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    Foundling on Venus
    Foundling on Venus
    Foundling on Venus
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    Foundling on Venus

    By Dorothy De Courcy and John de Courcy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Foundling on Venus - Dorothy De Courcy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Foundling on Venus, by

      John de Courcy and Dorothy de Courcy

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

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      Title: Foundling on Venus

      Author: John de Courcy

      Dorothy de Courcy

      Release Date: June 20, 2009 [EBook #29181]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOUNDLING ON VENUS ***

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      Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings. And somewhere among this conglomeration of boiling protoplasm there was a being unlike the others, a being who walked and talked like the others but who was different—and afraid the difference would be discovered. You'll remember this short story.

      foundling

      on

      venus

      by ... John & Dorothy

      de Courcy

      The foundling could not have been more than three years old. Yet he held a secret that was destined to bring joy to many unhappy people.

      Unlike Gaul, the north continent of Venus is divided into four parts. No Caesar has set foot here either, nor shall one—for the dank, stinging, caustic air swallows up the lives of men and only Venus may say, I conquered.

      This is colonized Venus, where one may walk without the threat of sudden death—except from other men—the most bitterly fought for, the dearest, bloodiest, most worthless land in the solar system.

      Separated by men into East and West at the center of the Twilight Zone, the division across the continent is the irregular, jagged line of Mud River, springing from the Great Serpent Range.

      The African Republic holds one quarter which the Negroes exploit as best

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