Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00
EBOOK CROSSROADS OF DESTINY ***
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Science Fiction July 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any
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Crossroads
of
Destiny
by
H. Beam Piper
No wonder he'd been so interested in the talk of whether our
people accepted these theories!
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Readers who remember the Hon. Stephen Silk, diplomat extraordinary, in
LONE STAR PLANET (FU, March 1957), later published as A PLANET FOR
TEXANS (Ace Books), will find the present story a challenging
departure--this possibility that the history we know may not be
absolute....
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CROSSROADS OF DESTINY
I still have the dollar bill. It's in my box at the bank, and I think
that's where it will stay. I simply won't destroy it, but I can think of
nobody to whom I'd be willing to show it--certainly nobody at the
college, my History Department colleagues least of all. Merely to tell
the story would brand me irredeemably as a crackpot, but crackpots are
tolerated, even on college faculties. It's only when they begin
producing physical evidence that they get themselves actively resented.
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