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Needle in a timestack

by Robert Silverberg

This science fiction anthology features award-winning short stories exploring themes of time travel, space travel, and mortality. The collection includes tales of temporal sabotage, reality television voyeurism, and mysterious spaceship stowaways.

Accession 10364 ISBN — Publisher Sphere
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