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    Off Course

    By Mack Reynolds

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    Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth! The first envoy from another world was about to speak—that is, if he could forget that horse for a minute....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515412472
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      Off Course - Mack Reynolds

      Off Course

      by Mack Reynolds

      © 2017 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Canstock/mscornelius

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1247-2

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      Off Course

      by Mack Reynolds

      Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth! The first envoy from another world was about to speak—that is, if he could forget that horse for a minute....

      First on the scene were Larry Dermott and Tim Casey of the State Highway Patrol. They assumed they were witnessing the crash of a new type of Air Force plane and slipped and skidded desperately across the field to within thirty feet of the strange craft,

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