Bratman’s Law of SF Literary Precedence

When, in conversation, one mentions a contemporary science fiction story or novel as an illustration of an concept, someone will cite an earlier example written in the 1950’s or early 1960’s.

You know, that Tiplerian idea of the God at the End of Time, like in Days of Cain.

Oh, Fredric Brown wrote a story about that in the 60’s

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