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The Rim Worlds

... out on the Galactic Rim things are very iffy and if you fart really hard your're liable to blow yourself on to an Alternate Time Track.

A Bertram Chandler.
























Astounding - Jan 1947
(Cover Timmins)

Astounding - Jan 1947

Short Story

A soft world of clouds and drizzles and weathered hills doesn't build a hard people. And soft people - well, they have quite different, quite potent means to their ends!