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    No Shield from the Dead
    No Shield from the Dead
    No Shield from the Dead
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    No Shield from the Dead

    By Gordon R. Dickson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 21, 2011

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      No Shield from the Dead - Gordon R. Dickson

      Project Gutenberg's No Shield from the Dead, by Gordon Rupert Dickson

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

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      Title: No Shield from the Dead

      Author: Gordon Rupert Dickson

      Release Date: May 18, 2010 [EBook #32410]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO SHIELD FROM THE DEAD ***

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      This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      NO SHIELD FROM THE DEAD

      By Gordon R. Dickson

      No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield. Yet he was defenseless.

      t was a nice little party, but a bit obvious. Terri Mac saw through it before he had taken half a dozen steps into the apartment. A light flush staining his high cheek-bones. This is ridiculous, he said.

      The light chatter ceased. Cocktail glasses were set down on various handy tables and ledges; and all faces in the room turned toward a man in his late fifties who sat propped up invalid-wise on pillows in a chair in a corner of the room.

      The Comptroller is perspicacious, said the old man, agreeably, waving one hand in a casual manner. On your way, children.

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