Time Travel Stories

Author : Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466841451

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The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Harry Turtledove,Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345481900

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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove,Martin H. Greenberg Pdf

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST H. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told, including “Time’s Arrow” In Arthur C. Clarke’s classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel—with appalling consequences. “Death Ship” Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time, unveils a chilling scenario concerning three astronauts who stumble upon the conundrum of past and future. “Yesterday was Monday” If all the world’s a stage, Theodore Sturgeon’s compelling tale follows the odyssey of an ordinary joe who winds up backstage. “Rainbird” R.A. Lafferty reflects on what might have been in this brainteaser about an inventor so brilliant that he invents himself right out of existence. “Timetipping” What if everyone time-traveled except you? Jack Dann provides some surprising answers in this literary gem. . . . as well as stories by Poul Anderson • L. Sprague de Camp • Joe Haldeman • John Kessel • Nancy Kress • Henry Kuttner • Ursula K. Le Guin • Larry Niven • Charles Sheffield • Robert Silverberg • Connie Willis By turns frightening, puzzling, and fantastic, these stories engage us in situations that may one day break free of the bonds of fantasy . . . to enter the realm of the future: our future. Note: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury and "I'm Scared" by Jack Finney are not included in this edition.

Author : Richard Bullivant
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1508619352

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Time Travel True Stories by Richard Bullivant Pdf

What do Scientists Say About Time Travel? It's fair to say that most scientists today will tell you that time travel is impossible. Three of today's top physicists - Charles Liu, Brian Green and Michio Kaku - all hold that time travel is, if not impossible, unlikely in the extreme. However, one of the most brilliant minds of our time, physicist Stephen Hawking, disagrees - although only partially. He believes that time travel is theoretically possible, but only into the future. …. But What Do Real People Experience? The opinion of science, however, has never stopped thousands of people around the world from reporting what they firmly believe are actual experiences of spontaneous time travel! Still others insist that time travel is not only possible, but they have already done it as part of top secret government programmes. Claims for time travel range from the highly flaky to the astoundingly believable. They are especially difficult to dismiss when time travel reports come from absolutely ordinary, rock-solid people who have nothing to gain by proclaiming they travelled in time. Many people who report time travel experiences don't necessarily believe it themselves. What happened to them was so strange, so unexpected, yet so real; they simply have no other good explanation for their experience. You will meet a number of such individuals in this book, most of their stories straight out of the headline of local newspapers. No doubt, a story or two will strike the reader as pure balderdash. On the other hand, some of these cases of time travel are tantalizing and unexplainable. They also come with a certain amount of solid evidence, such as stopped clocks, frozen machines and electromagnetic devices acting in inexplicable ways. Physicist and NASA scientist Tom Campbell said that scientific advances always 'come from the fringe.' Thus, even if you consider some of these stories stepping dangerously 'out there' onto that fringy edge, remember that many of yesterday's fringe theories are today's scientific fact. At the very least, it doesn't hurt to approach the idea of time travel with an open mind and a sense of wonder.

Author : Washington Irving,Edward Page Mitchell,H. G. Wells,John Buchan,William Morris,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783967993301

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7 best short stories - Time Travel by Washington Irving,Edward Page Mitchell,H. G. Wells,John Buchan,William Morris,August Nemo Pdf

If you had a time machine for when would you go? To travel through time as if it were a highway is an ancient dream of mankind. The first stories of time travelers go back to the beginning of civilizations, being found in Hindu, Jewish and Japanese mythologies. But it was with science fiction that the concept became popular and began to inhabit the dreams of all of us. In this book you will find seven classics of time travel specially selected by the critic August Nemo. For more books with thought-provoking themes, be sure to check out the other volumes of this series! *** This book contains: - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell. - The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells. - Lost in Time by Arthur Leo Zagat. - The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper by H. G. Wells. - The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan. - A Dream of John Ball by William Morris.

Author : Ivan S.R.
Publisher : Ivan Salinas Roman
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Time Travel Stories by Ivan S.R. Pdf

Stories about time travelers are a subject that fascinates humanity and incredible cases have come to light for many years. One of the most disturbing questions that humanity has always asked itself is, if time travel is possible. From the most important physicist to the common human being, they have always had this doubt and to this day time travel is not possible, at least not with existing technology. But who assures us that a traveler from the future comes to the past or vice versa. How could we believe him? In this book you will find 13 incredible and fascinating stories about time travelers.

Author : Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765374242

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The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

Author : Washington Irving,Edward Page Mitchell,Arthur Leo Zagat,H. G. Wells,John Buchan,William Morris
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788577774104

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7 Best Short Stories: Time Travel by Washington Irving,Edward Page Mitchell,Arthur Leo Zagat,H. G. Wells,John Buchan,William Morris Pdf

If you had a time machine for when would you go? To travel through time as if it were a highway is an ancient dream of mankind. The first stories of time travelers go back to the beginning of civilizations, being found in Hindu, Jewish and Japanese mythologies. But it was with science fiction that the concept became popular and began to inhabit the dreams of all of us. In this book you will find seven classics of time travel specially selected by the critic August Nemo. For more books with thought-provoking themes, be sure to check out the other volumes of this series! *** This book contains: - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell. - The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells. - Lost in Time by Arthur Leo Zagat. - The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper by H. G. Wells. - The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan. - A Dream of John Ball by William Morris.

Author : John Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1716200075

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The Time Traveler's Nephew by John Green Pdf

THE TIME TRAVELER'S NEPHEW and other stories. In 1895, H. G. Wells wrote a story called 'The Time Machine.' It soon became a classic of science fiction, but was it really fiction? ---------------------------------------- THE TIMEOUT CHAIR Time travel has captured the imagination of humanity for years. Many are the stories and many methods. Only one actually worked. BACK TO THE 1890's A Chicago advertising man engages the services of a medium to travel back in time to find the truth about a notorious ancestor. SERGEANT BACHMAN When traditional methods fail, a man searching for information about the father, he never knew turns to other means and embarks on a frightening journey back in time.

Author : ibooks, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1596870931

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Best Time Travel Stories of All Time by ibooks, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Matthew Jones,Joan Ormrod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476620084

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Time Travel in Popular Media by Matthew Jones,Joan Ormrod Pdf

In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one’s own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media’s relationship to time? This collection of new essays—the first to address time travel across a range of media—answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.

Author : Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0743486609

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The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time by Barry N. Malzberg Pdf

This collection of classic stories that focus on humanity's explorations through time includes works by Poul Anderson and Philip K. Dick, and features a full-color comic book adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." Original.

Author : Stanlei Bellan
Publisher : Imagilore Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954109032

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T Is for Time Travel by Stanlei Bellan Pdf

Take the road less time traveled! A collection of short stories that reads like a love letter from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Stanlei Bellan will take you on a rollicking journey through the timestream.

Author : Nikk Effingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198842507

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Time Travel by Nikk Effingham Pdf

There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.

Author : Bill Adler
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786710330

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Time Machines by Bill Adler Pdf

A collection of stories details the attractions of time-travel and how it is a prevalent theme in both the science-fiction and literary fiction genres, and includes works by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Rod Serling, and Jack Finney. Reprint.

Author : Ryan Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192511829

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Paradoxes of Time Travel by Ryan Wasserman Pdf

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.