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Don't Live in the Past

Damon Knight

First published June 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

There has been an accident: several items have fallen in the past. A man is sent to make sure they won't cause any harm. He observes when first items appear at inappropriate moment. Eventually he gets stranded in the past and finds that things he has learned about history aren't as accurate as he thought, and that his future isn't such a utopia he had thought.

Publications (8)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1951 Galaxy Science Fiction, June 1951 World Editions, Inc. MAGAZINE 56
February 1952 Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 520
August 1966 Turning On: Thirteen Stories Doubleday Collection 137
1967 Turning On Ace Books Collection 119
June 1967 Turning On Gollancz Collection 122
1969 Turning On Sphere Books Collection 122
September 2011 Turning On Gateway / Orion Collection |119
August 2014 Far Out / In Deep / Off Centre / Turning On Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 502