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1、THEBESTTIMETRAVELSTORIESOFTHETWENTIETHCENTURY_____________________________________________________editedbyHarryTurtledoveandMartinH.GreenbergTheBestTimeTravelStoriesoftheTwentiethCentury.Introductioncopyright©2005byHarryTurtledove.Compilationcopyright©2005byHarryTurtledoveandMartinH.Greenbe
2、rg.AllrightsreservedunderInternationalandPan-AmericanCopyrightConventions.Owingtolimitationsofspace,permissionacknowledgmentscanbefoundatthebackofthisebook,whichconstituteanextensionofthiscopyrightpage.PublishedintheUnitedStatesbyDelReyBooks,animprintofTheRandomHousePublishingGroup,adivisio
3、nofRandomHouse,Inc.,NewYork,andsimultaneouslyinCanadabyRandomHouseofCanadaLimited,Toronto.DelReyisaregisteredtrademarkandtheDelReycolophonisatrademarkofRandomHouse,Inc.Firsttradepaperbackedition:December2004.INTRODUCTIONbyHarryTurtledoveWe’realltimetravellers,whetherweknowitornot.Wegointoth
4、efutureatasteadyrateofonesecondpersecond,andweleavethepastbehind.Newthingscomealong.Oldthingsareforgotten.Myownlifetime—neitherespeciallylongnorespeciallyshortthesedays—hasseentheriseofantibiotics,AIDS,spacetravel,television,CDs,videotape,DVDs,RichardNixon(twice),civilrights,women’srights,g
5、ayrights,cellphones,thecomputer,andtheInternet.It’sseenthefallofCommunism,segregation,records,smallpox(wehope!),polio,RichardNixon(twice),theTwinTowers,andtheideathatsmokingiscool.It’sseenhulahoops,stuffingphoneboothsandVolkswagenBugs,andstreaking.Somethings,ofcourse,remainconstant.TheChica
6、goCubshaven’tbeeninaWorldSeriessincebeforeIwasborn.Theyhaven’twononesinceTeddyRooseveltwaspresident.Towardtheendofhislonglife,L.SpraguedeCampwouldgiveapresentationatscience-fictionconventionscalled“MemoirsofaTimeTraveler.”Sprague,whowasbornin1907,hadseenmuchmorecomeandgothanIhave(hewasevena
7、roundthelasttimetheCubswonaSeries).Makingotherpeopleseehowmuchthathetookforgrantedasachildandayoungmanhadchangedsincewasthought-provoking,tosaytheleast.Butwhatifweweren’tlimitedtothatsteadyonesecondpersecondprogression?Whatifwecouldgoagainstthenormalflow
