The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century: Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Summary and Reviews

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Editor: Harry Turtledove
Editor: Martin H. Greenberg
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-28
ISBN: 0345460944
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Del Rey

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Book Review: Worth the price of Oranges!
Summary: 3 Stars

As in most collections of short stories, there are good ones, bad ones, indifferent ones, and plain odd ones.
A time-travel addict, I managed to find some rewarding tales here, and my favourites were:
Henry Kuttner's "TIME LOCKER".
Jack Finney's "I'M SCARED", which contained interesting mini-tales within it.
Richard Matheson's "DEATH SHIP", where inevitability rears its ugly head.
R A Lafferty's "RAINBIRD" was riveting, showing us a man re-visiting himself in order to improve his life's goals and successes.
Robert Silverberg's "SAILING TO BYZANTIUM" takes us on a fascinating journey to the fiftieth century, where we marvel as ancient cities, long since dead, are resurrected for mere pleasure.
But far and away my favourite of them all is Nancy Kress's "THE PRICE OF ORANGES", where an interfering grandfather finds a suitable suitor for his granddaughter, kidnapping the hapless chap from fifty years in the past. The end result is a majestic belly-laughing piece of poetic justice.
But it's the park bench discussions between the grandfather and his old friend Manny which tickled me, and it was a real shame that the story had to come to an end.
So, all in all, eighteen stories, six - top notch, seven or eight - so-so, and about four that were just odd.
That's pretty good, so I heartily recommend it.

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