The Goblin Reservation
Having Just returned to Earth from an intergalactic research mission,
Professor Peter Maxwell, specialist in Supernatural Phenomena, finds
himself in desperate straits.
Earth, as he is aware, is well
advanced in many areas; perfected time travel, for instance, enables
all creatures (goblins, dinosaurs, and Shakespeare!) to coexist. But
Maxwell has accidentally discovered a mysterious crystal planet
containing a storehouse of secret information not yet known to Earth.
Knowing
of the value of the planet for the future of Earth, he attempts to
convince those in power that they must, at any cost, get control of it.
But his efforts are thwarted by a startling fact: Maxwell was
ingeniously duplicated on his return trip. The "other" him came back
before he did, and was soon after "accidentilly" killed. Now no one
will believe that original Maxwell exists...