No Winter, No Summer

by James Blish and Damon Knight

“No Winter, No Summer” by James Blish and Damon Knight, Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948.

Don’t Live in the Past

by Damon Knight

A future transportation system goes awry, which results in flangs, tweedledums, collapsed flooring, argo paste, and mangels (yes, especially mangels) being delivered to the homes and business places of persons in a past century. Moreover, it’s quite possible that civilization down the line (including Bloggett’s own time!) will be altered. When the buck finally stops, the buck-kickers have decided that it’s up to Ronald Mao Jean-Jacques von Hochbein Mazurin to travel back and set things right.

The mathematicians are still working on that, Your Honor, and the best they can say now is that it was probably somewhere between the mid-Twentieth Century and the last Twenty-First. However there is a strong possibility that none of the material reached any enclosed space which would attract it, and that it may all have been dissipated harmlessly in the form of incongruent molecules.

“Don’t Live in the Past” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy, June 1951.

Catch That Martian

by Damon Knight

“Catch That Martian” by Damon Knight, Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952.

Anachron

by Damon Knight

Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don’t interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine.

“By God and all the saints,” he said. “Time travel.”

Harold snorted impatiently. “My dear Peter, ‘time’ is a meaningless word taken by itself, just as ‘space’ is.”

“But barring that, time travel.”

“If you like, yes.”

“Anachron” by Damon Knight, in If, January 1954.

Backward, O Time

by Damon Knight

“Backward, O Time” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1956.

The Last Word

by Damon Knight

A fallen angel, who himself cannot undo time, pushes mankind to the brink of extinction.

Cowardice again—that man did not want to argue about the boundaries with his neighbor’s muscular cousin. Another lucky accident, and there you are. Geometry.

“The Last Word” by Damon Knight, in Satellite Science Fiction, February 1957.

Thing of Beauty

by Damon Knight

After a time-slip, con artist Gordon Fish receives nine packages containing a machine that makes magnificent drawings, but the instructions are in some unknown language.

There was a time slip in Southern California at about one in the afternoon. Mr. Gordon Fish thought it was an earthquake.

“Thing of Beauty” by Damon Knight, in Galaxy, September 1958.

What Rough Beast?

by Damon Knight

“What Rough Beast?” by Damon Knight, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1959.

Time Enough

by Damon Knight

Through the magic of time travel, young Jimmy has the opportunity to relive a traumatic moment with a group of other young boys at the quarry and change the outcome.

I’m a little tensed up, I guess, but I can do it. I wasn’t really scared; it was the way it happened, so sudden. They never gave me a chance to get ready.

“Time Enough” by Damon Knight, in Amazing, July 1960.

Extempore

by Damon Knight

Mr. Rossi yearns so much to travel through time that he manages to do so with only the power of his mind, but now he’s traveling is out of control: a series of moments past to present to future, which keep repeating but never the same.

He found a secondhand copy of J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment with Time and lost sleep for a week. He copied off the charts from it, Scotch-taped them to his wall; he wrote down his startling dreams every morning as soon as he awoke. There was a time outside time, Dunne said, in which to measure time; and a time outside that, in which to measure the time that measured time, and a time outside that.. . . Why not?

“Extempore” by Damon Knight, in Far Out, edited by Damon Knight (Simon and Shuster, 1961).

Journal d'une ménagère inversée

Literal: Diary of an inverted housewife

by Juliette Raabe

[ex=bare]“Journal d'une ménagère inversée” | Diary of an inverted housewife[/ex] by Juliette Raabe, Fiction #120, November 1963.

The Tree of Time

by Damon Knight

Professor Gordon Naismith unexpectedly discovers that he’s a warrior Shefth from the future, and now the Uglies from the future wants him to return to kill an alien Zug who managed to get through the time barrier that’s meant to keep out the Zugs.

The full version, called Beyond the Barrier, was published shortly after the shortened two-part serial (about 45,000 words) appeared in F&SF.

Let us say there was a need to be inconspicuous. This is a dead period, for hundreds of years on either side. No one knows about this abandoned liner except us, and no one would think of looking here.

The Tree of Time by Damon Knight, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 1963 to Jan 1964.

Mind Switch

by Damon Knight

Mind Switch by Damon Knight (Berkley Medallion, November 1965).

I See You

by Damon Knight

“I See You” by Damon Knight , Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976.

I See You

by Damon Knight

“I See You” by Damon Knight, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976.

Azimuth 1, 2, 3 . . .

by Damon Knight

Shortly after genius Azimuth Backfiler (yes, that’s his real name) finds a way to travel back in time, Azimuth 2 appears and hands him next week’s newspaper causing some sort of feedback that create Azimuth 3, Azimuth 4,. . .

Therefore, he was not surprised to see himself emerge from the chamber, wearing this very suit, a moment after he had formed the decision.

“Azimuth 1,2,3 . . .” by Damon Knight, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1982.

The Time Exchange

by Damon Knight

“The Time Exchange” by Damon Knight, Playboy, August 1984.

The Man Who Went Back

by Damon Knight

“The Man Who Went Back” by Damon Knight, Amazing Stories, November 1985.