A Time Odyssey 1

Time’s Eye

by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

• Release: January 2004
• Format: Novel
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

And she was continually amazed at how easily everyone else accepted their situation, the blunt, apparently undeniable reality of the time slips, across a hundred and fifty years in her case, perhaps a million years or more for the wretched pithecine and her infant in their net cage.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS

companion to Clarke’s Space Odyssey series

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): Seeker and Grasper, in what will become Pakistan
• Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): The time of Alexander the Great
• Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): the time of Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1882, British soldiers in Pakistan
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: 2037, UN Peacekeepers in Pakistan. Cosmonauts and astronauts in orbit.
• Unspecified Future Year: Bisesa and Josh are possibly taken by aliens to a future wasteland.

Timeline Models

• Mixed-Era Geography: Some of the movements through time are described as timeslips, but overall, the world of Mir is a better fit for a mixed-era geography.
• Unexplained Timeline Model: At this point, I don’t even know whether there are multiple timelines.

Time Travel Methods

• Alien Time Travel Technology

Themes

• Anachronistic Music, Dance, and Other Creations: “an orchestral reworking of a few classic ganster rap anthems”
• Chronology Protection Conjecture: mentioned in Chapter 5
• Grandfather Paradox: mentioned in Chapter 5

Real-World Tags

• Alexander the Great
• Eumenes
• Genghis Khan
• Hephaestion
• Neanderthals and Other Cavemen: Seeker and Grasper
• Ptolemy
• Rudyard Kipling

Fictional Tags

• Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds: The future wasteland might be after a nuclear war.

Groupings

• A Time Odyssey (story series): 1