Wandering Through Time

""This is the kind of classic, clever idea-oriented SF you'd find in the Golden Age, but built for today. Recommended for your witty friends, history buffs, time-travel fans, and anyone curious for a peek behind the curtain at magazine publishing."" -Trevor Quachri, Editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact ""The short-short story is one of the hardest kinds of fiction to pull off, and few since Fredric Brown have done it as often or as well as Ian Randal Strock. But that's not all he does. Wandering Through Time displays a delightful diversity of his thought-provoking ideas and engaging storytelling."" -Stanley Schmidt, former Editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 35-time Hugo Award nominee ""Ian Randal Strock is a literal genius-a card-carrying member of Mensa-and his intellect shines through on every page of this fabulous collection. This is a wonderful sampler of just the sort of stories I love to read."" -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Downloaded Ian Randal Strock is the Harry Turtledove of short-short SF. His alternate-history stories have punch. The take on a geographically divided America in the time of the Civil War rings strongly in ""Shall Not Perish from the Earth."" I think it's Strock's best tale. In the ""Necessary Enemy,"" it's always wars, it seems, that drive humankind's progress and destiny. ""Rockefeller on the Rocks"" proves that unique tales, true or not, of U.S. vice presidents could perhaps work, with sufficiently advanced technology. Why can't we replace veeps with robots? Who would know? -Andrew Andrews, True Review