The Divers
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Description
James Stamers's The Divers ran in Worlds of If Science Fiction for January 1960. Its blurb gives the key to Fred's success away: he may not have had much of a mind, but it was all his, nobody else's.
Fred Williams comes home to a littered two rooms and Elsie akimbo in the kitchen doorway, cigarette at her lips, demanding the beer he forgot. Ten years of marriage, the narrator notes, are ten years of legal proximity, nothing in him married to anything in her any more. Sent out for the beer, Fred nearly knocks over a well-dressed caller on the step: Howard Sprinnell, who has been examining entries to the Sunday News competition for a free space ride. Fred did not win, but the examiners think he has considerable talent, and they ask a few hours of his time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |