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Title: Four-Day Planet
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Release Date: October 6, 2006 [EBook #19478]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Four-Day Planet
by H. Beam Piper
SF ace books A Division of Charter Communications Inc. A GROSSET & DUNLAP COMPANY 360 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010
Copyright © 1961 by H. Beam Piper
Cover art by Michael Whelan
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DEDICATION
For Betty and Vall, with loving remembrance
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CONTENTS
1. The Ship from Terra
2. Reporter Working
3. Bottom Level
4. Main City Level
5. Meeting Out of Order
6. Elementary, My Dear Kivelson
7. Aboard the Javelin
8. Practice, 50-MM Gun
9. Monster Killing
10. Mayday, Mayday
11. Darkness and Cold
12. Castaways Working
13. The Beacon Light
14. The Rescu
Four-Day Planet
by H. Beam Piper
