_To explore the future with a myth-maker’s divining rod may be a highly dangerous undertaking. You may venture far from familiar landmarks and find yourself turning a sickly shade of green. But so sturdily built and tremendous is the “Trojan Horse” which Marion Z. Bradley has envisioned here that the iron clang of his hoofbeats may even now be deceiving the world of tomorrow. The strangest of strange events becomes terrifyingly real and suspense mounts high indeed in this unusual novelette by the author of_ JACKIE SEES A STAR. =Like the great wooden horse of Homeric legend were the Pharigs--an enemy at the gates of a new Ilium’s space-defended towers.=…
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