Galaxy Science Fiction

Tag Area: Periodical
Short Story

Nice Girl with 5 Husbands


On an artist retreat, a man gets blown 100 years into the future where, among other things, group marriage and group parenting are the norm. —Michael Main
“Who are you talking about?”

“My husbands.” She shook her head dolefully. “To find five more difficult men would be positively Martian.”
A slightly abstract black-and-white drawing of a the back of a black man facing
                a lighted woman coming out of the dark with a balancing rock formation in the
                background.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Catch That Martian


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Game for Blondes


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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Teething Ring


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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette
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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

This Side Up


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

The Mapmakers


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Man of Distinction


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Of All Possible Worlds


Max Alben Mac Albin is genetically predisposed to survive time travel, so he’s the natural choice to go back in time and shift the course of a missile that shifted the course of history. —Michael Main
Now! Now to make a halfway decent world! Max Alben pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
Now! Now to make a halfway interesting world! Mac Albin pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
Pen-and-ink drawing of a falling rocket, divided into interleaved horizontal
                stripes that alternate between normal and negative black-and-white.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Time in the Round


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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

The Deaths of Ben Baxter


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Man Outside


When young Martin’s mother abandons him, a gaggle of his descendants descend from the future to ensure his safety. —Michael Main
His face was pallid, because he spend little time in the sun, andhis speech rather overbred, his mentors from the future having carefully eradicated all current vulgarities.
A castle sits atop a vaguely drawn hill, possibly shrouded in mist.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Carbon Copy


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

MUgwump Four


Oh, dear! Albert Miller has dialed a wrong number on the Mugwump-4 exchange, and the mutants who answered have decided that the only solution is to catapult him into the future where he won’t be able to upset their plans for World Domination. —Michael Main
At this stage in our campaign, we can take no risks. You’ll have to go. Prepare the temporal centrifuge, Mordecai.
A cartoonish pen-and-ink drawing of a tall, sad sack kind of man and a short,
                fat, bald businessman.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Crime Machine


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass


This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the editorial pages of Pohl’s [⁠Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation. —Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through 20th century medicine.
A probe with four large panels at right angles and a green exhast approaches
                the Horsehead Nebula.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Age of the Pussyfoot


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Galactic Consumer Reports No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

We’re Coming through the Window


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

All the Myriad Ways


Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble suspects that the recent spate of suicides and violent crime is somehow connected to the discovery that the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics is real and each of those worlds can be traveled to. —Michael Main
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? Trimble didn’t understand the theory, though God knows he’d tried. The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision every made could go both ways. Every choice ever made by every man, woman and child on Earth was reversed in the universe next door.
Pen-and-ink drawing of multiple overlapping images of a man with a gun sitting
                at a desk.
  • 1969 Hugo
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

When You Hear the Tone


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

The State 0.1

Rammer


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Nobody Here but Us Shadows


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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

The State 0.2

Down and Out


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

The State 0.3

Children of the State


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel