temporal-sci-fi
Temporal Mechanics: When Your Lifespan Has a Spot Price Time is money. In the Stolen Stream universe, that cliché becomes a literal, tradeable asset class—one traded on exchanges from Lagos to Shanghai, where your future decades have a spot price and your remaining years can be shorted by hedge
Lore
The 1588 Device That Broke Time Venice, While the Doge counted ducats and merchants measured silk, Alvise Eschendorf was committing heresy against causality itself. In a soundproofed workshop on the Giudecca Canal, he assembled the Frozen Light Singularity — the first and most dangerous engine of temporal capitalism ever built. This
Physics
The 10:1 Temporal Toll: A Biological Cost Function Analysis Time travel in The Stolen Stream is not a clean teleportation — it is a debt owed to the universe in flesh and bone. The 10:1 temporal toll is the irreducible biological cost of moving through the temporal stream, encoded
Hard Science Fiction
Most time travel fiction treats physics like a suggestion. Hard science fiction doesn't have that luxury. Here's what separates stories that get it right from ones that quietly cheat — and the real physics behind frame-dragging, temporal shear, and biological cost systems.