TY - BOOK AU - Piper,H.Beam AU - McGuire,John J. TI - The Return T2 - Produced from The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes, 1960 AV - PS PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction N1 - There is an improved edition of this title, eBook #18855; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(Piper_and_McGuire_short_story); Release date is 2006-09-01; Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Return" by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire is a science fiction short story published in 1954. More than 250 years after nuclear war devastated Earth, explorers from Fort Ridgeway encounter a fortified community with a mysterious religion centered on a god who died in battle and will return. The community believes this god taught deductive reasoning and observation. As the explorers seek their help retrieving precious microfilmed books, they discover the community may believe one of them is their awaited deity—a misconception with dangerous implications. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19158 ER -