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Mar 2024
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Escape From Pluto by William Oberfield -...

SCOTT MILLER
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Exiled to Pluto's harsh wastes, Marcius Kemble listened eagerly to the evil voices planning his triumphant return. But even the Plutonians underestimated the flaming glory to which they sent him. Escape From Pluto by William Oberfield, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.


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William Oberfield penned four short science fiction stories during his brief stint as a sci-fi author in the 1940s and early 1950s, and beyond that, his life remains a mystery to us. From the time worn pages of Planet Stories Magazines in the Fall of 1947 turn to page 84 for, Escape From Pluto by William Oberfield


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