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•"Take Your Choice" • "Tandy's Story" •"Tangents" • "Tauf Aleph" •"The Terminal Beach" • "That Only a Mother" •"There Will Come Soft Rains" •"They're Made of Meat" •"Think Like a Dinosaur" •"Thunder and Roses" • Thursday Next Novels •"Time Considered as a Helix. . ." • Time Enough for Love • Time for the Stars • Time Machine • Time Traveler's Wife •"Tourists" •"A Toy for Juliette" • "Tricentennial" • "Tunesmith"• "Tunnel Under the World" • "Twilight" • "2064, or Thereabouts" • Sources • |
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| "Take Your Choice" |
| by Sakyo Komatsu See Reading Guide |
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| "Tandy's Story" |
| by Theodore Sturgeon First published in Galaxy, April 1961 |
| Preview: A 5-year-old girl becomes obsessed with making a comfortable home for a toy brownie. |
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| "Tangents" |
| by Greg Bear First published in Omni, January 1986 Winnter of a Nebula for Best Short Story |
Preview: Pat Tremont, an adopted Korean, visits his neighbor Peter Tuthy who is working on encruptions and on four-dimensional constructs. Pat uses music to communicate with crature from teh 4th dimension. Eventually he and Tuthy relocate. Greg Bear writes that this story is "homage to all those wonderful stories [of other dimensions], and an exorcism of anger raised by [Alan] Turing's brutal mistreatment at the hands of the British government. . . (Zebrowski 27-8). |
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| "Tauf Aleph" |
| by Phyllis Gotlieb See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Terminal Beach" |
| by J. G. Ballard First published in New Worlds, March 1964 Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri |
| Preview: Traven lives alone on the ruined Pacifc atoll of Eniwetok, the location of the first hydrogen bomb test. |
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| "That Only a Mother" |
| by Judith Merril See the Reading Guide |
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| "There Will Come Soft Rains" |
| by Ray Bradbury See the Reading Guide |
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| "They're Made of Meat" |
| by Terry Bisson First published in Omni, February 1991 |
| Preview: In dialogue, an exploring alien species describes humans. |
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| "Think Like a Dinosaur" |
| by James Patrick Kelly See the Reading Guide |
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| "Thunder and Roses" |
| by Theodore Sturgeon First published in Astounding. November 1947 |
| Preview: In the aftermath of a nuclear war in which inhabitants of the Western hemisphere have received a fatal dose of radiation, a soldier's attitude toward what has happened and what America's response should be is affected by the last performance of a famous songstress. |
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| The Thursday Next Novels |
| by Jasper Fforde See the Reading Guide to the Thursday Next Novels |
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| "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" |
| by Samuel R. Delany First published in New Worlds (1968) Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. III |
| Preview: An intergalactic thief is involved with Singers, people with the ability to describe events with real emotion. One of these Singers, a crime lord, has attracted the attention of a Special Services agent. |
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| Time Enough for Love: the Lives of Lazarus Long |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1973 |
| Preview: Lazarus Long, the oldest human, is persuaded to undergo rejuvenation therapy and dictate his memoirs. |
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| Time for the Stars |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1956 |
| Preview: Telepathic identical twins maintain contact while one takes a faster-than-light torchship on a 70-year journey to survey colonizable planets and the other remains on Earth. |
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| The Time Machine |
| by H. G. Wells First published in the National Observer, March-June 1894; collected in one volume, 1895 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA |
| Preview: A Time Traveller tells his friends about his week-long journey to the year 802,701 where he encounters the Eloi, simple, childlike beings, and the Morlocks, beasts who dwell underground. After wresting his time machine from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller travels 30 million years into the future to watch the Earth in its death throes. |
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| The Time Traveler's Wife |
| by Audrey Niffenegger 2003 |
| Preview: Henry is a Chrono-Displaced Person. Periodically he disappears in the present and reappears--naked--in another time. When he is 28 he meets 20-year-old Claire who declares that they are meant fo reach other and that he has been time-traveling to visit her since she was six. Henry and Claire do marry and attempt to live as normally as possible. |
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| "Tourists" |
| by Lisa Goldstein First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985 |
| Preview: A man wakes up confused and without a passport in a country whose name he does not know. |
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| "A Toy for Juliette" |
| by Robert Bloch First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: In the far future a woman waits in her torture chamber for her "toy," a person broguht to her from the past by her time-travelling grandfather. |
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| "Tricentennial" |
| by Joe Haldeman First published in Analog, July 1976 Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Short Story |
| Preview: On the Tricentennial of American independence, a starship embarks on a journey to reach the 61 Cygna system eleven light years away because sensors have detected intelligent life there. But the starship is damaged at the Scylla/Charybdis system where it has stopped to collect fuel, and it can no longer shut off its main power. |
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| "Tunesmith" |
| by Lloyd Biggle First published in If, Worlds of Science Fiction, August 1957 |
| Preview: Erlin Baque abandons a career writing advertising jingles and re-introduces the music as an art from to the world, but the owner of an entertainment complex tries to destroy him. |
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| "The Tunnel Under the World" |
| by Frederik Pohl First published in Galaxy, January 1955 |
| Preview: Guy Burckhardt realizes he has been living the same day--June 15--over and over again. |
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| "Twilight" |
| by Don A. Stuart First published in Astounding, November 1934 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri |
| Preview: A time traveler from the year 3059 describes his visit to Earth seven million years in the future. The solar system is run by machines; man is long-lived but growing sterile and has lost curiosity. |
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| "2064, or Thereabouts" |
| by David R. Bunch First published in Fantastic, September, 1964 |
| Preview: In the future, Rebuilders have turned men into cyborgs, mostly metal. A deteriorating artist comes to a Stronghold to do a portrait of the Master because he believed the portrait will reveal Life-Meaning to him. |
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| Sources |
| Zebrowski, George, ed. Nebula Awards 22: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1986. New York: Harcourt, 1988. |
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