is my head. Maybe you will laugh when I tell you that somebody I love used to call me Screwball. That’s not my real name, just a silly nickname. But, if my body is still here when you find this audiobook, please put that name on the headstone

Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey. Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1. Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota. Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist...and personal attorney...and historian...and geologist. John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean."

Florida homicide detective Brianna Breeze can't seem to catch a man unless she handcuffs him. So her best friend decides to take matters into her own hands and tricks Brianna into seeing the Love Gypsy, a time traveler's friend noted for her extraordinary matchmaking skills. When a tall, muscular man wearing jeans, a black leather jacket, and slicked-back 50s hair bursts in on her first visit, Brianna is bewitched. Despite the gypsy's warning not to get involved with him, Brianna can't get him out of her mind.

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.

Time and the Gloaming introduces the world to Michael Bunker's unique and fascinating world of time travel. Finally gathered into this exciting anthology, Bunker's time travel stories are the freshest take on the genre since Jack Finney mastered it, decades ago, in Time and Again.

No science fiction author was more highly regarded than Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, winner of numerous honors. One of the genre's premier literary artists, Simak explores time travel and time engines; examines the rituals and superstitions of galactic travelers who have long forgotten their ultimate purpose; and even takes fascinating detours through World War II and the wild American West in a wondrous anthology that no science fiction fan should be without.

One Voice Recordings presents stories by H. L. Peretz. This production of five of his best tales includes Beryl The Tailor, Devotion Without End, The Visit of the Magician, The Poor Boy, and Travel Pictures from 'Pictures of a Provincial Journey'.

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.

Hotel Himalaya: Three Travel Romances is a collection of tales about emotional connections between strangers who meet far from home. Each story contains a search, a loss, a love, and an epiphany. Sean Munger is the author of The Valley of Forever, Zombies of Byzantium, The Rats of Midnight, Doppelganger, and various other novels and short stories.