Joe Phillips said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:
LG> This is not necessarily true, Stewy. Take a look at the publication dates
 JP> Some authors have been known to write the end first and then build
 JP> a story  around it 
Doesn't really matter whether the end or the beginning were written first, 
the story gets copyrighted when the author turns in the final draft, and it 
gets stamped with a publication date in the year it hits the sales bins.
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