Short Story
The River of Time
- by David Brin
- Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982
Daniel Brand, a science fiction writer, walks us through the new world where he lives that started when a large number of people seemingly froze in place. —Michael Main
Physicians listened to heartbeats that dragged on, lonely and deep, for over a minute per. They worried over eyes that refused to blink, yet remained somehow moist. They despaired over encephalograms whose spikes could be counted in single neuron flashes, adding up to a complex pattern that was . . . normal!
