Paul Nahin TIME MACHINES Stories Needed

The following is a list of stories mentioned by Paul Nahin in his time travel book TIME MACHINES. Some of these are stories (in bold) I have not read, but sound interesting.


13.-2 Norden “The Primal Solution” (which describes a Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany who mind-travels back to the Vienna of 1913 to kill the then twenty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler.) (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1977)
14.2 Card, “Clap Hands and Sing” [most clever use of mind travel] (Maps in a Mirror*)
40.1 Watson “From the Annals of the Onomastic Society” (very funny everybody’s surname is Chang) (Satlin’s Teardrops, London: Voctor Golantz, 1991)
40.2 Finney “The Third Level” (About Time* 1986)
40.2 P. Schuyler Miller (44.-1) In the humorous story “Status Quondam” [48.2] (with the perfect generic Latin title, one suitable for any story about time travel into the past) (New Tales in Space and Time, Ed. R.J. Healy, New York: Henry Holt and Co. 1951)
42.2 Ambrose Bierce “John Bartine’s Watch” (horror) (not referenced in the bibliography)
56.-3 Locke “Demotion” (Professor Leslie’s area of research is on how to change the past, so that the end result has been a future (with a history different than ours) changing the past to end up with our history via the manipulation of the life of a single individual, who turns out to be the inventor of the theory that allows such changes to be made.) [a change the past in order to retain the future story] (Prize Science Fiction, by D.A. Wollheim, New York, McBride 1953
57.1 The brilliant “Vincent Van Gogh” by the modern Russian writer Sever Gansovosky. (Aliens , Travelers, and Other Strangers, New York, Macmillian 1984)
60.2 Padgett “What You Need” (selling people what they need to solve an imminent crisis) (Omnibus of Science Fiction, Ed. Groff Conklin, New York, Crown 1952)
62.-1 O. Henry “Roads of Destiny” (fatalistic)
72.2 Silverberg’s brilliant Vornan 19 ( The Masks of Time) [must read]
168.-1 Kubilius “Turn Backward, O Time” (Free will is an illusion) (Science Fiction Quarterly May 1951)
169.1 Blish “Beep” (the future is fixed), (196.1 Dirac radio), (293.-1 blatant rejection of free will, combined with a passionate embrace of the block universe view), 342.2 (the most interesting science fictional use of backward-in-time signaling…the story does a masterful job at presenting the mystery of listening to the future.), [must read] (Galatic Empires , Ed. B.W. Aldis. Vol. 2 New York: St. Martin’s Press 1976)
196.-1 Eando (Earl and Otto) Binder “The Time Cheaters” (bilking paradox) (261.-1wrote some of the more literate time travel stories of the 1930s and 1940s, such as the 1940 “The Time Cheaters”) (282.2, correctly distinguishing affecting the past ans changing the past), 307.-1 (causal loop) [must read] (Thrilling Wonder Stories March 1940)
219.-1 Boucher “The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull” (extremely ingenious examination of the real physical effects of reversed time) (227.-2) [must read] (Great Stories of Science Fiction, Ed. L. [typo I. ?] Asimov, M.H. Greengerg, New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985)
247.-2 Fredric Brown “Experiment” (bilking paradox, cube experiment, Varley’s cosmic disgust) [must read] (Honneymoon in Hell, New York: Bantam 1958)
397.2 Borges “The Other Death” (Damien’s view that the past can be changed by God) (The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969. New York: E.P. Dutton 1970)
268.1 Brunner “Host Age” (intentionally change the past by infecting our present with a terrible disease from the future so that humans will inherit natural immunities by the time the infection begins in the future) (Entry to Elsewhen, New York: DAW 1972)
270.2 Bond “Uncommon Castaway” (time-traveling submarine rescues Jonah) [Bible] (No Time Like the Future, New York: Avon. 1954)
271.-1 Kolupayev “A Ticket to Childhood” (A fascinating treatment of the “meet yourself in the past as a child” idea with a clever twist that avoids the mistake of changing the past) (The Air of Mars, Ed. M. Ginsberg. New York: Macmillan, 1976)
280.-1 Lester Del Rey “My Name Is Legion” (perhaps the classic of object duplication stories is the enormously clever, diabolical. Duplicated Hitler.) (Science Fiction of the 40’s, Ed. F. Pohl. New York: Avon 1978)
282.-1 H.L. Gold “The Biography Project” (classic of the genre in which the time viewers watching Newton going crazy are the cause of his going crazy) (Microcosmic Tales, Ed. I. Asimov. New York: Taplinger, 1980)
290.-1 Robert Forward, "Timemaster" (anti-paradox), 511.-1 (credited by Thorne for pointing them to the billiard ball solution of grandfather paradoxes)
291,-1 Weisinger “Thompson’s Time Traveling Theory” (One science fiction story that does get the grandfather paradox right is the clever…) [must read] (Amazing Stories, March, 1944)
299.-1 D. R. Daniels “The Branches of Time” (quantum mechanics and the futility of changing an alternate past that would not affect our present) [must read] (Wonder Stories, August, 1935)
305.2 Bridge “Via the Time Accelerator” 1931 (destiny based on knowledge of the future), (Amazing Stories, January, 1931)
316.2 Philip K. Dick “Paycheck” (An extremely clever story that properly handles a causal loop…which has an ending (that closes the loop) so spectacular…) [must read] (The Best of Philip K. Dick*, New York, 1977)
317.-2 Crowley Great Work of Time* (the novel is one gigantic causal loop from start to finish), 365.-1 (brilliant novel) [must read]
317.-1 W. Sell “Other Tracks” (causal loop, extremely clever) [must read] (Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension, Ed. G. Conklin. New York. Vanguard. 1953)
318.2 Boucher “The Other Inauguration” (peak of cross-time stories) (Far and Away, New York: Ballantine 1953)
318.2 Meredith, "Vestiges of Time" (has the interesting idea of the hero traveling cross-time from parallel world to endless parallel worlds in search of one in which a true time machine has been invented, a machine that travels forward and backward along one time track. [must read] (Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1978)
322.2 Benford “Down the River Road” (beautifully written story) (After the King, Ed. C. Tolkien, New York: Tor, 1991)
323.2 Disch “Genetic Coda” (very funny spoof of the idea of being one’s own father) (The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch, Boston: Gregg Press, 1977)
366.2 David Gelernter "The Lost World of the Fair" (1939) (trust me – if you read Gelernter’s book, you’ll come as close as you can in today’s world in taking a ride in a “time machine.” [must read] (not referenced in the bibliography)
400.1 Lawrence Watt-Evans “The Drifter” (slides across parallel time lines) (brilliant) (1992 Crosstime Traffic, New York. Ballentine)
464.1 Masson “Traveler’s Rest” (bizarre human problems) [note: Nahin inserts this reference to “TR” inexplicably in a discussion of the Twin Paradox, (yes fuel would be saved 474.3)] (Voyagers in Time, Ed. R. Silverberg, New York: Meredith Press, 1967)
542.-1 Poul Anderson “Kyrie” (beautiful, emotional, gravity time dilation) (The Road to Science Fiction, Ed. J. Gunn, Vol. 3, New York: New American Library, 1979)