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Short Story

Jon's World

1954

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About this story

After a war with self-replicating weapons, two men travel into the past to recover the knowledge needed to rebuild. Meanwhile, a boy's visions of a peaceful alternative world raise questions about what history might have been.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Oct 21, 1952

    Composition: no later than Oct 21, 1952

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Oct 21, 1952

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Oct 21, 1952

  3. 1954

    First published 1954

    Time to Come · Farrar