Temporal Journeys: A Collection of Time Travel Stories

by Gary Hill (Editor, Contributor), Heath D. Alberts (Contributor), Abby Goldsmith (Contributor)

In his introduction to the book Editor Gary Hill says:

Time travel, along with space travel, is one of the cornerstones of the foundation of science fiction. It is often a theme in science fiction tales that are not specifically based on that premise.

I suppose that the lure of going back and time and reshaping the present by altering the things that have happened is probably a pretty universal one. Hind-sight gives us a unique perspective, so the idea of using that to better situations is alluring.

I've been a fan of time travel stories for as long as I can remember. As a kid I marveled at time travel on occasion on "Star Trek" and "The Twilight Zone," two shows that were very formative for me. In later years I've become a big fan of "Doctor Who."

With that background, it should be no surprise that I've thought a lot about time travel over the years, and what I'd do with that technology. If most people are honest, they probably have, too. This collection of short stories should serve as additional inspiration for that kind of thinking.

The Stories:

"The Chronic Argonauts" by H.G. Wells (1888)

"Grief" by Gary Hill

"The Man Who Saw the Future" by Edmond Hamilton (1930)

"A Taste of Time" by Abby Goldsmith

"The Clock That Went Backward" by Edward Page Mitchell (1881)

"He Walked Around Horses" by H. Beam Piper (1948)

"Tyrannoclast, Inc." by Heath D. Alberts

"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving (1819)

Compiled and Edited by Gary Hill

164 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2019

About the author

Gary Hill has been publishing Music Street Journal (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. Since 2018 Hill has published MSJ simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the archives in book form. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers." In August of 2006 his first book The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft was published. Since then several other books (The Concert Photography of Gary Hill, the original edition of Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition, Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music and The Suite Music World of Gary Hill and a series of three books The Dark Starr Files) have been released. Wizard Song, his first book length science-fiction piece was released on March 31st, 2020. Hill has also written for cable television (Cops 2.0 on G4), All Music Guide, Demand Media Studios and more. He launched Tale of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018, but published a collection of those types of stories in 2017 titled "Dark Dreams and Worlds." Under the Tales of Wonder and Dread nameplate, Hill has published more than a dozen books including a series on Rockford Illinois cemeteries (Rockford's Final Resting Places), Spooky Rockford and Spooky Rockford Two and Spooky Berwyn. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019 and has been doing video interviews, Spooky News segments and more for the Spooky Ventures YouTube Channel since then.