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Planet of Dreams, by James McKimmey
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Title: Planet of Dreams
Author: James McKimmey
Illustrator: Paul Orban
Release Date: September 20, 2009 [EBook #30045]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?
Planet of Dreams
By James McKimmey, Jr.
Illustrated by Paul Orban
It was a small world, a tiny spinning globe, placed in the universe to weather and age by itself until the end of things. But because its air was good and its earth was fertile, Daniel Loveral had placed a finger upon a map and said, "This is the planet. This is the Dream Planet."
That was two years before, back on Earth. And now Loveral with his selected flock had shot through space, to light like chuckling geese upon the planet, to feel the effect of their dreams come true.
Loveral was sitting in his office, drumming his long fingers against his desk while the name, Atkinson, ticked through his brain like the sound of a sewing machine.
Would he be the only one, Loveral asked himself, or was he ju