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Hindsight: 480 Seconds

Harlan Ellison

First published July 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

When a rogue planet is detected on a collision course with the sun, earth's population escapes in giant flying cities, leaving one poet behind who volunteers to describe the event in a broadcast for the rest of humanity.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1973 Cover Future City Trident Press (New York) Anthology 238
June 1974 Cover Future City Pocket Books Anthology 223
August 1974 Cover Future City Pocket Books Anthology 223
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. Collection 231
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. / SFBC Collection 178
1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Millington Collection 158
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library Collection 158
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 158
December 1976 Cover Future City Sphere Books Anthology 220
October 1977 Cover Approaching Oblivion Pan Books Collection 158
1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 158
March 1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library Collection 158
May 1985 Cover Approaching Oblivion Bluejay Books Collection 206
1989 Cover Approaching Oblivion Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 175
May 2009 Cover Approaching Oblivion e-reads.com Collection |158
March 2012 Cover Approaching Oblivion Gateway / Orion Collection
April 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |158
June 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |158
January 2020 Cover The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Recorded Books Omnibus |2158