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    Dead Man's Planet
    Dead Man's Planet
    Dead Man's Planet
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    Dead Man's Planet

    By Ed Emshwiller and Joseph Samachson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Dead Man's Planet - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dead Man's Planet, by William Morrison

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Dead Man's Planet

      Author: William Morrison

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: December 27, 2009 [EBook #30773]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAD MAN'S PLANET ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      DEAD

      MAN'S

      PLANET

      By WILLIAM MORRISON

      Illustrated by EMSH

      When a driven man arrives at a cemetery world, what else can it be but journey's end—and the start of a new one?

      Outside the ship, it was the sun that blazed angrily. Inside, it was Sam Wilson's temper. Study your lessons, he snarled, with a savageness that surprised himself, or I'll never let you set foot on this planet at all.

      Okay, Pop, said Mark, a little white around the nostrils. He looked old for so young a kid. I didn't mean anything wrong.

      I don't care what you meant. You do as you're told.

      In the quiet that followed, broken only by the hum of the arithmetic-tape, Sam wondered at himself. As kids went, Mark had never been a nuisance. Certainly Rhoda had never had any trouble with him. But Rhoda had been altogether different. Sam was tough and he had always got a sense of satisfaction out of knowing that he was hard-boiled. Or at least that was once true. Rhoda had been sweet, gentle....

      He aroused himself from thoughts of her by calling, Mark!

      Yes, Pop?

      His voice had been harsher than he had intended. Over the past few weeks he seemed gradually to have been losing control of it. Now, although he was going to do his son a favor, he sounded like a slavemaster threatening a beating. You can shut off your arithmetic lesson. We're going out.

      But didn't you want me—

      I changed my mind.

      Mark seemed more troubled than pleased, as if a father who changed his mind so readily was a man to be wary of.

      I'm on edge all

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