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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aDel Rey, Lester,
_d1915-1993
245 1 0 _aEarthbound
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Galaxy Magazine August 1963
500 _aRelease date is 2016-01-08
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Earthbound" by Lester Del Rey is a science fiction short story published in the early 1960s. The narrative centers around the yearning for space exploration and addresses the themes of dreams, solitude, and human limitation. The story reflects Del Rey's imagination of a future filled with space travel and the impact it has on individuals who aspire to leave Earth behind for the stars. In the story, Clifton, a once-celebrated space hero, finds himself reluctantly back on Earth, surrounded by celebratory crowds. Feeling trapped and discontent, he encounters an old man named Ahasuerus, who has devoted his life to making space boots yet has never traveled beyond Earth. Their exchange reveals the deep longing Ahasuerus harbors for the cosmos, contrasting with Clifton's own frustration and disappointment toward his return. Moved by Ahasuerus's dream of going to space, Clifton offers him a place on his upcoming journey to Rigel. However, Ahasuerus feels bound by a destiny that keeps him on Earth, symbolizing the constraints that life can impose, despite one's aspirations to explore the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWandering Jew -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Galaxy Magazine August 1963
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50876
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