He returned to Earth after three years, with stars in his eyes and Gwen in his heart. But Gwen had no heart--and a star on her brow! When I saw the lights of Albany Field below me I just about cried. It takes guts to live anywhere by yourself for three years, but that itchy, stinking garden of hell out on Venus does things to you that aren’t worth money. Not even the kind of money I’d get for the two tons of refined uranium concentrate I prospected out of Callispo Valley.…
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