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From: brad@rtech.UUCP (Brad Bulger)
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Subject: Re: "time flowing backwards"
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 20:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 20:49:10 1985
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> From: callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Gaylene Callaghan DTN:523-4523)
> Speaking of time flowing backwards, I read a "short" story a while
> back and I have no idea where I put the magazine, or even if I still
> have it.
> It was about a person (alien, I believe) on the run that could "remember"
> the future and plan his path on what he "remembered". He had no view of
> the past, immediate or otherwise.  (Sorry, that's all I remember)

This sounds like "The Golden Man" by Philip K. Dick - it's the title
story of a short story collection of his.  The title character is a
mutant who escapes capture or danger by selecting a safe path out of
his "memories" of possible futures, and who has no conception of the
past.