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Reconstructing or Re-Emergence of the Past

Time-Related Situations

Hindsight

by Jack Williamson
Years ago, engineer Bill Webster abandoned Earth for the employ of the piratical Astrarch far beyond the orbit of Mars; now the Astrarch is aiming the final blow at a defeated Earth, and Bill wonders whether the gun sights he invented can spot—and change!—events in the past.
— Michael Main
The tracer fields are following all the world lines that intersected at the battle, back across the months and years. The analyzers will isolate the smallest—hence most easily altered—essential factor.
“Hindsight” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, May 1940.

There Is a Tide

by Jack Finney
A sleepless man, struggling with a business decision, sees an earlier occupant of his apartment who is struggling with a decision of his own.
— Michael Main
I saw the ghost in my own living room, alone, between three and four in the morning, and I was there, wide awake, for a perfectly sound reason: I was worrying.
“There Is a Tide” by Jack Finney, in Collier’s, 2 August 1952.

Light of Other Days

by Bob Shaw
On a driving holiday in Argyll, Mr. and Mrs. Garland hope to find a way out of their hateful marriage, but instead they find a field of slow glass harvesting the light of other days.
— Michael Main
Apart from its stupendous novelty value, the commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that having a scenedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Bob Shaw, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966.

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1

Light of Other Days

by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito
Until the last page, this was a nice adaptation of Bob Shaw’s original story. Don’t know why they felt a need to change it or add an epilogue.
— Michael Main
The commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that owning a scnedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1, January 1975.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06)

Where No One Has Gone Before

by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves
Yes, we see minor time phenomena when Picard and other members of the crew vividly experience moments and beings from their pasts, possibly created by their thoughts, but the real import of the episode is the introduction of The Traveler, who among other things is able to alter spacetime and is always on the lookout for promising individuals such as Wesley Crusher.
— Michael Main
The Traveler to Picard about Wesley: In such musical geniuses I saw in one of your ship’s libraries—one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others. Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played . . .
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06), “Where No One Has Gone Before” by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 24 October 1987) [syndicated].
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