Daniel Brand, a science fiction writer, walks us through the new world where he lives that started when a large number of people seemingly froze in place.
—Michael Main
Physicians listened to heartbeats that dragged on, lonely and deep, for over a minute per. They worried over eyes that refused to blink, yet remained somehow moist. They despaired over encephalograms whose spikes could be counted in single neuron flashes, adding up to a complex pattern that was . . . normal!

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  1. “Co-Existence” by David Brin, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982.
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    “The River of Time” by David Brin, in The River of Time (Dark Harvest, June 1986).
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  1. German.
    “Koexistenz” by David Brin, in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 28, edited by Friedel Wahren (Heyne, January 1987).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by David Brin
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Peter Pape