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People Minus X / Lest We Forget Thee Earth (Classic Ace Double, D-291)
People Minus X / Lest We Forget Thee Earth - Classic Ace Double, D-291 Author:Raymond Z. Gallun, Calvin M. Knox (pseud Robert Silverberg) LEST WE FORGET THEE, EARTH written by Robert Silverberg under the pseudonym "Calvin M. Knox": — ~ ~~ ~ — A hundred thousand years ago, there had been a planet called Earth. It had been a proud world ruling a thousand vassal stars, but its stellar empire had turned upon and annihilated their conquerors, and wiped the name of Earth from the maps of ... more »space.
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But Earthmen still survived . . . a strange race of worldless men and women, by tradition advisers to rulers, but never themselves ruling. Wanderers through myriad planets, their origin was a half-forgotten legend.
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That was the situation when a strange quirk of fate sent Earthman Hallam Navarre on an intetrstellar wild goose chase. He had to bring back a strictly mythical treasure to his alien ruler, or die.« less