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Subject: Re: Book Request (Stephen Grady)
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From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke)

There may be several books that have time flowing backwards in the manner
you describe (I have seen at least one other short story), but the only
book I've ever seen using the idea is _Counter-Clock_World_ by Philip K.
Dick.
In contradiction to all the nice effects you described (order coming from
head, negative entropy, etc.), the books is actually rather depressing.
Life (and human society) can be looked at as running counter to entropy;
so not only do people regress to infanthood as they near death (this some-
times happens in our world), but all of mankind's inventions and creations
are slowly disappearing.  The task of libraries is to, at the proper time,
destroy all copies of books, works of art, patents . . .

I'm not claiming that this is your book, but it could be.

						
					--Peter Alfke  [jpa144@cit-vax]