All the Time in the World
- by Arthur C. Clarke
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “All the Time in the World” by Arthur C. Clarke, Startling Stories, July 1952.
Robert Ashton is offered a huge amount of money to carry out a foolproof plan of robbing the British Museum of its most valuable holdings.
—Michael Main
Your time scale has been altered. A minute in the outer world would be a year in this room.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed story time
- Far Future: 100,000 years after Earth has been destroyed
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Alien Time Travel Technology
- High Speed, Angular Momentum, Gravity, Cosmic Strings, etc. Cause Time Warp: “[. . .] by the release of an enormous amount of energy, it is possible to produce a—singularity—in time.
- Themes
- Differing Time Rates: the accelerator bracelet
- Mind Travel
- Salvaging Lost Art or Literature
- Tourist Paradox: “If that sort of thing were possible, our past history would be full of time travelers.”
- Fictional Tags
- Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds: The apocalypse is nigh.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “All the Time in the World” by Arthur C. Clarke, Startling Stories, July 1952.
- abridged audio reading.
“All the Time in the World” by Arthur C. Clarke (BBC Radio 7, UK, 15 December 2007).
Derived Works
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- “All the Time in the World” by unknown writers and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Don Medford (13 June 1952).