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The Quincunx of Time

(1973)
(A book in the Haertel Scholium series)
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Earth is Queen of the Universe, but someone is trying to destroy her.By shattering time forever! Travel at light speeds is common, & Earth is first in the universe, reigning over many worlds. But in order to rule effectively, Captain Robin Weinbaum, head of Security, needed an extremely advanced communications s ystem. He got it w/the Dirac transmitter, the first machine capable of sending instantaneous messages anywhere in the universe. The only problem was that someone called J. Shelby Stevens had a machine that could do the impossible--tap the transmissions before they were even made! It was Weinbaum's job to find Stevens. And unless he did, time would be abolished & the universe closed to Earth forever!


Genre: Science Fiction

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