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    Conquest Over Time
    Conquest Over Time
    Conquest Over Time
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    Conquest Over Time

    Written by Michael Shaara

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Pat Travis, a spacer renowned for his luck, is suddenly quite out of it. His job is to beat his competitors to sign newly-Contacted human races to commercial contracts...But what can he do when he finds he's on a planet that consults astrology for literally every major decision - and he has arrived on one of the worst-aspected days in history?Michael Shaara, later to write the Pulitzer-winning novel "The Killer Angels", wrote this story for Fantastic Universe in 1956. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Michael Shaara

    Michael Shaara (1928-88) was an American writer of science, sports and historical fiction. He served in the Korean War, was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University. The Killer Angels won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.

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