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    A Gift For Terra
    A Gift For Terra
    A Gift For Terra
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    A Gift For Terra

    By Fox B. Holden and Paul Orban

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Gift For Terra - Fox B. Holden

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      Title: A Gift For Terra

      Author: Fox B. Holden

      Illustrator: Paul Orban

      Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32487]

      Language: English

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      A GIFT FOR TERRA

      BY FOX B. HOLDEN

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The good Martian Samaritans rescued Johnny Love and offered him the stars. Now, maybe, Johnny didn't look closely enough into the gift horse's mouth, but there were others who did ... and found therein the answer to life....

      His head hurt like blazes, but he was alive, and to be alive meant fighting like hell to stay that way.

      That was the first thing returning consciousness told him. The next was that his helmet should have been cracked wide open when the bum landing had wrenched the acceleration hammocks out of their suspension sockets and heaved his suited body across the buckled conning deck. It should've been, but it wasn't.

      The third thing he knew was that Ferris' helmet had been smashed into a million pieces, and that Ferris was dead.

      Sand sifted in a cold, red river through the gaping rent in the side of the ship, trying to bury him before he could stand up and get his balance on the crazily tilted deck. He shook loose with more strength than he needed, gave the rest of the muscles in his blocky body a try, and there wasn't any hurt worse than a bruise. Funny. Ferris was dead.

      He had a feeling somewhere at the edge of his brain that there was going to be more to it than just checking his oxygen and food-concentrate supply and walking away from the ship. A man didn't complete the first Earth-Mars flight ever made, smash his ship to hell, and then just walk away from it. His astrogeologer-navigator was dead, and the planet was dead, so a man just didn't walk away.

      There was plenty of room for him to scramble through the yawning rip in the buckled hullplates—just a matter of crawling up the river of red sand and out; it was as easy as that.

      Then Johnny Love was on his feet again,

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