The Return
H. Beam Piper · 1954
A science fiction novella by H. Beam Piper, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1954. Two explorers fly a helicopter over a post-nuclear-war America, searching a ruined Pittsburgh for a cache of books and finding an isolated group of survivors with a strange but logical religion.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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