# Time-Dilation in Science Fiction stories?

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**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-dilation-in-science-fiction-stories/526236 "2010-01-24T16:06:20Z")\
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_One Face_, also by Niven. Not _technically_ a relativistic time dilation story but the same effect - in this case a hyperdrive malfunction causes an almost-instantaneous journey, ship’s time, to last billions of years, external time, and the travellers have to try to make a living in a universe that’s almost aged itself to death.

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