Books where time works differently

Hello!

I’m looking for books in which characters experience time in a way that is different to our experience of time. Some examples are Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman, and Solaris by Stanislav Lem. The more creative the better!

Thanks to everyone in advance.

Lifelode by Jo Walton. Time passes faster if you go west and slower if you go east, and it also has a character that can see past and future at the same time as present, like echos. I believe it was inspired by Zones of Thought so that may be another one.

Of course there is also Timequake by Vonnegut.

>1 h_lew: Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang! The last story in Friday Black (Through the Flash) would fit as well.

In Inverted world by Christopher Priest, the railbound City moves inside a time bubble that itself is always moving: in one direction time slows down; in the other it speeds up. The City's tracks are broken up behind it and moved to the front so the City remains at the optimal point inside the time bubble.

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard has some weird time fractures, bubbles, and speeds in it.

The title story from David Brin's short story collection The River of Time has a fractured time situation.

Don't know if it counts, but Frederik Pohl: Gateway has people on the edge of a black hole. (And copied to computer memories which might be an improvement for some.)

There’s David I. Masson’s short story “Traveller’s Rest”, which, as Christopher Priest put it, “… depicts an apocalyptic war being fought across a time-dilated landscape, where all human senses are subjected to the distortions of relativity.“. P Schuyler Miller’s review in Analog put it somewhat more accurately: “… an utterly weird war fought on a planet where time and latitude are linked.”.

Edited to insert the second s in “Masson”. Damn you, autocorrect.

>8 bnielsen: Isn’t there a Poul Anderson short story about one of two psionically-linked people falling into a black hole?
ETA The connection with time is that the one outside still lives life at normal pace: the one inside will be torn apart by the tidal forces but because of relativistic time dilation the process will last subjectively forever.

In that vein Heinlein's Time for the Stars has telepathic twins where one goes on an exploratory star ship voyage while communicating with his twin who is aging faster (relatively) back on earth.

Perhaps not genre, but an extremely affective book: Life After Life.

>10 haydninvienna:
You might want to put that behind a spoiler tag. It's an important part of the book suggested in >8 bnielsen:.

>10 haydninvienna:. Maybe. I'll take a look at some of my books :-)

>1 h_lew:

I liked Das Ölschieferskelett. Eine Zeitreise by Bernhard Kegel very much.
Aercheologists find a fossilized human skeleton with a wristwatch during an excavation in a layer from xx-million years ago.

The author Bernhard Kegel is a biologist by profession. I learned a lot in his book about archaeology (and its limitations), as well as about the evolution of the world over millions of years.
And it's all wrapped up in an exciting story of a journey through time.
It should be noted that the book was written in 1996, over 25 years ago. Somewhat later than Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Technologies in all scientific disciplines have advanced incredibly since then. So the book may be outdated in some respects.

Two years later, a similar story appeared:
Das Jesus Video by Andreas Eschbach.
It, too, is set in today's Israel of 1998 in an archaeological setting and goes back to about the year zero of our era.

>10 haydninvienna: I don’t remember it being by Anderson, but I recall a similar short story where one of the linked pair is a nun or a religious person.

>16 2wonderY: I think that's probably it. I wasn't sure that it was by Anderson.

>17 haydninvienna: Ha! Found it. You were right. Kyrie

Thank you everyone for these wonderful suggestions!

Light From Other Stars by Erika Swyler uses time bubbles in really interesting ways. I loved it.

I recently finished reading Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge. The book consists of two loosely related novellas, The Peace War and Across Realtime. I don't want to say too much because it would give away much of the suspense at the beginning of the book. Even to say that the stories are about time travel is perhaps saying too much