An Alien MusicSixteen-year-old Jesse relates the experiences of the Sky-Lab Seven crew as they become the sole survivors of the dying planet Earth only to have their plans to colonize Mars irreversibly shattered. |
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... dark road with the ground smouldering like burned hoecake . You feel like blaming somebody . Maybe the TV - it always made everything look little and square and two minutes and gone . Maybe somewhere they had mentioned it : " In other ...
... dark road with the ground smouldering like burned hoecake . You feel like blaming somebody . Maybe the TV - it always made everything look little and square and two minutes and gone . Maybe somewhere they had mentioned it : " In other ...
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... darkness to the west , headlights were bounding along toward me - they turned south about where the shuttlecraft came down , so there must be a side road . I finished off the water and pounded on down that hill and up the next . In the dark ...
... darkness to the west , headlights were bounding along toward me - they turned south about where the shuttlecraft came down , so there must be a side road . I finished off the water and pounded on down that hill and up the next . In the dark ...
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... dark out there , it floated like a great inverted pyr- amid . The wide part on top was covered by a forest of wind ... darkness beyond . And on either side of it , a tiny red light . As I watched , they turned green and I felt a slight ...
... dark out there , it floated like a great inverted pyr- amid . The wide part on top was covered by a forest of wind ... darkness beyond . And on either side of it , a tiny red light . As I watched , they turned green and I felt a slight ...
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