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Title: Valley of Dreams
Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Valley of Dreams
by

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Captain Harrison of the Ares expedition turned away from the little telescope in the bow of the rocket.
"Two weeks more, at the most," he remarked. "Mars only retogrades for seventy days in all, relative to
the earth, and we've got to be homeward bound during that period, or wait a year and a half for old
Mother Earth to go around the sun and catch up with us again. How'd you like to spend a winter here?"

Dick Jarvis, chemist of the party, shivered as he looked up from his notebook. "I'd just as soon spend it
in a liquid air tank!" he averred. "These eighty-below-zero summer nights are plenty for me."

"Well," mused the captain, "the first successful Martian expedition ought to be home long before then."

"Successful if we get home," corrected Jarvis. "I don't trust these cranky rockets—not since the auxiliary
dumped me in the middle of Thyle last week. Walking back from a rocket ride is a new sensation to me."

"Which reminds me," returned Harrison, "that we've got to recover your films. They're important if we're