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Authors: Jeff Vandermeer

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Michael Swanwick:
‘Triceratops Summer’, copyright © 2005 by Michael Swanwick. Originally published in
Amazon Shorts
(Sep 2005).

Adrian Tchaikovsky:
‘The Mouse Ran Down’, copyright © 2012 by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Originally published in
Carnage: After the End 2
(2012).

Karin Tidbeck:
‘Augusta Prima’, copyright © 2011 by Karin Tidbeck. Originally published in
Weird Tales
(Spring 2011).

Harry Turtledove:
‘Forty, Counting Down’, copyright © 1999 by Harry Turtledove. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Dec 1999).

Harry Turtledove:
‘Twenty-One, Counting Up’, copyright © 1999 by Harry Turtledove. Originally published in
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
(Dec 1999).

Steve Utley:
‘Where or When’, copyright © 1991 by the estate of Steve Utley. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Jan 1991). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

Carrie Vaughn:
‘Swing Time’, copyright © 2007 by Carrie Vaughn, LLC. Originally published in
Jim Baen’s Universe
(June 2007).

H.G. Wells:
Excerpt from ‘The Time Machine’. Originally published by William Heinemann in 1895. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of: The Literary Executors of the Estate of H.G. Wells.

Connie Willis:
‘Fire Watch’, copyright © 1982 by Connie Willis. Originally published in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
(Feb 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author and Chris Lotts Literary Agency.

Gene Wolfe:
‘Against the Lafayette Escadrille’, copyright © 1972 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in
Again, Dangerous Visions
(ed. Harlan Ellison). Reprinted by permission of the author and the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency.

Gene Wolfe:
‘The Lost Pilgrim’, copyright © 2004 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in
The First Heroes (ed. Harry Turtledove).
Reprinted by permission of the author and the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE TIME TRAVELER’S ALMANAC

Copyright © 2013 by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Introduction copyright © 2013 by Rian Johnson; Preface copyright © by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer; “Top Ten Tips for Time Travellers” copyright © by Charles Yu; “Time Travel in Theory and Practice” copyright © 2013 by Stan Love; “Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travellers” copyright © 2013 by Genevieve Valentine; “Music for Time Travellers” copyright © 2013 by Jason Heller

Originally published in Great Britain by Head of Zeus Ltd.

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ISBN 978-0-7653-7421-9 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-7653-7424-0 (trade paperback)

ISBN 978-1-4668-4145-1 (e-book)

First U.S. Edition: March 2014

eISBN 9781466841451

First eBook edition: March 2014

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For those of our readers from 2150 and beyond: any and all comments about the Preservationist Guild herein are not actionable by twenty-first-century law; therefore, the editors cannot be extradited to the future under any current and future time-travel statutes.

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