Across the void came a man who could not ever have been born—from a world that could never have been conceived—to demand his birthright of an Earth that would have to die to pay it! I Jan Shortmire smiled. "You didn't know I had a son, did you, Peter? Well, neither did I—until quite recently." "I see." However, Peter Hubbard knew that Jan Shortmire had never married in all of his hundred and fifty-five years. In that day and age, unmarried people did not have children; science, the law, and publ