Carolyn Ives Gilman

writer
Novella

The Tinker and the Timestream


The long-lost Taghrib colony knows their days are numbered because of the deadly flares from their unstable star. So when alien starhoppers hop in for a visit, three colony members (including Aarfa, the dog) leave with them to search for a nearby inhabitable planet where the colony can migrate to.

No actual time travel, but there is a boatload of Yodaspeak about time dilation, which may or may not be familiar relativistic effects of velocity or gravity. —Michael Main
A dynamic landscape is timespace today.
Three aliens, a young woman, and a young man examine a myriad of stars
                through a round window on the floor.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena