- Mass Market Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Ace Books (31 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0441004288
- ISBN-13: 978-0441004287
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,813,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of stories brings readers from everyday realities to the infinite vistas of time and space and includes contributions by such prominent writers as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joe Haldeman.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Twelve tales on the subject of time travel that were originally published in magazines between 1953 and 1994. This book is part of a formidable series of themed anthologies, some of which are very good indeed, produced by these two editors.
Each story here is accompanied by a short piece of biographical information about the author with some comments and recommendations about that author's other works. So, if you find something that you like here, you will be able to follow this up to find some further reading.
There were two things that I did not like about this book. The first was the number of typos. These looked like the old problem of running a spell checker and selecting the auto fix option rather than checking manually. The second thing was that too many of the stories were just a rehashing of the ideas in older science fiction stories.
My favourite stories here were "Trapalanda" by Charles Sheffield and "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna. The former is a story about a strange discovery in a remote part of the southern hemisphere. It has a lot of atmosphere and just begs a follow up. The latter, is a tale about imagination and it carries similar delights to the author's best known story "Casey Agonistes."
For me though, these two stories did not make up for the fact the several others in the collection were weak and unconvincing. If you are looking for a good example of a themed anthology, I'd suggest checking out "Nanotech" by the same authors.
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In all honesty, I was quite disappointed by this collection of short stories. I have always been a great fan of time-travel adventures, yet most of these short stories turned out to be uninspired, shallow, and inconsequential. The only pleasant surprise out of these twelve short stories was Ursula K. Le Guin's very interesting tale entitled Another Story.
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If you are like me a "Time Travel" fan, you shouldn't loose this one. A very good collection of well written stories. Paulo Sunao, from BRAZIL
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