Crosstime Traffic
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936771489 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unfortunately, although the book promises "an infinite number of possibilities" for tales of travel between alternate realities, Watt-Evans ( The Misenchanted Sword ) seems to run out of ideas about midway through the collection. From Publishers Weekly In the first half of his first collection of short stories, Watt-Evans comes up with some clever variations on a standard SF theme: imagine that you can travel from world to world among an infinite number of alternate realities, but with no way to return to where you started. Watt-Evans introduces us to a New York City cop whose job it is to deal with chunks of other universes--such as a 200-foot flying whale--periodically dropped onto Earth by "reality storms"; a mourning widower who travels doggedly from universe to universe in a desperate attempt to resurrect his marriage; and an entrepreneur who has discovered a way to bring back marketable ideas from other worlds. The result is an oddly disjointed book whose second half
. He lives in Maryland with his wife and the obligatory writer’s cat. Visit his website at watt-evans/. Lawrence Watt-Evans is the author of more than forty novels and more than a hundred short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror
Lawrence Watt-Evans heads out on the road to explore a whole multiverse of stories on the theme of travel to places that are not just elsewhere, but elsewhen. You'll want to take your time over these twenty tales of fantasy, science fiction and mystery by Lawrence Watt-Evans, master of many genres.. These stories make it clear that time travel is not just about trips to the past and future: Crosstime Traffic will take you sideways in time. Includes the Hugo-winning story "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" and a new afterword by the author
Great stuff! I'm not a big sci-fi buff. I mean I LOVE sci-fi, but not the HEAVY stuff. I may get there one day, but for now, the "Ender series" is more or less the most "hardcore" science-fiction books I've read.Now, this said, it maybe explains why my most favorite theme is time-travel/parallel universes.Too bad it's one of those less written-about sub-genres in science-fiction.Anyhow, I think it was almost 10 years ago (I think I was about 16) when . "Excellent time-travel/alternate-universe short stories." according to A Customer. This is perhaps the best collection I've ever read of short stories on time travel and alternate universes -- all by the same author. In my opinion, some of the tales are as good as anything written by Ray Bradbury.. "The Various Flavors of Watt-Evans" according to Arthur W Jordin. Crosstime Traffic (1992) is a SFF collection. This volume contains nineteen short stories -- fourteen SF stories and five Fantasies -- and an introduction. - "Introduction" (1992) by the author explains why he wrote short stories and how long it took to get one published. - "Paranoia Fantasy #1" (American Atheist, 1975) is the first short story he sold to a magazine. The other three Paranoia stories haven't sold as of the publication date