The River of Time

by David Brin

Release: May 1982
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Daniel Brand, a science fiction writer, walks us through the new world where he lives that started when a large number of people seemingly froze in place.

— Michael Main

Physicians listened to heartbeats that dragged on, lonely and deep, for over a minute per. They worried over eyes that refused to blink, yet remained somehow moist. They despaired over encephalograms whose spikes could be counted in single neuron flashes, adding up to a complex pattern that was . . . normal!

DEBUT

“Co-Existence,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to German

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Unspecified Future Year

Themes

Altered Metabolic Rates: up the wazoo

Groupings

Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (periodical): Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982
Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()