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Based on popular request for reading time travel short stories together, the moderators have chosen a book full of stories by some of science fiction's greatest authors (as well as a few lesser knowns). This project should start during the final week of 2014 which is also the first week of 2015. This project is slated to end during the week of March 20, 2016.

We invite you to read along as you'd like. The shortest story is 3 pages long and the longest is 52. There will be a separate thread for each story. Please leave your story ratings and thoughts there as you read.

The Time Traveler's Almanac Story-Reading List:

Experiments
Stories in which individuals or organizations are experimenting with time travel or are subjects of experimentation

2014
12/28: Death Ship (Richard Matheson) 15 pgs- NATHAN

2015
1/4: Ripples in the Dirac Sea (Geoffrey A. Landis) 10 pgs - AMY
1/11: Needle in a Timestack (Robert Silverberg) 13 pgs - LINCOLN
1/18: Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin) 27 pgs - NATHAN
1/25: Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters (Alice Sola Kim) 6 pgs - AMY
2/1: How the Future Got Better (Eric Schaller) 4 pgs - LINCOLN
2/8: Pale Roses (Michael Moorcock) 26 pgs - NATHAN
2/15: The Gernsback Continuum (William Gibson) 8 pgs - AMY
2/22: The Threads of Time (C.J.Cherryh) 5 pgs - LINCOLN
3/1: Triceratops Summer (Michael Swanwick) 10 pgs - NATHAN
3/8: The Most Important Thing in the World (Steve Bein) 18 pgs - AMY
3/15: Himself in Anachron (Cordwainer Smith) 6 pgs - LINCOLN
3/22: The Time Machine (H.G. Wells) 4 pgs - NATHAN
3/29: Young Zaphod Plays it Safe (Douglas Adams) 8 pgs - AMY

Reactionaries and Revolutionaries
Stories in which people are trying to protect the past from change or becuase they are curious tourists or academians and want to accurately document different times.

4/5: A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury) 9 pgs - LINCOLN
4/12: Vintage Season (Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore) 32 pgs - NATHAN
4/19: Thirty Seconds From Now (John Chu) 7 pgs - AMY
4/26: Forty, Counting Down (Harry Turtledove) 35 pgs - LINCOLN
5/3: The Final Days (David Langford) 4 pgs - NATHAN
5/10: Fire Watch (Connie Willis) 28 pgs - LINCOLN
5/17: Noble Mold (Kage Baker) 15 pgs - LINCOLN
5/24: Under Siege (George R.R. Martin) 21 pgs - NATHAN
5/31: Where or When (Steven Utley) 13 pgs - AMY
6/7: Time Gypsy (Ellen Klages) 21 pgs - AMY
6/14: On the Watchtower Plataea (Garry Kilworth) 14 pgs - NATHAN
6/21: Alexia and Graham Bell (Rosaleen Love) 6 pgs - AMY
6/28: A Night on the Barbary Coast (Kage Baker) 15 pgs - LINCOLN
7/5: This Tragic Glass (Elizabeth Bear) 23 pgs - NATHAN
7/12: The Gulf of Years (Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud) 8 pgs - AMY
7/19: Enoch Soams: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties (Max Beerbohm) 20 pgs - LINCOLN

Mazes and Traps
Stories in which the paradox of time travel is front-and-center, and the characters become trapped in
those paradoxes.

7/26: The Clock That Went Backward (Edward Page Mitchell) 10 pgs - NATHAN
8/2: Yesterday Was Monday (Theodore Sturgeon) 13 pgs - AMY
8/9: Is There Anybody There? (Kim Newman) 13 pgs - LINCOLN
8/16: Fish Night (Joe Lansdale) 6 pgs - NATHAN
8/23: The Lost Pilgrim (Gene Wolfe) 19 pgs - AMY
8/30: Palindromic (Peter Crowther) 18 pgs - LINCOLN
9/6: Augusta Prima (Karin Tidbeck) 7 pgs - NATHAN
9/13: Life Trap (Barrington J. Bayley) 5 pgs - AMY
9/20: Lost Continent (Greg Egan) 20 pgs - LINCOLN
9/27: The Mouse Ran Down (Adrian Tchaikovsky) 10 pgs - NATHAN
10/4: The Great Clock (Langdon Jones) 13 pgs - AMY
10/11: Traveller's Rest (David I. Masson) 12 pgs - LINCOLN
10/18: Delhi (Vandana Singh) 13 pgs - NATHAN
10/25: Come-From-Aways (Tony Pi) 13 pgs - AMY
11/1: Terminós (Dean Francis Alfar) 8 pgs - LINCOLN
11/8: The Weed of Time (Norman Spinrad) 6 pgs - NATHAN
11/15: The Waitabits (Eric Frank Russell) 32 pgs - AMY

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Stories about people trying to get a message to either someone in the past or future - out of their own time.

11/22: What If (Isaac Asimov) 10 pgs - LINCOLN
11/29: As Time Goes By (Tanith Lee) 11 pgs - NATHAN
12/6: At Dorado (Geoffrey A. Landis) 9 pgs - AMY
12/13: 3 RMS, Good View (Karen Haber) 9 pgs - LINCOLN
12/20: Twenty-One, Counting Up (Harry Turtledove) 33 pgs - NATHAN

2016
12/27: Loob (Bob Leman) 20 pgs - AMY
1/3: The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time (Tamsyn Muir) 10 pgs - LINCOLN
1/10: Against the Lafayette Escadrille (Gene Wolfe) 3 pgs - NATHAN
1/17: Swing Time (Carrie Vaughn) 13 pgs - AMY
1/24: The Mask of the Rex (Richard Bowes) 17 pgs - LINCOLN
1/31: Message in a Bottle (Nalo Hopkinson) 13 pgs - NATHAN
2/7: The Time Telephone (Adam Roberts) 6 pgs - AMY
2/14: Red Letter Day (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) 13 pgs - LINCOLN
2/21: Domine (Rjurik Davidson) 14 pgs - NATHAN
2/28: In the Tube (E.F. Benson) 10 pgs - AMY
3/6: Bad Timing (Molly Brown) 13 pgs - LINCOLN
3/13: If Ever I Should Leave You (Pamela Sargent) 10 pgs- NATHAN
3/20: Palimpsest (Charles Stross) 52 pgs- AMY

THE END

Some of them are available online as well. At least one of the ones for January is. We'll try to research that as we go along.

This is what I could find for January reads. "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" is the only one that seems to have the text of the story available online. Let me know if anyone finds these in any other time travel anthologies.

12/28: Death Ship (Richard Matheson)
*Printed in Collected Stories, Vol. 1
*Twilight Zone Episode:

1/4: Ripples in the Dirac Sea (Geoffrey A. Landis)
*Story text available online:
*Printed in The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
*Printed in Hugo and Nebula Award Winners From Asimov's SF (1995)
*Printed in The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

1/11: Needle in a Timestack (Robert Silverberg)
*Printed in Needle in a timestack
*Printed in The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party

1/18: Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
*Printed in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Beth, you might be thinking of . They're my primary source for such info., and should help us here. I hope they can help you find lots!

(I bought the book, though, as I just love short stories and don't want to miss a single one of these.)

Link should work now - I typed fs instead of sf.

I'm pretty sure I'm getting this for Christmas so I can't wait to join this read along.

As a newcomer to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ and the Group I'm busy adding my books which will take a while.
I bought this book about 3 months ago and like many others it's sitting on the to be read list.
I'm looking forward to reading the stories at which I think is a sensible pace of one per week.

Dave

Beth Sniffs Books wrote: "Tom wrote: "I'm pretty sure I'm getting this for Christmas so I can't wait to join this read along."

Did Santa leave you this under the tree? ;)"

Yep, I got it. Didn't realise how big it is but I can't wait to get started on it. I love Time Travel. Is tomorrow the start date?

My son introduced me to a public domain site which I have not completely explored. It contains almost 48,000 public domain books. The site is That's where I picked up the Count of Monte Cristo. The books are ebooks and are all free.

Michael wrote: "My son introduced me to a public domain site which I have not completely explored. It contains almost 48,000 public domain books. The site is That's where I picked up t..."

Unfortunately, most of these stories are not likely to be in the public domain based on most countries' copyright laws. In the USA, if it was published after 1923, it only goes to the public domain 70 years after the author dies unless it falls under a special category or the author's estate renews the copyright (it's similar in most other countries as well). The only time travel book we've read as a group that has been in the public domain has been The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Twain's Connecticut Yankee... is also on Gutenberg. I believe that the authors in this anthology, however, are really too contemporary (or too alive) to have their works available there. But thanks. :-)

Hey, everyone. I just started posting, catching up with Ripples in the Dirac Sea.

I saw this book group thing and thought it was a great way to kind of jump into GoodReads. I've been a member for a number of months, but this is my first real participation.

Welcome,

Glad you decided to Dive into the Dirac Sea!

James,
Glad to have you. I doubt you'll find a better group of folks on the internet. Good book to jump into as well. Should be lots of great discussions over the coming weeks.

Thanks. That's what I'm hoping for.

And A Sound of Thunder is one of those short stories that I read over 30 years ago and always stuck with me. Bradbury's a favourite, though.

The movie blew lunch, but the short story rocks.

Happened across this book in my local discount book shop yesterday, so finally able to join in this read along. Always a sucker for time travel ... In fact, one of my contributions to The Sketchbook Project (Brooklyn Art Library, viewable free online, can post a link if anyone is interested) is all about time travel ... 30-odd pages or so of mixed media art on the topic, so this anthology will be a joy to explore. Thanks for organizing this read along!

Penelope wrote: "Happened across this book in my local discount book shop yesterday, so finally able to join in this read along. Always a sucker for time travel ... In fact, one of my contributions to The Sketchboo..."

Penelope: I'm glad you're joining us. And definitely message me with the link so that I can include it in our next newsletter. It sounds fascinating.

I just began the book today. (I've read only the intro so far.) I hope to catch up soon.

Some of these stories I have already read numerous times, such as "Ripples in the Dirac Sea," which I have in another time travel anthology I own. (That's the one where he keeps reliving the summer of '69, right?)

My only complaint with that story is the author's having the protagonist assaulted in ancient Jerusalem. I don't know where he got that sort of impression of Jews of that time. Though admittedly, he does not identify the assailants at all, so maybe they were Romans, or members of some break-off-from-Judaism sect with pagan followers, which was not all that uncommon back then. (In fact, that's the way they kept Christianity going around 50 or 100 years later, by converting pagans, since the Jews were not joining much.)

There were several sects that were occasionally violent, like the Boethusians, and the Sicarii (or were they earlier?), and the Biryonim, but the small mob of guys in this story seemed to be portrayed as just coincidental passersby, and no mention of any sect or culture or nationality or race is made, as far as I recall.

Interesting thought Mordechai,

Way to know your geopolitical bad guys of any given place and time. Without targeting any one group, I imagine a time traveler out of his element might seem easy prey for various nefarious characters looking for an opportunity.

Amy wrote: "Based on popular request for reading time travel short stories together, the moderators have chosen a book full of stories by some of science fiction's greatest authors (as well as a few lesser kno..."

Why is there the name of a member after each story title in Message 1?

Lincoln wrote: "Interesting thought Mordechai,

Way to know your geopolitical bad guys of any given place and time. Without targeting any one group, I imagine a time traveler out of his element might seem easy prey for various nefarious characters looking for an opportunity."

I just reread the story, and the author (in the protagonist's voice of narration) actually does say that he couldn't tell who the people were, and lists several choices. Funny I didn't remember that. I guess I've been reading carelessly.

As to my knowledge of the time and area, I am a bit of a student of Jewish history, and that's my favorite era to study. So rich in story, legend, politics, controversy, the birth of several religions and cults; it was a fascinating and exciting time. It is also the century of the Destruction of the Second (Jewish) Holy Temple in Jerusalem, a subject Jews tend to discuss and lament every year on the anniversary of that horrific event.

As a matter of fact, that was another point of interest for me in Moorcock's "Behold The Man" (if I got that title correct). He got some things wrong, but it was still a fascinating story. Interestingly, I believe I first found that story in a book I bought at a used book store in Jerusalem, when I was studying in school there back in '83.

Why is there the name of a member after each story title in Message 1?

The names after each story is one of the three moderators of the group. Technically John is a moderator in memory he passed away a year ago December. We all agreed that keeping posts up about the weekly stories might be difficult as weeks go by a lot more quickly than the Book of the Month...So those are assignments to us moderators to keep us on schedule and post new threads.

Lincoln wrote: "Why is there the name of a member after each story title in Message 1?

The names after each story is one of the three moderators of the group. Technically John is a moderator in memory he passed ..."

Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. Sorry to hear about the group's friend John. May his memory be an inspiration to the group.

One more story Amy and we are done with the Experiments section....

What happened to the thread for Fire Watch?

Cheryl wrote: "What happened to the thread for Fire Watch?"

I was just asking myself that same question. I thought Lincoln was taking that one for me. I had zero desire to read a Connie Willis story. You're welcome to start a thread for that one if you'd like.

Sorry Cheryl,

The Almanac has taken a back burner for me personally...as Amy said you are welcome to start your own thread, however if you would rather have a moderator endorsement to promote the thread...I will gladly do my job...Just let me know.

Yeah. I think that's true for all of us moderators.

In the future, if someone has read a story, wants to discuss it, and there's not a thread up about it yet, please feel free to start your own. I see that Mark did that recently for one he read and wanted to discuss.

Well, personally, I'd prefer the 'moderator endorsement' even if the mod. doesn't want to read the story. It's perfectly understandable that all of you don't want to read all the stories, but I'd prefer the schedule be kept.

(fwiw, I have the same issue in the group in which I'm co-mod; I have taken it upon myself to start the new thread every month and try to get things rolling, even when I'm not particularly interested, so I do empathize...)

Anyway, thanks for all that you-all do for this group.

I will post a new thread in a couple hours

With this being an every-week project and the mods being otherwise busy with life sometimes, this may not always happen ... especially with this being a years-long project.

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm being snotty or pushy or anything. I forgot to mention - in my group, I set up threads in advance, a batch at a time, when I have a bit of time carved out. It's much more efficient that way.

With the date in the subject line, as you-all are doing here, it should work for this project just as it is for mine.

I do appreciate any and all efforts. :)