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The masks of time

by Robert Silverberg

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Accession 8856 ISBN 0426064453 Publisher Tandem
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He appeared suddenly and mysteriously, claiming to be a visitor from 1000 years in the future, but his evidence was not entirely convincing. Was he merely an ingenious fraud, or was he an agent of chaos?

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