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Robert A. Heinlein

First published April 1941
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A patient in a psychiatric hospital believes everyone is an actor or a robot devoted to making him believe in "reality", and only in his dreams can he see through the delusion.

per Between Time and Terror: ©1941 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.; copyright renewed ©1968 by Robert A. Heinlein. Reprinted by permission of the Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.

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