The River of Time

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)*

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