Explore "The Dope on Mars" by Jack Sharkey on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_Somebody had to get the human / angle on this trip... but what / was humane about sending me? _
My agent was the one who got me the job of going along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like that -- appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell much of my stuff, at least he sold _me_.