Review: The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Martin H. Greenberg
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Just the other day I was thinking that I should give away my old Asimov's books, since I had no desire to revisit them. There are just too many new and tasty books coming out all the time. And too the newer works have fresh takes, richer characterization, more action, humor, or whatever I showed up for.
But I love time travel stories, or short stories, and it's fun to pick up an anthology then walk away with some new-to-me writers. I made it through the first two stories and that was too much. I'm guessing this is arranged chronologically, since I noticed an absence of female bylines until the last three.
And then the introduction spoke of Wells as the first sci fi novelist in English. Seriously.

So the first two stories take place in an alternate earth where there are only men. No women, no children. It was disturbing. Not even someone to ogle, or an unattractive woman who was over the hill and all alone and unloved. And the guys in the stories, they never noticed or commented on the weirdness.

Truly, I didn't expect it to be impossible to suspend my disbelief, since I grew up reading this stuff, and didn't have an assigned text by a woman until college. I'm sending this one back to the library.

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