The problem with short stories is that they either leave you wanting more or just sort of bore you. I have to say I enjoyed a few of the stories here, not all of them. But I appreciate the effort and the love these authors obviously put into the stories!

This book is a collection of short stories which go around the amazing topic that is love entwined with time. This ranges from time travel to the concept of time itself.

I loved the idea right from the start and I enjoyed this book soooo much!

As with most story collections, there were a couple of them that didn’t hook me, but most of them were absolutely amazing! It’s crazy how many great stories there were in this book!!
Even though I’ll admit I skimmed through a couple of them, there were also a good group of them that were a solid 100/10!

One thing I really enjoyed about it, was the inclusive way love was approached, containing stories for every person. I loved it.

As I have said before on more than one occasion, I am wary of anthologies - I worry about changes in quality and tonal whiplash between stories in themed multi-author collections. But when I saw the lineup for this time travel romance themed anthology I had to try it! (Thanks again to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.) Some of my favs are in here, including Seanan McGuire, Catherynne Valente, Theodora Goss, Sarah Gailey, and Alix Harrow. I really enjoyed the McGuire story especially.

Someone in Time: Tales of Time Crossed Romance is a collection of inclusive short stories that all involve love and…drum roll please…time travel! It makes my heart so happy to know there are people as obsessed with time travel as much as me. What a time to be alive!

This is quite honestly the best collection of short stories I have ever read. I loved pretty much every story in here. Basically the editor, Jonathan Strahan, reached out to a ton of award winning sci-fi authors and asked for time travel and inclusive romance stories…and my goodness, did these authors deliver! I was blown away. The authors I’m most familiar with were Alice E Harrow (Ten Thousand Doors of January) and Sarah Gailey (The Echo Wife) but I found a ton of other authors I will be checking out.

Also, please do not be scared of the time travel aspect or that these authors can be labeled “sci fi” authors. I know that can turn some people off (though I don’t know why!) but honestly I would say that majority of these reads feel more like historical fiction. They all have compelling plots for the most part, but they all have characters you will love. They are all profound and I highlighted the heck out of so much beautiful prose.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to everyone. I especially recommend it if you’re looking for a LBGTQIA+ book for pride month. I especially recommend it if you love time travel. I recommend it if you’re sci-Fi or short story curious. Really, I just freaking recommend this book. IT IS SO GOOD. I love it so much.

I thoroughly enjoyed the various takes of variety of authors on time travel with their diverse range of characters and disparate emotions they display. Also some of the stories featured LGBTQ love. Quality of some stories were amazing where as some were okayish so the flow was quite uneven. Nonetheless, enjoyed it. Thank you publisher for the e-arc.

This collection boasts an abundance of writing powerhouses, but surprisingly uneven quality despite that. Some of the standouts were Catherynne M Valente’s story about the embodiment of the space time continuum, and the reprint of Elen Klages’s story Time Gypsy (no surprise there, as Ellen Klages is a master of the short story form). The rest of the stories I found to be just fine to mediocre, despite having enjoyed full length works by several of the authors before. I think it’s just hard to write a meaningful time travel story in the short story format!

I have recently been getting into short story books and I like how time travel was woven into each of these stories. Because each one is written by different authors, each time travel has its own set of rules and the authors dealt with a number of themes, with love and connection being the main thread throughout each one. From heroes going back in time to make sure history isn't altered, to being in a relationship with the space time continuum, each story has various quirks and suspension of disbelief which makes them so fun.

🏳️‍🌈🚀 Time Travel and Queer Romance? Yes, please.

This is a collection of short stories all set across the idea of time travel. Some of them involve finding a gap in the space time continuum, some are set in the future where we pay to travel, some are set in the past where we’ve never seen someone as modern and cool as that woman before. One even involves meeting and growing up with the Space Time continuum itself. But they all involve finding someone special along the way.

I loved these bunch of stories, they are inclusive set across a multitude of different countries (or planets), and many of the romances were queer. The authors in this volume are so well known and some of my favourites were @zenaldehyde @alix.e.harrow @catvalente but honestly I loved almost every single one and I was surprised by the fact the stories didn’t get repetitive. Each one came from a totally different angle and I genuinely enjoyed them so much.

I definitely recommend checking this one out as it just came out in Australia last month.Thank you @netgalley for this ARC. I absolutely loved this one.

Thank you Netgalley and the publishing house for allowing me to read this e-arc in exchange for honest feedback.
Loved this. All the authors take on this was really good to read and i hope they do something like this again in the future.

In lesser hands, an anthology of romantic time-travel stories could have been very one-note and predictable. Thankfully, editor Jonathan Strahan is not “lesser hands.” Someone In Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance fully embraces diversity: not just in the types of romantic couples featured but also in the types of time-travel, points of view, and genres.

Eight of the sixteen stories feature LGBTQIA+ characters in a variety of relationship configurations (possibly 9; in one story I’m unsure of the narrator’s gender identity which is probably me not noticing context clues). Some of these queer protagonists are just discovering their sexual orientation, some have been out for years; some of the relationships are new and fraught with “will they or won’t they” tension while some are long-term relationships facing new challenges. Of course, the same is true for the eight stories in the anthology that focus on straight characters, but I still find it noteworthy when stories featuring LGBTQIA+ protagonists in anthologies like this aren’t focused on the trauma of being queer but rather on the ups-and-downs of all romantic relationships. Not that these stories ignore the very real consequences of being queer in certain times and places; they just don’t make that the sole focus of the stories.

Time-travel is thought of as an SFnal sub-genre, usually involving a specific and iconic (or iconic-looking) device: a tricked-out car, a TARDIS, a time-bubble or -machine. And a number of these stories fit that description, with varying degrees of detail as to what the device looks like and the science behind it. But several of these stories move time-travel into the realm of fantasy: the time-travel is an inherent ability, or something accomplished through magic. Part of the fun of starting each new story was wondering how the time-travel itself would be expressed, and the variety helped keep things interesting.

The anthology starts strong right out of the gate with the one-two-three punch of Alix E. Harrow’s “Roadside Attraction,” Zen Cho’s “The Past Life Reconstruction Service,” and Seanan McGuire’s “First Aid.” All three feature LGBTQIA protagonists (one who only relaxes into his identity as the story progresses, one mourning a broken relationship, and one who is out) who meet their romantic partners through different methods of time-travel (a roadside attraction that no one seems to really understand, a mental stimulation device, and a time-bubble that malfunctions).

Sarah Gailey’s “I Remember Satellites” gives us time-travel as a method of making sure history stays on track, and the sacrifices some time-travelers must make to be sure it does. It felt of a piece with Theodora Goss’s “A Letter to Merlin,” in which time-travelers inhabit already-existing historical figures, essentially taking them over to be sure they do what they’re supposed to.

The fantasy side of time-travel is explored in Rowan Coleman’s sweet “Romance: Historical” (who can resist a romance across the decades set in a mysterious bookshop?) and Carrie Vaughn’s “Dead Poets” (which involves an ancient drinking vessel and two quite different historical poets).

Smack in the middle of the anthology, but thankfully not one right after the other, are a couple of truly heart-breaking stories that play with the nature of time-travel: Elizabeth Hand’s “Chronia,” in which the narrator explains to a lover how many times they have and have not met as chronal fluxes mess with their interpersonal timeline, and “Unabashed, or, Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse” by Sam J. Miller, in which the narrator recounts all the ways in which he might have saved his new boyfriend from being killed had he not been so afraid of the question “walk me home?”.

Leave it to Catherynne M. Valente to craft a story around the ever-changing, gender-fluid, age-fluid personification of the Space-Time Continuum in “The Difference Between Love and Time,” which is both sweet and heart-breaking.

The exploitation of past resources by travelers from the future infuse Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s “Bergamot and Vetiver” and Ellen Klages’ “Time Gypsy” with an extra layer of late-stage capitalism topicality that enhances rather than overwhelms the romance at the heart of each story.

The anthology also includes stories by Jeffrey Ford (“The Golden Hour”), Nina Allen (“The Lichens”), Margo Lanagan (“The Place of All Souls”), and Sameem Siddiqui (“Timed Obsolescence”) that are equally as good as the stories I’ve already mentioned. In fact, I don’t think there’s a weak story in the bunch.

Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance will appeal to romance readers and speculative fiction readers alike.

I received an advance reading copy of this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Because of how delayed I am in posting this, Someone in Time is already available in print, e-book, and audio formats.

I really loved the premise of this anthology and was so excited to get a chance to discover new authors through the lens of science fiction and time travel and human connections and love. Like all anthologies, this one was definitely a mixed bag. I found myself skimming through some and thoroughly immersed in others. It didn't mean to work out this way, but I think the majority of my favorites landed in the first half of the book.

I really loved how diverse these stories were, both in representation and the ways that time travel and space and time were utilized. I think my favorite kinds of stories in this were the ones where the characters were 'time' agents of sorts, slipping in and out of history and the lives of major historical figures and events. Overall, this was a pretty solid anthology with a very interesting theme for authors to build on.

Thank you to Solaris and NetGalley for the ARC!

This is a charming, exciting, and fascinating look at time travel through the eyes of many different authors with their own characters, stories, and takes on the classic time travel tropes. This anthology is refreshingly diverse, with most of the stories featuring LGBTQ+ romances. I enjoyed most of the stories and found it difficult to put it down.

This book was at times a delight, and at other times a slight burden. I really enjoyed all of the stories that were included in this book, and there are so many talented authors who contributed to this wonderful collection.

The stories made me cherish the relationships in my life. It's really a celebration of love in all its many forms. While some stories focused on romantic love, others focused more on the love that exists between family members.

The one thing that made this book feel like something of a burden at times is that each new story brings with it a large amount of world-building. Stories about time travel have a lot of context to establish in order to make the plot points seem believable. In a larger single-narrative story, much of this work would be done at the outset and then the reader could enjoy the development of the characters/plot inside of that world. In this collection, each new story brings with it the demand of building a new mental framework for understanding the story. Some of the stories are very dense with this kind of "just keep reading and eventually it will make sense and you will love it" kind of stuff, and on its own there's nothing wrong with that. But that's the reason why I'm putting this at a 4/5 instead of a 5/5.

All in all, I highly recommend reading this collection (at your own pace).

I've been slowly making my way through the short stories, savouring each unique world. So far there's been one way time travel, daily time travel and even past lives and soul mates! Things go well, things go wrong, and in each one a character finds themselves- this is what I love about short stories! ALSO, in each of the stories I've read there's amazing #LGTBQIA rep 🌈 the very normal, casual kind 💜

If anything, the variety available in this anthology is incredible. Sometimes it is a problem with anthologies is that the voices blur together. Luckily this was not the case. Some stories were better than others but as a whole it was an enjoyable read.

I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own

Time Travel is one of my all time favorite tropes in books, so I was very excited to get an ARC of this anthology! It did not disappoint!! All of the stories were good, but I especially loved the ones by Alix Harrow and Seanan McGuire.

This is one of the most memorable collection of short stories I’ve read, a beautiful and varied anthology of love stories told through time travel. Anthologies can threaten inconsistency, but almost all the stories in here were exceptionally good and incredibly moving in their individual ways. Many stories involved queer relationships, which time travel releases from the heterosexualising restrictions and prohibitions of a particular time. Most explored what it means to choose to love, again and again, through time. ⁣
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A selection of my favourites were: ⁣
The Past Life Reconstruction Service - Explores revisiting your past lives as a service, with one’s soulmate recurring in various forms throughout one’s lives - a bond that cannot be broken by reincarnation⁣
Bergamont and Vetiver - About time travel as a tool to colonise and pillage the resources of past civilisation s⁣
A Letter to Merlin - Time travellers from the future embed themselves like parasites in historical figure’s minds to guide their actions, branching out into parallel universes to prolong humanity’s existence⁣
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#SomeoneinTime

Thanks NetGalley and Rebellion, Solaris for the eARC of this book!

First of all, the theme of the anthology is very intriguing for me. I love this anthology approaches on the idea of time travels are more driven by the characters or feelings/emotions more than the scientific one. It's like a fresh air to breath, and I was excited to read! Between the 16 stories, there are some stories that works for me and some are don't (based on my preference) . Nevertheless, it still worthy to read. Overall, it's a nice read!

Gorgeous!

This is an anthology of short stories about queer love and time-travel!! I will read anything with time travel, so to find this anthology was like a dream! I adored each story- they were unique and despite being so short made me feel so many emotions.

I loved the stories by Zen Cho and Sameem Siddiqui in particular! I can't wait to get a physical copy, and go back to reading these stories. Each one had something new to offer, and I discovered so many new authors to add to my tbr! I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a good anthology to dive into- this actually seems like the perfect read for a warm summers day! I can't wait to reread this in the future and yell about it!

Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publishers for an e-arc!

A lovely collection of short stories!

I haven't read any anthologies since my university days, but I found that this was great to pick up when I didn't feel like reading a full novel - I could read and enjoy one short story without feeling obliged to finish the book there and then. It was great to read when I felt myself slipping into a reading slump.

(individual reviews for each short story to follow on Goodreads following a re-read)