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    Turning Point
    Turning Point
    Turning Point
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    Turning Point

    By Philip B. Parsons and Alfred Coppel

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Turning Point - Philip B. Parsons

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Turning Point, by Alfred Coppel

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

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      Title: Turning Point

      Author: Alfred Coppel

      Illustrator: Philip Parsons

      Release Date: April 23, 2010 [EBook #32104]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TURNING POINT ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

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

      TURNING POINT

      By Alfred Coppel

      Illustrated by Philip Parsons

      The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick's decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?

      This, then, was the Creche, Anno Domini 2500. A great, mile-square blind cube topping a ragged mountain; bare escarpments falling away to a turbulent sea. For five centuries the Creche had stood so, and the Androids had come forth in an unending stream to labor for Man, the Master....

      —Quintus Bland, The Romance of Genus Homo.

      irector Han Merrick paced the floor nervously. His thin, almost ascetic face was pale and drawn.

      We can't allow it, Virginia, he said, Prying of this sort can only precipitate a pogrom or worse. Erikson is a bigot of the worst kind. The danger— He broke off helplessly.

      His wife shook her head slowly. It cannot be prevented, Han. Someone was bound to start asking questions sooner or later. History should have taught us that. And five hundred years of secrecy was more than anyone had a right to expect. Nothing lasts forever.

      The trouble is, Merrick told himself, simply that I am the wrong man for this job. I should never have taken it. There's a wrongness in what we are doing here that colors my every reaction and makes me incapable of acting on my own. Always the doubts and secret questioning. If the social structure of our

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