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    Planet of Dreams
    Planet of Dreams
    Planet of Dreams
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    Planet of Dreams

    By James McKimmey and Paul Orban

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Planet of Dreams - James McKimmey

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      Title: Planet of Dreams

      Author: James McKimmey

      Illustrator: Paul Orban

      Release Date: September 20, 2009 [EBook #30045]

      Language: English

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      The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and—best of all—nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?

      Planet of Dreams

      By James McKimmey, Jr.

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      It was a small world, a tiny spinning globe, placed in the universe to weather and age by itself until the end of things. But because its air was good and its earth was fertile, Daniel Loveral had placed a finger upon a map and said, This is the planet. This is the Dream Planet.

      That was two years before, back on Earth. And now Loveral with his selected flock had shot through space, to light like chuckling geese upon the planet, to feel the effect of their dreams come true.

      Loveral was sitting in his office, drumming his long fingers against his desk while the name, Atkinson, ticked through his brain like the sound of a sewing machine.

      Would he be the only one, Loveral asked himself, or was he just the first? In either case, it was up to Loveral, as leader

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