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Flight From Tomorrow
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Title: Flight From Tomorrow
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Release Date: May 27, 2006 [EBook #18460]
Language: English
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Flight From Tomorrow
COMPLETE NOVELET
by H. Beam Piper
There was no stopping General Zarvas' rebellion
(Illustration by Lawrence)
[Illustration]
Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn't know the past quite well enough....
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But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!
The Palace, where Hradzka, surrounded by his sycophants and guards, had lorded it over a solar system, was now an inferno. Those who had been too closely identified with the dictator's rule to hope for forgiveness were fighting to the last, seeking only a quick death in combat; one by one, their isolated points of resistance were being wiped ou