Time Travel Fantasy Epic

A chance to start over...Eryk's dreams continue to show him visions of his past. This time, it is about when he and Kari were forced into the Endless Desert, a harsh and arid land where the strong rule the weak and creatures known as lamia terrorize humans. But when Eryk finds himself running out of the funds he needs to refine alchemy pills, he must contact the head of the Alchemist Association, Feinrea Kunis, and convince her and Fay's father to join him in a joint business venture that will hopefully solve his financial problems.

"I'm not in the rescue business," states Jonathon Hunter, to the amusement of his crew. But rescues are the least of his concerns. Darkness is coming, and there are still people out there who don't like him. The Sirius system has always fascinated Jon, and he is drawn to solve its mysteries. But what is the price of being curious? Can one simple step cause what you dread the most? Is it possible to do one too many rescues? To take one step too far into the unknown?

The best of the year's science fiction and fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. Distant worlds, time travel, epic adventure, unseen wonders, and much more! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past 12 months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.

Maxwell Morgan has always been a very practical guy. He started working at age fifteen because his foster family was stretched thin. He joined the army right out of high school to earn money for college. Even after getting his first job after college, he kept working the three jobs that let him get there—National Guard infantryman, farmer, and blacksmith. About nine months into his new job as an HR Generalist, Max’s boss arranged a one-week team-building event for the team. Max and his five attractive, female co-workers boarded the plane for Sheridan, Wyoming, and then things went sideways.

In light of the nearing disaster, the world had grown aware of the looming threat, bringing forth chaos as it slowly descends toward the apocalypse. In preparation to face off against the great calamity, Evan has decided to level up and awaken his companions as Dimension Transcenders. They must venture into the unknown territories of a dangerous Fragment Rift—one that would grant them a trial like no other before. Rumor has it that two mighty conquerors had overthrown its ancient world. They had reigned supreme for centuries being undefeated by many, guarding the secrets at its core.

In medieval Europe, three explorers from the distant future begin an ambitious project: to build a craft capable of reaching the stars. While their leader oversees the construction of a secret underground base in Iceland, the other two travel thousands of miles to negotiate with the rulers of Europe and recruit the most brilliant minds of the age. When the Iceland base comes under attack, the travelers try to return to defend their home, but they are trapped in Paris just as an army of 20,000 Vikings lays siege to the city.

In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking-age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars. Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space - a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon.

Epic Journeys in Time transports you through many lifetimes, including ancient Sumer, to locations beyond imagination. The journeys open portals of deep passion, mystery, joy, eroticism, tragedy, and horror. Initially, our two protagonists A~ and Z~ search for decades to discover each other. Following a romantic tryst, they become aware that a being stands before them. Thus, their epic journeys to answer long-hidden questions begin. Join our brave seekers as they search for universal truths and along the way experience epic, life-altering events.

1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge! Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns!

When war and nefarious forces split the realms, Micah dives into the breach once more, confident in his stupendous magical power and time magic will keep him and his friends safe. It won't. He fails, and a new enemy with a familiar face has followed him back into the past, wreaking havoc on the timeline. Now Micah's only chance comes in the form of a map, guiding him halfway around the world to the laboratory of the greatest wizard that ever lived.

It has been seven years since Lessa's heroic journey through time to bring the five lost Weyrs of Dragonriders into Pern's future to save their world. Now, the deadly silver Threads are falling again. F'lar, the Weyrleader at Benden Weyr, knows he must find a better way to protect his beloved Pern. F'lar's brother, F'nor, and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all. The bold Dragonriders take to the air once more.

With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.

Fifteen-year-old Tobias Doljan, a Walker trained to travel through time, is called to serve at the court of Daerjen. The sovereign, Mearlan IV, wants him to Walk back 14 years to prevent a devastating war that will destroy all of Islevale. Even though the journey will double Tobias' age, he agrees. But when he arrives, he discovers that Mearlan has already been assassinated, and his court, destroyed. The only survivor is the infant princess. Still a boy inside his newly adult body, Tobias must find a way to protect the princess from assassins and build himself a future...in the past.

In a land on the brink of war, Gryff Worden discovers his family slaughtered, his farm in ruin. Mortally wounded, he stumbles upon a timekeeper, an old woman of the northern forests, one who tracks the infinite paths of each life. She offers him a sunwield, a medallion promising to return him to the pivotal choices that swayed his life's journey. Her only condition - he must wear the bronze charm until the end.

Elara Dunlin never imagined how much her life would change after moving across the country at the start of her senior year of high school. Who is the mysterious man with the piercing blue eyes who follows her everywhere she goes? Strange events unfold, causing Elara to question her own reality. Her predictable and simple life changes on one cold, fateful night...the night when the elusive blue-eyed man approaches and shares information that turns her world upside down.

Clara visits her old family ancestral home. Intrigued by her families interesting and adventurous past. She accidently stumbles across a strange looking key. A relic from a time gone by. Unlocking a doorway, opening a time portal, to a forgotten bygone age. Where gentlemen and chivalry are still a part of everyday life. Little did she know, that adventure awaits, and, that she would meet a mysterious man, creating Echoes’ Across Time!

Tom Hoffman's Miss Bristol Rents a Room is a quietly mesmerizing blend of historical mystery, time travel, and emotional rediscovery. The novel begins with an elegant young woman—dressed in 1910 fashion—stumbling into modern-day Brooklyn with no memory of who she is. Known only as Miss Bristol, her journey of piecing together the past gradually unveils a century-old archaeological secret, a lost love, and an alien artifact with the power to displace time itself.

Lawrence was having a shitty day after he found out his girlfriend and best friend were cheating on him, together. Then a legendary Native American god, Coyote, to be exact, sent him back in time to 1400's North America. Now he's living in the past, kicking ass, and taking names. Rejoin Moon Flower, Freak, Billy, Patty, and the rest of the crew, as they save history, by rewriting it.

How long does it take for "astounding" to become "normal"? Three weeks after returning from her last mission, Stassi 2446-89 is finally ready to move on from the events in Paris, with one exception: the hitchhiker, Charles DuPree. Now living on Branson Isle and training to become the Atlic Syndicate’s newest Runner, Charles must adjust to life 500 years in the future before he can travel the timewaves into the past. But when it's time for a training run in 2465 Manhattan, a ghost from her past makes Stassi question everything.