Valley of Dreams

Valley of Dreams

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Valley of Dreams by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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1949

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Valley of Dreams

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Produced from A Martian Odyssey and Others.

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you, and started over to have a look at the city.

"We sailed toward it from the east and it loomed up ahead of us like a range of mountains. Lord, what a city! Not that New York mightn't have higher buildings, or Chicago cover more ground, but for sheer mass, those structures were in a class by themselves. Gargantuan!

"There was a queer look about the place, though. You know how a terrestrial city sprawls out, a nimbus of suburbs, a ring of residential sections, factory districts, parks, highways. There was none of that here; the city rose out of the desert as abruptly as a cliff. Only a few little sand mounds marked the division, and then the walls of those gigantic structures.

"The architecture was strange, too. There were lots of devices that are impossible back home, such as set-backs in reverse, so that a building with a small base could spread out as it rose. That would be a valuable trick in New York, where land is almost priceless, but to do it, you'd have to transfer Martian gra

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Interesting story. It is the direct sequel to the short story "A Martian Odyssey," continuing the adventures of the same crew of explorers on Mars, even including the Martian vegetable-animal called Tweel in the new foray into the landscape.

It's a weaker story, more talk, not much action, that seemed just to exist to explain some of the oddities that were left hanging. If you read the first story, you might be interested in this.