We haven’t fully checked, but we believe that the only time travel in this fix-up novel is in Chapters 8–12, taken from Retroactive.
—Michael Main
He had been unwilling to admit his own fears that Man, perfector of a type of thinking which had given him mastery of the three spatial dimensions, had finally encountered a cooler, more judicious culture which had established its dominions in the long gray estuaries of time.

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Variants

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  1. Ship of Strangers by Bob Shaw (Gollancz, May 1978).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Bob Shaw
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Translations

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  1. German.
    Captain Aesop und das Schiff der Fremden [Captain Aesop and the ship of strangers] by Bob Shaw (Goldman, December 1979).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Bob Shaw
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Tony Westermayr
  2. Italian.
    Cosmo selvaggio [Wild cosmos] by Bob Shaw , Urania #766, 14 January 1979.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Bob Shaw
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Delio Zinoni

Previous Works
Fix-up novel from Retroactive (1972), three other stories, and additional material.

Indexer Notes

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  1. Variant—I have read only Chapters 8–12 of Ship of Strangers; additional time travel could occur elsewhere.