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    Keep Out
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    Ebook26 pages16 minutes

    Keep Out

    By Ernest Schroeder and Fredric Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
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      A short story about the children of Earth became the first Martians.

      I like how the writer didn't need to produce too many words to make it interesting. I also like the twist.
      It's still etched into my mind.

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    Keep Out - Ernest Schroeder

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    Title: Keep Out

    Author: Fredric Brown

    Illustrator: Ernest Schroeder

    Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29142]

    Language: English

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    KEEP OUT

    BY FREDERIC BROWN

    With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered—except one of the flaws of human nature....

    Daptine is the secret of it. Adaptine, they called it first; then it got shortened to daptine. It let us adapt.

    They explained it all to us when we were ten years old; I guess they thought we were too young to understand before then, although we

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