The Time Machine: Australia Bound

The Time Machine, the incredible conveyance invented in H. G. Wells’ astounding ‘futurific’ novel that was both exultation and lament of man’s potential to either use or misuse science that has captured imaginations for over a century.
But what if the geomagnetic convergences that created the Australian continent were actually enough to power a real, working time machine? A device that thus only worked on Australian soil; to bounce through the timestream?
Join an assembly of Australia’s greatest writers of speculative fiction to find out, as they tell narratives of joy, of sadness, or of horror around this concept, and we follow various denizens of Down Under to destinies both Forward and to the Past.
Witness, with astonishment, as the landmass that, historically, observers called the ‘land beyond time’ now truly lives up to the title.

Contents

Introduction by John Birmingham
Prologue: Wild Time Unseen by Christopher Sequeira
1. The Future Child by Angela Meyer
2. Hope and Opportunity by Lucy Sussex
3. Time Laps by Kaaron Warren
4. No Paradox by Jason Franks
5. Two-Thirds of the Truth by Carmel Bird
6. Souvenir by Narrelle M. Harris
7. The Chronic Argonaut by Dmetri Kakmi
8. Mordor Souby Webb
9. On Alien Land by Robert Hood
10. The Lost Library by Bryce Stevens
11. Slippery Hunt’s Big Score by Alan Baxter
12. His Scream Shall Last Millennia by Bill Congreve
13. Vector Four by Alf Simpson
14. Beasts of Bone and by Cat Sparks
15. Finding Utopia by Gerry Huntman
16. Sahul Dreaming by Raymond Gates