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Does anyone remember Julian May? At the 1979 worldcon in Boston one of the freebies available was a photocopied chapter from her forthcoming book, The Many-Colored Land. In the book she posited one-way time travel from about a hundred years in our future to the Pliocene in one particular spot in France. This is an enchanting story which is, unfortunately, better than its sequels. As is so often the case. What was particularly charming about this, besides the book itself, is that she attended the first worldcon in 1939. Must have been very young, and one of the few women there. I have read a con report, and her name was not mentioned. She made no impression on the bloggers of the day, but decades later published her first novel. One more example of how a writer doesn't necessarily need to start early to become a success.