The Answer by H. Beam Piper

"The Answer" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction short story published in 1959. Fifteen years after a devastating nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union, two scientists in Argentina conduct an experiment with negamatter that produces an unexpected result. The explosion's distinctive signature leads one scientist to a stunning realization about what truly triggered the catastrophic war that destroyed the Northern Hemisphere—a discovery that changes everything they thought they knew. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964
Title The Answer
Series Title Produced from Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, December, 1959
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_(short_story)
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Science fiction
Subject Short stories
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EBook-No. 18342
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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