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Cover for Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday
Short Story

Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday

1966

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About this story

In a world where time runs backward, librarians remove books from existence instead of preserving them. The scheduled erasure of a crucial volume becomes the focus of a struggle over time's direction.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Aug 27, 1965

    Composition: no later than Aug 27, 1965

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Aug 27, 1965

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Aug 27, 1965

  3. Aug 1966

    First published Aug 1966

    Amazing Stories

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Genealogy

  • Basis forCounter-Clock WorldCounter-Clock World expands the time-reversal premise developed in Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday.