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eppur_se_muova

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6. I believe that was a Bradbury story, just not Martian Chronicles.

Reply to captain queeg (Reply #2)

Thu May 7, 2020, 05:15 PM

May 2020

It involved a young boy who discovered that instead of using the teleporter, you could go Outside (yes, it was capitalized) and walk from house to house. His mother was horrified. Can't remember the title of the short story.

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