Caltraps of Time
- Authors
- Masson, David I.
- Publisher
- Cosmos Books
- Tags
- fantasy , fiction , science fiction , collections & anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781592241064
- Date
- 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.65 MB
- Lang
- en
"[David I. Masson] began publishing sf with "Traveller's Rest" for NEW WORLDS in 1965; his fiction, including this extraordinarily intense study in the distortion of PERCEPTION, was assembled in *The Caltraps of Time* (coll 1968), which single volume established his strong reputation as a writer of vigorously experimental, vivid, often scientifically sound stories. Notable among them, and reflecting his close and informed interest in LINGUISTICS, were "Not so Certain" (1967) and the brilliant TIME-TRAVEL story "A Two-Timer" (1966), told entirely in language appropriate to 1683, the year from which the inadvertent time traveller is whisked into the future. Each of DIM's stories seems to be a solution to some cognitive or creative problem or challenge ..." (John Clute, *The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction*)
contents:
Lost Ground
Not so Certain
Mouth of Hell
A Two-Timer
The Transfinite Choice
Psychosmosis
Traveller's Rest