Project Gutenberg 2006-06-20 Public domain in the USA. 202 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam Crossroads of Destiny Produced from Fantastic Universe Science Fiction July 1959 Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Crossroads of Destiny" by H. Beam Piper is a speculative fiction story written in the late 1950s. This short narrative explores themes of alternate history and the consequences of pivotal moments in time. The story delves into the idea that history as we know it could have taken different paths had specific events occurred differently. The plot unfolds during a conversation among several men in a train club car, centered around the concept of a television show titled "Crossroads of Destiny." They discuss various historical events and how changing even small details could lead to vastly different outcomes. As they entertain these possibilities, a mysterious stranger seems out of place and raises questions about alternate dimensions and timelines. The protagonist eventually discovers a peculiar dollar bill, which serves as a tangible representation of the alternate reality the stranger might have hailed from. Through this exploration, Piper provokes thought on the fragility of history and the significant impacts of seemingly minor events. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 52289 52167 2025-02-08T05:39:33.956515 2023-09-08T10:22:44.189046 text/html text/html 48623 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 18735 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 87258 2025-02-08T05:39:37.828465 application/epub+zip 86001 2025-02-08T05:39:35.618497 application/epub+zip 86001 2025-02-08T05:39:34.529486 application/epub+zip 173593 2025-02-08T05:39:39.517455 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 166022 2025-02-08T05:39:37.186484 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 138938 2022-09-09T04:50:49.784284 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46567 46470 2025-02-08T05:39:33.696473 2023-09-08T10:22:44.006046 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 46441 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 17952 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 46432 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17936 2006-06-20T12:07:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21788 2025-02-08T05:39:39.648453 application/rdf+xml 13484 2025-02-08T05:39:35.077469 image/jpeg 3354 2025-02-08T05:39:34.803493 image/jpeg 84452 2025-02-08T05:39:33.963482 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia