Time at Troynovant:
temporizing on temporal philosophy, the nature of time;
including time travel to and from past and future,
as well as parallel and sidewise;
listed by Title
Thinking in time, moving in time. It is difficult to exist in spacetime without thereby being in time, or to write about anything not possessing duration: time seems basic and essential. What we list here are not history nor memory nor memoir, not the nature of speculation nor even future history, but works which engage or somehow entangle themselves with time as a dynamic force, perhaps even with the innocence of becoming.
Chiron [the Centaur] to Faust,
responding to a query about Helen of Troy:Philologists, I see,
have swathed your mind, like theirs, in pedantry.
A myth-born female is a thing apart,
Steps forth as needed by the poet's art,
Never of age nor over age,
At ever appetizing stage,
Abducted young, wooed in senescence yet,
Unbound by chronometric etiquette.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Classical Walpurgis Night: On the Lower Peneios"
Faust, Part II, 7426-7433
translated by Walter Arndt
| Complete Paratime, The | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Court Will Begin at Half-Way Terce Keeping Time in High Medieval Europe |
A Farrell | |
| Crossroads of Time, The | Andre Norton | RW Franson |
| Darker Than You Think | Jack Williamson | WH Stoddard |
| Dear Charles | Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| Door into Summer, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Eternal Now, The | Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| Faust A Tragedy (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | RW Franson |
| Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, The | John D. MacDonald | RW Franson |
| House on the Borderland, The | William Hope Hodgson | RW Franson |
| Inn | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Jack of Eagles | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Lincoln Hunters, The | Wilson Tucker | RW Franson |
| Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Lost in Translation | Rosel George Brown | RW Franson |
| Poker Face | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| Quincunx of Time, The | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Reversible Klondike Alternate History Solitaire |
RW Franson | |
| Shadow of the Ship, The [1983 edition] | Robert Wilfred Franson | WH Stoddard |
| Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] | Robert Wilfred Franson | RJ Ford |
| Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] | Robert Wilfred Franson | DM Sandin |
| Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] | Robert Wilfred Franson | G Stolyarov II |
| Tale of Two Clocks, A | James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Theory of Elementary Waves, The A New Explanation of Fundamental Physics |
Lewis E. Little | DM Sandin |
| Things Pass By | Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| Time and Time Again | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Timescape | Gregory Benford | DL Franson |
| To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Weapon Shop series | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Yesterday Was Monday | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
[Rome.]
Enobarbus:
Every time
Serves for the matter that is then born in't.William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2.9-10
United States Naval Observatory's
Julian Date Converter
Fascinating and lovely timekeeping machinery,
mostly from the 19th Century:
see the Featured Clocks & Inventory Gallery at
Michael's Antique Clocks
Mix Pictures of the Mind
the light of evening
Remembrance at Troynovant
memory, remembering, & fame
[One traveler] ... on his first voyage, was a good deal worried by the constantly changing "ship-time." He was proud of his new watch at first, and used to drag it out promptly when eight bells struck at noon, but he came to look after a while as if he were losing confidence in it. ...
The ship was gaining a full hour every three days [sailing East], and this fellow was trying to make his watch go fast enough to keep up to her. But ... he had pushed the regulator up as far as it would go, and the watch was "on its best gait," and so nothing was left him but to fold his hands and see the ship beat the race. We sent him to the captain, and he explained to him the mystery of "ship-time," ... This young man asked a great many questions about seasickness before we left, and wanted to know what its characteristics were, and how he was to tell when he had it. He found out.
Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad
"Of course not! That’s nonsense! If one knew the future, one could change it, and then it wouldn’t be what one knew! You haven’t had any prophecies from me! Prophecy’s absurd! All we’ve told you is about events whose probability approaches unity.”Murray Leinster
Talents, Incorporated (1962)
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