He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper
"He Walked Around the Horses" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction short story published in 1948. Based on the true disappearance of diplomat Benjamin Bathurst in 1809, the story unfolds through letters and official reports investigating his vanishing. Piper imagines that Bathurst slipped into a parallel universe where the American Revolution failed and history took a dramatically different course. The tale cleverly uses historical figures in unexpected roles, building to
a surprising revelation about the identity of one investigator. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964 |
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| Illustrator | Cartier, Edd, 1914-2008 |
| Title | He Walked Around the Horses |
| Series Title | Produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April 1948. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Walked_Around_the_Horses |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, William Woods and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 64.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 18807 |
| Release Date | Jul 11, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 6, 2013 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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