ddern@bbnccb@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/03/86)
From: "Daniel P. Dern" <ddern@bbnccb.ARPA> Regarding the query about a story labelled "This is the middle of the story...This is the end...This is the beginning." It sure feels like Cordwainer Smith. Unless it's Samuel Delaney's EMPIRE STAR. And I have this nagging feeling of some other story I can't quite place, which ends something like "Beginnings are easy...". Good question. Daniel Dern ddern@bbn.arpa
jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/11/86)
From: Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk> As I recall, the story that had the middle, the end, and then the beginning was by Harlan Ellison. The idea was that you assume lots of things as you read the middle and end that turn out to be ... I can't remember the name, but I do have it in a book on another continent, so if no one else answers this, and you remember to ask again in July or so, I can look it up.