The Road Not Taken is a short story that was first published in Analog 11/85 (as Eric Iverson). It was republished in the Harry Turtledove collections Kaleidoscope, Del Rey 1990 and 3xT, Baen 2004. It was also published in There Will Be War V: Warrior, edited by Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr, Tor 1985 and Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, edited by Orson Scott Card, Ace 2001.

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The Road Not Taken

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University of California, Los Angeles

Earth

Togram

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Roxolan

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F-29 (The Road Not Taken)

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Ares III

“Hilda Chester was a linguist assigned to learn the language of the alien Roxolan after their...

Hilda Chester