> > H. G. Wells wrote a story along those lines, but it wasn't that time was stopped but that time was extremely slowed. The main character was in a park was watching people more or less frozen. The observation was made that sometimes people's facial expressions look strange, funny, or even unsettling when they're frozen at a random point instead of part of a fluid gesture of body language -- particularly in the case of one guy who was in the middle of a wink. There was also some concern about not moving too quickly, or the friction with the air would burn him up. I don't remember much more of that story, but I'm curious now to go back and read it again. I don't even remember the title, unfortunately.
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> That would be the first great grand-daddy of all time-retarder stories, which speaks of a human's experience slowed down subjectively -- a great many times -- while the rest of humanity seemingly races by. I have never been able to decide whether the people who experiment with this "Slow Time" scenario ought to age much faster than everyone else; or whether their aging process is technically arrested in external real time (thereby presenting a sort of immortality... the possibilities are endless).

Read an Orsen Scott Card novella entitled A Planet Called Treason. There is some interesting Time Control stuff in there. People what speed up their personal time, so that they live a whole life in a few moment and people that slow their personal time down so that they seem to be statues to all around them. Very good story. It also has illusionist, superhealers, geomorphs (people that can casue Earthquakes and such), and other cool powers. But it isn't a superhero story.

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