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이 책은 Alan E. Nourse가 1954년에 “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy "에 발표한 단편 공상과학 소설이다. 야기는 지구가 과밀해지고 자원이 부족한 미래 사회를 배경으로 전개 된다.
Alan Edward Nourse는 미국의 SF 작가이자 의사였다. 그는 청소년 및 성인 SF 소설은 물론 의학과 과학에 관한 논픽션 작품도 썼다. 그의 SF 작품은 때때로 의학 또는 사이오닉에 초점을 맞췄다. 그의 가장 유명한 필명은 Doctor X였다.


This book is a short science fiction novel published by Alan E. Nourse in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” in 1954. Nourse is set in a future society where the Earth has become overcrowded and resources are scarce.
Alan Edward Nourse was an American science fiction writer and physician. He has written young adult and adult science fiction as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His science fiction work sometimes focused on medicine or psionics. His most famous pen name was Doctor X.

Summary
Matt had to destroy the rocket because it was a symbol of evil that had brought economic disaster. But must he also destroy?the future?

It was well after dark when Matt Matthews got back down to the headquarters camp, and saw the city stranger sitting there before the fire. He knew he was a city man after a single glance at the shiny, low-topped shoes and the reminiscence of a crease in the dusty trousers. Matt tossed the gophers and the two small coyotes off his broad shoulders to old Moe Arhelger, across the campfire, staring in suspicious silence from the stranger to Moe and back again. "Who's he?" he asked finally.

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