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    Summit
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    Summit

    By Mack Reynolds

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Summit - Mack Reynolds

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Summit, by Dallas McCord Reynolds, Illustrated by Freas

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Summit

      Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds

      Release Date: December 1, 2007 [eBook #23669]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT***

      E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      Transcriber's note.

      This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, February, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      SUMMIT

      By MACK REYNOLDS

      Illustrated by Freas

      Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, Necessary.

      Two king-sized bands blared martial music, the "Internationale and the Star-Spangled Banner," each seemingly trying to drown the other in a Götterdämmerung of acoustics.

      Two lines of troops, surfacely differing in uniforms and in weapons, but basically so very the same, so evenly matched, came to attention. A thousand hands slapped a thousand submachine gun stocks.

      Marshal Vladimir Ignatov strode stiff-kneed down the long march, the stride of a man for years

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