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Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling got us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The Crossroads - a place where thought-provoking twists and converts are provided with a great deal of wit and intelligence.Farmer Eben Smith is sick and tired of big government revealing him how to perform his life and his business. They pay him to bury his vegetation while individuals starve in the pavements, and he's not heading to take it nowadays. He's declaring his independence, launching up his fruits and vegetables, and at risk of the town to steering wheel and deal. . . .But before he is able to trade in his turnips, Eben'll have to deal with something bigger - a rest in the space/time continuum. He's at The Crossroads, where the truth is flipped upside-down and inside away. And before it's over, he'll switch his turnips into liquor, and the liquor into guns and gold, as he plunges into odd new worlds . . . finding ways to wreak havoc in every of them.The Crossroads first appeared in the February 1941 problem of Unknown Fantasy Fiction. At that time Hubbard's stature as a copy writer was well established. As creator and critic Robert Silverberg places it: he previously become a "master of the artwork of narrative." Hubbard's editors urged him to apply his gift idea for succinct characterization, original storyline, deft pacing and imaginative action to a genre that was new, and essentially overseas, to him - knowledge fiction and illusion. The others is history.Also includes the fantasy travels, Borrowed Glory, the haunting account of two immortals who wager on two mortals given an individual day of love . . . a wager that causes heartbreak and tragedy; and The Devil's Save predicated on the legend from the Flying Dutchman, in which the singular survivor of a disaster at sea is "rescued" by the devil himself and locates that fate rests on a move of the dice.
