Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site cae780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!alan From: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF on controlling Time Message-ID: <1050@cae780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 16:02:58 EDT Article-I.D.: cae780.1050 Posted: Wed Jun 26 16:02:58 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:51:44 EDT References: <5267@ukc.UUCP> <399@moncol.UUCP> <1105@ihuxn.UUCP> Reply-To: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg) Organization: CAE Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 23 >>Does anybody know any good SF about CONTROLLING time (everybody elses), as >>opposed to time travel (controlling your local time)? >A classic along these lines is "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and >Everything" ... . There was a movie by the same name that was a >fairly decent rendition of the book. > The book was a bit better than the movie in describing the theory. John D. MacDonald (famous for his Travis McGee mysteries) is also a good "contemporary SF" writer, using today's world as his settings. In "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything" (the book), the magical watch doesn't stop time for all but the user, but SLOWS it down tremendously (in the user's timeframe). Thanks to some basic physics (which I have forgotten most of), the hero Kirby Winter could only move things very slowly when the watch was ticking, because of the mass/velocity/time ratios (or something like that). Of course, the TV movie couldn't spend 10 minutes watching him move a body, so it is not as scientific. There was also a sequel to the movie, which stunk (different actors playing the lead roles-- that's a sequel?). -- Alan Steinberg {ucbvax}!decwrl!amdcad!cae780!alan "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred..." -- Super Chicken