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A Clean Escape
John Kessel · 1985short story
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″A Clean Escape″ is a 1985 science fiction short story by American writer John Kessel. The story was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in May 1985, and later adapted into a play by author in 1986. It features a psychiatrist attempting to cure a special patient of his amnesia. Slowly, as the patient regains his memory, more and more secrets are revealed about who this person is and the truth about their civilization as a whole.
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- contained in Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Centuryanthology
- contained in Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolationscollection
- contained in The Collected Kesselcollection
- contained in The Mammoth Book of SF Warsanthology
- contained in The Presidential Papers Plus Imagining the Human Future: Up, Down, or Sideways Plus The Last American and Much Morecollection
- contained in The Pure Productcollection