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Title:

Time Gifts
 

Authors:

Genres:

Science Fiction
Time Travel
Short Stories

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2000-08-22 Northwestern University Press  

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Blurb: 
A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy; a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty basement office; an old watchmaker with a dark, painful spot in his past that has haunted him for decades. The visitor has a unique but ambiguous time-gift for each one of them. His true identity is only known by an insane artist locked up in her asylum atelier. But who would believe an artist in this world, even if she were not insane?