The Glory That Was

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ANCIENT GREECE?

OR FUTURE HOAX ...

"You think the Emp has some sort of time machine that works inside his force wail, so he can run history over like a film?"

"Something like that."

"Won't work, comrade."

"Why not?"

"The acts we commit in ancient Greece would affect all subsequent history. Therefore, when our own century comes round, we shall never be born as and when we were, so we shan't exist to go back to ancient Greece to commit those acts."

Bulnes refrained from snorting. "I wouldn't jump to conclusions yet. Just because we find a section of Piriefs put back into its Periklean condition, and see a few characters flitting about in bedspreads, we shouldn't conclude that all Greece has been likewise transformed." Bulnes yawned. "In the morning we can go out and ask anybody if he's seen Aristotle."

THE GLORY THAT WAS

L.SPRAGUE DE CAMP

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THE GLORY THAT WAS

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Copyright © 1960 by L. Sprague de Camp

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First Ace printing: July 1979

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To Isaac Asimov,

who helped to push this one over the hump.