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.

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  1. “Common Time” by James Blish, in Shadow of Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, July 1953).
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  1. Croatian.
    “Paralelno vrijeme” by James Blish, Sirius #50, August 1980.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Mirjana Živković
  3. Dutch.
    “Gewone tijd” by James Blish, in Het testament van Andros (Bruna, 1972).
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by C. A. G. van den Broek
  5. French.
    “Sautes de temps” by James Blish, in Terre, il faut mourir ( Denoël, 1961).
  6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Michel Deutsch
  7. German.
    “Zwischen Zeit und Unendlichkeit” by James Blish, in 8 Science Fiction Stories, edited by Arnulf D. Krauß and Helmuth W. Mommers (Heyne, 1967).
  8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Birgit Reß-Bohusch
  9. German.
    “Die gewöhnliche Zeit” by James Blish, in Eine Handvoll Sterne (Goldmann, 1974).
  10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Tony Westermayr
  11. German: alternative title of “Zwischen Zeit und Unendlichkeit.”
    “Im Griff der Zeit” by James Blish, in Die Fünfziger Jahre I, edited by Hans Joachim Alpers and Werner Fuchs (Hohenheim, October 1981).
  12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Birgit Reß-Bohusch
  13. German.
    “Normalzeit” by James Blish, in Welten im All (Bastei Lübbe, October 1987) [Two translators were credited for the collection Welten im All, but the stories were not individually credited.].
  14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Eva Bauche-Eppers as by Eva Eppers
  15. Italian.
    “Il tempo dell'uomo” by James Blish, in Prigione senza sbarre, e altri racconti (Fanucci Editore, 1977).
  16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Sandro Pergameno
  17. Italian.
    “Tempo comune” by James Blish, in Le grandi storie della fantascienza 15, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg (Armenia Editore, May 1987).
  18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Giampaolo Cossato
  19. Serbian.
    “Zajedničko vreme” by James Blish, in Savremenici budućnosti: Priče i tvorci naučne fantastike, edited by Zoran Živković (Narodna Knjiga, 1983).
  20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Blish
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Zoran Živković