Valley of Dreams, by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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Title: Valley of Dreams

Author: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Release Date: August 11, 2007 [EBook #22301]

Language: English

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VALLEY OF DREAMS

Captain Harrison of the Ares expedition turned away from the little telescope in the bow of the rocket. "Two weeks more, at the most," he remarked. "Mars only retrogrades for seventy days in all, relative to the earth, and we've got to be homeward bound during that period, or wait a year and a half for old Mother Earth to go around the sun and catch up with us again. How'd you like to spend a winter here?"

Dick Jarvis, chemist of the party, shivered as he looked up from his notebook. "I'd just as soon spend it in a liquid air tank!" he averred. "These eighty-below zero summer nights are plenty for me."

"Well," mused the captain, "the first suc

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