Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale

On 6/9/25 12:45 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
 No rules, no bureaucracy, just some randos messing around with the
past, present, and future.
 https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-time-travel-on-a-limited-scale/
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Interesting! I haven't read any of the five. I had not seen that particular cover of the Gerrold, either - sheesh.
Four distinct sets of stories came to mind, and of course there are a lot more:
1) Series my kids read when they were 8-10 years old that I thought were very good:
Magic Tree House - Osborne
Time Warp Trio - Scieszka
2) Stories I've read in the last two years:
Mistress of the Catacombs - Drake [Lord of the Isles #4]
Replay - Grimwood (in March 2025)
Stainless Steel Rat - Harrison (many episodes, especially the book-long The SSR Saves the World)
“A Gun for Dinosaur” - de Camp
Master of Space and Time - Rucker
3) The "classics" that quickly came to mind
Lest Darkness Fall - de Camp
The Man Who Came Early - Anderson
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Twain
Pebble in the Sky; “The Ugly Little Boy” - Asimov
The Door Into Summer - Heinlein
HHGTTG - Adams
The Time Machine - Wells
4) Three others that came to mind while I was typing this:
The Anubis Gates - Powers
All You Need Is Kill - Sakurazaka
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant[1] - Donaldson
Also, back in January I finished reading the Malzberg-edited anthology "The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time", but I didn't go through it to see which stories fit best here. Table of contents is here:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?35927
Thanks - this has been fun to think about.
Tony
[1] Whichever one of the books that saw Linden Avery Linden travel to the past to get the Staff of Law.