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    Beside Still Waters
    Beside Still Waters
    Beside Still Waters
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    Beside Still Waters

    By Virgil Finlay and Robert Sheckley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011

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      Beside Still Waters - Virgil Finlay

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beside Still Waters, by Robert Sheckley

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Beside Still Waters

      Author: Robert Sheckley

      Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

      Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29446]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BESIDE STILL WATERS ***

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      BESIDE

      STILL

      WATERS

      BY ROBERT SHECKLEY

      When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? None other than Charles the Robot.

      Mark Rogers was a prospector, and he went to the asteroid belt looking for radioactives and rare metals. He searched for years, never finding much, hopping from fragment to fragment.

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