The River of Time

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The River of Time

Author	David Brin
Original title	The River of Time
Cover artist	Paul Sonju
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print
ISBN	0-913165-11-5

The River of Time (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer David Brin.

Contents

• "The Crystal Spheres" (first published in 1984) (Winner of the Hugo Award in 1985 in the Short Story category)
• "The Loom of Thessaly" (first published in 1981)
• "The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf" (first published in 1984)
• "Senses Three and Six"
• "Toujours Voir"
• "A Stage of Memory"
• "Just a Hint" (first published in 1980)
• "Tank Farm Dynamo" (first published in 1983)
• "Thor Meets Captain America"
• "Lungfish"
• "The River of Time" (first published in 1981 as "Coexistence" in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)*

Sources, references, external links, quotations

• The River of Time title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The River of Time for White Dwarf #94, and stated that "more conventional but contains some nice genre-mixing: in 'The Loom of Thessaly' the weaving Fates encounter spaceborne weaponry, and 'Thor Meets Captain America' offers a nasty world where Hitler did achieve his dreams of recruiting supernatural aid."

Reviews

• Review by Dan Chow (1986) in Locus, #307 August 1986
• Review by Don D'Ammassa (1987) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #93 June 1987
• Review by Paul Kincaid (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #69
• Review by W. Paul Ganley (1987) in Fantasy Mongers Quarterly, #22 Spring 1987