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Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology , with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
Amis's 2014 novel The Zone of Interest concerns the Holocaust, his second work of fiction to tackle the subject after Time's Arrow. [90] [91] In it, Amis endeavoured to imagine the social and domestic lives of the Nazi officers who ran the death camps, and the effect their indifference to human suffering had on their general psychology.
"Time's Arrow" focuses on the theme of time travel, [9] [2] with Clarke using negative entropy as a possible avenue. [10] On the topic of time travel Clarke has stated that the "most convincing argument against time travel is the remarkable scarcity of time travelers", an issue that author Jack McDevitt discusses in his response to "Time's ...
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell.
"Time's Arrow, Part I" and "Time's Arrow, Part II" was released on LaserDisc in the United Kingdom in November 1996. [16] The PAL format optical disc had a runtime of 88 minutes using both sides of the disc, to include both Parts (CLV). [16] The 12-inch optical disc retailed for £19.99 when it came out. [16]
Martin Amis's 1991 novel Time's Arrow tells the story of a man who, it seems, brings dead people to life. Eventually it is revealed that the story is being seen backwards, and he was a doctor at Auschwitz who brought death to live people. He escaped to the United States, and the novel starts with his death and ends with his birth.
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