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    Crossroad's of Destiny
    Crossroad's of Destiny
    Crossroad's of Destiny
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    Crossroad's 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
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateOct 20, 2016
    ISBN9781682994818
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      Crossroad's of Destiny - H. Beam Piper

      Crossroads of Destiny

      by H. Beam Piper

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13:978-1-68299-481-8

      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

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