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Copyright © 2020 by Bill Flanagan

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First Tiller Press hardcover edition September 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Flanagan, Bill, 1955– author.

Title: Fifty in reverse : a novel / by Bill Flanagan.

Description: First Tiller Press hardcover edition. | New York : Tiller Press, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020010334 (print) | LCCN 2020010335 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982152673 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982152697 (ebook)

Subjects: GSAFD: Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3556.L313 F54 2020 (print) | LCC PS3556.L313 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010334

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010335

ISBN 978-1-9821-5267-3

ISBN 978-1-9821-5269-7 (ebook)