Bob Shaw

writer
Short Story

Barrier to Yesterday

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.
A red plane hovers above a radio tower on a jagged rock orbiting a red and green planet.
  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

Light of Other Days

  • by Bob Shaw
  • Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966
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.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a cottage at the foot of a hill that’s covered in large panes of glass.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

What Time Do You Call That?

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novella

Retroactive

  • by Bob Shaw
  • in Universe 2, edited by Terry Carr (Ace Books, 1972)
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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Comic Book

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1

Light of Other Days

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.
In the large panel, a sporty car zips past a hillside covered with large panes of glass.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novella

Skirmish on a Summer Morning

  • by Bob Shaw
  • in Cosmic Kaleidoscope (Gollancz, October 1976)
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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

Who Goes Here?

  • by Bob Shaw
  • (Gollancz, September 1977)
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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel