Project Gutenberg 2007-12-10 Public domain in the USA. 76 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly Scrimshaw Produced from Astounding Science Fiction September 1955. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Scrimshaw" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novella written in the mid-20th century. Set on the far side of the Moon, the story explores themes of memory recovery and human resilience in extreme environments. The narrative follows Pop Young, a man who, after losing his family to a brutal crime, seeks to recover the lost memories of his past while performing his duties as the caretaker of a mining colony. The story revolves around Pop, who endures the harsh conditions of the lunar surface while grappling with fragmented recollections of his wife and children, who were murdered by a man named Sattell. As Pop attempts to piece together his lost memories, he discovers that being near Sattell triggers vivid flashes of his past, leading to a powerful yet haunting portrayal of his journey. When a red-headed thief attempts to rob Pop of the valuable diamonds extracted from the mine, the tension escalates, culminating in a dramatic explosion. Ultimately, Pop's determination to reclaim his memories transforms his pain into creativity, and he begins to use a unique material discovered in the wreckage for his artistic endeavors, signifying hope and the possibility of healing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Moon -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 61458 61467 2024-09-10T09:08:13.969668 2023-09-10T12:12:02.176755 text/html text/html 57658 2007-12-10T07:47:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 93755 2007-12-10T07:47:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 143757 2024-09-10T09:08:17.402626 application/epub+zip 142772 2024-09-10T09:08:15.323664 application/epub+zip 72755 2024-09-10T09:08:14.436622 application/epub+zip 314321 2024-09-10T09:08:19.073603 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306878 2024-09-10T09:08:16.782648 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140154 2022-09-11T07:12:14.472743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 54685 54585 2024-09-10T09:08:13.763670 2023-09-10T12:12:01.993744 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 54624 2007-12-10T07:47:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21203 2007-12-10T07:47:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19936 2024-09-10T09:08:19.211624 application/rdf+xml 12269 2024-09-10T09:08:14.780617 image/jpeg 3249 2024-09-10T09:08:14.600623 image/jpeg 147315 2024-09-10T09:08:13.984653 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia