If I could find a way to impel paranormal powers to ignite in ones body enableing them to do incredible feats, I would be ecstatic to the point of bliss.

(tags book, science fiction, short story)

Reading Raymond Chen's "The wisdom of seventh graders: What to do with a time machine"  (part 1 and 2) reminded me that I have been reading a lot of time travel stories as of late.

I bought the book The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry N. Malzberg. The title of the book pretty much gets you started on thinking why the book isn't the best. I don't recommend it for purchase because I just don't find it stimulating. Well there maybe one or two short story gems, like "The Battle of Long Island" by Nancy Kress and "On the Nature of Time" by Bill Prozini, because these stories reflect more about human nature than fantastic plot devices. But most of it didn't fill my "science is good for humanity" quota. Or maybe perhaps I want more wish fulfillment ala Back to the Future or Star Trek "time travel".

I think a really good short story (one page!) on "time travel" is Ted Chiang's "What's Expected of Us",  because it urges us to be hopeful.

The title of this post is shameless copied from a seventh grader's essay in Chen's post. I suppose this is the kind of time travel science fiction I want.

(edit: The Blogger software doesn't allow [sic] in the title, as in "If I could find a way to impel paranormal powers to ignite in ones body enableing [sic] them to do incredible feats, I would be ecstatic to the point of bliss.")