TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merwin,Sam,Jr
AU  - Freas,Kelly
TI  - Passage to anywhere
T2  - Produced from Fantastic Universe, February 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 1.)
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Inventions -- Fiction
KW  - Teleportation -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2026-01-16; Tom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; New York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955
N2  - Passage to anywhere by Jr. Sam Merwin is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It explores the disruptive promise of instantaneous matter transmission and the political, economic, and ethical storms that swirl around a breakthrough that could upend global transport while opening a practical path to space.

The story follows Park Hamilton of Science Projects Research as he scrambles to contain fallout after inventor Sven Ryan, fresh from testing a working matter-transmitter, goes on a drunken spree in New York and talks too freely. With help from Hamilton’s capable assistant Nancy Alderman, they fend off a heavy-handed seizure attempt by U.S. power broker Charles Forsythe and bring UN liaison Ian Harris into a tense truce. In Antarctica, Ryan’s device proves it can send objects flawlessly—but only line-of-sight over short ranges, not through Earth’s curvature. While Forsythe and Harris fear global economic chaos, Hamilton reframes the invention as the missing logistics link for off-world bases: no curvature blocks a beam to the Moon. The crisis dissolves into a new vision—use the transmitter to supply a lunar station—and the tale closes on a hopeful pivot from terrestrial panic to interplanetary purpose, with a quiet nod to Hamilton’s partnership with Nancy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n01_1956-02/mode/2up
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77717
ER  -