title: Past Imperfect (Daw Book Collectors)
author: Various
description: This fast, lightweight anthology of 12 time-travel tales contains a handful of standout stories, but many others rely on familiar tricks: Will the hero change his destiny by changing his past? Will the hero realize that that sound he heard all those years ago was his meddling future self? The most successful stories toy with genre conventions or use time travel as a device in support of bigger concerns. James P. Hogan's slyly amusing "Convolution" focuses on time-machine inventor Professor Abercrombie. The professor loses his notes before completing his machine, but a future version of himself sends a time machine back, embroiling Abercrombie in a neatly dovetailed succession of weird cross-time commutes. In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's amusing "Mint Condition," time travel takes a backseat to time-traveler Sissy's realization that her bosses are playing her for a fool. Family-centered stories include Jody Lynn Nye's light "Theory of Relativity," in which Rachel recruits another version of herself and tracks down their grandfather; Peter Crowther's emotionally fraught "Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew," about a man's opportunity to see his dead father; and Gary A. Braunbeck's touching "Palimpsest Day," wherein a man has the chance to change his life by intervening at one moment in his past. Newcomers to the genre will find many stories engaging, but too few of these entries question the clichs they perpetuate. (Oct. 9)Forecast: A cover featuring a warped clock and a cartoon-like air vehicle will appeal to young readers more than to SF aficionados, and won't do much to boost sales.</P><P>Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</P>
zlib_text: G O I N G  D O W N
  H A R D
  Doing Bad Things Series Book 1
  
  JORDAN MARIE
  
  CONTENTS
  Copyright
  Going Down Hard
  Blurb
  Prologue
  1.
  Casey
  2.
  Gavin
  3.
  Casey
  4.
  Gavin
  5.
  Casey
  6.
  Gavin
  7.
  Casey
  8.
  Casey
  9.
  Gavin
  10. Casey
  11. Gavin
  12. Casey
  13. Casey
  14. Gavin
  15. Casey
  16. Gavin
  17. Casey
  18. Gavin
  19. Casey
  Epilogue
  The End
  Blurb 2
  IN TOO DEEP
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  Copyright © 2017 by Jordan Marie
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  author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual places or persons, living or 