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INNOCENT AT LARGE by POUL ANDERSON & KAREN ANDERSON

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INNOCENT AT LARGE A hayseed Martian among big-planet slickers ... of course he would get into trouble. But that was nothing compared to the trouble he would be in if he did not get into trouble!   First published Galaxy Science Fiction July 1958. This story is one of the earlier works of Poul Anderson collaborating with Karen Anderson. This story does not have much acclamation yet it has been enjoyed by readers since from the first publication. Born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction and fantasy writer who began to write Science Fiction and Fantasy during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. John W. Campbell published Anderson's first stories in Astounding Science Fiction w hile he was an undergraduate stude...

AMBITION - A Science Fiction Short Story by WILLIAM L. BADE

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AMBITION by WILLIAM L. BADE   To the men of the future, the scientific goals of today were as incomprehensible as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail! First appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, October 1951 edition. This thought-provoking short story from the golden age of science fiction features a rocket scientist from mid-20th-century America who finds himself thrust hundreds of years into the future—where he discovers that his life's work of achieving the goal of interplanetary travel has long since been abandoned. William Lemoine Bade was an American Science Fiction Writer, born on 5 April 1928 in Lincoln, Nebraska. By profession he was an US academic, physicist and he worked for NASA. He began publishing Hard SF stories with "Advent" for Astounding in January 1948, beginning a short series ending with "The Eight Hundredth Hundred-Day" (Fall 1953 Fantastic Worlds). He wrote three other stories also. He died on 12 Fe...