It begins with a young man speaking to the narrator, the Bartender, in 1970. The story involves an intricate series of time-travel journeys. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "'-All You Zombies-'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change) he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. Some of the same elements also appear later in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1988), including the Circle of Ouroboros and the Temporal Corps. "-All You Zombies-" further develops themes explored by the author in a previous work: " By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier. In 1980, it was nominated for the Balrog Award for short fiction. Since its publication, the work has become one of the most famous science fiction short stories about time travel.
The story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel.
It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy. "-All You Zombies-" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. For the song by The Hooters, see All You Zombies (song).
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