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Read on Archive.org → Cover image from Wikimedia CommonsGordon R. Dickson · 1964 · Short Story
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Read on Archive.org → Cover image from Wikimedia CommonsTam Doone is a news correspondent covering a war between the Friendlies, soldiers driven by fanatical religious faith, and the Exotic-backed forces on the planet St. Marie. Tam carries a personal vendetta against the Friendlies after one killed his brother-in-law. He manipulates battlefield communications and diplomatic channels to engineer a massacre, ensuring the Friendlies are cut off from retreat and destroyed. When he succeeds, the expected satisfaction never comes. Instead he realizes he has committed the same kind of absolute, faith-driven destruction he despised in his enemies. Winner of the 1965 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.
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