An American mining engineer, Captain Humbert Reynolds, has gold feverβan elusive ailment that cloaks rational thought and drives men across endless plains and daunting mountain peaks to seek their quarry.Ignoring all warnings and signs of treachery, Reynolds travels to the barren expanses of the Gob
A Matter of Matter: Stories from the Golden Age
β Scribed by L. Ron Hubbard
- Publisher
- Galaxy Press, L.L.C.
- Year
- 2010;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 483 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Chuck Lambert is taken advantage of by an unsavory real estate swindler of a galactic economy that sells unwary customers like him a planet where they canβt sit down, because thereβs something the matter with its matter. But even though swindled, Chuck may just end up getting the last laugh.
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