The Return by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
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"The Return" by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire is a science fiction short story published in 1954. More than 250 years after nuclear war devastated Earth, explorers from Fort Ridgeway encounter a fortified community with a mysterious religion centered on a god who died in battle and will return. The community believes this god taught deductive reasoning and observation. As the explorers seek their help retrieving precious microfilmed books, they
discover the community may believe one of them is their awaited deity—a misconception with dangerous implications. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964 |
|---|---|
| Author | McGuire, John J. (John Joseph), 1917-1981 |
| Title | The Return |
| Series Title | Produced from The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes, 1960. |
| Note | There is an improved edition of this title, eBook #18855 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(Piper_and_McGuire_short_story) |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 19158 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-19158-4 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2006 |
| Last Update | Aug 8, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 410 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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