After seeing a skeleton with a well-known ring on its finger, a spaceship is thrown back in time and the crew believes that one of them is fated to become that skeleton. This is an early story that addresses the question of whether something known about the future must become true.
He could feel the supple firmness of her body even through the folds of her undistended pressure suit.

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  1. “Time Wants a Skeleton” by Ross Rocklynne, Astounding, June 1941.
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