Red Planet
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1949
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Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all
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I'll bite. You know it's dead how? Mind you I grew up reading Heinlein juveniles like Red Planet.
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