Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA From: Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #228 Message-ID: <2375@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 12:37:05 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2375 Posted: Tue Jun 25 12:37:05 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:20:29 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 From: Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA Mike Parsons asked for some good stories about controlling time, as opposed to simply time-travel. "The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck", by {someone whose name I can't remember -- but the story has recently been mentioned in this digest} is such a story. The hero is an otherwise normal 19th-century seaman, leader of a rescue crew, who subconsciously manifests enormous control over the passage of time in order to save the crewmen of a ship wrecked off the coast of Maine. He does such things as enormously slow the passage of time to gain finer control over events, change past events (such as the manufacturing of the ship's mast) to change the present, alter people's past behavior ... it's a really excellent story. You can find it in "Best SF of the Year #9" edited by Terry Carr. --Peter Alfke (now alfke.pasa@xerox)