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A classic and significant SF novel by a quite notable author. However, This article is nothing but plot summery at the moment.
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Maclean's Magazine (Canada) serialized May and June 1955
Doubleday July 1955, 2nd ed. August 1955.
Science Fiction Book Club Edition February 1956.
Bantam Books paperback edition August 1956
The quote from Hemingway that inspired the title is on the page following the dedication "To my son David":
Not this August, nor this September; you have this year to do what you like.
Not next August, nor next September; that is still to soon . . .
But the Year after that or the year after that, they fight.