TOC: “The Time Traveler’s Almanac” Edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Plus: US and UK Covers!)

Here’s the mouth-watering table of contents for Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s upcoming massive time travel anthology The Time Traveler’s Almanac, coming out not soon enough…

But first, here’s the (updated) synopsis:

On the heels of the World Fantasy Award winning The Weird, the next genre-defining anthology from award-winning team Ann and Jeff VanderMeer explores the popular world of time travel fiction

The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this almanac compiles more than a century’s worth of literary travels into the past and the future to reacquaint readers with beloved classics and introduce them to thrilling contemporary examples of the time travel genre.

Featuring over seventy journeys into time from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, Connie Willis, Charles Yu, and many more, The Time Traveler’s Almanac covers millions of years of Earth’s history, from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures.

In fact, The Time Traveler’s Almanac will serve as a time machine of its very own: the ultimate treasury of time travel stories, spanning the distance from the beginning of time to its very end.

In addition to collecting some of the best time travel fiction from over the past 100 years, the VanderMeers have commissioned original non-fiction, including an introduction by Rian Johnson, the writer and director of the recent Bruce Willis time travel movie Looper as well as an essay on the science of time travel by Stan Love, an astronaut from NASA. Other contributors are Charles Yu, Genevieve Valentine and Jason Heller.

Here’s the HUGE (alphabetical) table of contents:

FICTION

1. “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe” by Douglas Adams
2. “Terminós” by Dean Francis Alfar
3. “What If?” by Issac Asimov
4. “Noble Mold” by Kage Baker
5. “A Night on the Barbary Coast” by Kage Baker
6. “Life Trap” by Barrington J Bayley
7. “This Tragic Glass” by Elizabeth Bear
8. “Enoch Soames” by Max Beerbohn
9. “The Most Important Thing in the World” by Steve Bein
10. “In The Tube” by E.F. Benson
11. “The Mask of the Rex” by Richard Bowes
12. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
13. “Bad Timing” by Molly Brown
14. “The Gulf of the Years” by George-Olivier Châteaureynaud
15. “The Threads of Time” by C.J. Cherryh
16. “Thirty Seconds From Now” by John Chu
17. “Palindromic” by Peter Crowther
18. “Domine” by Rjurik Davidson
19. “The Lost Continent” by Greg Egan
20. “The Gernsback Continuum” by William Gibson
21. “3 RMS, Good View” by Karen Haber
22. “Message in a Bottle” by Nalo Hopkinson
23. “The Great Clock” by Langdon Jones
24. “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” by Alice Sola Kim
25. “On the Watchtower at Plataea” by Garry Kilworth
26. “Time Gypsies” by Ellen Klages
27. “Vintage Seasons” by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore
28. “At Dorado” by Geoffrey Landis
29. “Ripples in the Dirac Sea” by Geoffrey Landis
30. “The Final Days” by David Langford
31. “Fish Night” by Joe Lansdale
32. “As Time Goes By” by Tanith Lee
33. “Another Story” by Ursula K. LeGuin
34. “Loob” by Bob Leman
35. “Alexia and Graham Bell” by Rosaleen Love
36. “Traveller’s Rest” by David Masson
37. “Death Ship” by Richard Matheson
38. “Under Siege” by George R.R. Martin
39. “The Clock That Went Backwards” by Edward Page Mitchell
40. “Pale Rose” by Michael Moorcock
41. “The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time” by Tamsyn Muir
42. “Is There Anybody There?” by Kim Newman
43. “Come-From-Aways” by Tony Pi
44. “The Time Telephone” by Adam Roberts
45. “Red Letter Day” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
46. “The Waitabits” by Eric Frank Russell
47. “If Ever I Should Leave You” by Pamela Sargent
48. “How the Future Got Better” by Eric Schaller
49. “Needle in a Timestack” by Robert Silverberg
50. “Delhi” by Vandana Singh
51. “Himself in Anachron” by Cordwainer Smith
52. “The Weed of Time” by Norman Spinrad
53. “Palimpsest” by Charlie Stross
54. “Yesterday Was Monday” by Theodore Sturgeon
55. “Triceratops Summer” by Michael Swanwick
56. “The Mouse Ran Down” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
57. “Augusta Prima” by Karin Tidbeck
58. “Twenty-One and Counting Up” by Harry Turtledove
59. “Forty, Counting Down” by Harry Turtledove
60. “Where or When” by Steve Utley
61. “Swing Time” by Carrie Vaughn
62. “(excerpt from) The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells
63. “Fire Watch” by Connie Willis
64. “Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe
65. “The Lost Pilgrim” by Gene Wolfe

NON-FICTION

1. Introduction by Rian Johnson
2. Music for Time Travelers by Jason Heller
3. The Science of Time Travel by Stan Love
4. Trousseau, Fashion for Time Travelers by Genevieve Valentine
5. Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers by Charles Yu

Book info as per Amazon US:

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (March 18, 2014)
• ISBN-10: 0765374218
• ISBN-13: 978-0765374219

Book info as per Amazon UK:

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Head of Zeus (7 Nov 2013)
• ISBN-10: 1781853908
• ISBN-13: 978-1781853900