✭✭✭½“Yesterday Was Monday”, Theodore Sturgeon (1941) ✭✭✭✭“Time Locker”, Henry Kuttner (1943) ✭✭✭½“Time’s Arrow”, Arthur C. Clarke (1950) ✭✭✭✭“I’m Scared”, Jack Finney (1951) ✭✭✭“A Sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury (1952) ✭✭✭✭½“Death Ship”, Richard Matheson (1953) ✭✭✭✭“A Gun for Dinosaur”, L. Sprague de Camp (1956) ✭✭✭½“The Man Who Came Early”, Poul Anderson (1956) ✭✭✭½“Rainbird”, R. A. Lafferty (1961) ✭✭✭“Leviathan!”, Larry Niven (1970) ✭✭½“Anniversary Project”, Joe Haldeman (1970) ✭✭“Fire Watch”,...

For me, rating a short story collection also means finding a compromise between rating individual stories and rating this as a collection. For this collection, I can say that the preludes to every story were great, they presented the authors works and recurring themes and only vaguely described the story one is about to read. The stories were vastly different from each other, which is always a plus for me, however in this case it also meant that there were some clear misses and some stories only...

“Time’ s Arrow” "In Arthur C. Clarke’s classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel–with appalling consequences." Dependent upon the punch, would make a reader of a magazine issue stand up and cheer, but unnecessary. 3*“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." Well done, was a Twilight Zone episode, would stand up to rereading, but I didn't ...

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century consists of sixteen stories, ranging from short ones to novellas, all on the theme of time travel. There are big names here, from Arthur C Clarke to Ursula Le Guin, who would be familiar names even to those not especially clued into sci fi—to others, possibly less familiar. The stories, edited (and with a very useful introduction) by Harry Turtledove, seemed to me to be arranged in a way that would benefit the novice reader, someone new to this ge...

Este livro contém uma deliciosa coletânea das maiores histórias de viagens no tempo já publicadas.São histórias algumas curtas outras longas mas sempre nessa mesma temática. São autores consagrados do gênero tais como Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Connie Willis e várias outros grandes escritores. O livro é longo mas devido a qualidade das histórias você nem vê o tempo passar. São várias horas desfrutando as viagens desses personagens retornando ao passado para combater dinossauros, retornando ...

While I am not a science fiction fan, I am a fan of time travel. This book had some amazing stories. Getting to read the original story about dinosaur hunting by Ray Bradbury that the Simpsons toaster vignette was based on -awesome. Sailing to Byzenteam was a long one, but interesting. My favorite was probably Tranpalanda. Where is my book currently? I lent it to an intern at work ... I'll ask her mom about it soon. :-) And shout out to Kat for giving it to me!

It's difficult to apply a rating to the entire anthology, since some of the stories were not as fun to read as the others. In any case, since I'm a big fan of time travel, I read through every one of them. As with a lot of short stories, you're sometimes left wishing the story was a whole novel. At least this anthology is a good way follow-up with the authors you really liked. Turtledove does a good job of highlighting each individual authors' notable novels.My favorites (not necessarily in orde...

For over a century time travel has stood as one of the most enduring categories of science fiction. Authors such as Mark Twain and H. G. Wells established many of the premises that were subsequently employed in numerous stories that have entertained millions of readers. Assembling a collection of the “best” can be challenging because of this: not only is such an effort subjective, it’s one that invariably leaves out many quality stories. In this respect, Harry Turtledove and Martin Greenberg do ...

I'm listing all the stories so I can remember which authors to read more by. 1. "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg - This was one of my favorites. I thought its premise was really original and yet it was largely character-driven.2. "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson. - Okay. I don't remember a great deal about this one, so I don't think it made much of an impression.3. "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis. - Another favorite. I enjoyed the premise of this one a lot too, about a future w...

As is true in so many compilations, the stories in this book vary from so-so to wonderful. In the process of making my way through them, I discovered that maybe time travel per se is not the type of science fiction I really enjoy. There were more than I needed of encounters with dinosaurs and other real or imaginary creatures of the past. I find I much prefer stories that explore the complex possibilities and impossibilities created by time travel, and the confusion of people as they try to deal...