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From: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF on controlling Time
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 16:02:58 EDT
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Reply-To: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
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>>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?).
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                             Alan Steinberg
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