What do you mean by challenges instead of requests for identification?
I mean I know what the story is, but I want to see if anyone else can ID it without Google. It’s just for fun.
Off the top of my head I’d say “Time Travellers never Die” by Jack McDevitt
That was fast. This is courtesy of the anthology Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written.
I read the original novella in Asimov’s magazine where it first appeared (in 1996) and read the later version when it was expanded into a novel in 2006, so it wasn’t hard for me to recognize.
Anyone remember a short story in which the flickers of movement you see in your peripheral vision were actual creatures? It’s been so long that my memory may be supplying false notions, but I seem to recall one attached to his arm or hand and he had to hack off his arm with a machete.
A long shot, I know. Hope springs eternal.
Doesn’t ring a bell, sorry.
There was one I read in middle school that I’m still trying to find. I thought it was named Psi High, but the description of the only book by that title I can find, by Alan Nourse, does not match my recollection.
Plot: Three passengers of a space liner escape from the liner when it is attacked by enemy aliens. Each passenger has a particular psi power: Cordelia is a telekinetic, Jake is a receiving telepath, Bernie is a teleporter. Their escape pod lands on a backward planet that is reminiscent of 1920s/1930s midwest America whose inhabitants have forgotten they were originally from Earth. The three eventually join a carnival. Then the enemy aliens find the planet and start trying to turn it into a secret, behind-the-lines base for attacking human forces. Cordy and Jake escape to inform the human government about this, but Bernie dies because he 'ports into the alien control center to turn off the devices preventing the ship they were stealing from taking off and the aliens mortally wound him before he kills them and releases the ship.
What is this book, and who wrote it?
That’s it! I remember the cover they show on Amazon!
Woo-hoo! Thank you, Peter Morris!
“Psi High and Others” is a good book though…
The weird bit is that I have no recollection of it, and yet I almost had to have read it at about the same time as I read The Galactic Rejects for me to remember the title of one but the plot of the other.
So, how are you at mid-teen ghost stories? Because there are two other books I’m trying to remember the titles of, but I’m pretty sure neither were considered science fiction or fantasy. 
I don’t know the title, but I’m pretty sure that Mike Resnick was the author. I remember them masquerading as debris by the side of the highway and moving just outside of or on the edges of one’s field of view.
I read a few of those in the 1970s and 80s. Give it a try…
Here’s Resnick’s ISFDB page Summary Bibliography: Mike Resnick (I do see one story called “Me and My Shadow” which sounds promising)
Don’t know if that’s the one. I also remember it was one of his stories set in Africa, with I believe a Maasai protagonist.
Definitely not Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, however, as I recently read that.
Those stories would be listed under the Kirinyaga heading, probably.
Quite possibly.
As an aside, I was a big fan of Resnick, back in the '80’s and '90’s.
Me too. I’m a sucker for “future histories” and Resnick’s “Santiago” universe was a pretty good one.
Nothing supernatural in the Kirinyaga stories.