Time Travel Short Stories

by David Wittenberg (Foreword), F. Anstey (Contributor), Bo Balder (Contributor)

From H.G.Wells, Jules Verne and Edward Page Mitchell stories of travelling back and forth in time have brought us ancient and future civilisations, terrifying visions and cautionary tales. In the wake of our successful Gothic and Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery, we bring you a constellation of tales, new and old, in a dazzling mix of classic and brand new writing with authors from around the world.

Contents:
The Meaning That You Choose by Bo Balder
Shaping Things to Come by Dominick Cancilla
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
Hostage by Kate Estabrooks
Try, Try Again by K.L. Evangelista
All for Bellkins by Tony Genova
Murder or a Duck by Beth Goder
Cattail Heart by Kate Heartfield
Eternity and the Devil by Larry Hodges
Two Children Reported Missing by Scott Merrow
Striking Light by Samantha Murray
Ouroboros by Chris Reynolds
The Berlin Doctrine by Anton Rose
Omnipunks by Brian Trent
A Brain, A Heart, A Home, The Nerve by Valerie Valdes
This Door Is Locked by Adam Vine

These new authors appear alongside the following classic and essential writers: F. Anstey, Edward Bellamy, John Buchan, L. Maria Child, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Harold Steele Mackaye, Edward Page Mitchell, William Morris, Philip Francis Nowlan, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells.

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Anthologies, Fiction, Collections, Fantasy

497 pages, Hardcover

First published July 31, 2017

Reviews

[Kaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review for "Murder and a Duck" only: A very funny story about time-travel/alternative realities. Available online here: http://escapepod.org/2016/10/13/ep545...

[Zarra]

I bought and read this thinking it was a collection of real life stories of people who claimed to have travelled in time, or events that may or may not prove time travel is possible.
But alas, it is a collection of fiction short stories from known authors about time travel.
My husband didn't appreciate it much, but i read through it.
And, it's not for me either. Though i have to admit that some of these short stories are pretty interesting.

[Mathew Walls · Rating 2 out of 5]

The stories in this collection are mostly based around somewhat novel ideas, and quite varied in style and content, but didn't really do much for me. I don't like that they included excerpts from various novels and I just skipped straight past those. Including the URL at the bottom of each one to read the full text online is an interesting idea but not, I would say, a good one. Especially since they seem to have taken those full versions off their website already. My biggest criticism though is just that I didn't particularly like any of the stories. They were mostly mediocre. I didn't hate any of them, but at least if I had I'd have felt something about them. I wouldn't recommend the book, but I wouldn't warn anyone away from it either. It's fine, I guess.

[Ariana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed this book because it each story is a different take on time travel. I didn’t really like the excerpts from novels, but other than that, the book was great

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some interesting stories in here although some of them are from the 1800s and difficult to read. A lot of the older stories are not directly related to time travel. Some are just dreams or people put in stasis for hundreds of years. There are a few excerpts from longer books which I mostly skipped. It is a good looking book though!

[Cherish Behrendt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't finish.

[Megan]

DNF 10/30/23, around pg 35

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most interesting time travel stories take a paradox and explore it from different angles. When done well, that's what makes time travel stories such an engrossing read. Sadly, this is not one of these stories. The author merely takes a (well-explored) paradox and... describes it. I know it's just a short story, and this is a beginning author, but the approach seems... lazy, somehow. There's clearly a potential here, but that's about it.

Merged review:

This story so much reminds me of Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog (which is the best time travel... no, sci-fi... no, BOOK ever), it probably totally screws up my perception. Very British, very hilarious in its own very specific way... my only complaint is that it's just too damn short!

Merged review:

Nothing extraordinary, but a decent time-travel short story nevertheless.

Merged review:

If you ever wondered whether statistical analysis is a good tool justifying messing with people's lives, here's a story illustrating why it's not.

Merged review:

If one were asked to write a stereotypical time travel story, one that doesn't even try to develop a plot in any meaningful way or go beyond the old tired time travel platitudes, "Two Children Reported Missing" would be one possible outcome. That the writing is amateurish does not help its case either. I'm giving it two stars, not one, because it's just a blah story, not a horrible one, but that's not much of a compliment.

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sometimes reading this book was a delight and other times it was a chore. The stories were varied, which was nice. I like diversity. But some of the selections were awful. I had to skim them because I couldn’t get into them or they were just awful. It has an attractive cover, so I was excited because I like time travel and I like fancy looking books. But I can’t give this one away fast enough. At the very least, it rekindled my enthusiasm for some of the old classics- I loved revisiting Wells and Twain. And a few new authors I’ll keep an eye out for. But just because the story fits the theme doesn’t mean it should be given space in the book.