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Originally published in the United States by HarperPrism, an imprint of HarperCollins

Publishers, 1995

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Copyright © Robert J. Sawyer, 1995

This novel was originally serialized in four parts under the title Hobson’s Choice in Analog

Science Fiction and Fact magazine’s mid-December 1994 through March 1995 issues.

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The terminal experiment / Robert Sawyer.

Originally publ.: New York : HarperPrism, 1995.

ISBN 978-0-14-317511-7

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