| "A Matter of Traces" | |||
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| Short story by Frank Herbert | |||
 Fantastic Universe, November 1958 | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
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| Published in | Fantastic Universe | ||
| Publication type | Periodical | ||
| Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
| Publication date | 1958 | ||
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"A Matter of Traces" is a science fiction short story by American writer Frank Herbert, first appeared in Fantastic Universe magazine in November 1958 and later in Herbert's 1985 short story collection Eye. It is the first story in Herbert's ConSentiency universe, one of his three elaborate fictional universes spanning multiple volumes (the others being the Duniverse, and the Pandora Sequence developed with co-author Bill Ransom).