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"The Field of Double Sowing"  
Warworld Death's head rebellion
Author Harry Turtledove
First Appearance War World, Volume II: Death's Head Rebellion
Collected No
Genre(s) Science Fiction
Publication date 1990

"The Field of Double Sowing" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, originally published in War World, Volume II: Death's Head Rebellion, edited by Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr & Roland Green, Baen 1990, and later incorporated into the novel Blood Feuds. It is set in Pournelle's War World Series.

The story is a science fiction retelling of the Athenian tragedy play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.

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