Do dictators rise to power by accident? What if their ascendency is planned throughout history by men of the future who play with time as if it were a toy. And what if 1955 is their key year....
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Christine Poulson, Frank Zafiro, John Gregory Betancourt, Stephen Marlowe, Murray Leinster, Hal Charles, Johnston McCulley & Lawrence L. Lynch
John Lantigua, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Dorothy C. Quick, John W. Campbell, Jr., Stephen Marlowe, Edmond Hamilton, Malcolm Jameson, W.C. Tuttle & Nelson S. Bond
Mindy Quigley, Mark Thielman, Norman Spinrad, John Gregory Betancourt, Hal Charles, Robert E. Howard, Stephen Marlowe, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Abernathy & Louis Charbonneau
Andy Duncan, Reginald Bretnor, A.R. Morlan, John Gregory Betancourt, Frank M. Robinson, Hal Charles, Stephen Marlowe, Adam Meyer, Nicholas Carter, Charles Willing Beale, Frank Lovell Nelson & Ruth Malone
