02684cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500240014626400510017030000470022133600260026833700260029433800360032049000700035650000310042650801030045752013670056053400720192765300200199965300260201965300290204570000290207483000700210385600750217385600430224899900190229177717UtSlPG20260610134812.0mcr n260607r20261955utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMerwin, Sam, Jr.,d1910-199610aPassage to anywhere 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Fantastic Universe, February 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 1.).  aRelease date is 2026-01-16  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aPassage 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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955  aScience fiction  aInventions -- Fiction  aTeleportation -- Fiction1 aFreas, Kelly,d1922-2005 0aProduced from Fantastic Universe, February 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 1.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n01_1956-02/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77717  c118437d118437