Timekeepers’ Symphony
- by Ken Liu
- Short Story
- Science Fiction, Experimental
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Timekeepers’ Symphony” by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld, September 2022.
Sometime after the era of mass migrations off Earth, the author ponders time and celestial clockworks across the galaxy.
—Michael Main
The smaller the flickers in our perception, the more details we notice and the longer time seems to last.
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- Time Periods
- Far Future: Hard to know whether much in this far-flung future would be familiar to us.
- Themes
- Altered Metabolic Rates: “Tachynauts literally live at different speeds from the rest of us.”
- Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.: “Even with hibernation, even with tachynauts, even if, one day, we learn to fly closer still to the speed of light, there is simply no way to bridge the vastness of space.”
- Relativistic Time Dilation: “Relativistic time dilation, lack of maintenance, simple drift—everything conspires to make bringing over time from one place to another a fool’s errand.”
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Timekeepers’ Symphony” by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld, September 2022.