Sandro Sandrelli

narrator, translator
Novelette

Vintage Season


More and more strange people are appearing each day in and around Oliver Wilson’s home; the explanation from the euphoric redhead leads him to believe they are time travelers gathering for an important event. —Michael Main
Looking backward later, Oliver thought that in that moment, for the first time clearly, he began to suspect the truth. But he had no time to ponder it, for after the brief instant of enmity the three people from—elsewhere—began to speak all at once, as if in a belated attempt to cover something they did not want noticed.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a broad metal bowl containing steaming liquid.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

a Haertel Complex story

Common Time

  • by James Blish
  • in Shadow of Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, July 1953)

Spaceman Garrard is the third pilot to attempt the trip to the binary star system of Alpha Centauri using the FTL drive invented by Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein!) The Haertel Complex stories provide little in the way of actual time travel, but this one does have minor relativistic time dilation and more significant differing time rates. —Michael Main
Figuring backward brought him quickly to the equivalence he wanted: one second in ship time was two hours in Garrard time.
Illustration of a rocketship and three astronauts on the moon with a full Earth
                in an orange sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Tyrannosaurus Rex


We could have told special effects meister John Terwilliger that the only way to get a truly monstrous T. rex on film is to build a time machine, but alas, he relied solely on stop-motion animation with no time travel, and look at the abuse he gets for his efforts from the renowned producer Joe Clarence. —Michael Main
Step by step, frame by frame of film, stop motion by stop motion, he, Terwilliger, had run his beasts through their postures, moved each a fraction of an inch, photographed them, moved them another hair, photographed them, for hours and days and months.
A white two-story hotel with a columned porch, built out on a pier surrounded
                by boats and two maids dangling their feet off the pier.
  • Mainstream
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journal d'une ménagère inversée


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

Past Master


Thomas More is brought from the 16th century to the 26th in a time machine to save the world. —Fred Galvin
We are trying to find a new sort of leader who can slow, even reverse, the break-up, Paul. We’ve selected a man from the Earth Past, Thomas More. We will present him to the people only as the Thomas, or perhaps, to be more fanciful, as the Past Master. You know of him?
Two abstract paintings of a black-and-white spiral with color blotches and of a
                group of five blockish heads.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel