The Very Slow Time Machine

Watson, Ian

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ISBN 10: 0586050647 ISBN 13: 9780586050644

Published by Granada / Panther, 1981

Language: English

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� 1979: A collection of 13 short stories by Ian Watson. 1st printing of 1981 edition:- Contents: The Very Slow Time Machine / Thy Blood Like Milk / Sitting On A Starwood Stool / Agoraphobia, AD 2000 / Programmed Love Story / The Girl Who Was Art / Our Loves So Truly Meridional / Immune Dreams / My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl / The Roentgen Refugees / A Time-Span To Conjure With / On Cooking The First Hero In Spring / The Event Horizon:- Synopsis: The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger and saner. The world, and its whole concept of time, science and philosophy, must wait for him to speak. But while the world waits, it changes:- Review(s): 'The Very Slow Time Machine' appears here along with a dozen more dazzling stories from one of the foremost pioneers on the boundaries of science fiction. / "Finely written, intelligent and humane - Ian Watson is among the very few writers of any sort of fiction who can genuinely handle the front line of contemporary intellectual work" - The Observer / "Never failing pyrotechnics" - The Oxford Times / "Hard, original, shrewd. They tell you all the time 'you should have seen this coming.' But you never do. That's proper science fiction" - The Guardian:- (original cost �1.25).

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Title

The Very Slow Time Machine

Publisher

Granada / Panther

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0586050647

ISBN 13

9780586050644

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Paperback: 7" x 4�"

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Cover Art: Trevor Webb

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1981 Edition

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1st Printing

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Very Good: Light signs of wear

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0.13 kilograms

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