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"The Answer" was originally published in the December 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe.

"The Answer" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper. It is not a part of either Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series nor his Paratime series.

It made its first appearance in the December 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe Science Fiction.^[1]

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