Researches in Surrey, England, have discovered how to slow light down and trap it in glass. I was immediately reminded of a story by one of the great Irish science fiction writers, Bob Shaw, in his “Light of Other Days”; Slow Glass was glass that took months or years to pass light from one side to the other, and he crafted that idea into a short story of heartbreak and loss.
SciFi.com has the entire short story here… I’ve loved it since the first time I read it.
Related posts:
- Slow week — EQ2 raiding, W101 delving, CoV headbashing This is my week to be the “on call” developer...
- Star Trek Armada 2: The Glass Enterprise Getting the right background to play a Fantasy MMO is...
- Slow night with City of Villains & Rock Band 2 Yay! Another night where I successfully avoided writing! I KNOW...
- "The Golden Man" The next movie based on a Philip K. Dick story...
- One less Station Pass member. I cancelled my old credit card and my recurring subscriptions,...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Entries (RSS)
Tipa,
I remember reading the story for the first time in an science-fiction oriented english class in high school in 1974 or 75….
I was truly a poignant story that provided a nice counterpoint to the other kinds of stories we were reading in the class.
I’ll have to hit the SciFI.com link this weekend and read through it again – thanks for the reminder!!
Thank you for mentioning that story Tipa. I too read it many years ago but I had completely forgotten who wrote it. It really is a beautifully poignant piece of writing as well as being great Sci Fi.
I read the story for first time and enjoyed it.