When 1950’s science fiction writer Mark Gordian has a flurry of great stories (“Watergate,” “Houston, We've Got a Problem,” “Neutron Star,” and the ultimate time-travel yarn, “All You Zombies”), Pete Lundquist has nothing but admiration, until Gordian comes out with a story that Pete himself has been outlining.
“Oh, my God! Tet Offensive!” McGregor stared from one of them to the other. “You’re not telling me that one’s based on fact?”

Variants

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  1. “Hindsight,” as by Eric G. Iverson, in Analog, mid-Dec 1984.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Harry Turtledove as by Eric G. Iverson