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Temple Trouble, by Henry Beam Piper
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Title: Temple Trouble
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Illustrator: Rogers
Release Date: July 18, 2006 [EBook #18861]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
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TEMPLE TROUBLE
BY H. BEAM PIPER
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Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
Illustrated by Rogers
Through a haze of incense and altar smoke, Yat-Zar looked down from his golden throne at the end of the dusky, many-pillared temple. Yat-Zar was an idol, of gigantic size and extraordinarily good workmanship; he had three eyes, made of turquoises as big as doorknobs, and six arms. In his three right hands, from top to bottom, he held a sword with a flame-shaped blade,