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    One Smaller Step
    One Smaller Step
    One Smaller Step
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    One Smaller Step

    By Ray Daley

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    When one man is sent to scout the location for the first Lunar Dome, are the steps he takes the first ones ever made there?

    Or is he walking in someone elses footsteps?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRay Daley
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311083937
    One Smaller Step
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    Ray Daley

    Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk & spent most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he's been writing since 1986.

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