Traveling into the future is relatively safe.
Other writers have been exploring and expanding the concept ever since. He gave us the name for the device and the bones of one kind of time-travel story: go to the future, take a look at what’s there, and come back and tell the present about it. Wells, who was-among many other things-the first great sciencefiction writer to use English, published The Time Machine in 1895. But what if we weren’t limited to that steady one second per second progression? What if we could go against the normal flow of time from past to future instead of being trapped in it? H. Making other people see how much that he took for granted as a child and a young man had changed since was thought-provoking, to say the least. Sprague de Camp would give a presentation at science-fiction conventions called “Memoirs of a Time Traveler.” Sprague, who was born in 1907, had seen much more come and go than I have (he was even around the last time the Cubs won a Series). They haven’t won one since Teddy Roosevelt was president.
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The Chicago Cubs haven’t been in a World Series since before I was born. It’s seen hula hoops, stuffing phone booths and Volkswagen Bugs, and streaking. It’s seen the fall of Communism, segregation, records, smallpox (we hope!), polio, Richard Nixon (twice), the Twin Towers, and the idea that smoking is cool. My own lifetime-neither especially long nor especially short these days-has seen the rise of antibiotics, AIDS, space travel, television, CDs, videotape, DVDs, Richard Nixon (twice), civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, cell phones, the computer, and the Internet. We go into the future at a steady rate of one second per second, and we leave the past behind. We’re all time travellers, whether we know it or not. Lafferty Leviathan! by Larry Niven Anniversary Project by Joe Haldeman Time Tipping by Jack Dann Fire Watch by Connie Willis Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg The Pure Product by John Kessel Trapalanda by Charles Sheffield The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Clarke Death Ship by Richard Matheson A Gun for Dinosaur by Lyon Sprague De Camp The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson Rainbird by R.
Time Locker by Henry Kuttner Time’s Arrow by Arthur C. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Harry Turtledove Yesterday Was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon. First trade paperback edition: December 2004. Del Rey is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Owing to limitations of space, permission acknowledgments can be found at the back of this ebook, which constitute an extension of this copyright page. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Compilation copyright © 2005 by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Introduction copyright © 2005 by Harry Turtledove. The Best Time Travel Stories of the Twentieth Century. THE BEST TIME TRAVEL STORIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY _ edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H.
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