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The Man Who Travelled in Rocketships [MultiFormat]
eBook by Don Sakers
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: As a science fiction writer, he had always believed in a better future. When that future vanished, only a most unlikely ghost could deliver him from despair. (A tribute to Robert A. Heinlein.)
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2006
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [183 KB], eReader (PDB) [24 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [10 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [10 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [72 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [81 KB], hiebook (KML) [82 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [39 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [11 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [38 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [18 KB]
Words: 2828
Reading time: 8-11 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The door dilated, and through it stepped a buxom, redheaded nurse. "Time for your medication, Mr. Riverside."
The man on the bed looked up from his terminal. Hairless, shriveled, face lined with age and taut with pain--yet his clear eyes were bright with the fires of intelligence and passion for life. It took a moment for those eyes to focus; it was as if he had been someplace far away, beyond beige hospital walls and the grey night outside. He gave a little sigh, then hit the "SAVE" key and pushed his terminal away.
The nurse gave her best professional smile. "What are you working on, another story?"
Riverside harumphed. "I wasn't aware that we were working on anything, my dear."
Her smile remained, but the slight drop of her eyes let Riverside know that his joke had gone too far. "I'm sorry, Nurse. I'm an old man and very tired of being in bed. Please forgive me, and don't take my ill feelings for ill manners."
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