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    A World is Born
    A World is Born
    A World is Born
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    A World is Born

    By Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg

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    The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress...

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    Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks.

    A quick flash of satisfaction crossed Ward's dark eyes. Then he grinned and said mockingly.

    "Hell of a place to spend the rest of your life, ain't it?"

    Mel Gray stared with slitted blue eyes down the valley. The huge sun of Mercury seared his naked body. Sweat channeled the dust on his skin. His throat ached with thirst. And the bitter landscape mocked him more than Wade's dark face.

    "The rest of my life," he repeated softly. "The rest of my life!"

    He was twenty-eight.

    Wade spat in the damp black earth. "You ought to be glad--helping the unfortunate, building a haven for the derelict...."

    "Shut up!" Fury rose in Gray, hotter than the boiling springs that ran from the Sunside to water the valleys. He hated Mercury. He hated John Moulton and his daughter Jill, who had conceived this plan of building a new world for the destitute and desperate veterans of the Second Interplanetary War.

    "I've had enough 'unselfish service'," he whispered. "I'm serving myself from now on."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 4, 2015
    ISBN9781612103723
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      A fast-paced planetary adventure set on a Mercury which is survivable on the surface. There are aliens, space villains and a dashing hero. Quite light but easy to read.

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    A World is Born - Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg

    A World is Born

    By Leigh Brackett

    Copyright © 1941 by Leigh Brackett

    This edition published in 2011 by eStar Books, LLC.

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    ISBN 9781612103723

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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    A World is Born

    By Leigh Brackett

    The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress.

    Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks.

    A quick flash of satisfaction crossed Ward's dark eyes. Then he grinned and said mockingly.

    Hell of a place to spend the rest of your life, ain't it?

    Mel Gray stared with slitted blue eyes down the valley. The huge sun of Mercury seared his naked body. Sweat channeled the dust on his skin. His throat ached with thirst. And the bitter landscape mocked him more than Wade's dark face.

    The rest of my life, he repeated softly. The rest of my life!

    He was twenty-eight.

    Wade spat in the damp black earth. You ought to be glad--helping the unfortunate, building a haven for the derelict....

    Shut up! Fury rose in Gray, hotter than the boiling springs that ran from the Sunside to water the valleys. He hated Mercury. He hated John Moulton and his daughter Jill, who had conceived this plan of building a new world for the destitute and desperate veterans of the Second Interplanetary War.

    I've had enough 'unselfish service', he whispered. I'm serving myself from now on.

    Escape. That was all he wanted. Escape from these stifling valleys, from the snarl of the wind in the barren crags that towered higher than Everest into airless space. Escape from the surveillance of the twenty guards, the forced companionship of the ninety-nine other veteran-convicts.

    Wade poked at the furrows between

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