The Time Traveller’s Almanac: Mazes & Traps
ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Head of Zeus, 2014)
audiobook read by Jeff Harding, Andrew Wincott & Antonia Beamish (W F Howes, 2014)
Name authors are prioritised over quality of story (though all receive perfunctory, unpolished biographies). There are some nice ideas poorly executed, some truly tedious offerings, and only a few standouts: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Mouse Ran Down’ and Eric Frank Russell’s ‘The Waitabits’.