The Land Where Time Stood Still
- by Arthur Leo Zagat
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Land Where Time Stood Still” by Arthur Leo Zagat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1936.
Twentieth-century American Ronald Stratton and Arthurian damsel Elaise find themselves in a land with people from all ages as well as predators from the 400th century.
This may be the earliest use of something akin to a “wheel of time.”
This may be the earliest use of something akin to a “wheel of time.”
—Michael Main
Time’s all mixed up. It’s as if the universe were the rim of a great wheel, whirling through Time. As if, somehow, we have left that rim, shot inward along different spokes whose outer ends are different years, far apart, and reached the wheel’s axis where all the year-spokes join. The center point of the hub, that doesn’t move at all through Time, because it is the center. Where there is no Time. Where the past and the present and the future are all one. A land, in some weird other dimension, where Time stands still.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: home time for Ronny
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: The men from the 600th century have evolved significantly, although their concerns still seem pretty pety.
- Timeline Models
- Outside of Time: “Where there is no time.”
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: “Didn’t Einstein talk about ether-warps, about eddies in the flux of space and time?”
- Themes
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Camelot: indirectly via Elaise, knights, and others
- Groupings
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- “The Land Where Time Stood Still” by Arthur Leo Zagat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1936.