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A Gift for Terra

by: Fox B. Holden

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, SF, Mars, Martians, Martian SFF

Collection: pulpmagazine_inbox; pulpmagazinearchive; additional_collections

First contact short story published in the September 1954 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction magazine.
Blurb: "The good Martian Samaritans rescued Johnny Love and offered him "the stars". Now, maybe, Johnny didn't look closely enough into the "gift horse's" mouth, but there were others who did ... and found therein the answer to life ..."