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Collector's Item, by Robert F. Young
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Title: Collector's Item
Author: Robert F. Young
Release Date: May 22, 2009 [EBook #28924]
Language: English
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We've often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of MISS KATY THREE and THE FIRST SWEET SLEEP OF NIGHT to become dispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know! He'd chill us to the bone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth, exactly as he has done here. And thrill us, too--with the liveliest kind of entertainment.
collector's item
by ... Robert F. Young
Very trivial things can go into the weaving of a nest. The human race, for instance--
The condensation of the histories of ten thousand races into a text concise enough to fit into a single volume had been a task of unprecedented proportions. There had been times when the Galactic Historian had doubted whether even his renowned abilities were up to the assignment that the Galactic Board of Education had so lightly tossed his way, times when he had thrown u