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Title: Flight into Yesterday Title Record # 4862
Author: Charles L. Harness
Date: 1953-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note: According to "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", the magazine version was expanded for book publication. Charles L. Harness made the following comment about this work's title in the preface for Station Ganymede
Donald Wollheim did me a big favor in providing a good title for my first novel. As submitted to Startling Stories I called it “Toynbee 22.” Sam Merwin objected to that, he said nobody would understand it, and he published the story as “Flight into Yesterday.” Several years later Donald brought it out as a paperback as The Paradox Men. Even more incomprehensible, but it turned out to be irresistible, and I've stayed with it for all subsequent editions.
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1953The following is stated in the preface which Charles L. Harness wrote for Station Ganymede
Donald Wollheim did me a big favor in providing a good title for my first novel. As submitted to Startling Stories I called it “Tonybee 22.” Sam Merwin objected to that, he said nobody would understand it, and he published the story as “Flight into Yesterday.” Several years later Donald brought it out as a paperback as The Paradox Men. Even more incomprehensible, but it turned out to be irresistible, and I've stayed with it for all subsequent editions.
Also note that the following unattributed note was in the ISFDB record for this title - “Expansion of "Flight into Yesterday", first published in Startling Stories (May 1949).” Thus it's not known if the novel is just a republication (as Harness implies) or an expansion of the magazine story.
The Paradox Men
Year Language Title
1977Translated by Michel Deutsch
French Vol vers hier
1978Translated by Mieke Meuldrager-Ezelin
Dutch Op drift in paradoxen [as by Charles Harness]
1981 German Der Mann ohne Vergangenheit
1988 Italian Paradosso cosmico
2019Translated by 中村融
Japanese [as by
チャールズ・L・ハーネス?Chāruzu L. Hānesu
Chaaruzu L. Haanesu
]
Year Title
1949 Flight into Yesterday (Complete Novel)
Year Language Title
1970 Italian Paradosso cosmico (Complete Novel) [as by C. L. Harness]

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Finalists (as ) 2020 Seiun Best Translated Long Story

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Flight into Yesterday 1953-00-00 Charles L. Harness Bouregy & Curl  
$2.75?$: US dollar
256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Ric Binkley  
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