Magazine cover: Universe Science Fiction #4 (March 1954); review of: “The Door” by Eric Frank Russell, pp. 6-17.

A plotless short story likening career spacers to lovelorn young men grown old in service to the Foreign Legion. Russell pitches this as a SF fairy tale, but the framing narrative is awkward and the voice offers nothing of his usual personality. #EricFrankRussell #TheDoor

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Day 14 of 20

#NextOfKin by #EricFrankRussell (1959)

British #SciFi author who created humorous his books before #DouglasAdams. Story of a human, captured by aliens, tells them he has an invisible symbiote.

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