EBOOK TEMPLE TROUBLE ***
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Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction,
April, 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
[Illustration]
TEMPLE TROUBLE
BY H. BEAM PIPER
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Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to
get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull
counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
Illustrated by Rogers
Through a haze of incense and altar smoke, Yat-Zar looked down from
his golden throne at the end of the dusky, many-pillared temple.
Yat-Zar was an idol, of gigantic size and extraordinarily good
workmanship; he had three eyes, made of turquoises as big as
doorknobs, and six arms. In his three right hands, from top to bottom,
he held a sword with a flame-shaped blade, a jeweled object of vaguely
phallic appearance, and, by the ears, a rabbit. In his left hands were
a bronze torch with burnished copper flames, a big goblet, and a pair
of scales with an egg in one pan balanced against a skull in the
other.
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