Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF cover

Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

by Michael Ashley

What happens when we meddle with time? This wonderfully diverse collection of 25 truly mindbending SF stories takes us not only into the past and the future, but also expose what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. It takes an imaginative and multi-faceted look at the paradoxes that might arise if ever we succeeded in meddling with time. • Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? • What happens if our meddling with nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down, or even stopping all together? • Are past and future immutable, or might we one day escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Damien Broderick, Simon Clark, Ellen Klages, Fritz Leiber, Elisabeth Malartre, John Varley and many others.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?