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Tom Morrison

A sunburned young prospector who staked everything on Venus's Scorpion Desert, Morrison dreams of a goldenstone strike and an ocean farm back on Earth.

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Also known as Tommy, Tom

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A determined prospector on Venus who risks everything to find goldenstone, defying warnings and debt.
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Morrison has spent twenty-one days and eighteen hundred miles crossing a waterless waste three times the size of the Sahara, down to his last ten dollars and following traces of goldenstone. He daydreams about Janie and…

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COCost of Living…MPMr. PathisCDCharles DennisonWAWarm AndersALAllensonTMTom Morrison

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  • Military and academic mix
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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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