Story about a time-traveler living backwards in a capsule
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I'm hunting for the title of a short story where a senile old man appears in a capsule in a laboratory.
They eventually realize time is passing backwards for him. After years he helps them build the machine he's in, and he changes places with the him that has been aging normally in the timeline.
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I'm hunting for the title of a short story where a senile old man appears in a capsule in a laboratory.
They eventually realize time is passing backwards for him. After years he helps them build the machine he's in, and he changes places with the him that has been aging normally in the timeline.
story-identification short-stories time-travel
edited 5 hours ago
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I'm hunting for the title of a short story where a senile old man appears in a capsule in a laboratory.
They eventually realize time is passing backwards for him. After years he helps them build the machine he's in, and he changes places with the him that has been aging normally in the timeline.
story-identification short-stories time-travel
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,4161938
asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
1585
I'm hunting for the title of a short story where a senile old man appears in a capsule in a laboratory.
They eventually realize time is passing backwards for him. After years he helps them build the machine he's in, and he changes places with the him that has been aging normally in the timeline.
story-identification short-stories time-travel
story-identification short-stories time-travel
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
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asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
1585
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,4161938
asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
1585
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,4161938
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,4161938
edited 5 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,4161938
2,4161938
asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
1585
asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
1585
asked Jan 3 '15 at 5:10
WillWill
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1585
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Could this be Ian Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine"?
Google Books offers this:
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...
answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
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Could this be Ian Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine"?
Google Books offers this:
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...
answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
ImaginaryEventsImaginaryEvents
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Could this be Ian Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine"?
Google Books offers this:
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...
answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
ImaginaryEventsImaginaryEvents
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Could this be Ian Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine"?
Google Books offers this:
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...
answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
ImaginaryEventsImaginaryEvents
11.6k13669
Could this be Ian Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine"?
Google Books offers this:
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...
answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
ImaginaryEventsImaginaryEvents
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answered Jan 3 '15 at 6:46
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