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Meanwhile, Ferrian, who has survived, returns to his kingdom and reassumes its governance. Having been allowed to study Terran law on his trip to Earth to distract him from technological espionage, he is full of ideas for reforming Sotaspé. He institutes a patent law to foster Krishnan invention, and
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Many years elapse on Krishna before the travelers return with the mummy, though for them, due to the relativistic speeds at which interstellar voyages take place, much less time has passed. Ferrian is sent on his way to his island. Then Abreu learns that a most peculiar ship has rendezvoused with the
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Subsequently, Ferrian bad-Arjanaq, the reigning prince regent of Sotaspé, shows up claiming the mummy was stolen and the sale fraudulent. To avoid a diplomatic incident, Abreu allows Ferrian to take the next interstellar vessel to Earth to recover the mummy. Since the relatively primitive Krishna is
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system being held in Novorecife on the planet Krishna is interrupted by an unusual situation in customs; Ahmad Akelawi, a Terran visitor to Krishna is attempting to take a native mummy to Earth. CristĂ´vĂŁo Abreu, the local security chief, excuses himself to investigate. The mummy, that of the first
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Realizing that somehow Sotaspé has been acquiring forbidden technology, Abreu and Castanhoso set out in pursuit, hiring a swift smuggling ship to overtake Ferrian's craft. Catching it off the island of Darya, their crew overwhelms the prince's in a pitched sea battle, and the prince himself is
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seemingly lost overboard. The steamship is scuttled, and the mummy, discovered to contain smuggled scientific texts, is also destroyed. The two return to Novorecife smugly convinced that the most egregious attempt ever to break the blockade is "finished."
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under an embargo to prevent its tumultuous cultures and political systems from being disrupted by advanced Terran technology, he sends along assistant security officer Herculeu Castanhoso to prevent Ferrian from inquiring into matters he shouldn't.
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series authorized by de Camp), the two segments of the action of "Finished" take place in the years 2114 and 2140 AD, respectively, making it both the first and fifth stories set on Krishna in terms of chronology.
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printed the letter in the November, 1948 issue, then set about making the predictions come true by arranging with the authors mentioned to write and submit stories with the given titles.
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is soon awarding his first patent to the inventor of a native aircraft. At the ceremony, he announces that the Terran plot to keep Krishna backward and in the dark is "finished."
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and an attempt to "get it right", reconstructing the concept logically, without what he regarded as Burroughs' biological and technological absurdities.
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and (for complicated legal reasons) only king of the island nation of Sotaspé, appears to be a legitimate purchase, and so is allowed through customs.
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Abreu, Castanhoso and Ferrian all appear as secondary characters in a number of later "Krishna" stories.
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in the issue for November, 1949. It first appeared in book form in the collection
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Index

Short story
L. Sprague de Camp

Edd Cartier
Science fiction
Astounding Science Fiction
Magazine
1949
Viagens Interplanetarias
Calories
The Hand of Zei
science fiction
short story
L. Sprague de Camp
Viagens Interplanetarias
Astounding Science Fiction
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
Twayne Publishers
Signet Books
Tau Ceti
John W. Campbell
Sword and Planet
Barsoom
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
GURPS Planet Krishna
Perpetual Motion
The Queen of Zamba
Calories
The Hand of Zei

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