By Michael Grossberg
Prometheus Award winner Sarah Hoyt has published an anthology about time travel and second chances.
Perhaps of greatest interest to LFS members, the six-story collection includes a prequel to Hoyt’s No Man’s Land, a current Best Novel nominee.
Six stories are included in Christmas In Time: Six Stories of Time Travel and Second Chances.
The No Man’s Land prequel is “What Child Is This,” which focuses on how a child’s accidental time-slip can save a man’s life and create the bonds of family love.
From the publisher’s description of the anthology:
“When time itself becomes an ocean, only the brave dare navigate its currents… From award-winning author Sarah A. Hoyt come six tales of time travel, parallel worlds, and the furthest reaches of space—all bound together by Christmas miracles and the choices that define us.”
“Meet Time Corps agents who risk madness to prevent reality from splintering. Follow a mathematician pulled into a parallel universe where his twin captains starships between worlds. Watch as mysterious children arrive from impossible futures, and discover Victorian lighthouses that serve as anchors in the storm of time itself. Journey from blood-soaked space stations to asteroid colonies at the edge of the known universe.”
This is the eighth anthology of stories that Hoyt has published over the past decade, beginning in 2015.
Hoyt’s other anthologies include Here Be Dragons: A Collection of Short Stories, So Little and So Light, Dragon Blood, Crawling Between Heaven and Earth, Wings, Trade Winds and Christmas in the Stars.
Hoyt won the 2011 Prometheus Award for Best Novel for Darkship Thieves.
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