Timeline for Old short story about time travel: not physical, just as onlookers
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| Jan 14, 2023 at 3:05 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 23:27 | answer | added | Occam Shave | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | Zab Zonk | @user14111 As sure as you can be of something you read over thirty years ago. But I have a memory of how this time-traveling eye/camera worked because it had me think: "What use would it have to the the victim"? | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 1:05 | comment | added | user14111 | Are you sure the police are viewing the past in your story? I recall a story (which I can't identify at the moment) where the police somehow have pictures of future crimes, which they are never able to prevent (hence no paradoxes) despite their best efforts. In the story I'm thinking of the victim was misidentified from the picture; the supposed victim left town to avoid the killer, but her sister, having a key to her apartment, let herself in and was murdered. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 4:19 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 0:27 | comment | added | Emsley Wyatt | I upvoted the Rausch story because the description sounded familiar then, when I saw the anthology it was in, it was one I'd read. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 23:30 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 0:09 | comment | added | jmoreno | Sounds sorta like The Light of Other Days, but that was written much later. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 21:31 | comment | added | user888379 | There was a story in the late '40s called "Private Eye" by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore pen name). The premise was that there was a machine that could basically look back in time, so crime investigators used it extensively. The protagonist decided to murder someone, so he devised a plan to manipulate his victim into getting into a fight with him. He ended up so distorting his life that after he succeeded in his plan, he was basically lost. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 20:56 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | Minority report, but backwards? | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 20:21 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | Similar technology exists in the novella “E for Effort” (1947) by T.L.Sherred, and in the short story “I See You” (1976) by Damon Knight; but from your hints the plot is not similar. Ah, I hadn't seen this feature before: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?4404 | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 18:45 | answer | added | Arluin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 18:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 26, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1243236487161937925 | ||
| Mar 26, 2020 at 16:20 | comment | added | JRE | @b_jonas: The Overlords don't have any kind of time traveling crime solving abilities. The only crime described in any detail is a kidnapping, and it was solved by reasoning and detective work. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 15:16 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | Organic Marble | "floating balls with built in cameras" sounds like the "copseyes" from the Larry Niven Known Space stories set on Earth e.g. Cloak of Anarchy. No time travel there though. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | Zab Zonk | b_jonas, thank you but I don't think this is the story, I haven't read Childhood's End. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 13:53 | comment | added | Zab Zonk | John Rennie, the Wikipedia page you linked rings some bells: maybe that's not the story I'm looking for but definitely a few elements match my memories. I can't say this is the one, so I'll take some time before accepting your answer. Thanks for helping! | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 12:51 | answer | added | LSerni | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 11:20 | comment | added | b_jonas | The alien visitors in Clarke's Childhood's End also have similar technology to look back at high-profile crimes, but that is a novel, not a short story. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 11:13 | comment | added | John Rennie | The Dead Past? It doesn't have anything about catching your murderer though. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 10:16 | history | edited | Zab Zonk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2020 at 10:10 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2020 at 10:08 | history | asked | Zab Zonk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |