Cover of The Time Traveller's Almanac

The Time Traveller's Almanac

  • 2013 first published
  • 960 pages
  • 7 editions

Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer and Douglas Adams's The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) is a time-travel fiction story collection. It deals with time travel, nouvelles anglaises, nouvelles américaines and Anthhology.

32 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions.

It runs to roughly 960 pages — 17–18 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Time Traveller's Almanac

"The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life"--
Description from Open Library

Awards & lists

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Short stories science fiction
  • American Science fiction
  • English Science fiction
  • Time travel
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Short Stories
  • Science fiction
  • Science fiction, american
  • Short stories, american
  • English Short stories
  • American Short stories
  • Nouvelles anglaises
  • Nouvelles américaines
  • Anthhology
  • Anthologies, Multiple authors
  • FICTION / Anthologies, Multiple authors
  • FICTION / Science Fiction

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Time Traveller's Almanac?

The Time Traveller's Almanac was written by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer and Douglas Adams and first published in 2013.

What genre is The Time Traveller's Almanac?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is The Time Traveller's Almanac?

The median edition has 960 pages, about 17–18 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Time Traveller's Almanac?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Time Traders, The Invisible Man and Dragonflight.

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