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    The Dope on Mars
    The Dope on Mars
    The Dope on Mars
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    The Dope on Mars

    By Wallace Wood and Jack Sharkey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Dope on Mars - Wallace Wood

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dope on Mars, by John Michael Sharkey

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      Title: The Dope on Mars

      Author: John Michael Sharkey

      Illustrator: Wood

      Release Date: October 8, 2008 [EBook #26843]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOPE ON MARS ***

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      THE DOPE

      on Mars

      By JACK SHARKEY

      Somebody had to get the human angle on this trip ... but what was humane about sending me?

      Illustrated by WOOD

      My agent was the one who got me the job of going along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like that—appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell much of my stuff, at least he sold me.

      It'll be the biggest break a writer ever got, he told me, two days before blastoff. "Oh, sure there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want them; they want the human slant on things."

      But, Louie, I said weakly, "I'll probably be locked up for the whole trip. If there are fights or accidents, they won't tell me about them."

      Nonsense, said Louie, sipping carefully at a paper cup of scalding coffee. "It'll be just like the public going along vicariously. They'll identify with you."

      But, Louie, I said, wiping the dampness from my palms on the knees of my trousers as I sat there, "how'll I go about it? A story? An article? A you-are-there type of report? What?"

      Louie shrugged. So keep a diary. It'll be more intimate, like.

      But what if nothing happens? I insisted hopelessly.

      Louie smiled. So you fake it.

      I got up from the chair in his office and stepped to the door. That's dishonest, I pointed out.

      Creative is the word, Louie said.

      So I went on the first trip to Mars. And I kept a diary. This is it. And it is honest. Honest it is.

      October 1, 1960

      They picked the launching date from the March, 1959, New York Times, which stated that this was the most likely time for launching. Trip time is supposed to take 260 days (that's one way), so we're aimed toward where Mars

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