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. Since it is difficult to exist in spacetime without therefore being in time, or to write about anything that does not possess duration, time is rather basic and essential. So when we consider time specifically we cannot include everything. 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.

... 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


  
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

Dear Charles Murray Leinster RW Franson
Door into Summer, The Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson

Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, The John D. MacDonald RW Franson

House on the Borderland, The William Hope Hodgson RW Franson

Jack of Eagles James Blish RW Franson

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen H. Beam Piper RW Franson
Lost in Translation Rosel George Brown RW Franson

Quincunx of Time, The James Blish RW Franson

Reversible Klondike
  Alternate History Solitaire
RW Franson

Shadow of the Ship, The Robert Wilfred Franson WH Stoddard

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
To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis RW Franson

Weapon Shop series A. E. van Vogt 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

  


  
Remembrance
memory & remembering

  

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