Some people are a little telepathic, just a little. They know what another person, perhaps a brother or a

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R E T U R N TO EARTH
Some people are a little telepathic, just a little. They 
know what another person, perhaps a brother or a 
sister, is thinking. And if you know someone really 
well, you sometimes know what they will say before 
they say it.
But what is it like to be really telepathic? T o know 
everything that other people are thinking and feeling, to 
know the thoughts that are hidden in their minds — 
every minute, every hour, day after day, like a radio 
that you cannot turn off. And will you like what you 
hear? People can think terrible things, which they never 
speak out loud.
Who can say what changes the future will bring? 
Perhaps one day, like Harl in this story, we will travel 
through time and space to a distant planet - and return 
to Earth after many long years away. Perhaps, like 
Ellen, we won’t be interested in space travel, because 
we are going to change life on Earth - to do something 
very new, very exciting, very different . . .
Something that will change the human mind for ever . . .

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Return to Earth
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J O H N C H R I S T O P H E R
Return to Earth
Retold by 
Susan Binder
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