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Somehow I got the impression we were going to be reading from The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, too. Is that not so?
Cheryl wrote: "Somehow I got the impression we were going to be reading from The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, too. Is that not so?"
Once we looked at the content, we changed it to this one. This one has more well-known authors. We mentioned the change a couple of places, but that sort of thing is easy to miss.
Once we looked at the content, we changed it to this one. This one has more well-known authors. We mentioned the change a couple of places, but that sort of thing is easy to miss.



•Richard Matheson’s “Death Ship” (author of our October 2014 group read: Somewhere in Time)
•Geoffrey A. Landis’ “Ripples in the Dirac Sea”
•Robert Silverberg’s “Needle in a Timestack” (author of our September 2011 group read: Up the Line)
•Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea”
•Alice Sola Kim’s “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters”
BOOK CLUB POLL
VOTE NOW FOR THE BOOKS WE WILL READ IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF 2015: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
NEW TIME TRAVEL BOOKS BY GROUP MEMBERS
FREE BOOKS
•VARIOUS FREE TIME TRAVEL BOOKS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ADVERTISED HERE: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
TIME TRAVEL MOVIES
Here’s a video about THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE WORMHOLES OF INTERSTELLAR: http://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/m...
New trailer available for PROJECT ALMANAC (in theaters January 30th): http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2014/11/18...
EXPENDABLES 4 will possibly contain a time travel element: http://screencrush.com/expendables-4-....
TIME TRAVEL TELEVISION
THE FLASH to directly deal with time travel: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?pa...
NBC will soon be turning the time-travel-by-ham-radio movie, FREQUENCY, into a series: http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/125...
TIME TRAVEL SHORTS
DOUBLE TROUBLE: http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/watc...
TIME TRAVEL FUN:
THESE SILLY PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY’D TIME TRAVELLED WHEN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDED: http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/t....
TIME TRAVELLERS HIDDEN IN THRIFT STORE PHOTOS: http://io9.com/the-time-travelers-hid...
WHAT’S THE BEST ITEM TO CARRY WHEN YOU TIME TRAVEL? http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whats-be...
TIME TRAVEL APPS & VIDEO GAMES:
Here’s a TIME TRAVEL APP FOR AN AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE: http://www.euronews.com/2014/11/07/ge...
In the new FINAL FANTASY LEGENDS: THE SPACE-TIME CRYSTAL, you have to help prevent the future from be destroyed by gods (launching on Android & iOS this Winter): http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/19/...
*THE RUINS OF TIME by Bao Shu just won the Chinese version of the Nebula award. It sounds amazing. Someone shout out if they ever find an English translation: http://io9.com/this-time-warping-nove...
REAL TIME TRAVEL
Scientists say that cloaking devices, teleportation, and TIME TRAVEL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 15 YEARS. What do you think? Have we perhaps not met any time travelers yet because they’re all using cloaking devices and teleporting in case of danger? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec...
HERE’S A LIST OF THE REAL PEOPLE AND SPACECRAFTS WHO HAVE TRAVELED THROUGH TIME (for fractions of a second): http://www.wired.com/2014/11/time-dil...
TIME TRAVEL HOLIDAY SHOPPING
• DELOREAN WITH LIGHTS AND SOUNDS: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/d0ef...
• SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER T-SHIRT: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1e9f...
• FLUX CAPACITOR USB CAR CHARGER: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1dbd/
• HIGGS BOSON WATCH: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/16bd/
• DOCTOR WHO VORTEX MANIPULATOR: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f0e4/
• WRIST COMPASS AND SUNDIAL: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/eddd/
• TIME TRAVEL CAR DECAL: http://www.amazon.com/Seminar-Time-Tr...
• THE TIME MACHINE, FANTASY TIME TRAVEL HYPNOTHERAPY SELF HYPNOSIS MEDITATION CD (should be endorsed by Si and Richard): http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Fantasy...
• DOCTOR QUANTUM’S DO-IT-YOURSELF TIME TRAVEL AUDIO COURSE: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Present...
• TINY TIME MACHINE: http://826la.org/store/accessories/ti...
• CAVEMAN MEETS ROBOT TIME TRAVEL T-SHIRT: http://826la.org/store/clothing/cavem...
• A CAN OF PRIMORDIAL SOUP: http://826la.org/store/grocery/wallac...
• WORMHOLE MAP POSTER:
http://826la.org/store/posters/wormho...
• PORTABLE WORMHOLES: http://826la.org/store/travel/wormhol...
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NOVEMBER GIVEAWAY WINNER
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DECEMBER GIVEAWAY:
As Nell’s world opens up, we follow her on a complex journey, on which she discovers love loss and betrayal, and is forced to play a dangerous game from which there appears to be no escape. Could a possible rip in time be the salvation that Nell seeks? Enter the giveaway at:
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