The Time Travel Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Pages: 375
ISBN: 2:00181846
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best.
• “Time Out,” by Edward M. Lerner
• “These Stones Will Remember,” by Reginald Bretnor
• “Project Mastodon,” by Clifford D. Simak
• “12:01 P.M.,” by Richard A. Lupoff
• “Armageddon—2419 A.D.,” by Philip Francis Nowlan
• “Time and Time Again,” by H. Beam Piper
• “Try, Try Again,” by John Gregory Betancourt
• “The Eternal Wall,” by Raymond Z. Gallun
• “The Man Who Saw the Future,” by Edmond Hamilton
• “The Man from Time,” by Frank Belknap Long
• “Of Time and Texas,” by William F. Nolan
• “The Edge of the Knife,” by H. Beam Piper
• “Time Bum,” by C.M. Kornbluth
• “Unborn Tomorrow,” by Mack Reynolds
• “Lost in the Future,” by John Victor Peterson
• “The Winds of Time,” by James H. Schmitz
• “Flight From Tomorrow,” by H. Beam Piper
• “In the Cracks of Time,” by David Grace
• “Sweep Me to My Revenge!” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “The Solid Men,” by C.J. Henderson
• “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (10),” by Reginald Bretnor
• “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (71),” by Reginald Bretnor
• “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (Epsilon),” by Grendel Briarton
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