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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
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Canavan
Dec 09, 2022 rated it really liked it
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“Yesterday Was Monday”, Theodore Sturgeon (1941) ✭✭✭✭
“Time Locker”, Henry Kuttner (1943) ✭✭✭½
“Time’s Arrow”, Arthur C. Clarke (1950) ✭✭✭✭
“I’m Scared”, Jack Finney (1951) ✭✭✭
“A Sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury (1952) ✭✭✭✭½
“Death Ship”, Richard Matheson (1953) ✭✭✭✭
“A Gun for Dinosaur”, L. Sprague de Camp (1956) ✭✭✭½
“The Man Who Came Early”, Poul Anderson (1956) ✭✭✭½
“Rainbird”, R. A. Lafferty (1961) ✭✭✭
“Leviathan!”, Larry Niven (1970) ✭✭½
“Anniversary Project”, Joe Haldeman (1970) ✭✭
“Fire Watch”,
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Lena
Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★
Another beautiful Hainish social science fiction story: second chances and timeless love.

Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg ★★★★½
That was beautiful. I wept. Tragedy made into immortal love - into hope.

Fire Watch by Connie Willis ★★★★☆
I started over and then let myself sleep on it. Yes, there were some massive gaps but they were patched over with human kindness. Not my kind of story, but these feels hit home.

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Joe
Sep 25, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Rounded up from 3.5 stars. A mixed bag - the second half is better than the first, and the third quarter is better than the fourth.
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