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Per Cent Prophet, by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Title: Fifty Per Cent Prophet
Author: Gordon Randall Garrett
Illustrator: Schoenherr
Release Date: October 25, 2009 [EBook #30337]
Language: English
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FIFTY
PER CENT
PROPHET
By DARREL T. LANGART
That he was a phony Swami was beyond doubt. That he was a genuine prophet, though, seemed ... but then, what's the difference between a dictator and a true prophet? So was he....
Illustrated by Schoenherr
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Dr. Joachim sat in the small room behind his reception hall and held his fingers poised above the keys of the rather creaky electrotyper on his desk. The hands seemed to hang there, long, slender, and pale, like two gulls frozen suddenly in their long swoop towards some precious tidbit floating on the writhing sea beneath, ready to begin their drop instantly, as soon as time