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Title: The Edge of the Knife

Author: Henry Beam Piper

Release Date: June 14, 2006 [EBook #18584]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:
This etext was produced from Amazing Stories, May 1957. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication
was renewed.
 THE EDGE
OF THE
KNIFE
By H. BEAM PIPER



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handle." "Too dangerous for our book." We'd like to know whether or not the readers of Amazing
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Chalmers stopped talking abruptly, warned by the sudden attentiveness of the class in front of him. They
were all staring; even Guellick, in the fourth row, was almost half awake. Then one of them, taking his
silence as an invitation to questions found his voice.