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Short Story

What'll We Do with Ragland Park?

1963

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About this story

A media executive discovers that a folk singer's ballads have an uncanny relationship to events in the world. An attempt to use that talent in a political struggle raises the question of whether the songs predict the future or create it.

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Work history

  1. no later than Apr 29, 1963

    Composition: no later than Apr 29, 1963

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Apr 29, 1963

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Apr 29, 1963

  3. Nov 1963

    First published Nov 1963

    Amazing Stories

  4. Source material for The Crack in Space

    The Crack in Space draws on this story in addition to Cantata 140.

    The Crack in Space