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This book offers 17 new stories of daring adventurers who meddle with time including: a science fiction fan who warded off an alien invasion of Earth through contemporary culture... Joan of Arc's training in future history... and an FBI hunt for a Mafia don who found his way back to the age of knighthood.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Time Twisters) - essay by Jean Rabe
• 4 - Pruning the Tree - short story by Chris Pierson
• 18 - Occupation Duty - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 35 - Mundane Lane - short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 49 - The Power and the Glory - short story by Robert E. Vardeman
• 69 - Voices - short story by Jackie Cassada
• 85 - Downtown Knight - short story by James M. Ward
• 100 - Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time - novelette by Jon L. Breen
• 126 - A Better Place - novelette by Linda P. Baker
• 149 - Chaos Theory - short story by Stephen Leigh
• 159 - The Man in Cell 91 - short story by Gene DeWeese
• 175 - Oyer and Terminer - novelette by Joe Masdon
• 196 - Standing Still - short story by Donald J. Bingle
• 211 - One Rainy Day in Paris - novelette by Penny Williams and Skip Williams
• 232 - Try and Try Again - short story by Pierce Askegren
• 247 - Yeshua's Choice - novelette by Nancy Varian Berberick
• 268 - Three Power Play - short story by Wes Nicholson
• 284 - One Time Around? - short story by John Helfers
• 300 - About the Authors (Time Twisters)

8 stories about conflicts in time travel.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Time Wars) - essay by Poul Anderson
• 3 - Frost and Thunder - (1979) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• 27 - Gunpowder God - [Kalvan] - (1964) - novella by H. Beam Piper
• 75 - Amphiskios - (1949) - novelette by John D. MacDonald
• 110 - Delenda Est - [Time Patrol - 5] - (1955) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 149 - Dragonrider - [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• 265 - The Timesweepers - (1969) - novelette by Keith Laumer
• 296 - Run from the Fire - (1975) - novelette by Harry Harrison
• 329 - Skirmish on a Summer Morning - (1976) - novella by Bob Shaw

This novelette originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017), edited by Gardner Dozois.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2017. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (2018).

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST

H. G. Wells's seminal short story "The Time Machine," published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told, including

"Time's Arrow" In Arthur C. Clarke's classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel--with appalling consequences.

"Death Ship" Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time, unveils a chilling scenario concerning three astronauts who stumble upon the conundrum of past and future.

"Yesterday was Monday" If all the world's a stage, Theodore Sturgeon's compelling tale follows the odyssey of an ordinary joe who winds up backstage.

"Rainbird" R.A. Lafferty reflects on what might have been in this brainteaser about an inventor so brilliant that he invents himself right out of existence.

"Timetipping" What if everyone time-traveled except you? Jack Dann provides some surprising answers in this literary gem.

...as well as stories by Poul Anderson - L. Sprague de Camp - Joe Haldeman - John Kessel - Nancy Kress - Henry Kuttner - Ursula K. Le Guin - Larry Niven - Charles Sheffield - Robert Silverberg - Connie Willis