Jenna N Hanchey

Aug 26, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Jenna N Hanchey |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu

For many cultures and societies, particularly those based in oral traditions, time is not linear. Not only does that mean time’s movement is different—cyclical, spiral, emergent—but that the very concepts of past, present, and future may not always hold. But Western means of planning for the future, predicting the future, and building systems of growth and development depend on these components. When time comprises different parts, our relations to it transform.