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Re:The quest to crystallize time by orless on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:43AM (#13830019)
Actually based on a short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life

Re:The quest to crystallize time by wavefunction on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:12AM (#13839645)
Not from what I know. PK Dick towards the end of his life believed himself to be living both in 1974 and as an early Christian named Thomas in the Levant sometime in the first century CE contemporaneously.
Re:The quest to crystallize time by orless on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:09PM (#13846973)
It's easy to check:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/

Writers: Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (based on the story "Story of Your Life" written by)