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Last Enemy

H. Beam Piper · 1950

Last Enemy is a 1950 science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction. It is set in a society where belief in reincarnation and discarnate communication shapes customs, making assassination an honorable profession, and follows scientist Dallona of Hadron's experiments verifying survival after death.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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