Time Travelers’: From Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

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Short Story

Time and Hagakure


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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Small Stones of Tu Fu


A time traveler enjoys spending time with the aged poet Tu Fu in 770 A.D.
Swimming strongly on my way back to what the sage called the remote future, my form began to flow and change according to time pressure. Sometimes my essence was like steam, sometimes like a mountain.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
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Fire Watch


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Comedian


A projected vision from the future takes on the forms of various 20th century comedians from Charley Chaplin to Don Rickles, and he’s also making wildlife manager Chris Reilly kidnap children.
The comedian looked just like a living, breathing, three-dimensional human being, the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce, come to see the unhappy world end.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Ghost Lecturer


A conceited man brings Lucretius to the present in order to explain to the classical scientist exactly where he was wrong, but it turns out that Lucretius’s classical atomism was brought along with him.
What’;s happening? I’ll tell you what’s happening. Those “films” you see flying off surfaces and hitting your eyes—that’s how our friend here thought visions worked. And now we’re seeing it happen, as though it’s true.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Twilight Time


Travis goes back to the 1961 dance where he met his now-departed sweetheart, but he also has memories of aliens who quietly took over the world.
A decade of peace and quiet and short hair was winding down; a time when people knew their place and stayed in it. For ten years nobody had wanted anything but a new car and a bigger TV set. Now all that was about to change. In a little over a year the Cuban missile crisis would send thousands of people into their back yards to dig bomb shelters, and “advisors” would start pouring into Southeast Asia. In another year the president would be dead.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Sailing to Byzantium


Charles Phillips is a 20th-century New Yorker in a future world of immortal leisurites who reconstruct cities from the past. —Michael Main
He knew very little about himself, but he knew that he was not one of them. That he knew. He knew that his name was Charles Phillips and that before he had come to live among these people he had lived in the year 1984, when there had been such things as computers and television sets and baseball and jet planes, and the world was full of cities, not merely five but thousands of them, New York and London and Johannesburg and Parks and Liverpool and Bangkok and San Francisco and Buenos Ares and a multitude of others, all at the same time.
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  • 1968 Nebula
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Klein’s Machine


After Philip Herbert Klein returns from a psychosis-inducing trip in his time machine, he has philosophical conversations with his psychiatrist.
The hamster is back. Also my wristwatch, which I strapped on its back.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

The Pure Product


A cynical sociopath from the future goes on a crime spree (sometimes with random blood, sometimes with trite tripping on his future drugs) across 20th-century North America. —Michael Main
“I said, have you got something going,” she repeated, still with the accent—the accent of my own time.
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                steering wheel.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel