Time Travel and Nothing But Time Travel
Twisting Time, Warping Minds: Classic Sci-Fi Journeys Across the Decades

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 GrangerForsyte’s Retreat by Winston MarksProminent Author by Philip K. DickThe Skull by Philip K. DickPrison of a Billion Years by C. H. ThamesMeddler by Philip K. DickLet the Ants Try by Frederik PohlThe Beachcomber by Damon KnightNice Girl with 5 Husbands by Fritz LeiberA Traveler in Time by August DerlethHall of Mirrors by Fredric BrownExhibit Piece by Philip K. DickThe Queen of Space by Joseph SlotkinThe Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard DaleyZ by Charles L. FontenayThe Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick