The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (Mammoth Books) - Softcover

Ashley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472100255 ISBN 13: 9781472100252

Publisher: Robinson, 2013

Synopsis

This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.

About this title

Book Description:

A thought-provoking collection of Time Travel SF that not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage.

From the Back Cover:

What happens when we meddle with time?

This wonderfully diverse collection of 25 truly mindbending SF stories takes us not only into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. It takes an imaginative and multi-faceted look at the paradoxes that might arise if ever we succeed in meddling with time.

Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world?

What happens if our meddling with nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down, or even stopping all together?

Are past and future immutable, or might we one day escape the inevitable?

These are just some of the questions raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Damien Broderick, Simon Clark, Ellen Klages, Fritz Leiber, Elisabeth Malartre, John Varley and many others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robinson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1472100255
• ISBN 13: 9781472100252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544