What if you had all the time in the world?Thirteen authors answer that question with short stories about time travel. Go back in time to right a wrong, forward to see the future. No jump is too large, no method unfeasible, no lesson beyond learning.• Visit the past to learn a family secret.• See the formation of a future dictatorship.• Assume responsibility for weaving the fabric of time.• Travel back in time to WWII.• Use a family heirloom t...

“[McCaffrey is the] master of the well-told tale.”—Chicago Sun-TimesAs long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the dragonriders, Pern’s greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was protected. Some, like Jayge’s trader clan, simply...

". . . [and a] deliciously wicked platform for satirizing past, present and all-too-likely future human frailties. . . ." —Publishers Weekly"Agreeably subversive, sometimes hilarious." —Kirkus ReviewsIn his twenty thousand years as a Company agent, Facilitator Joseph has been a priest in Egypt, a secretary to a Roman senator and a legionary, was in Byzantium for the Crusades, and rescued the Botanist Mendoza from the Spanish Inquisition. Bu...

The sequel to The Just City and The Philosopher Kings: "A glorious kitchen sink of genre, combining philosophy, time travel, aliens, and the gods." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction FinalistMore than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the ...

“Time changes everyone.”Everything has changed. Buildings, the landscape, the country, the people, life. Mya remembers the past—some of it—and believes the future is too hard. It’s been years and she is still alone, lost in memories, her heart aching for her love. Her Highlander. Kayden.She travels to Scotland and as she passes through, more memories return. The stag. Her friends. The war. Her prince.Unsure if she can find the pieces of the...

I’m pleased to continue our Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK® series with another collection of great SF novels, published originally between 1959 and 2011. Fans of classic science fiction with enjoy this set. A highlight is The Asteroid Murder Case, by the late Arthur Jean Cox, which is based on a story by Ross Rocklin. (See Jean’s introduction for more information). Also included are:Not in Solitude, by Kenneth F. GantzFirst on the Moon, by Jeff SuttonThe Organ Farm, ...

Time is twisted, worlds are changed, and fates are intertwined in this thrilling final chapter of the Burton & Swinburne Adventures from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder.In 1890 the renowned adventurer and explorer Sir Richard Burton could sense his impending death…Until he was suddenly alive, young and strong in the year 1864—a past that he remembers well, but which is definitely different from what he previously lived through. Burton’s amaz...

This book contains the two short stories The Tunnel and The Tribe, previously sold individually.The TunnelWhat if you entered a tunnel one day, and when you reached the other side, everything had changed?Dave Randall leads an ordinary life with his family in the suburbs. Then one day, his car breaks down in the middle of a tunnel. When he exits on the other side, everything has changed.The TribeDave Randall was just an ordinary guy, living with his fa...

For fifteen years, the Romans of New Pompeii have kept the outside world at bay with the threat of using the Novus Particles device to alter time. Yet Decimus Horatius Pullus—once Nick Houghton—knows the real reason the Romans don’t use the device for their own ends: they can’t make it work without grisly consequences.This fragile peace is threatened when an outsider promises to help the Romans use the technology. And there are those beyond Pompeii’s walls who are desperate to destr...

Time Travel: What Could Go Wrong?Paranormal detectives Arturo Brooks and Edward Smith hated time travel before they ever laid eyes on a time machine.Now, some jerk has gone and invented one, and the consequences go beyond breaking the timeline. This time machine renders anyone who dares to use it immortal.Plenty of people would love to get their hands on technology like that.Racing against several clocks, Brooks and Smith team up wi...

Voyaging into a sector of interstellar space that is plunged into total darkness with an absolute absence of any light, the four Cosmic Crusaders encounter their most powerful and sinister enemy yet--an alien mastermind who is regarded as a God by the race he has created. This scientist has altered the nature of space itself, so that it no longer conducts light, forcing the slaves he's created to evolve without eyes, and to develop extrasensory perception. Not content with shaping the evol...

Kevin knows his crush on his gorgeous but impossibly aloof boss Marcus isn't going anywhere. So it's a huge shock when Marcus mysteriously appears one night in Kevin's bedroom. Kevin has just enough time to enjoy Marcus' attention and warm familiarity, then Marcus vanishes.And then it happens again the next night.And the next.Meanwhile, back in daylight office hours, Marcus is as cold as ever with no obvious recollection of his night-time visits.What's reall...