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Short Story

Prize Ship

1954

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About this story

During a conflict with Ganymede, Earth captures an unfamiliar spacecraft and sends a small crew to test it. Their journey takes them to places where human scale and ordinary assumptions no longer apply.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Aug 14, 1952

    Composition: no later than Aug 14, 1952

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Aug 14, 1952

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Aug 14, 1952

  3. Winter 1954

    First published Winter 1954

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