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Free DownloadThis etext was produced from The Counterfeit Man - More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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could never stop us."
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At the edge of the Jungle-land a great beast stood with green-gleaming eyes, licking his fanged jaws as he watched the glowing city, sensing somehow that the mystifying circle of light and motion was soon to become his Jungle-land again. In the city the turmoil bubbled over, as wave after wave of the people made the short safari across the intervening jungle to the circles of their ships. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers--all carried their small, frail remembrances out to the ships. There was music among them still, but it was a different sort of music, now, an eerie, hopeless music that drifted out of the city in the wind. It caused all but the bravest of the beasts, their hair prickling on their backs, to run in panic through the jungle darkness. It was a melancholy music, carried from thought to thought, from voice to voice as the people of the city wearily prepared themselves once again for the long journey.
To run away. In the darkness of secrecy, to
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A well-written story of a future where humanity has split into a warlike totalitarian half and a pacifist artistic half, with the hunters chasing the pacifists from world to world in an effort to kill them. Or so they think. No one really knows what the hunters want after so many thousands of years.
Tightly plotted, with sympathetic characters, and honest, with no pulled punches.
Tightly plotted, with sympathetic characters, and honest, with no pulled punches.
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