Time Streams

by Dean Wesley Smith (Contributor/Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Contributor/Editor), Lee Allred (Contributor)

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers' imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.

Foreword: Time Speed by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Introduction: One More Stop on the River of Time by Dean Wesley Smith
Love in the Time of Dust and Venom by Sharon Joss
This Time, I Return for Good by Michael Robert Thomas
The Elevator in the Cornfield by Scott William Carter
Radio Free Future by J. Steven York
Unstuck by D.K. Holmberg
Your Permanent Record by Ray Vukcevich
Waiting for the Coin to Drop by Dean Wesley Smith
Nice Timestream Youse Got Here by Lee Allred
The Highlight of a Life by Jeffrey A. Ballard
A Beautiful Friendship by Mike Resnick & Lou J. Berger
Fix by Michael A. Stackpole
The Totem of Curtained Minds by Ken Hinckley
September at Wall and Broad by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Time, Expressed as an Entrée by Robert T. Jeschonek

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Short Stories

266 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

Pen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

Reviews

[Charl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loving the whole Fiction River series!

[John Devenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this anthology, the third in the Fiction River series, contains some excellent examples. Features some of the best known authors in the genre like Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith and the always wonderful Kristine Kathryn Rusch as well as some very interesting work by newer and lesser known writers.
This series keeps getting better and better.

[Kirsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was not exactly approaching a whole collection of time travel stories with relish; time travel as a trope is very hit-or-miss for me, and stories of that nature often get obsessed with being puzzles instead of stories, as such. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when almost every story in this collection was a winner! Good stuff.

[Adam Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid and engaging volume of Fiction River, very much worth your time if you like strange stories that don't fit any particular genre, all of which feature time travel of some sort. Ecclectic and entertaining.

[Sharon Joss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!