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    Space Platform
    Space Platform
    Space Platform
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    Space Platform

    Written by Murray Leinster

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    SPACE PLATFORM tells the exciting story of a young man helping to build this first station. With scientific accuracy and imagination Murray Leinster, one of the world's top science-fiction writers, describes the building and launching of the platform. Here is a fast-paced story of sabotage and murder directed against a project more secret and valuable than the atom bomb! - Summary by Gutenberg text

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Murray Leinster

    Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American science fiction and alternate history writer. He was a prolific author with a career spanning several decades, during which he made significant contributions to the science fiction genre.

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