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ผู้สัญจรข้ามเวลา
ผู้สัญจรข้ามเวลา (Voyager in Time) ประกอบด้วย 14 เรื่องสั้นวิทยาศาสตร์เกี่ยวกับการท่องเวลา ที่คัดสรรโดย โรเบิร์ต ซิลเวอร์เบิร์ก บางส่วน และเพิ่มเติมเรื่องบางส่วนโดยคลับไซไฟ โดยมีนักเขียนอาทิ วิลเลียม เทนน์, เลสเตอร์ เดล เรย์, อัลเฟรด เบสเตอร์, เฟรดเดอริค โพห์ล, เรย์ แบรดบิวรี, โรเบิร์ต เอ. ไฮน์ไลน์, อาเธอร์ ซี คลาร์ก และไอแซค อาซิมอฟ
เรื่องในเล่มประกอบด้วย
THE SANDS OF TIME รอยเท้าบนผืนทราย
...AND IT COMES OUT HERE เวลาที่ไม่รู้จบ
BROOKLYN PROJECT โครงการบรุกลิน
THE MAN WHO MURDERED MOHAMMED บุรุษผู้สังหารโมฮัมหมัด
THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD อุโมงค์ใต้พิภพ
THE SOUND OF THUNDER เสียงแห่งกาลเวลา
WRONG WAY STREET อย่าสวนเลน
DOMINOES โดมิโน
EXILE OF THE EONS มนุษย์คนสุดท้าย
THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE ชายผู้ไปเยือนโลกอนาคต
THE LIGHT OF OTHERS DAY แสงแห่งวันวาน
LIFE EDIT เปลี่ยนอดีต
ALL YOU ZOMBIES— งูกินหาง
LASTBORN โถ...เจ้าเด็กน่าเกลียดตัวน้อย
เรื่องในเล่มประกอบด้วย
THE SANDS OF TIME รอยเท้าบนผืนทราย
...AND IT COMES OUT HERE เวลาที่ไม่รู้จบ
BROOKLYN PROJECT โครงการบรุกลิน
THE MAN WHO MURDERED MOHAMMED บุรุษผู้สังหารโมฮัมหมัด
THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD อุโมงค์ใต้พิภพ
THE SOUND OF THUNDER เสียงแห่งกาลเวลา
WRONG WAY STREET อย่าสวนเลน
DOMINOES โดมิโน
EXILE OF THE EONS มนุษย์คนสุดท้าย
THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE ชายผู้ไปเยือนโลกอนาคต
THE LIGHT OF OTHERS DAY แสงแห่งวันวาน
LIFE EDIT เปลี่ยนอดีต
ALL YOU ZOMBIES— งูกินหาง
LASTBORN โถ...เจ้าเด็กน่าเกลียดตัวน้อย
494 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
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May 11, 2019
For a 50 year-old collection of short stories in the genre of science fiction specifically centered on time travel, I felt like I was the one doing the time traveling. Some of it was antiquated considering how the authors envisioned the future. Some of it was weird--as expected. One of them (Wilma Shore's contribution with a long title), was an entertaining satire of the average person from the future knowing nothing specific about life in the future to do any good for the people in the past that he encountered.
(Note to those who care or know me: I have these random books in my house that I have decided to read before donating. Most of them have been free. This one came from my wife's dad's house when we cleaned it out.)
(Note to those who care or know me: I have these random books in my house that I have decided to read before donating. Most of them have been free. This one came from my wife's dad's house when we cleaned it out.)
July 25, 2020
This is one of several anthologies that Silverberg edited containing time travel stories. There's a wide range of original publication dates, from 1895 (an excerpt from The Time Machine by Wells) to 1965 (Wrong- Way Street by Larry Niven, a good one). Though I didn't approve of publishing an excerpt, I remember enjoying the book pretty well. It contains Flux, a nice Michael Moorcock story, kind of a rarity for someone known almost exclusively as a novelist. I also liked the story by Alfred Bester, The Man Who Murdered Mohammed, and my favorite was the classic The Sands of Time by P. Schuyler Miller.
March 25, 2022
really enjoyed it. it was my introduction to written sci-fi - which I watched my father consume my whole life (until where his allowed), this book is one in a sea of many other of the genre he has left us. it was a really nice ride. the fact that it was a collection of many short stories made it even more enjoyable, because sometimes I would get lost in the science and want to give up. I just didn't because I was so engaged with the narrative. the science made it exciting, but I was there for the story also.
I experienced many exciting moments while reading this book, and both narrative and science caused it. but if I'm being honest I did not much of the science in some stories, and I feel that if I didn't have the gratification of quickly finishing a story, closing a chapter, having closure, all that comes with the ending of a story (even if the story itself has an open end) i probably wouldn't have finished the book.
I experienced many exciting moments while reading this book, and both narrative and science caused it. but if I'm being honest I did not much of the science in some stories, and I feel that if I didn't have the gratification of quickly finishing a story, closing a chapter, having closure, all that comes with the ending of a story (even if the story itself has an open end) i probably wouldn't have finished the book.
February 18, 2025
After the surprise commercial success of Earthmen and Strangers in 1966, Meredith Publishing invited Robert Silverberg back to assemble a second themed sci-fi anthology the following year. The result is this fun collection of a dozen time travel stories. I'm rating it five stars for sheer inventiveness and variety.
"The Sands of Time" (1937) by P. Schuyler Miller -- Terry Donovan travels to the Cretaceous era to study dinosaurs. He is surprised to find two groups of aliens exploring our planet and fighting amongst themselves… This is rip-roaring pulp adventure from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Will Terry get the beautiful extraterrestrial girl, or will they die at the hands of violent men or the claws of wild beasts?
"... and It Comes Out Here" (1951) by Lester del Rey -- Jerome Boell travels thirty years in time to give important technology from the future to his younger self. It is a can't-miss path to fame and fortune, but paradoxes abound when new inventions spring forth whole and unexplained before their time…
"Brooklyn Project" (1948) by William Tenn -- Researchers send a probe four billion years into the past to record the formation of the earth, but ripples in the timeline cause unexpected results today. This story features an intriguing mechanism for time travel. Sending any object backwards in time generates an equal and opposite force to propel a second object forward in time by the same amount. The time machine, therefore, operates like a Newton's cradle, wherein two objects repeatedly collide with each other, making successive trips in time in opposite directions, each one half the distance of the trip previous. The results are catastrophic.
"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (1958) by Alfred Bester -- When Hassel finds his wife in the arms of another man, his first thought is to build a time machine so he can make sure she is never born. He tries killing her grandparents, he tries killing George Washington, he even tries to wipe out all Western civilization… but no matter what he does, there she remains in 1980 cheating on him still. Hassel learns time is a discrete particle, a purely subjective experience. You can change your past but no one else's. This comedic tale is considered one of Bester's finest works.
"Time Heals" (1949) by Poul Anderson -- A terminally ill man puts his body into suspended animation until science finds a cure for his disease. However, when he is wakened nine hundred years later, he is ill-equipped to adapt to the new society.
"Wrong-Way Street" by Larry Niven (1965) -- A scientist investigating ruins on the moon discovers alien time travel technology. An unfortunate incident with a matter disintegrator causes the moon to begin shrinking 3 billion years ago, which alters the climate of earth and impedes the evolution of life. Subsequent attempts to prevent the accident do not go as planned…
"Flux" (1963) by Barrington J. Bayley and Michael Moorcock -- Max is sent a decade into the future to help Europe's consolidated government navigate political landmines, but there is a one-in-three chance he will not be able to return. This story works because it envisions radically different conceptions of space-time. It seems linear to us, but what if it is circular, or even completely random? (Note: Moorcock revised this story in 1997 to make it part of his Von Beck series.)
"Dominoes" (1953) by C. M. Kornbluth -- A hedge fund manager travels forward in time to learn when the next stock market crash will occur, but in doing so, his actions bring about the very catastrophe he wants to avoid.
"A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass." by Wilma Shore (1964) -- A scientist works for years to nab a person 100 years in the future and bring him back to the present day. Unfortunately, this bumpkin seems to know nothing useful about the future--neither science, politics, nor commerce.
"Traveler's Rest" (1965) by David I. Masson -- H is a soldier granted a wartime Relief discharge. He leaves the Front in the far north and traverses southward across a planet where time itself moves at different speeds at different latitudes. The farther south H travels, the faster time moves and the older the earth becomes. This is the trippiest story in the whole collection, once you figure out what is going on.
"Absolutely Inflexible" (1956) by Robert Silverberg -- Mahler is the government official charged with finding time travelers from the past and exiling them before they can infect humanity with diseases eradicated long ago. However, he finds himself caught in an infinite causality loop after he is presented with a device that can travel both forwards and backwards in time. This is the first story I read which addressed the issue of time travelers carrying dangerous contagions, which has become a trope since this story was written (see Doomsday Book, The Lady in the Lake). The paradox angle was fun: the time travel device has no beginning and no end; it only exists within its own self-contained time loop.
"The Time Machine {excerpt}" by H. G. Wells -- This is a scene from the final chapters of the classic novel. It's been 130 years since Wells wrote these words--and a few decades since I read them for the first time-- but his eerie vision of the last days of the solar system still evoke wonder…
"The Sands of Time" (1937) by P. Schuyler Miller -- Terry Donovan travels to the Cretaceous era to study dinosaurs. He is surprised to find two groups of aliens exploring our planet and fighting amongst themselves… This is rip-roaring pulp adventure from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Will Terry get the beautiful extraterrestrial girl, or will they die at the hands of violent men or the claws of wild beasts?
"... and It Comes Out Here" (1951) by Lester del Rey -- Jerome Boell travels thirty years in time to give important technology from the future to his younger self. It is a can't-miss path to fame and fortune, but paradoxes abound when new inventions spring forth whole and unexplained before their time…
"Brooklyn Project" (1948) by William Tenn -- Researchers send a probe four billion years into the past to record the formation of the earth, but ripples in the timeline cause unexpected results today. This story features an intriguing mechanism for time travel. Sending any object backwards in time generates an equal and opposite force to propel a second object forward in time by the same amount. The time machine, therefore, operates like a Newton's cradle, wherein two objects repeatedly collide with each other, making successive trips in time in opposite directions, each one half the distance of the trip previous. The results are catastrophic.
"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (1958) by Alfred Bester -- When Hassel finds his wife in the arms of another man, his first thought is to build a time machine so he can make sure she is never born. He tries killing her grandparents, he tries killing George Washington, he even tries to wipe out all Western civilization… but no matter what he does, there she remains in 1980 cheating on him still. Hassel learns time is a discrete particle, a purely subjective experience. You can change your past but no one else's. This comedic tale is considered one of Bester's finest works.
"Time Heals" (1949) by Poul Anderson -- A terminally ill man puts his body into suspended animation until science finds a cure for his disease. However, when he is wakened nine hundred years later, he is ill-equipped to adapt to the new society.
"Wrong-Way Street" by Larry Niven (1965) -- A scientist investigating ruins on the moon discovers alien time travel technology. An unfortunate incident with a matter disintegrator causes the moon to begin shrinking 3 billion years ago, which alters the climate of earth and impedes the evolution of life. Subsequent attempts to prevent the accident do not go as planned…
"Flux" (1963) by Barrington J. Bayley and Michael Moorcock -- Max is sent a decade into the future to help Europe's consolidated government navigate political landmines, but there is a one-in-three chance he will not be able to return. This story works because it envisions radically different conceptions of space-time. It seems linear to us, but what if it is circular, or even completely random? (Note: Moorcock revised this story in 1997 to make it part of his Von Beck series.)
"Dominoes" (1953) by C. M. Kornbluth -- A hedge fund manager travels forward in time to learn when the next stock market crash will occur, but in doing so, his actions bring about the very catastrophe he wants to avoid.
"A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass." by Wilma Shore (1964) -- A scientist works for years to nab a person 100 years in the future and bring him back to the present day. Unfortunately, this bumpkin seems to know nothing useful about the future--neither science, politics, nor commerce.
"Traveler's Rest" (1965) by David I. Masson -- H is a soldier granted a wartime Relief discharge. He leaves the Front in the far north and traverses southward across a planet where time itself moves at different speeds at different latitudes. The farther south H travels, the faster time moves and the older the earth becomes. This is the trippiest story in the whole collection, once you figure out what is going on.
"Absolutely Inflexible" (1956) by Robert Silverberg -- Mahler is the government official charged with finding time travelers from the past and exiling them before they can infect humanity with diseases eradicated long ago. However, he finds himself caught in an infinite causality loop after he is presented with a device that can travel both forwards and backwards in time. This is the first story I read which addressed the issue of time travelers carrying dangerous contagions, which has become a trope since this story was written (see Doomsday Book, The Lady in the Lake). The paradox angle was fun: the time travel device has no beginning and no end; it only exists within its own self-contained time loop.
"The Time Machine {excerpt}" by H. G. Wells -- This is a scene from the final chapters of the classic novel. It's been 130 years since Wells wrote these words--and a few decades since I read them for the first time-- but his eerie vision of the last days of the solar system still evoke wonder…
September 14, 2025
Not sure how many times I have read this old classic of short stories about time travel. Most of the stories stand the test of time (pun intended). Mostly funny, frequently witty. I still love it.
Would be glad to loan this to anyone interested.
Note that most of the authors follow the best laid plans often go awry.
Would be glad to loan this to anyone interested.
Note that most of the authors follow the best laid plans often go awry.
May 31, 2023
An old collection of science fiction time-travel stories. All are worth your time.
May 4, 2025
Very Dated.
July 16, 2023
Time Travel stories written between 1937 and 1967. Not very exciting but still entertaining. I liked these the most:
- P. Schuyler Miller - The Sands of Time (1937)
- William Tenn - Brooklyn Project (1948)
- Larry Niven - Wrong-Way Street (1965)
- Robert Silverberg - Absolutely Inflexible (1956)
- P. Schuyler Miller - The Sands of Time (1937)
- William Tenn - Brooklyn Project (1948)
- Larry Niven - Wrong-Way Street (1965)
- Robert Silverberg - Absolutely Inflexible (1956)
February 27, 2008
Time travel classics by some of your favorite sci-fi masters. These short stories are dated in technology but are absolutely timely in story and characters. "Dominos" was the classic story of going a short distance in the future to get winning stock picks...the plan didn't quite work out. Flux was another great one about alternate universes. Only one of the 12 was not worth reading, "Travelers Rest", because it was confusing.
September 10, 2016
There are some great stories in this collection.
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