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The creative geniuses of 21st-century America have made a computer breakthrough--the simulation of thinking, feeling personalities from history, from Socrates to Genghis Khan--and the results are startling!

Table of Contents:

• Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another - [Time Gate] - (1989) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Resurrection Machine - [Time Gate] - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Statesmen - [Time Gate] - (1989) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Rose and the Scalpel - [Time Gate] - (1989) - novella by Gregory Benford
• How I Spent My Summer Vacation - [Time Gate] - (1989) - short story by Pat Murphy
• Afterword - essay by uncredited

THE FOURTH DIMENSION had finally been opened up, thanks to the invention of the Time Gate. Now man could journey into the dim past or venture into the far-distant future. But the Time Gate had to be kept a top-secret project, manned only by Tom and Cal Linstrum and a few carefully selected scientists--for in the wrong hands, it could become the most potent weapon yet created.

Traveling through time, even one man could alter history enough so that everyone on Earth would simply cease to exist. Of course, it would never happen because only a madman would even try to distort the time stream. Then one horrifying day, it did happen. And Tom and Cal found themselves chasing through a rapidly changing panorama of history, trying desperately to capture their enemy before they and their whole world vanished forever...!

Twelve Dimension-shattering tales of travel across time...

Twelve dimension-shattering tales of time travel, featuring John Varley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Joe Haldeman, Avram Davidson, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevitt, Bridget McKenna, Richard McKenna, Charles Sheffield, and James Tiptree, Jr. These stories take readers from everyday reality into the infinite vistas of time and space -- as far as the man can reach.

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• "The Man Who Walked Home" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Air Raid" by John Varley
• "The Hole on the Corner" by R. A. Lafferty
• "Trapalanda" by Charles Sheffield
• "Arachon" by Damon Knight
• "Hole-in-the-Wall" by Bridget McKenna
• "Time's Arrow" by Jack McDevitt
• "Anniversary Project" by Joe Haldeman
• "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna
• "The Price of Oranges" by Nancy Kress
• "Full Chicken Richness" by Avram Davidson
• "Another Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989. The story can also be found in the anthologies Time Gate (1989), edited by Robert Silverberg and Bill Fawcett, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The New Hugo Winners, Volume III: (1989-91) (1994), edited by Connie Willis. It is included in the collections The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1: Secret Sharers (1992), Phases of the Moon (2004) and We Are for the Dark: 1987-90: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Vol. 7 (2012).