The Time Traveler's Almanac (197 page)

Jason Heller
is the author of the alternate history novel
Taft 2012
(Quirk Books) and a Hugo-nominated editor for his work at
Clarkesworld
magazine. He’s also a contributing writer and former editor for
The Onion
’s
A.V. Club.
In addition, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in
Apex Magazine, Sybil’s Garage, Weird Tales, Alternative Press,
Tor.com
,
and others. He lives in Denver, where he plays in punk bands and subjects his writing students to merciless doses of Bob Dylan.

Rian Johnson
is an award-winning writer and director whose films include
Brick, The Brothers Bloom,
and the time-travel movie
Looper.
He lives in Los Angeles.

Tessa Kum
’s work has appeared in
Halo: Evolutions, Baggage, Daikaiju, ASIM,
and other places. A Clarion South 2005 graduate, she was an editorial assistant at
Weird Tales
while under the command of Ann VanderMeer and is now a freelance editor. She lives in Melbourne.

Stan Love
is a planetary scientist, NASA astronaut, and lifelong science fiction fan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College, where they use rhinoceroses to teach relativity, and a master’s and doctorate in astronomy from the University of Washington. He gives frequent public presentations on space science and exploration based on his professional background and his experience as a Space Shuttle crewmember. Dr. Love admires the interplay between speculative fiction, which can imagine better futures, and science and technology, which can make them real.

Dominik Parisien
is a Franco-Ontarian living in Montreal, Quebec. He holds an MA in English literature from the University of Ottawa. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in
Goblin Fruit, Stone Telling, Mythic Delirium, Ideomancer, Shock Totem, Strange Horizons,
and
Tesseracts Seventeen,
amongst others. Dominik provides editorial support to Cheeky Frawg Books and is a former editorial assistant for
Weird Tales.

Genevieve Valentine
’s first novel,
Mechanique,
won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the Nebula. Her second,
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club,
is forthcoming from Atria in 2014. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award; her stories have appeared in
Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts,
and others, and anthologies
Federations, The Living Dead 2, After, Teeth,
and more. Her nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org,
Strange Horizons,
io9.com
, Weird Tales,
and
Tor.com
,
and she’s a coauthor of pop-culture book
Geek Wisdom
(Quirk).

Charles Yu
received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his short-story collection,
Third Class Superhero.
His first novel,
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,
was a
New York Times
Notable Book and named by
Time
magazine as one of the Best Books of 2010. His latest book is
Sorry Please Thank You
, which was named one of the best books of the year by the
San Francisco Chronicle.
He lives in Santa Monica.

EXTENDED COPYRIGHT

Unless otherwise stated the following were reprinted by permission of the authors.

Douglas Adams:
‘Young Zaphod Plays It Safe’, © 2003 by Douglas Adams. Originally published in
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book
(1986),
The Salmon of Doubt
(2002). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Macmillan Publishers.

Dean Francis Alfar:
‘Terminós’, copyright © 2005 by Dean Francis Alfar. Originally published in
Rabid Transit: Menagerie,
edited by Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl, Velocity Press, 2005.

Isaac Asimov:
‘What If’, copyright © 1952 by the estate of Isaac Asimov. Originally published in
Fantastic Story Magazine
(Summer 1952). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and Trident Media Group.

Kage Baker:
‘Noble Mold’, copyright © 1997 by estate of Kage Baker. Originally published in
Asimov’s
(March 1997). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and the Linn Prentis Literary Agency.

Kage Baker:
‘A Night on the Barbary Coast’, copyright © 2003 by estate of Kage Baker. Originally published in
The Silver Gryphon
(June 2003). Reprinted by permission of author’s estate and the Linn Prentis Literary Agency.

Barrington J. Bayley:
‘Life Trap’, copyright © 1979 by Barrington J. Bayley. Originally published in
The Seed of Evil.
Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

Elizabeth Bear:
‘This Tragic Glass’, copyright © 2004 by Sarah Wishnevsky. Originally published in
SciFiction
(April 7, 2004).

Max Beerbohm:
‘Enoch Soames’. Originally published in
The Century Magazine,
May 1916.

Steve Bein:
‘The Most Important Thing in the World’, copyright © 2011 by Steve Bein. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(March 2011).

E.F. Benson;
‘In the Tube’. Originally published in
Hutchinson’s Magazine,
1923.

Richard Bowes:
‘The Mask of the Rex’, copyright © 2002 by Richard Bowes. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
(May 2002).

Ray Bradbury:
‘A Sound of Thunder’, copyright © 1952 by the estate of Ray Bradbury. Originally published in
Collier’s.
Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Don Congdon Associates.

Molly Brown:
‘Bad Timing’, copyright © 1991 by Molly Brown. Originally published in
Interzone
54 (Dec 1991).

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud:
‘The Gulf of the Years’, copyright © 2011 by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated by Edward Gauvin. Originally published in
A Life on Paper
(Small Beer Press).

C.J. Cherryh:
‘The Threads of Time’ by C.J. Cherryh, copyright © 1978 by C.J. Cherryh. Originally published in
Darkover Grand Council Program Book IV
(1978), and
Visible Light
(1986).

John Chu:
‘Thirty Seconds From Now’, copyright © 2011 by John Chu. Originally published in
Boston Review
(2011).

Peter Crowther:
‘Palindromic’, copyright © 1997 by Peter Crowther. Originally published in
First Contact
(edited by Martin Greenberg and Larry Segriff).

Rjurik Davidson:
‘Domine’, copyright © 2007 by Rjurik Davidson. Originally published in
Aurealis
#37 (March 2007).

Greg Egan:
‘The Lost Continent’, copyright © 2008 by Greg Egan. Originally published in
The Starry Rift
(ed. Jonathan Strahan/Viking Penguin 2008),
Oceanic
(UK), and
Crystal Nights and Other Stories
(Subterranean, 2009).

William Gibson:
‘The Gernsback Continuum’, copyright © 1981 by William Gibson. Originally published in
Omni
magazine.

Karen Haber:
‘3 RMS, Good View’, copyright © 1990 by Karen Haber. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Dec 1990).

Nalo Hopkinson:
‘Message in a Bottle’, copyright © 2004 by Nalo Hopkinson. Originally published in
Futureways
(New York’s Whitney Museum and Arsenal Pulp Press).

Langdon Jones:
‘The Great Clock’, copyright © 1966 by Langdon Jones. Originally published in
New Worlds Quarterly
(March 1966).

Garry Kilworth:
‘On the Watchtower at Plataea’, copyright © 1988 by Garry Kilworth. Originally published in
Other Edens II
(1988).

Alice Sola Kim:
‘Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters’, copyright © 2010 by Alice Sola Kim. Originally published in
Lightspeed
(Nov 2010).

Ellen Klages:
‘Time Gypsy’, copyright © 1998 by Ellen Klages. Originally published in
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction,
edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel; Overlook Press, 1998.

Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore:
‘Vintage Season’, copyright © 1946 by authors’ estates. Originally published in
Astounding Science Fiction,
Sept 1946. Reprinted by permission of the authors’ estates and Don Congdon Associates.

Geoffrey A. Landis:
‘Ripples in the Dirac Sea’, copyright © 1988 by Geoffrey A. Landis. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Oct 1988).

Geoffrey A. Landis:
‘At Dorado’, copyright © 2002 by Geoffrey A. Landis. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Nov/Dec 2002).

David Langford:
‘The Final Days’, copyright © 1981 by David Langford. Originally published in
A Spadeful of Spacetime
(ed. Fred Saberhagen).

Joe Lansdale:
‘Fish Night’, copyright © 1982 by Joe Lansdale. Originally published in
Specter!
(Arbor House Books).

Tanith Lee:
‘As Time Goes By’, copyright © 1983 by Tanith Lee. Originally published in
Chrysalis 10.

Ursula K. Le Guin:
‘Another Story’, copyright © 1994 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in
Tomorrow
(Aug 1994). Reprinted by permission of the author and the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency.

Bob Leman:
‘Loob’, copyright © 1979 by Bob Leman. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
(April 1979). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

Rosaleen Love:
‘Alexia and Graham Bell’, copyright © 1986 by Rosaleen Love. Originally published in
Aphelion 5.

David I. Masson:
‘Traveller’s Rest’, copyright © 1968, 2003 by the estate of David Masson. Originally published in
New Worlds
#154 (Sep 1965).

Richard Matheson:
‘Death Ship’, copyright © 1953 by Richard Matheson. Originally published in
Fantastic Story Magazine.
Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Don Congdon Associates.

George R.R. Martin:
‘Under Siege’, copyright © 1985 by George R.R. Martin. Originally published in
Omni
magazine (Oct 1985).

Edward Page Mitchell:
‘The Clock That Went Backward’. Originally published in
The Sun
(18 Sep 1881).

Michael Moorcock:
‘Pale Roses’, copyright © 1976 by Linda and Michael Moorcock. Originally published in
New Worlds Quarterly.

Tamsyn Muir:
‘The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time’, copyright © 2011 by Tamsyn Muir. Originally published in
Fantasy
(Feb 2011).

Kim Newman:
‘Is There Anybody There?’, copyright © 2000 by Kim Newman. Originally published in
The New English Library Book of Internet Stories
(Nov 2000, ed. Maxim Jakubowski).

Tony Pi:
‘Come-From-Aways’, copyright © 2009 by Tony Pi. Originally published in
On Spec, the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic,
#76.

Adam Roberts:
‘The Time Telephone’, copyright © 2002 by Adam Roberts. Originally published in
Infinity Plus
(2002).

Kristine Kathryn Rusch:
‘Red Letter Day’, copyright © 2010 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Originally published in
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
(Sep 2010).

Eric Frank Russell:
‘The Waitabits’. Originally published in
Astounding Science Fiction,
July 1955.

Pamela Sargent:
‘If Ever I Should Leave You’, copyright © 1974, 1986 by Pamela Sargent. Originally published in a much different form in
Worlds of If,
February 1974, and in this preferred text in
Afterlives,
edited by Pamela Sargent and Ian Watson, Vintage, 1986.

Eric Schaller:
‘How the Future Got Better’, copyright © 2010 by Eric Schaller. Originally published in
Sybil’s Garage
#7.

Robert Silverberg:
‘Needle in a Timestack’, copyright © 1983 by Robert Silverberg. Originally published in
Playboy
(June 1983).

Vandana Singh:
‘Delhi’, copyright © 2004 by Vandana Singh. Originally published in
So Long Been Dreaming
(ed. Nalo Hopkinson).

Cordwainer Smith:
‘Himself in Anachron’, copyright © 1993 by the estate of Paul Linebarger. Originally published in
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
(NESFA Press). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Spectrum Literary Agency.

Norman Spinrad:
‘The Weed of Time’, copyright © 1973 by Norman Spinrad. Originally published in
Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction
(Aug 1973).

Charles Stross:
‘Palimpsest’, copyright © 2009 by Charles Stross. Originally published in
Wireless
(Ace, Orbit). Reprinted by permission of the author and Little, Brown Book Group.

Theodore Sturgeon:
‘Yesterday Was Monday’, copyright © 1941 by the estate of Theodore Sturgeon. Originally published in
Unknown
(June 1941). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and the Chris Lotts Literary Agency.