As Time Goes By (1) (BAEN)

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Time travel tales of love and the future, alternate realities, and the worlds of fantasy.

“Love’s not time’s fool,” Shakespeare wrote, though he might have added that men and women can be both love and time’s fools. For time and love are universally experienced, yet mysterious and only dimly understood. Here’s a collection of stories with both transcendental mysteries in high gear, as lovers, happy and otherwise, are caught in bizarre twists of time. On hand to twist time into pretzel shapes, if not into Moebius strips, are best-selling and award-winning authors such as Poul Anderson, John Wyndham, Christopher Priest, Richard McKenna, Michael Swanwick, Charlie Jane Anders, Tony Daniel, Sarah A. Hoyt, and more, as cupid hops aboard a time machine and the course of true love not only may not run smooth, but may run backwards and even sideways.

Includes stories by Richard McKenna , author of the award-winning novel The Sand Pebbles; John Wyndham, author of the mega-bestseller The Day of the Triffids; multiple-award winning author Poul Anderson, multiple award-winner Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige ; Charlie Jane Anders ; Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author Michael Swanwick; Hugo Award finalist and Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award winner Tony Daniel; Prometheus Award winner Sarah A. Hoyt; and more.

“Gibraltar Falls” by Poul Anderson, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October, 1975, © 1975 by Poul Anderson. Reprinted by permission of the Lotts Agency for the Tregonier Trust.

“Triceratops Summer” by Michael Swanwick, first appeared in Amazon Shorts, August 2006, © 2006 by Michael Swanwick. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Chronoclasm” by John Wyndham, first appeared in Star Science Fiction Stories #1, Ballantine Books, 1953, © 1953 by John Wyndham. Reprinted by permission of Pollinger, Ltd. for the author’s estate.

“The Girl Who Made Time Stop” by Robert F. Young, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1961, © 1961 by Curtis Publishing Co. Reprinted by permission of Barry Malzberg for the author’s estate.

“The Other Now” by Murray Leinster, first appeared in Galaxy, March 1951, © 1951 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of Virginia Kidd Agency for the author’s estate.

“A Dry, Quiet War” by Tony Daniel, first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June, 1996, © 1996 by Dell Magazines. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders, first appeared in Tor.com, June 2011, © 2011 by Charlie Jane Anders. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Day of the Green Velvet Cloak” by Mildred Clingerman, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1958, © 1958 by Fantasy House, Inc. All attempts to locate the holder of rights to this story have been unsuccessful. If a holder will get in touch with Baen Books, payment will be made.

“A Wow Finish” by James Van Pelt, first appeared in Amazing Stories, November 2004, © 2004 by James Van Pelt. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Backtracked” by Burt Filer, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June, 1968, © 1968 by Fantasy House, Inc. All attempts to locate the holder of rights to this story have been unsuccessful. If a holder will get in touch with Baen Books, payment will be made.

“So Little and So Light” by Sarah A. Hoyt appears here for the first time, © 2014 by Sarah A. Hoyt. Published by permission of the author.

“The Price of Oranges” by Nancy Kress, first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1989, © 1989 by Nancy Kress. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Secret Place” by Richard M. McKenna, first appeared in Orbit 1, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966, © 1966 Richard McKenna. Reprinted by permission of Jeffrey Henderson for the author’s estate.

“Palely Loitering” by Christopher Priest, first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January, 1979, © 1979 by Christopher Priest. Reprinted by permission of the author.