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  Time Travel Omnibus

  The Ultimate Collection of Time Travel Stories

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  “How to Build a Time Machine” - Dr. Stephen Hawking

  “Time Travel is Easy! Kinda . . .” - Dr. Brian Cox

  1800s

  RIP VAN WINKLE - Washington Irving

  AN ANACHRONISM; OR MISSING ONE’S COACH - Anonymous

  A SUCCESSION OF SUNDAYS - Edgar Allen Poe

  A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS - Edgar Allen Poe

  AN UNCOMMON SORT OF SPECTRE - Edward Page Mitchell

  THE CLOCK THAT WENT BACKWARD - Edward Page Mitchell

  A DREAM OF JOHN BALL - William Morris

  THE CHRONIC ARGONAUTS - H.G. Wells

  THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD - Rudyard Kipling

  JOHN BARTINE’S WATCH - Ambrose Bierce

  THE TIME MACHINE - H.G. Wells

  THE GREY MAN - H.G. Wells

  THE ANTICIPATOR - Morley Roberts

  1900s

  WHEN TIME TURNED - Ethel Watts Mumford

  A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE - Jack London

  WIRELESS - Rudyard Kipling

  THE SILVER MIRROR - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  AUGUST HEAT - William Fryer Harvey

  PHANTAS - Oliver Onions

  ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT - Algernon Blackwood

  ON THE STAIRCASE - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  ENOCH SOAMES - Max Beerbohm

  THE CLOCK - A.E.W Mason

  1920s

  THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  THE DEVIL OF THE WESTERN SEA - Philip M. Fisher

  THE ALTERNATIVE - Maurice Baring

  BETWEEN THE MINUTE AND THE HOUR - A.M. Burrage

  IN THE TUBE - E.F. Benson

  THE TAIPAN - W. Somerset Maughum

  THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME - Ray Cummings

  A VIEW FROM A HILL - M.R. James

  SHE CAUGHT HOLD OF THE TOE - Richard Hughes

  THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER - D.H. Lawrence

  THE MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA - Francis Flagg

  ETCHED IN MOONLIGHT - James Stephens

  ARMAGEDDON—2419 A.D. - Philip F. Nowlan

  THE TIME OSCILLATOR - Henry F. Kirkham

  MR. STRENBERRY’S TALE - J.B. Priestley

  1930s

  THE THIEF OF TIME - Captain S.P. Meek

  AN ADVENTURE IN TIME - Francis Flagg

  THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE - Edmond Hamilton

  THE END OF TIME - Henry F. Kirkham

  OPENING THE DOOR - Arthur Machen

  A FLIGHT INTO TIME - Robert H. Wilson

  WORLDS TO BARTER - John Wyndham

  AFTER 1,000,000 - J.M. Walsh

  THE OLD MAN - Holloway Horn

  NO SHIPS PASS - Lady Eleanor Smith

  THE TIME EXPRESS - Nat Schachner

  THE END OF TYME - Henry Hasse

  ANCESTRAL VOICES - Nat Schachner

  THE TIME IMPOSTOR - Nat Schachner

  SIDEWISE IN TIME - Murray Leinster

  THE TIME TRAGEDY - Raymond A. Palmer

  ELSEWHERE AND OTHERWISE - Algernon Blackwood

  ALAS, ALL THINKING! - Harry Bates

  NIGHT - John W. Campbell, Jr.

  BURNT NORTON - T.S. Elliot

  THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME - H.P. Lovecraft

  THE LAND WHERE TIME STOOD STILL - Arthur Leo Zagat

  TRAPPED IN ETERNITY - Ray Cummings

  DOWN THE DIMENSIONS - Nelson S. Bond

  LOST IN TIME - Arthur Leo Zagat

  OTHER TRACKS - William Sell

  THE GNARLY MAN - L. Sprague de Camp

  WHEN THE FUTURE DIES - Nat Schachner

  ROMAN HOLIDAY - Henry Kuttner

  TIME WIN - Lyle D. Gunn

  1940s

  THE TIME MERCHANT - Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.

  PAUL REVERE AND THE TIME MACHINE - A.W. Bernal

  PERFECT MURDER - H.L. Gold

  A MIRACLE IN TIME - Henry Hasse

  THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING - Ed Earl Repp

  MAN ABOUT TIME - Henry Kuttner

  SUNSPOT PURGE - Clifford D. Simak

  EQUATION FOR TIME - R.R. Winterbotham

  THE BEST-LAID SCHEME - L. Sprague de Camp

  HE WASN’T THERE! - John B. Michel

  HEREDITY - Isaac Asimov

  TIME WANTS A SKELETON - Ross Rocklynne

  YESTERDAY WAS MONDAY - Theodore Sturgeon

  ELSEWHERE - Robert A. Heinlein

  THE MAN WHO SAW THROUGH TIME - Leonard Raphael

  BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS - Robert Heinlein

  FLAME FOR THE FUTURE - William P. McGivern

  MAN FROM THE FUTURE - Don Wilcox

  A FRIEND TO ALEXANDER - James Thurber

  KIDNAPED INTO THE FUTURE - William P. McGivern

  THE MAN WHO CHANGED HISTORY - David Wright O’Brien

  BULL MOOSE OF BABYLON - Don Wilcox

  TIME PUSSY - Isaac Asimov

  24 TERRIBLE HOURS - David Wright O’Brien

  HERITAGE - Robert Abernathy

  MY NAME IS LEGION - Lester del Rey

  THE QUEST IN TIME - Edmond Hamilton

  BLITZKRIEG IN THE PAST - David Wright O’Brien

  SAFARI TO THE LOST AGES - William P. McGivern

  THE INFINITE INVASION . . . - E.K. Jarvis

  THE ETERNAL WALL - Raymond Z. Gallun

  THE INCREDIBLE ANTIQUE - Bruce Demis

  THE FLIGHT THAT FAILED - E.M. Hull

  TO FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE - Frank Belknap Long

  TIME LOCKER - Henry Kuttner

  YESTERDAY’S CLOCK - David Wright O’Brien

  CAVERNS OF TIME - Carlos McCune

  ENDOWMENT POLICY - Henry Kuttner

  PARADOX LOST - Fredric Brown

  THE ROUSING OF MR. BRADEGAR - Gerald Heard

  AS NEVER WAS - P. Schuyler Miller

  LEFTY FEEP DOES TIME - Robert Bloch

  TIME ON YOUR HANDS - David Wright O’Brien

  BUSINESS OF KILLING - Fritz Lieber

  THE HOMELESS ONE - A.E. Coppard

  VICIOUS CIRCLE - John Russell Fearn

  FOREVER IS TODAY - Charles E. Ksanda

  VINTAGE SEASON - Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore

  TIME AND TIME AGAIN - H. Beam Piper

  TOMORROW AND TOMORROW - Ray Bradbury

  INTERIM - Ray Bradbury

  FANTASIA DEMENTIA - Maurice G. Hugi

  THE TIME TWISTER - Francis Flagg and Weaver Wright

  CASTAWAY - A. Bertram Chandler

  TIME OUT OF MIND - Chester S. Geier

  A DOG’S LIFE - George O. Smith

  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES - H. Beam Piper

  BROOKLYN PROJECT - William Tenn

  AMPHISKIOS - John D. MacDonald

  THE TIMELESS MAN - Frank Belknap Long

  1950s

  OUTSIDE OF TIME - Carroll John Daly

  TO THE FUTURE - Ray Bradbury

  TIME’S ARROW - Arthur C. Clarke

  THE LITTLE BLACK BAG - C.M. Kornbluth

  FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW - H. Beam Piper

  THE THIRD LEVEL - Jack Finney

  DAY OF THE HUNTERS - Isaac Asimov

  RESCUE BEACON - Rog Phillips

  TRANSFER POINT - Anthony Boucher

  DARK INTERLUDE - Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds

  TIME TRACK - Sam Merwin, Jr.

  SUCH INTERESTING NEIGHBORS - Jack Finney

  . . . AND IT COMES OUT HERE - Lester del Rey

  ROCK DIVER - Harry Harrison
br />   THE OTHER NOW - Murray Leinster

  OPERATION PEEP - John Wyndham

  TIME FLAW - Russell Branch

  I’M SCARED - Jack Finney

  AMBITION - William L. Bade

  THE CHOICE - W. Hilton-Young

  THE MAN WHO BOUGHT TOMORROW - William P. McGivern

  THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL - Mack Reynolds

  WHAT IF . . . - Isaac Asimov

  FACTOR UNKNOWN - Sam Merwin, Jr.

  A SOUND OF THUNDER - Ray Bradbury

  ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD - Arthur C. Clarke

  STAR BRIGHT - Mark Clifton

  THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AFTER NEXT - Murray Leinster

  THE MIST - Peter Cartur

  THE SKULL - Philip K. Dick

  THE CHILDREN - Miriam Allen de Ford

  TIME GRABBER - Gordon R. Dickson

  BUTTON, BUTTON - Isaac Asimov

  WHO’S CRIBBING? - Jack Lewis

  TIME BUM - C.M. Kornbluth

  THE CHRONOCLASM - John Wyndham

  DOMINOES - C.M. Kornbluth

  DEATH SHIP - Richard Matheson

  THE OTHER INAUGURATION - Anthony Boucher

  THE ROLLER COASTER - Alfred Bester

  PAYCHECK - Philip K. Dick

  YESTERDAY’S PAPER - Boyd Ellanby

  THE KING’S WISHES - Robert Sheckley

  THE VARIABLE MAN - Philip K. Dick

  A TRAVELER IN TIME - August Derleth

  HALL OF MIRRORS - Fredric Brown

  ANACHRON - Damon Knight

  LOST IN THE FUTURE - John Victor Peterson

  A STITCH IN TIME - Howth Castle and J.P. Caravan

  EXPERIMENT - Fredric Brown

  THE MAN FROM TIME - Frank Belknap Long

  JON’S WORLD - Philip K. Dick

  OUTSIDE—LOOKING IN - Ron Elton

  LETTERS FROM LAURA - Mildred Clingerman

  MEDDLER - Philip K. Dick

  I HEAR YOU CALLING - Eric F. Russell

  OURSELVES OF YESTERDAY - T.D. Hamm

  EXILES OF TOMORROW - Marion Zimmer Bradley

  OF MISSING PERSONS - Jack Finney

  PROJECT MASTODON - Clifford D. Simak

  THE ADJUSTERS - Jonathan Burke

  TIME AND TIMOTHY - R.W. Balderston

  SERVICE CALL - Philip K. Dick

  THE WAITABITS - Erik Frank Russell

  A HITCH IN TIME - Anthony G. Williamson

  RONDO IN TIME - Martin Jordan

  TIME TRAVEL BUSINESS - H. Philip Stratford

  THE MESSAGE - Isaac Asimov

  A GUN FOR DINOSAUR - L. Sprague de camp

  BARRIER TO YESTERDAY - Bob Shaw

  SECOND CHANCE - Jack Finney

  MACHINA EX MACHINA - Willard Marsh

  THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY - Poul Anderson

  IN THE CARDS - Alan Cogan

  ABSOLUTELY INFLEXIBLE - Robert Silverberg

  COMPOUNDED INTEREST - Mack Reynolds

  OF TIME AND TEXAS - William F. Nolan

  THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE - H. Beam Piper

  BLANK! - Isaac Asimov

  BLANK? - Randall Garrett

  TIME BOMB - Philip High

  DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Robert Sheckley

  SOLDIER - Harlan Ellison

  ARISTOTLE AND THE GUN - L. Sprague de camp

  TRY AND CHANGE THE PAST - Fritz Leiber

  POOR LITTLE WARRIOR! - Brian W. Aldiss

  THE REASON IS WITH US - James E. Gunn

  THE DAY OF THE GREEN VELVET CLOAK - Mildred Clingerman

  LASTBORN - Isaac Asimov

  THE MEN WHO MURDERED MOHAMMED - Alfred Bester

  A STATUE FOR FATHER - Isaac Asimov

  “ALL YOU ZOMBIES—” - Robert Heinlein

  TENTH TIME ROUND - J.T. McIntosh

  PRODUCTION PROBLEM - Robert F. Young

  UNBORN TOMORROW - Mack Reynolds

  MUGWUMP FOUR - Robert Silverberg

  1960s

  “I LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRINGTIME” - Jack Finney

  TIME ENOUGH - Damon Knight

  ODD - John Wyndham

  THE GIRL WHO MADE TIME STOP - Robert F. Young

  THE END - Fredric Brown

  EXTEMPORE - Damon Knight

  MY OBJECT ALL SUBLIME . . . - Poul Anderson

  THE OTHER END OF THE LINE - Walter Tevis

  RAINBIRD - R.A. Lafferty

  WHERE THE CLUETTS ARE - Jack Finney

  THE DEADLY MISSION OF PHINEAS SNODGRASS - Frederik Pohl

  THE RESCUER - Arthur Porges

  HEY, LOOK AT ME - Jack Finney

  THE WINDS OF TIME - James H. Schmitz

  TIME HAS NO BOUNDARIES - Jack Finney

  THE COIN COLLECTOR - Jack Finney

  LOVE, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS EVERYWHERE - Jack Finney

  FLUX - Michael Moorcock

  WATERSPIDER - Philip K. Dick

  MAN IN HIS TIME - Brian W. Aldiss

  TRAVELLER’S REST - David I. Masson

  THE GREAT CLOCK - Langdon Jones

  DIVINE MADNESS - Roger Zelazny

  THE SECRET PLACE - Richard McKenna

  THUS WE FRUSTRATE CHARLEMAGNE - R.A. Lafferty

  THE DOCTOR - Ted Thomas

  THE HOLE ON THE CORNER - R.A. Lafferty

  HAWKSBILL STATION - Robert Silverberg

  HOW TO CONSTRUCT A TIME MACHINE - Alfred Jarry

  THE PRIMAL SOLUTION - Eric Norden

  BACKTRACKED - Burt Filer

  THE TIMESWEEPERS - Keith Laumer

  1970s

  A SHAPE IN TIME - Anthony Boucher

  THE WEED OF TIME - Norman Spinrad

  LEVIATHAN! - Larry Niven

  THE EVER-BRANCHING TREE - Harry Harrison

  ONE LIFE, FURNISHED IN EARLY POVERTY - Harlan Ellison

  THE GREATEST TELEVISION SHOW ON EARTH - J.G. Ballard

  AGAINST THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE - Gene Wolfe

  THE MAN WHO WALKED HOME - James Tiptree, Jr.

  “WILLIE’S BLUES” - Robert J. Tilley

  FOREVER TO A HUDSON BAY BLANKET - James Tiptree, Jr.

  HOW I LOST THE SECOND WORLD WAR . . . - Gene Wolfe

  A WITCH IN TIME - Janet Fox

  ROAD MAP - F.M. Busby

  12:01 P.M. - Richard A. Lupoff

  A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS - Philip K. Dick

  IF I EVER SHOULD LEAVE YOU - Pamela Sargent

  MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH - Clifford D. Simak

  IF THIS IS WINNETKA, YOU MUST BE JUDY - F.M. Busby

  PALE ROSES - Michael Moorcock

  ANNIVERSARY PROJECT - Joe Haldeman

  GIBRALTAR FALLS - Poul Anderson

  TIMETIPPING - Jack Dann

  BALSAMO’S MIRROR - L. Sprague de Camp

  BIRTH OF A NOTION - Isaac Asimov

  AIR RAID - John Varley

  ROTATING CYLINDERS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GLOBAL CAUSALITY VIOLATION - Larry Niven

  THREADS OF TIME - C.J. Cherryh

  NEBOGIPFEL AT THE END OF TIME - Richard A. Lupoff

  THE VERY SLOW TIME MACHINE - Ian Watson

  NEWTON’S GIFT - Paul J. Nahin

  PALELY LOITERING - Christopher Priest

  LOOB - Bob Leman

  LIFE TRAP - Barrington J. Bayley

  CLOSING THE TIMELID - Orson Scott Card

  1980s

  A TOUCH OF PETULANCE - Ray Bradbury

  PRAIRIE SUN - Edward Bryant

  THE FINAL DAYS - David Langford

  THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER - Reginald Bretnor

  THE GERNSBACK CONTINUUM - William Gibson

  THE PUSHER - John Varley

  FISH NIGHT - Joe R. Lansdale

  FIRE WATCH - Connie Willis

  SEASONS OUT OF TIME - Alex Stewart

  THE LETTER - Andrew Weiner

  COMING BACK - Damien Broderick

  AFTER-IMAGES - Malcolm Edwards

  AS TIME GOES BY - Tanith Lee

  NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK - Robert Silverberg

  FULL CHICKEN RICHNESS - Avram Davidson

  THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR - Ray Bradbury

  OF TIME AND K
ATHY BENEDICT - William F. Nolan

  SAILING TO BYZANTIUM - Robert Silverberg

  UNDER SIEGE - George R.R. Martin

  THE PURE PRODUCT - John Kessel

  HOME ALONE - Jack Finney

  THE TIME DISEASE - Martin Amis

  ALEXIA AND GRAHAM BELL - Rosaleen Love

  TRAPALANDA - Charles Sheffield

  THE LAST ARTICLE - Harry Turtledove

  ENTER A SOLDIER. LATER: ENTER ANOTHER - Robert Silverberg

  HOUSE OF BONES - Robert Silverberg

  RIPPLES IN THE DIRAC SEA - Geoffrey a. Landis

  ON THE WATCHTOWER AT PLATAEA - Gary Kilworth

  REAL TIME - Lawrence Watt Evans

  THE INSTABILITY - Isaac Asimov

  THE PRICE OF ORANGES - Nancy Kress

  HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION - Pat Murphy

  1990s

  ROBOT VISIONS - Isaac Asimov

  3 RMS, GOOD VIEW - Karen Haber

  WHERE OR WHEN - Steve Utley

  HOLE-IN-THE-WALL - Bridget McKenna

  THE GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  BAD TIMING - Molly Brown

  THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES - Robert Silverberg

  THE SYNTHETIC BARBARIAN - L. Sprague de Camp

  THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND - Nancy Kress

  JUST LIKE OLD TIMES - Robert J. Sawyer

  HIMSELF IN ANACHRON - Cordwainer Smith

  THERE AND THEN - Steven Utley

  WOMEN ON THE BRINK OF A CATACLYSM - Molly Brown

  ANOTHER STORY - Ursula K. Le Guin

  YOU SEE, BUT YOU DO NOT OBSERVE - Robert J. Sawyer

  THE CHRONOLOGY PROTECTION CASE - Paul Levinson

  SOME LIKE IT COLD - John Kessel

  TIME TRAVELERS NEVER DIE - Jack McDevitt

  A DRY QUIET WAR - Tony Daniel

  THE WIND OVER THE WORLD - Steven Utley

  EMPTY RING - Francine Pelletier

  A HISTORY OF TEMPORAL EXPRESS - Wayne Freeze

  NOBLE MOLD - Kage Baker

  LOOSE ENDS - Paul Levinson

  PALINDROMIC - Peter Crowther

  WHAT GOES AROUND - Derryl Murphy

  THE LAST TWO DAYS OF LARRY JOSEPH’S LIFE - Bill Adler, Jr.

  THE TRUTH ABOUT WEENA - David J. Lake

  TIME GYPSY - Ellen Klages

  SON OBSERVE THE TIME - Kage Baker

  SCHERZO WITH TYRANNOSAUR - Michael Swanwick

  FORTY, COUNTING DOWN - Harry Turtledove

  TWENTY-ONE, COUNTING UP - Harry Turtledove

  2000s

  TIME OUT OF JOINT - Pauline Ashwell

  THE INVENTION OF TIME TRAVEL - Jim Loy

  BUILT UPON THE SANDS OF TIME - Michael Flynn

  IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? - Kim Newman

  LOVE AND GLASS - Michael Scott Bicker

  MAY BE SOME TIME - Brenda W. Clough

  WHAT WEENA KNEW - James Van Pelt

  A MATTER OF TIME - Robert Reginald

  BLOOD TRAIL - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  CONVOLUTION - James P. Hogan

  THINGS I DIDN’T KNOW MY FATHER KNEW - Peter Crowther

  HOT TIP - Billy Bruce Winkles