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    The Honored Prophet
    The Honored Prophet
    The Honored Prophet
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    The Honored Prophet

    By Virgil Finlay and William E. Bentley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Honored Prophet - Virgil Finlay

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Honored Prophet, by William E. Bentley

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

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      Title: The Honored Prophet

      Author: William E. Bentley

      Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

      Release Date: May 10, 2010 [EBook #32316]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HONORED PROPHET ***

      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 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE HONORED PROPHET

      BY WILLIAM E. BENTLEY

      Illustrated by Virgil Finlay

      The black dwarf sun sent its assassin on a mission which was calculated to erase the threat to its existence. But prophesies run in strange patterns and, sometimes, an act of evasion becomes an act of fulfillment....

      he ruler of a planet with a black dwarf sun had called a meeting of the council. It was some time before they were assembled, and he waited patiently without thought.

      When the patchwork of mentalities was complete he allowed the conclusions of the prognosticator to occupy his mind. A wall of unanimous incredulity sprang up. The statement was that when the inhabitants of a distant planet achieved space flight they would come to this planet,

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