The Edge of the Knife

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Overview:

Title: The Edge of the Knife
Author: H. Beam Piper
Year: 2006
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
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Binding: ebook
Type: Chapter Book
Title Reference: The Edge of the Knife
Notes: HTML ebook. This is also available as plain text (us-ascii), without the illustrations. All available formats may be obtained from Ebook #18584. According to a transcriber's note, this was produced from Amazing Stories, May 1957. It contains uncredited illustrations, almost certainly from that issue; the last appears to be signed "Llew". The publisher's information gives the author as Henry Beam Piper, but the text itself says H. Beam Piper. A note before the text says: "Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net".