If · Worlds of If

Tag Area: Periodical
Short Story

Avoidance Situation


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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Cronos of the D. F. C.


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

The Six Fingers of Time


The story does not involve time travel, but it does have speeded-up time as in “The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells. —Fred Galvin
I awoke this morning to some very puzzling incidents. It seemed that time itself had stopped, or that the whole world had gone into super-slow motion.
Pen-and-ink drawing of streaks of wind blowing by the head of an older,
                smirking man.
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Novel

Farnham’s Freehold

  • by Robert A. Heinlein
  • (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 1964) [We chose October 1964 as the publication date based on a 1 November 1964 review in the Anniston Star and the probability that it appeared after the July to October serialization in If.]

Hugh Farnam makes good preparations for his family to survive a nuclear holocaust, but are the preparations good enough to survive a trip to the future?

In his blog, Fred Pohl wrote about how Heinlein’s agent gave permission for Pohl publish the novel in If and to cut “five or ten thousand words in the beginning that were argumentative, extraneous and kind of boring” (and Pohl agreed to pay full rate for the cut words). But apparently, Heinlein “went ballistic” when he saw the first installment, so much so that when the book appeared as a separate publication, Heinlein made sure people knew who was responsible for the previous cuts by adding a note* that “A short version of this novel, as cut and revised by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If Magazine.”

* The version of Heinlein’s note that Pohl recalled was much funnier than Heinlein’s actual note in our timeline, but sadly, we have lost track of where we saw Pohl’s version.
—Michael Main
Because the communists are realists. They never risk a war that would hurt them, even if they could win. So they won’t risk one they can’t win.
Sketch of a clean-cut, older man’s face.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

At the Core


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

Neutron Star


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

3:02 P.M., Oxford


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

Our Children’s Children


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel