We leave the world as we know it for the engrossing anthology Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman, forward by Donna Andrews. Here we encounter a wonderful blending of crime and sci-fi, which ranges all the way from Anna Castle’s wry “The Sneeze,” wherein a woman’s sneeze propels her backwards to the Elizabethan era, to Adam Meyer’s “The Fourteenth Floor,” where a security guard in a skyscraper gets a glimpse of a foreboding future. The wide array of tales so ably put together by Goffman are enormous fun, and now and then, genuinely touching. I was particularly drawn to Korina Moss’ empathetic “On the Boardwalk,” and Goffman’s own “Alex’s Choice,” which at first looks like a heartbreaker, but turns out not to be. If I had to pick one of these stories as a favorite—and they’re all good—it would have to be “The Sneeze.” There’s just something truly fine in reading about a Diet Coke-slugging modern broad pretending to be an Elizabethan slattern while hunting down a playwright who may—or may not—have collaborated with William Shakespeare.