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The New Accelerator

by H. G. Wells

The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more.
— Michael Main
I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”

“The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, Strand Magazine, December 1901.

Four Dimensional . . . 1

The Four-Dimensional Roller-Press

by Bob Olsen


“The Four-Dimensional Roller-Press” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, June 1927.

Four Dimensional . . . 2

Four Dimensional Surgery

by Bob Olsen


“Four Dimensional Surgery” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, February 1928.

Four Dimensional . . . 4

Four Dimensional Transit

by Bob Olsen


“Four Dimensional Transit” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1928.

Four Dimensional . . . 3

Four Dimensional Robberies

by Bob Olsen


“Four Dimensional Robberies” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, May 1928.

A Visitor from the Twentieth Century

by Harold Donitz


“A Visitor from the Twentieth Century” by Harold Donitz, Amazing Stories, May 1928.

The Appendix and the Spectacles

by Miles J. Breuer


“The Appendix and the Spectacles” by Miles J. Breuer, Amazing Stories, December 1928.

The Fifth Dimension

by Clare Winger Harris


“The Fifth Dimension” by Clare Winger Harris, Amazing Stories, December 1928.

The Space Bender

by Edward L. Rementer


“The Space Bender” by Edward L. Rementer, Amazing Stories, December 1928.

The Captured Cross-Section

by Miles J. Breuer


“The Captured Cross-Section” by Miles J. Breuer, Amazing Stories, February 1929.

The Heat Wave

by Marion Ryan and Robert Ord

Two stories, millennia apart, connected by office worker Paul Feron in a 20th-century New York heatwave and Roman gladiator Ferronius in a heatwave of his own. Time travel? Or a dream?
— Michael Main
A dazzling streak of lightning, a mighty clap of thunder, and Paul Feron, suddenly awakened, sprang to his feet with white face and staring eyes. What had happened? God, what had happened?

“The Heat Wave” by Marion Ryan and Robert Ord, in Munsey’s Magazine, April 1929.

The Dimension Segregator

by J. Harold Click


“The Dimension Segregator” by J. Harold Click, Amazing Stories, August 1929.

Fourth Dimensional Space Penetrator

by Julian Kendig, Jr.


“Fourth Dimensional Space Penetrator” by Julian Kendig, Jr., Amazing Stories, January 1930.

The Gostak and the Doshes

by Miles J. Breuer


“The Gostak and the Doshes” by Miles J. Breuer, Amazing Stories, March 1930.

The Ship That Turned Aside

by G. Peyton Wertenbaker


“The Ship That Turned Aside” by G. Peyton Wertenbaker, Amazing Stories, March 1930.

Four Dimensional . . . 5

The Man Who Annexed the Moon

by Bob Olsen


“The Man Who Annexed the Moon” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, February 1931.

The Fifth-Dimension Tube

by Murray Leinster


“The Fifth-Dimension Tube” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1933.

In the Scarlet Star

by Jack Williamson


“In the Scarlet Star” by Jack Williamson, Amazing Stories, March 1933.

Four Dimensional . . . 6

The Four Dimensional Escape

by Bob Olsen


“The Four Dimensional Escape” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, December 1933.

The Man Who Lived Next Week

by David Wright O'Brien


“The Man Who Lived Next Week” by David Wright O'Brien, Amazing Stories, December 1933.

Hastings—1066

by Leonard B. Rosborough


“Hastings—1066” by Leonard B. Rosborough, Amazing Stories, June 1934.

Four Dimensional . . . 7

The Four Dimensional Auto-Parker

by Bob Olsen


“The Four Dimensional Auto-Parker” by Bob Olsen, Amazing Stories, July 1934.

Judson’s Annihilator

by John Wyndham


“Beyond the Screen” by John Wyndham, Fantasy #1, (1938).

History in Reverse

by Lee Laurence


“History in Reverse” by Lee Laurence, Amazing Stories, October 1939.

Murder in the Time World

by Malcolm Jameson

Karl Tarig plans to murder his kindly cousin, Dr. Claude Morrison, who took Karl in when nobody else would. Then he'll toss cousin Claude’s body into the time machine that Claude built. Lastly, he’ll sell all of Claude’s valuables and run away in time with the indomitable Ellen Warren. The perfect crime!
— Michael Main
To hell with the law! For he had thought out the perfect crime. There could be no dangerous consequences. You can’t hang a man for murder with a body—a corpus delicti. For the first time in the history of crime, a murderer had at his disposal the sure means of ridding himself of his corpse.

“Murder in the Time World” by Malcolm Jameson, Amazing Stories, August 1940.

Mystery of the Mind Machine

by Don Wilcox

The mind machine converts past memories to projected images, and the story’s tagline suggests that it can also see the future, but that is just misdirection. No actual time travel, no reading the future.
— Michael Main
Not only could this machine read minds—it could read the future!

“Mystery of the Mind Machine” by Don Wilcox, Amazing Stories, August 1940.

Murder in the Past

by David Wright O’Brien


“Murder in the Past” by David Wright O’Brien, Amazing Stories, March 1941.

The Incredible Slingshot Bombs

by Robert Moore Williams


“The Incredible Slingshot Bombs” by Robert Moore Williams, Amazing Stories, May 1942.

Horsesense Hank in the Parallel Worlds

by Nelson S. Bond


“Horsesense Hank in the Parallel Worlds” by Nelson S. Bond, Amazing Stories, August 1942.

The Time Mirror

by Dwight V. Swain


“The Time Mirror” by Dwight V. Swain, Amazing Stories, December 1942.

Shock

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore


“Shock” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1943.

Line to Tomorrow

by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore


“Line to Tomorrow” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1945.

Window to the Future

by Rog Phillips


“Window to the Future” by Rog Phillips, Amazing Stories, May 1949.

Typewriter from the Future

by Rog Phillips


“Typewriter from the Future” by Rog Phillips, Amazing Stories, February 1950.

Time Is a Coffin

by Gilbert Mead


“Time Is a Coffin” by Gilbert Mead, Amazing Stories, September 1950.

One Way Street

by Jerome Bixby


“One Way Street” by Jerome Bixby, Amazing Stories, December 1953 / January 1954.

Death of a Dinosaur

by Sam Moskowitz


“Death of a Dinosaur” by Sam Moskowitz, Amazing Stories, August 1956.

Triple-Time Try

by Les Cole


“Triple-Time Try” by Les Cole, Amazing Science-Fiction Stories, October 1959.

The Stars, My Brothers

by Edmond Hamilton

A man who does not understand people is frozen for 100 years. He’s brought back to life enroute to an alien planet, where surprising things happen.
— Dave Hook

“The Stars, My Brothers” by Edmond Hamilton, Amazing Stories, May 1962.

Hainish series

The Dowry of Angyar

by Ursula K. Le Guin


“The Dowry of Angyar” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Amazing Stories, September 1964.

Only Yesterday

by Ted White

Near the start of the Great Depression, a man waits for college student Donna Smith—someday to be Donna Albright—at the trolley stop near her rural Virgina home.
— Michael Main
Nervously fingering his narrow lapel, he broke the silence, saying, “I’d like to tell you some things . . . Totally outrageous things. You have to promise me just one thing first.”

“Only Yesterday” by Ted White, Amazing Stories, July 1969.

The Worlds of Monty Willson

by W. F. Nolan


“The Worlds of Monty Willson” by W. F. Nolan, Amazing Science Fiction, July 1971.

What Time Do You Call That?

by Bob Shaw


“What Time Do You Call That?” by Bob Shaw, Amazing Science Fiction, September 1971.

The Man Who Walked Home

by James Tiptree, Jr.

After an accident at a temporal research facility in Idaho, a manlike monster known as John Delgano shows up for half a seoncd once a year at the same time and place.

As early as the 1930s, stories have addressed the issue of the Earth moving to a different position when a time traveler moves through time. This story addresses the issue by saying that the time traveler appears only once per year, but that doesn't really solve the problem for so many reasons, starting with the fact that a given position on the surface of the Earth will not be at “the same” position in the subsequent year.

— Michael Main
Then that winter they came down for Christmas and John said they had something new. He was really excited. A temporal displacement, he called it; some kind of time effect.

“The Man Who Walked Home” by James Tiptree, Jr., in Amazing, May 1972.

The Cliometricon

by George Zebrowski


“The Cliometricon” by George Zebrowski, in Amazing Science Fiction, May 1975.

Unsound Variations

by George R. R. Martin

Peter Norten and his wife Kathy already had a rocky marriage before heading up to Bruce Bunnish’s Colorado mansion for a ten-year reunion with Bruce and two other members of the Northwestern University B Team that Peter captained to a near-win at the North American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship. But will Peter and Kathy’s marriage survive the trip, and just how did Bruce end up as the only member of the team to go on to success?
— Michael Main
Time is said to be the fourth dimension, but it differs from the other three in one conspicuous way—our consciousness moves along it. From past to present only, alas. Time itselfdoes not flow, no more than, say, width can flow. Our minds flicker from one instant of time to the next. This analogy was my starting point. I reasoned that if consciousness can move in one direction, it can move in the other direction as well. It took me fifty years to work out the details, however, and make what I call a flashback possible.

“Unsound Variations” by George R. R. Martin, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, January 1982.

The Man Who Went Back

by Damon Knight


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

Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail

by James Morrow

A lovely series of letters between Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella—as conveyed by messenger albatross in 1492!—describing a modern-day NYC, wondrous yet horrifying.
— Dave Hook

“Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail” by James Morrow, Amazing Stories, April 1992.

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