On Feb 1, 12:20=A0pm, Cam T <cam.tur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 1, 12:56 pm, Butch Malahide <fred.gal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Feb 1, 11:18 am, Cam T <cam.tur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Hello All,
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> > > I'm new here. One of my blog readers posed a question to me two
weeks
> > > ago, and it seems to have stumped my entire (meager) reader****p. Can
> > > you help me help him? I've been Googling my heart out but I just
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> > > have enough to go on. Maybe this will trigger someone's memory.
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> > > Here is the meat of the question:
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> > > "Has anyone there ever read a time paradox story about a young man
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> > > is shanghaied by a star freighter, returning to earth years later to
> > > find earth and his sweetheart are somewhat the worse for wear? I
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> > > have read this worn novella in the early 1970's."
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> > > Not I, though it sounds like I'd love it! At first I thought of
> > > Heinlein, but having read almost all of them I couldn't think of one
> > > that fit. When I pressed him for more details, I got this spoiler
> > > filled response:
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> > > "There was a multi-legged ****pmate whose species were born
> > > individually knowing the exact moment of their passing, and, I
> > > believe, that the shanghaied crewman eventually becomes the captain,
> > > and repeats the cycle by shanghaiing another poor soul."
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> > > Can anyone help me? I'd like to read this book too!
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> > The author is L. Ron Hubbard, of Scientology fame. It was originally
> > published as a 2-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in January
> > and February of 1950 under the title "To the Stars". It has been
> > published as a book under the original title and also under the title
> > "Return to Tomorrow".
Oops, for "January and February" read "February and March", sorry
about that!
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