"Stoimvlad is a man with a unique ability – he can stop time for 9 seconds at a time! But with great power comes, of course, the need for great psychotherapy…" Dave Baxter http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=903
Published in early 2006, at least six months before Hiro Nakamura hit the scene. Coincidence? You be the judge.
