SF: Authors' Choice 2

Easy for the shore-based wordsmith, with his shelves of file copies ready to hand, with his cupboards stacked with carbons easily accessible after a chair to stand on has been pulled up. But when I received Mr Harrison's request for a contribution to this anthology I was over five hundred miles from home, with no file copies to look up, with no cc's but those of work in progress. I am inclined to think, now, that this was advantageous rather than otherwise. The question I asked myself was "Which is the most vivid in the memory?" "Late" was the answer.

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