Homesteaders, pioneer men and women and children and even dogs, look confused and shocked. They point at the limousine and squawk. Bowie stares back. She looks out the limousine window and sees only green. In Walter Tevis's novel, time is the space the characters must pass through and eventually be destroyed by.
Time is entropy.
Who Fell to Earth, time is subjective. Where you are in time depends on how you see. And when the government officials capture the alien Newton in the film they don't blind him as they did in Tevis's book, but weld the alien's disguise, his humanoid contact lenses, into place. Where Tevis's Newton is literally blind, Bowie has been disfigured and changed. Postmodernism as the Missing Link Walter Tevis and Philip K. Dick are both modernists in so much as they are both concerned with arriving at final meanings, exposing truths.