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Title: Summit

Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds

Release Date: December 1, 2007 [eBook #23669]

Language: English

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SUMMIT

MACK REYNOLDS

Illustrated by Freas

[Illustration]

Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, Necessary.

Two king-sized bands blared martial music, the "Internationale" and the "Star-Spangled Banner," each seemingly trying to drown the other in a Götterdämmerung next >