Michael A. Ventrella has announced the table of contents for the upcoming Fantastic Books anthology Three Time Travelers Walk Into…, which promises to be a collection of historical proportions! (Sorry…) Here’s what we got, including title, author, and who the three (or, in some cases, more) time travelers are:
- “At the Chocolate Bar” by Jody Lynn Nye (George Washington Carver, Julia Child, Im-Hotep)
- “The Jurors” by Lawrence Watt-Evans (F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Tecumseh Sherman, Mary Wollstonecraft)
- “Star Rat’s Tale” by Allen Steele (Marlon Brando, Jesus Christ, Cesar Romero)
- “A Vampire, an Astrophysicist, and a Mother Superior Walk Into a Basilica” by Henry Herz (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Vlad Tepes, Mother Teresa)
- “The Greatest Trick” by Louise Piper (Charles Beaudelaire, Cassie Chadwick, Martin Luther King Jr.)
- “The Mystic Lamb” by Gail Z. Martin (Edgar Cayce, Maggie Fox, Harry Houdini, Nicola Tesla)
- “Episode in Liminal State Technical Support, or, Mr. Grant in the Bardo” by Gregory Frost (Ambrose Bierce, Cary Grant, Amelia Earhart)
- “The Eternal Library” by L. Penelope (Zora Neale Hurston, the Queen of Sheba, Tituba)
- “Time Out” by David Gerrold (Harlan Ellison, Dorothy C. Fontana, David Gerrold)
- “Punching Muses” by S.W. Sondheimer (Frida Kahlo, Kusama Yayoi, Sappho, Oscar Wilde)
- “Wednesday Night at the End Times Tavern” by James A. Moore (Cotton Mather, Robert E. Howard, Prince Radu of Wallachia)
- “A Christmas Prelude” by Peter David (Ali Baba, Don Quixote, Mephistopheles)
- “Cornwallis’ Gift” by Heather McKinney (Elizabeth Bathory, Michael Jackson, George Washington)
- “What You Can Become Tomorrow” by Keith R.A. DeCandido (Josh Gibson, Florence Johnson, Mary Shelley)
- “Nostradamus’ Angels” by Hildy Silverman (Marie Antoinette, Marie Curie, Mary Todd Lincoln)
- “The Last Act at the Time Cabaret” by Adam-Troy Castro (Lansford Hastings, Joseph Pujol, Billie Ritchie)
- “Never Meet Your Heroes” by Eric Avedissian (Blackbeard, John Dillinger, Jesse James)
- “The Adventure of the Confounded Writer” by Jonathan Maberry (Arthur Conan Doyle, Ed McBain, H.G. Wells)
I am so very much looking forward to this anthology. Will post ordering info, publication date, and cover as soon as they are revealed……
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