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Prolog: The Big Guns of Kugluktuk

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Terraforming

Part of the book series: Astronomers' Universe ((ASTRONOM))

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It was decided. We would make a family holiday of it. All of us, even my sister, were going to see the big guns of Kugluktuk. I could hardly contain my excitement as the school holidays slowly approached. Each long day, sitting in class, I wiled away my time, fidgeting through math and sleeping through physics.

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Beech, M. (2009). Prolog: The Big Guns of Kugluktuk. In: Terraforming. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09796-1_1

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