Double StarOne minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. |
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... close the back of your mouth , or you hiss like a teakettle , since the durn thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars- surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty minutes ...
... close the back of your mouth , or you hiss like a teakettle , since the durn thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars- surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty minutes ...
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... close horizon , showing no shore line be- yond . Straight ahead of us was the Nest of Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around ...
... close horizon , showing no shore line be- yond . Straight ahead of us was the Nest of Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around ...
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... close together as asparagus . I knew that the first thing I must do was slow - march down the center of that lane , clear to the far end , to the ramp leading down into the inner nest . I could not move . I said to myself , " Look , boy ...
... close together as asparagus . I knew that the first thing I must do was slow - march down the center of that lane , clear to the far end , to the ramp leading down into the inner nest . I could not move . I said to myself , " Look , boy ...
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