Reality can be more astounding than fantasy, and often unfurls a mysterious tendril to draw in the unsuspecting person. Encounters with troglodytes in a crypt, fluorescent honey and the house that goes to the ultimate extreme to get rid of its inhabitants, can happen. Library : General Formats
One Was Stubborn: Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories Collection: ss
โ Scribed by L. Ron Hubbard
- Publisher
- Galaxy Press
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 427 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1592127053
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โฆ Synopsis
Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world--they're here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback--a character as crazy-smart as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future --thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes . . . and see the light.
Or so says George Smiley--otherwise known as the Messiah. George claims that the reason things are vanishing is because he wants them to go away. He has no more use for the world . . . and so it goes. Say goodbye. But Old Shellback has a different idea, and since he is the most stubborn man in the universe, you might want to hear him out.
What's Shellback's idea? That two can play at this game. While George is making this world disappear, Old Shellback will make another one appear. Join him on an amazing odyssey--as he heads back to a future of his own making.
**By the spring of 1938, Hubbard's stature as a writer was...
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