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    One Purple Hope!
    One Purple Hope!
    One Purple Hope!
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    One Purple Hope!

    By Henry Hasse

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    Once he had been a tall, straight spaceman, free as the galaxies. Now Joel Latham was a tsith-addict, a beach-comber at Venusport. Maybe he’d get one last chance....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515411369
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      One Purple Hope! - Henry Hasse

      One Purple Hope!

      by Henry Hasse

      © 2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / frenta

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1136-9

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      One Purple Hope!

      by Henry Hasse

      Once he had been a tall, straight spaceman, free as the galaxies. Now Joel Latham was a tsith-addict, a beach-comber at Venusport. Maybe he’d get one last chance....

      His sleep-drugged mind was slow to respond. He was lying face down, he knew that. And he ought to get up. If he didn’t get up he would drown. Something hot and heavy, like a huge hand, was pressing him deeper into the brackish mire. He pondered. Perhaps it were better to drown. For a moment he allowed himself the luxury of the thought, then decided against it. Plenty of time later for drowning. First there was something he had to do!

      So it was that Joel Latham, Earthman, age thirty, occupation space drifter, avocation tsith drinker, awakened on this most momentous of mornings.

      Moaning in protest, he slowly rolled himself over. The sun slapped him hard against the eyes. He blinked against the pain and saw that he was still in Venusport; rather he was at the edge of the swamp near the sprawling compound. Overhead the ionic field was aglow, humming softly, beating back the obscurant mists.

      He managed to stand up. Some of the pallid-faced gweels, out in the swamp, stopped their work to stare at him. Latham grimaced. Every fiber of him, especially his brain, seemed to have been squeezed dry. Then it came. He felt it coming and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The hammering nausea took him suddenly about the middle, bending him double.

      I’m an Earthman, Joel Latham groaned aloud. That was invariably the first reaction of the

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