The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century

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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
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Cover of first edition
Editors Harry Turtledove
Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist David Stevenson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Del Rey/Ballantine
Publication date
2005
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pagesxii, 425
ISBN 0-345-46094-4

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century is an anthology of science fiction time travel short stories edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg. It was first published in trade paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine in January 2005. The book has been translated into Portuguese. [1]

Contents

The book collects eighteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a general introduction and prefatory introductions to each piece by Turtledove. [1]

Contents

Reception

The anthology was reviewed by David Mead in The New York Review of Science Fiction v. 17, no. 7, March 2005. [1]

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