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Ambitious sci-fi novel imagines a universe where time flows backwards

New Scientist · global

People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconcerting, “backwards” world, finds science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson

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