The Very Slow Time Machine And Other Stories: Ian Watson

Watson's first short story collection. The title story introduces a time machine which moves backwards through time but only at the same rate as normal time reversed - to travel twenty years into the past takes twenty years. Attempts are made to to communicate with its mad occupant as he grows younger and more sane. Why has he embarked on this journey? Other tales in this volume: Thy Blood Like Milk; Sitting On A Starwood Stool; Agoraphobia AD 2000; Programmed Love Story; The Girl Who Was Art; Our Loves So Truly Meridional; Immune Dreams; My Soul Swims In A Goldfish Bowl; The Roentgen Refugees; A Time-Span To Conjure With; On Cooking The First Hero In pring; The Event Horizon.