Justin Counting Stories

by Harry Turtledove

Release: December 1999
Format: Novel
Genres: None
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

At twenty-one, Justin Kloster has it made: one more year of college and then happily ever after with his sweetheart Megan. Then his forty-year-old self shows up to prevent Justin from making terrible mistakes that will lead to an eventual nasty divorce with Megan.

Turtledove tells the story twice: once from the Justin-21’s point-of-view and once from that of Justin-40. Together, the stories form a short novel-length work that can be read in either order.

— Michael Main

I was stupid. I didn’t know enough. I didn’t know how to take care of her.

DEBUT

Justin Counting Stories, two pts. [may be read in either order], Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1999 [“Counting Up”] and Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1999 [“Counting Down”].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Groupings

The Time Traveller’s Almanac (anthology)

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