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Free (DRM-free, multiple formats) The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett [Vintage Sci-Fi]
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03-04-2012, 07:38 PM
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I was both amused and astonished by Brackett's prescient 1955 mention of the telescope used to discover the worlds around Barnard's Star: She called it the "Keble," foreseeing both the Keppler and Hubble telescopes!
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