Greg Knauss on Nostr: Long shot here, but: Science fiction short story about a guy who has slowed down the ...
Long shot here, but: Science fiction short story about a guy who has slowed down the aging process, but at the (unintended) cost of slower perception. The world around him goes faster and faster, decades strobing by, and the story ends with him sitting at a typewriter, tapping out the last letters of his suicide note over the course of hundreds of years.
It’s probably been 30, 35 years since I read it.
Ring any bells?
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