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    Crossroads of Destiny
    Crossroads of Destiny
    Crossroads of Destiny
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    Crossroads of Destiny

    By H. Beam Piper

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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 . . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateSep 9, 2016
    ISBN9781515406570
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      Crossroads of Destiny - H. Beam Piper

      Crossroads of Destiny

      by H. Beam Piper

      © 2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / nevarpp

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0657-0

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      Crossroads of Destiny

      by H. Beam Piper

      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 . . . .

      No wonder he’d been so interested in the talk of whether our people accepted these theories!

      *

      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.

      *

      When I went into the club-car for a nightcap before going back to my compartment

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