I did not have high expectations for this book, and I'm pleased to say that I liked this book a whole lot the more I read.I've been a little eh about scifi lately, but a telling feature of this book, for me, was that I allotted a certain number of stories per day to read, and I often read over said allotment. The editor's notes, while relevant, were sort of something I could do without. That said, I'm certainly interested in several of the authors, and the editor does call attention to short sto...

A good collection of science fiction stories about time travel ( which, admittedly, is more of a fantasy, like wizards and dragons). I skipped around in the book and took my time with this one. The Big Three authors of the book are Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, and Poul Anderson with great stories, my favorite one being Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early." Unlike most of the other stories in this book, it does not deal with time paradoxes, but is simply a story about a man who finds himself...

It's hard to do time travel stories well because in the wrong hands the concept comes across as hacky tripe for dudes that need power trip fantasies, but it's to the fantastic authors in this book's credit that most of the characters don't ever get what they want and usually end up making everything worse by mucking around with things they have little concepts of. Most of these stories are very sad, often achingly so, and hit at a basic truth: You really can't go back again. Damn paradoxes, mess...

I’ve been reading science fiction since discovering Heinlein’s juveniles in my elementary school library in the early ’50s. I’ve read all sorts of SF in those sixty years, but certain categories of the genre have become my favorites -- especially alternate history and time travel, two themes that often overlap. Probably this preference is due partly to my deep interest in history generally.Nancy Kress is highly regarded among serious SF readers, and has won several awards, though she’s never rea...

Overall I found this to be a great collection of stories, giving a broad range of some of the different kinds of rules and laws involved in time travel and how they might affect the world at large.I found the first couple of stories I had to chew through a little, but afterwards it picked up and grabbed my interest enough to quickly gobble up the rest of the book.The big names in the anthology proved once again why they are so well remembered in the genre. I would recommend this book to anyone w...

If you love short stories (which I do) and if you are a science fiction fan (which I am), this should be added to your must-read list.Despite the (tongue-in-cheek?) title, this is definitely a great collection.Some of the seeds of our pop-culture understanding of time travel are contained in this book.Did the writers of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" read "Time Travellers Never Die"? It's hard to imagine they didn't. "The Man Who Came Early" feels like a rebuttal to "A Connecticut Yankee i...

A varied collection of short stories involving time travel. Individual stories vary in length from a few pages to several dozen. Tones of the stories range from comedic to light to serious to disturbing.I am not typically a fan of time travel stories. I find usually that the author has a very anti-physical concept of the logical issues involved; one or two of the stories in this anthology declare the problem of causality paradoxes closed by declaring that no human beings may witness the effects ...

A very nice collection of short stories. Of course in any collection about one topic there are bound to be some repeats of themes and ideas but overall I think the stories here are all of good quality. In some of the stories the best of Science Fiction comes out where the Science fades into the background and it is about the characters and telling a story from a different angle. The details that will be problems for future (or past) time travelers are examined and in most stories the elasticity ...

Over the years, I've found that a collection of the "best" stories of a year usually lives up to its title. Any other "bests" tend to fall short. This one came close, however. Mr. Malzberg has collected tales from the forties through the nineties--ah, given the focus of the book, I should say the nineteen-forties through the nineteen-nineties. There are nice, solid time travel tales in here, including one of my personal favorites, "Brooklyn Project". While not spectacular, it's definitely a keep...

Fairly average compendium of time travel stories, despite the title. It had a few winners though, like "Time Travellers Never Die" and "The Battle of Long Island", but the entire book is worth a read.