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Old 05-30-2023, 04:20 AM   #1125
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Originally Posted by Lordblacknail View Post
I am still looking for the title of the short story about a group of guys who travel to the future one at a time, come back and just start drinking themselves silly, until one explains that the first thing he saw when he arrived in the future was a statue of a cockroach.....wearing a suit and hat and carrying a briefcase.
Well, a couple of things here fit, many don't, but at least there's a cockroach:

"The Figure" by Edward Grendon, originally in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1947. It has been anthologized a few times.

https://archive.org/details/Astoundi...e/n45/mode/2up
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