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Chronicle · Written 1934 → Published 1936

The Shadow Out of Time

Astounding Stories, June 1936

The Shadow Out of Time

A professor loses five years to amnesia, and returns with fragmented dreams of a body that wasn't his and a library built for minds that weren't human. An expedition to the Australian desert, and a set of ruins that shouldn't be there, confirms that the dreams were memories on loan.

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