The Very Slow Time Machine [short fiction]
by Ian Watson
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British science fiction author Ian Watson was born in 1943. He received a first class Honors degree in English Literature in 1963 and a research degree in English and French 19th Century literature in 1965 from Balliol College, Oxford. After lecturing in literature and Futures Studies, he became a full-time author in 1976. His first novel, The show more Embedding, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the French Prix Apollo. His novel The Jonah Kit won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence from 1990 to 1991. His poem True Love won the 2002 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Very Slow Time Machine [short fiction]
- Original title
- The Very Slow Time Machine [novelette]
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters*
- Yang; Kelvin
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- (1900)
Die Sehr Langsame Zeitmaschine – der Einfachheit halber: die SLZM* – erschien um genau zwölf Uhr mittags am 1. Dezember 1985 an einer leeren Stelle im Nationalen Laboratorium für Physik. - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dann müssen wir IHN in eine Kammer sperren, IHN verlieren und IHN in seiner Verlassenheit wahnsinnig werden lassen, in der sicheren, festen Hoffnung auf eine Auferstehung in Gesundheit und Liebe nach fünfunddreißig Jahren – auf daß ER nicht die Hölle aufwühle und sie mit SICH zur Erde zurückbringe.
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- Englisch
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