This collection brings together sixteen classic lost science-fiction short stories from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, all centered on humanity’s most dangerous obsession: the ability to move through time.
These stories explore time not as a convenience, but as a trap. A single step into the past can erase a lifetime. A glimpse of the future can destroy the present. Memory, identity, causality, and free will are all put on trial as ordinary people, reluctant travelers, and brilliant meddlers discover that time resists being touched—and punishes those who try.
From paradoxes and closed loops to bureaucratic futures, fractured realities, and histories that refuse to stay fixed, these tales represent the golden age of speculative fiction at its sharpest and most imaginative. Featuring multiple stories by Philip K. Dick, along with classics by Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, Fredric Brown, and others, this collection delivers thought-provoking ideas, dark irony, and unforgettable twists.
Includes these time-bending classics:
Stop, You’re Killing Me! by Darius John Granger Forsyte’s Retreat by Winston Marks Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick The Skull by Philip K. Dick Prison of a Billion Years by C. H. Thames Meddler by Philip K. Dick Let the Ants Try by Frederik Pohl The Beachcomber by Damon Knight Nice Girl with 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber A Traveler in Time by August Derleth Hall of Mirrors by Fredric Brown Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick The Queen of Space by Joseph Slotkin The Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard Daley Z by Charles L. Fontenay The Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick
