We who are about to ...A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto a barren, uncharted planet. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible. |
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... Marilyn's daughter died and Marilyn herself was critically in- jured : the narrator saw a figure then " standing between two rooms , a lit one and a dark one , but they were both empty " ( p . 167 ) . The dark empty room is of course ...
... Marilyn's daughter died and Marilyn herself was critically in- jured : the narrator saw a figure then " standing between two rooms , a lit one and a dark one , but they were both empty " ( p . 167 ) . The dark empty room is of course ...
Page 166
... Marilyn lived . Marilyn's her mother . Three months in hospital : broken ribs , a broken arm , concussion , two operations on her knees , broken bones in her face . Kennedy died twenty minutes after the crash . She was unrecognizable ...
... Marilyn lived . Marilyn's her mother . Three months in hospital : broken ribs , a broken arm , concussion , two operations on her knees , broken bones in her face . Kennedy died twenty minutes after the crash . She was unrecognizable ...
Page 169
... Marilyn still alive some- where , that's the ghastly thing . I'll do it the instant way , I suppose , just to be finished with it . Get it all over , all that dying . Long dying : long , long dying , forty - two years , that's too much ...
... Marilyn still alive some- where , that's the ghastly thing . I'll do it the instant way , I suppose , just to be finished with it . Get it all over , all that dying . Long dying : long , long dying , forty - two years , that's too much ...
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