![]() ![]() “Light of Other Days” ( Analog, August 1966) Other Days, Other Eyes is advertised as a novel, but it’s really a fix-up composed of four related stories and some connecting material: Covers by unknown, Vincent Di Fate, and Tim White Some of Bob Shaw’s collections: Cosmic Kaleidoscope (1976), Ship of Strangers (Ace, 1979),Īnd A Better Mantrap (1982). The central concept of ‘slow glass’ - which slows down light so that it takes years or decades to pass through - was simple and enormously compelling, and Shaw returned to the idea several times, most notably in his 1972 fix-up novel of slow glass stories, Other Days, Other Eyes. Campbell’s Analog Science Fiction and Fact in August 1966. ![]() His most famous short story is still fondly remembered today: the Hugo and Nebula nominee “Light of Other Days,” originally published in John W. Shaw produced several highly-regarded collections, including Ship of Strangers (a fix-up novel, 1978) and Cosmic Kaleidoscope (1979). ![]() It wasn’t something you forgot in a hurry. Breslowīob Shaw was a prolific science fiction writer from Northern Ireland who wrote over two dozen novels, including The Orbitsvilletrilogy, about the discovery of an intact Dyson sphere orbiting a far star, Medusa’s Children (1977), Who Goes Here? (1977), and perhaps his most popular book, the Hugo-nominated The Ragged Astronauts (1986), the tale of a technologically advanced civilization that builds spaceships out of wood. ![]()
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