Title: Hindsight: 480 Seconds

Title: Hindsight: 480 Seconds Title Record # 56381
Author: Harlan Ellison
Date: 1973-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: When a rogue planet is detected on a collision course with the sun, earth's population escapes in giant flying cities, leaving one poet behind who volunteers to describe the event in a broadcast for the rest of humanity.

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Current Tags: end of the world (1), interstellar travel (1), city ships (1), poet (1), rogue planet (1), only humans (1), poets (1) Add Tags

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Year	Language	Title
1974^ⓘTranslated by Beata Della Frattina	Italian	480 secondi, o la città condannata
1984^ⓘ Translated by Boban Knežević & Aleksandar B. Nedeljković & Miodrag Milovanović	Serbian	Gledajući unazad: 480 sekundi^?Gledajuci unazad: 480 sekundi [as by Harlan Elison]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Future City	1973-07-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Trident Press (New York)	0-671-27103-2	$7.95^?$: US dollar	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Ken Braren
Future City	1974-06-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Pocket Books	0-671-77936-2	C$0.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	xvi+ 240	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Michael Gross
Urania #646	1974-06-09	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	646	Lit 400^?Lit: Italian lira	160	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Karel Thole
Future City	1974-08-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Pocket Books	0-671-77936-2	$0.95^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 240	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Michael Gross
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow	1974-12-00	Harlan Ellison	Walker & Co.	0-8027-5541-0	$8.95^?$: US dollar	238	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow	1974-12-00	Harlan Ellison	Walker & Co. / SFBC	6400	$2.49^?$: US dollar	184	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow	1976-00-00	Harlan Ellison	Millington	0-86000-075-3	£3.50^?£: UK pound	164	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Paul Redway
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow	1976-01-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	451-Y6848	$1.25^?$: US dollar	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow	1976-01-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library of Canada	Y6848	C$1.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Future City	1976-12-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Sphere Books	0-7221-3315-4	£0.75^?£: UK pound	236	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Angus McKie
Le città che ci aspettano	1977-07-01	ed. Roger Elwood	Mondadori (Oscar #781)	14171	Lit 1,500^?Lit: Italian lira	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Karel Thole
Approaching Oblivion	1977-10-00	Harlan Ellison	Pan Books	0-330-25197-X	£0.60^?£: UK pound	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Bob Layzell
Approaching Oblivion	1981-00-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library of Canada	0-451-09683-5	C$2.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Approaching Oblivion	1981-03-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	0-451-07718-0	$1.95^?$: US dollar	176	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Monolit, Science Fiction almanah	1984-04-00	ed. Boban Knežević^?Boban Knezevic	Izdanje prevodilaca, Monolit (Monolit #1)			510	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Dobrosav-Bob Živković^?Dobrosav-Bob Zivkovic Dobrosav-Bob Zhivkovich
Approaching Oblivion	1985-05-00	Harlan Ellison	Bluejay Books (Bluejay Special Edition)	0-312-94018-1	$7.95^?$: US dollar	213	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Barclay Shaw
Monolit, Science Fiction almanah	1987-00-00	ed. Boban Knežević^?Boban Knezevic	Izdanje prevodilaca, Monolit (Monolit #1)			510	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Dobrosav Bob Živković^?Dobrosav Bob Zivkovic Dobrosav Bob Zhivkovic
Approaching Oblivion	1989-00-00	Harlan Ellison	Nelson Doubleday / SFBC	14356		180	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Barclay Shaw
Approaching Oblivion	2009-05-00	Harlan Ellison	e-reads.com	978-0-7592-0429-4	$16.95^?$: US dollar	204	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Approaching Oblivion	2012-03-05	Harlan Ellison	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12356-4	£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Approaching Oblivion	2014-04-01	Harlan Ellison	Open Road Integrated Media (The Harlan Ellison Collection)	978-1-4976-0491-9	$9.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Approaching Oblivion	2014-06-03	Harlan Ellison	Open Road Integrated Media (The Harlan Ellison Collection)	978-1-4976-3650-7	$12.99^?$: US dollar	204	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Approaching Oblivion	date unknown	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	0-451-09683-5	$1.95^?$: US dollar	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Approaching Oblivion	date unknown	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	0-451-07718-0	$1.50^?$: US dollar	164	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon

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