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    Marley’s Chain
    Marley’s Chain
    Marley’s Chain
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    Marley’s Chain

    By Alan E. Nourse

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    Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space. But Tam is a Sharkie, and on Earth Sharkies need not apply. Refused service in restaurants and other establishments, and unable to find employment, he takes the only desperate measure he can to survive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 12, 2016
    ISBN9781515403807
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      Marley’s Chain - Alan E. Nourse

      Marley’s Chain

      by Alan E. Nourse

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / artofphoto

      Positronic Publishing

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0380-7

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      They saw Tam’s shabby clothing and the small, weather-beaten bag he carried, and they ordered him aside from the flow of passengers, and checked his packet of passports and visas with extreme care. Then they ordered him to wait. Tam waited, a chilly apprehension rising in his throat. For fifteen minutes he watched them, helplessly.

      Finally, the Spaceport was empty, and the huge liner from the outer Asteroid Rings was being lifted and rolled by the giant hooks and cranes back into its berth for drydock and repair, her curved, meteor-dented hull gleaming dully in the harsh arc lights. Tam watched the creaking cranes, and shivered in the cold night air, feeling hunger and dread gnawing at his stomach. There was none of the elation left, none of the great, expansive, soothing joy at returning to Earth after eight long years of hard work and bitterness. Only the cold, corroding uncertainty, the growing apprehension. Times had changed since that night back in ‘87—just how much he hardly dared to guess. All he knew was the rumors he had heard, the whispered tales, the frightened eyes and the scarred backs and faces. Tam hadn’t believed them then, so remote from Earth. He had just laughed and told himself that the stories weren’t true. And now they all welled back into his mind, tightening his throat and making him tremble—

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