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Bob Shaw

writer

Barrier to Yesterday

by Bob Shaw
The story revolves around tribes who migrate to follow the sun around a slowly rotating world. I don’t understand what the title refers to, but it is not time travel.
— Michael Main
He seemed to think it was a privilege to live on a world whose spin had almost stopped, stretching the days and nights into years so that it was useless even to go underground.
“Barrier to Yesterday” by Bob Shaw, in Nebula Science Fiction #16, March 1956.

Light of Other Days

by Bob Shaw
On a driving holiday in Argyll, Mr. and Mrs. Garland hope to find a way out of their hateful marriage, but instead they find a field of slow glass harvesting the light of other days.
— Michael Main
Apart from its stupendous novelty value, the commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that having a scenedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Bob Shaw, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966.

What Time Do You Call That?

by Bob Shaw
“What Time Do You Call That?” by Bob Shaw, Amazing Science Fiction, September 1971.

Retroactive

by Bob Shaw
“Retroactive” by Bob Shaw, in Universe 2, edited by Terry Carr (Ace Books, 1972).

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1

Light of Other Days

by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito
Until the last page, this was a nice adaptation of Bob Shaw’s original story. Don’t know why they felt a need to change it or add an epilogue.
— Michael Main
The commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that owning a scnedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
“Light of Other Days” by Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, and Mike Esposito, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1, January 1975.

Skirmish on a Summer Morning

by Bob Shaw
“Skirmish on a Summer Morning” by Bob Shaw, in Cosmic Kaleidoscope (Gollancz, October 1976).

Who Goes Here?

by Bob Shaw
Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw (Gollancz, September 1977).
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