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The Day of the Boomer Dukes, by Frederik Pohl
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Title: The Day of the Boomer Dukes
Author: Frederik Pohl
Illustrator: Emsh
Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22559]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art--a device, practised in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations--time-travel stories are not science fiction. Time-travel, however, has become acceptable to science fiction readers as a traditional device in stories than are otherwise admissible in the genre. Here, Frederik Pohl employs it to portray the amusingly catastrophic meeting of three societies.
THE DAY OF THE BOOMER DUKES
by Frederik Pohl
Illustrated by EMSH
[Illustration: There was a silvery aura around the kid ... the cops' guns hit him ... but he didn't notice....]
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Paptaste udderly, semped sempsemp dezhavoo, qued schmerz--Excuse me. I mean to say that it was like an endless diet of days, boring, tedious....
No, it loses too much in the translation. Explete my reasons, I say. Do my reasons matter? N