From Publishers Weekly
This fast, lightweight anthology of 12 time-travel tales contains a handful of standout stories, but many others rely on familiar tricks: Will the hero change his destiny by changing his past? Will the hero realize that that sound he heard all those years ago was his meddling future self? The most successful stories toy with genre conventions or use time travel as a device in support of bigger concerns. James P. Hogan's slyly amusing "Convolution" focuses on time-machine inventor Professor Abercrombie. The professor loses his notes before completing his machine, but a future version of himself sends a time machine back, embroiling Abercrombie in a neatly dovetailed succession of weird cross-time commutes. In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's amusing "Mint Condition," time travel takes a backseat to time-traveler Sissy's realization that her bosses are playing her for a fool. Family-centered stories include Jody Lynn Nye's light "Theory of Relativity," in which Rachel recruits another version of herself and tracks down their grandfather; Peter Crowther's emotionally fraught "Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew," about a man's opportunity to see his dead father; and Gary A. Braunbeck's touching "Palimpsest Day," wherein a man has the chance to change his life by intervening at one moment in his past. Newcomers to the genre will find many stories engaging, but too few of these entries question the clich‚s they perpetuate. (Oct. 9)Forecast: A cover featuring a warped clock and a cartoon-like air vehicle will appeal to young readers more than to SF aficionados, and won't do much to boost sales.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The authors of these new stories on the classic sf trope of time travel let it lead them as it may through genres including mystery, romance, space opera, and quiet reflection at home. The book's selections are excellent, which isn't surprising given the likes of Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jody Lynn Nye, and James P. Hogan as contributors and the fact that lesser-knowns proffer fine stories, too. Altogether, they take us to both the future and the past. William H. Keith Jr.'s "Iterations" goes so far into the future that it is nearly incomprehensible, and Kathleen Massie-Ferch's "A Touch through Time" begins with a scientist in love with a woman who has been dead for nearly a century. Sometimes, even the past travels, and in Peter Crowther's "Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew," fog brings more than low visibility. Veteran anthologist Greenberg and his latest collaborator have crafted a well-balanced and entertaining anthology. Regina Schroeder
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Book Description
Some of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of our time take on the neverending paradoxes of time travel-in this original anthology of all-new tales by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Peter Crowther, Jane Lindskold, Robin Wayne Bailey, Gary Braunbeck, Dean Wesley Smith, Jody Lynn Nye, James P. Hogan, and others.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Some of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of our time take on the neverending paradoxes of time travel-in this original anthology of all-new tales by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Peter Crowther, Jane Lindskold, Robin Wayne Bailey, Gary Braunbeck, Dean Wesley Smith, Jody Lynn Nye, James P. Hogan, and others.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

This fast, lightweight anthology of 12 time-travel tales contains a handful of standout stories, but many others rely on familiar tricks: Will the hero change his destiny by changing his past? Will the hero realize that that sound he heard all those years ago was his meddling future self? The most successful stories toy with genre conventions or use time travel as a device in support of bigger concerns. James P. Hogan's slyly amusing "Convolution" focuses on time-machine inventor Professor Abercrombie. The professor loses his notes before completing his machine, but a future version of himself sends a time machine back, embroiling Abercrombie in a neatly dovetailed succession of weird cross-time commutes. In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's amusing "Mint Condition," time travel takes a backseat to time-traveler Sissy's realization that her bosses are playing her for a fool. Family-centered stories include Jody Lynn Nye's light "Theory of Relativity," in which Rachel recruits another version of herself and tracks down their grandfather; Peter Crowther's emotionally fraught "Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew," about a man's opportunity to see his dead father; and Gary A. Braunbeck's touching "Palimpsest Day," wherein a man has the chance to change his life by intervening at one moment in his past. Newcomers to the genre will find many stories engaging, but too few of these entries question the clich?s they perpetuate. (Oct. 9) Forecast: A cover featuring a warped clock and a cartoon-like air vehicle will appeal to young readers more than to SF aficionados, and won't do much to boost sales. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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