The First Annual IWM INDIE-Pendence Day Anthology: Time Travel!

by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan, P.T. Dilloway, Andrew Leon

14 great time travel stories from 14 great indie writers -- and the winner of the first annual IWM anthology contest. Read an amazing variety of time travel short stories including the 2014 winner, "I Will Be A Jerk" by Russ Bickerstaff and the runner up, "Had Son, Will Travel" by Beau Johnson, and many many more.

137 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2014

About the author

Sandra Ulbrich Almazan started reading at the age of three and only stops when absolutely required to. Although she hasn't been writing quite that long, she did compose a very simple play in German during middle school. Her science fiction novella Move Over Ms. L. (an early version of Lyon's Legacy) earned an Honorable Mention in the 2001 UPC Science Fiction Awards, and her short story "A Reptile at the Reunion" was published in the anthology Firestorm of Dragons. She is a founding member of BroadUniverse and a long-time member of the Online Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. Her undergraduate degree is in molecular biology/English, and she has a Master of Technical and Scientific Communication degree. Her current day job is in the laboratory of an enzyme company; she's also been a technical writer and a part-time copyeditor for a local newspaper. Some of her other accomplishments are losing on Jeopardy! and taking a stuffed orca to three continents. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband, Eugene; and son, Alex. In her rare moments of free time, she enjoys crocheting, listening to classic rock (particularly the Beatles), and watching improv comedy.

Reviews

[Rusty]

Oh man, I've haven't reviewed a book in so long, I don't think I know how. Lets see. This is a short story anthology about Time-Travel. Um, yeah, sign me up.

I actually finished this about a month ago, which is why I'm reviewing an INDEPENDENCE DAY anthology in September. Of course, I feel like September is one of our least patriotic months, and needs a bit of a pick-me-up. Why should July get all the glory?

I mean, if you think of it, all the later months get the shaft. 1) they all take place in the winter (if you're in the top half of the world) and 2) They have the lamest names. I mean, September begins that long stretch of month's names where those lameos in ancient times just gave up and started numbering them.

Hey guys, I'm totally going to name the months! Lessee, Janus, the awesome god of... um, being a two face, and Mars, you know, for war! And I'll even name one for Cesear.... it'll be awesome!

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August... ugh. Forget it, what number am I on now? I'm bored. Seven? Whatever. Seven, eight, nine, ten. Done.

So that's the story of the months. September, in addition to being really hard to spell, just means seven. You know, the number. I mean, people, that's lazy work.

So, back to this anthology. I like time-travel stories, and we've got a bunch of them here. Including one of my own. Mine is really long. I think I was thinking that if I made it long enough, people would just assume it had to be good, because why would people waste so many words telling a story that's bad?

So, I made it long, so long that my story is about the same length as the rest of the book. I did find a bunch of typos though. Dammit. Also, well, it was really long. And when I read it, I had no idea what the hell was happening. Something about a guy... um, time travel, there may be guns involved.

Shit. I don't know.

Whatever. Quit looking at me all weird.

Oh, no rating because, duh, I have a story in it. Although not credited anywhere I can see in the tags, I promise I'm in there. Unless they just sent me a copy with my story added so as not to hurt my feelings. That's totally a thing that would happen to me.

Regardless, it seems weird for me to comment on the quality of the larger anthology. I've been compromised.