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    The Issahar Artifacts
    The Issahar Artifacts
    The Issahar Artifacts
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    The Issahar Artifacts

    By Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Issahar Artifacts - Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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      Title: The Issahar Artifacts

      Author: Jesse Franklin Bone

      Release Date: June 29, 2009 [EBook #29271]

      Language: English

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      THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS

      By J. F. BONE

      Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy.

      The following manuscript was discovered during the excavation of a lateral connecting link between the North-South streamways in Narhil Province near Issahar on Kwashior. The excavator, while passing through a small valley about 20 yursts south of the city, was jammed by a mass of oxidized and partially oxidized metallic fragments. On most worlds this would not be unusual, but Kwashior has no recorded history of metallic artifacts. The terrestrial operator, with unusual presence of mind, reported the stoppage immediately. Assasul, the District Engineering monitor, realized instantly that no metallic debris should exist in that area, and in consequence ordered a most careful excavation in the event that the artifacts might have cultural significance.

      The debris proved to be the remnants of an ancient spaceship similar to those described in Sector Chronicles IV through VII, but of much smaller size and cruder design—obviously a relic of pre-expansion days. Within the remnants of the ship was found a small box of metal covered with several thicknesses of tar and wax impregnated fabric which had been mostly destroyed. The metal itself was badly oxidized, but served to protect an inner wooden box that contained a number of thin sheets of a fragile substance composed mainly of cellulose which were brown

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