a Haertel Complex story

Common Time

by James Blish

Spaceman Garrard is the third pilot to attempt the trip to the binary star system of Alpha Centauri using the FTL drive invented by Dolph Haertel (the next Einstein!) The Haertel Complex stories provide little in the way of actual time travel, but this one does have minor relativistic time dilation and more significant differing time rates.

— Michael Main

Figuring backward brought him quickly to the equivalence he wanted: one second in ship time was two hours in Garrard time.

“Common Time” by James Blish, in Shadow of Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, July 1953).

The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov

Andrew Harlan, Technician in the everwhen of Eternity, falls in love and starts a chain of events that could lead to the end of everything.

— Michael Main

He had boarded the kettle in the 575th Century, the base of operations assigned to him two years earlier. At the time the 575th had been the farthest upwhen he had ever traveled. Now he was moving upwhen to the 2456th Century.

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, August 1955).

Zoran Živković

narrator, translator