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The Time Traveler's Almanac (British title: The Time Traveller's Almanac [1]) is a 2013 anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It contains stories that focus on time travel . It was released in November 2013 in the UK and on March 18, 2014, in the US.
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]
Stating that it and other Heinlein time-travel stories "force the reader into contemplations of the nature of causality and the arrow of time", Carl Sagan listed "By His Bootstraps" as an example of how science fiction "can convey bits and pieces, hints and phrases, of knowledge unknown or inaccessible to the reader". [6]
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The title for both the novel and the short story is drawn from the poem "Light of Other Days" [2] by Thomas Moore. A time viewer is also used in Clarke's Childhood's End, although it plays a minor role in the plot. Clarke discusses this device and its use in other science fiction in the afterword to the novel.
"Time's Arrow" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1950 in the first issue of the magazine Science Fantasy. The story revolves about the unintended consequences of using time travel to study dinosaurs. The story was included in the 2005 anthology The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century.
Some chapters, such as the penultimate one, entitled "What is Time?" less resembles a history of a subgenre within the greater science fiction canon and more resembles a heavy philosophic dissertation. Certainly, time travel is a concept that philosophers have tried to grasp and theorize about ever since its invention. [5]
A complex plot of body-swapping and time travel ensues. It is considered by some people to be the best story in the collection. [2] "Dumb Martian" [3] a satire on racism, featuring an Earthman who buys a Martian wife. "Compassion Circuit" a horror story on the subject of robotics. "Survival" set on a spacecraft marooned in orbit around Mars.