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_aMerwin, Sam, Jr., _d1910-1996 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aPassage to anywhere |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, February 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 1.). | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-01-16 | ||
| 508 | _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _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.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955 |
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aInventions -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aTeleportation -- Fiction | ||
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_aFreas, Kelly, _d1922-2005 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, February 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 1.). | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n01_1956-02/mode/2up | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77717 |
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