As
Time Goes By
Hank
Davis (editor)
Baen,
Feb 10 2015, $14.00
ISBN:
9781476780528
“Gibraltar Falls” by Poul Anderson. Five millennia before his birth, Time Patrol
agent Tom fell in love.
“Triceratops Summer” by Michael Swanwick. Vermont residents accept triceratops on roads
and yards.
“The Chronoclasm” by John Wyndham. Gobie insures tomorrows follow the future he
knows.
“The Girl Who Made Time Stop” by Robert F.
Young. Roger meets Alayne from a planet
orbiting Altair; she applies Aparicio stealing second.
“The Other Now” by Murray Leinster. Jimmy buried his wife, but believes he can
change the accident that left her dead.
“A Dry, Quiet War” by Tony Daniel. War at the End of Time veteran Henry returns
home to encounter feral cybernetics.
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane
Anders. Doug sees a linear future; Judy
sees a decision-making tree.
“The
Day of the Green Velvet Cloak” by Mildred Clingerman. Mavis meets traveling Titus at the Book Nook.
“A Wow Finish” by James Van Pelt. Durance and Hoffman travel back in time to
attend the opening of Casablanca.
“Backtracked” by Burt Filer. Sally asks Fletcher why he backtracked ten
years.
“So Little and So Light” by Sarah A. Hoyt. She lands at 1066 Hastings seeking a time
breacher.
“The Price of Oranges” by
Nancy Kress. Harry worries about his
granddaughter being miserable when he sees her next week so he travels five
decades ago for a solution.
“The Secret Place” by
Richard M. McKenna. During WWII, he searched for the crystal, but found Helen.
“Palely Loitering” by Christopher Priest. Myrkle and his family choose crossing the Tomorrow or
Yesterday Bridges.
This beguiling anthology contains fourteen short
stories with additional enjoyment coming from comparing how each decade starting
with the 1950s to the present dealt with time travel thrillers.
Harriet Klausner
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