''Chronopolis'' is a

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by British writer J. G. Ballard, first published in 1960. The story begins with a man in prison, Newman, and proceeds to examine his fascination with the concept of

time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

in a world where clocks have been prohibited and are regulated by time

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. "Chronopolis" appears in an anthology edited by Andrew Goodwyn, ''Science Fiction Stories''.

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