The Time Machine

by Steve Proposch (Editor), Christopher Sequeira (Editor), John Birmingham (Introduction)

The Time Machine: The incredible conveyance invented in H. G. Wells’ astounding ‘futurific’ novel that was both exultation and lament of man’s potential to either use or misuse science that has captured imaginations for over a century.

But what if the geomagnetic convergences that created the Australian continent were actually enough to power a real, working time machine? A device that thus only worked on Australian soil; to bounce through the timestream?

Join an assembly of Australia’s greatest writers of speculative fiction to find out, as they tell narratives of joy, of sadness, or of horror around this concept, and we follow various denizens of Down Under to destinies both Forward and to the Past.

Witness, with astonishment, as the landmass that, historically, observers called the ‘land beyond time’ now truly lives up to the title.
CONTENTS
Introduction — John Birmingham
Prologue: Wild Time Unseen — Christopher Sequeira
The Future Child — Angela Meyer
Hope and Opportunity — Lucy Sussex
Time Laps — Kaaron Warren
No Paradox — Jason Franks
Two-Thirds of the Truth — Carmel Bird
Souvenir — Narrelle M. Harris
The Chronic Argonaut — Dmetri Kakmi
Mordor Sou— Webb
On Alien Land — Robert Hood
The Lost Library — Bryce Stevens
Slippery Hunt’s Big Score — Alan Baxter
His Scream Shall Last Millennia — Bill Congreve
Vector Four — Alf Simpson
Beasts of Bone and — Cat Sparks
Finding Utopia — Gerry Huntman
Sahul Dreaming — Raymond Gates

310 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2024

Reviews

[Steven Paulsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the diversity of the stories. Loved some but didn’t love them all. Standout stories for me were by Kaaron Warren, Jason Franks and Robert Hood.

[Christopher Keiser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of the PS collections are very hit and miss, but this particular anthology was mostly miss.