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    Lost in the Future
    Lost in the Future
    Lost in the Future
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    Lost in the Future

    By John Victor Peterson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateDec 5, 2012
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      Short-short is too implausible--or maybe not so implausible--just poorly presented. Needs more space.

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    Lost in the Future - John Victor Peterson

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    Title: Lost in the Future

    Author: John Victor Peterson

    Release Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #28645]

    Language: English

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    Did you ever wonder what might happen if mankind ever exceeded the speed of light? Here is a profound story based on that thought—a story which may well forecast one of the problems to be encountered in space travel.

    lost

    in

    the

    future

    by ... John Victor Peterson

    They had discovered a new planet—but its people did not see them until after they had traveled on.

    Albrecht and I went down in a shuttleship, leaving the stellatomic orbited pole-to-pole two thousand miles above Alpha Centauri's second planet. While we took an atmosphere-brushing approach which wouldn't burn off the shuttle's skin,

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