Project Gutenberg 2008-05-27 Public domain in the USA. 81 Silverberg, Robert 1935 Knox, Calvin M. Martin, Webber Mitchell, Clyde Jarvis, E. K. Burke, Ralph Postmark Ganymede Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Postmark Ganymede" by Robert Silverberg is a science fiction novella published in the mid-20th century. The story follows Hal Preston, a disgraced former Space Patrol officer who finds himself reduced to the humiliating role of a postal worker tasked with delivering mail to a colony on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. The narrative delves into themes of dignity, purpose, and resilience as Preston grapples with his new mundane reality while grappling with the dangers of space travel. In the novella, Hal Preston embarks on his postal delivery mission but quickly discovers that the Ganymede Colony is under siege by massive iceworms that have taken over the area surrounding their dome. Determined to deliver the mail against all odds, Preston innovatively uses his skills to aid the colony, culminating in a daring maneuver where he creates a path through the hostile iceworms to ensure the successful delivery of the mail. The story captures Preston's journey from a disgraced postman to an unlikely hero, ultimately emphasizing the importance of duty and resourcefulness in the face of adversity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction, American Short stories, American PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 43367 43376 2024-09-11T06:01:56.552455 2023-09-11T09:23:01.705718 text/html text/html 39652 2021-01-03T16:44:43 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 43477 2021-01-03T16:44:43 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 95326 2024-09-11T06:01:59.976383 application/epub+zip 94300 2024-09-11T06:01:57.856381 application/epub+zip 67115 2024-09-11T06:01:57.011385 application/epub+zip 223194 2024-09-11T06:02:01.512384 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 216011 2024-09-11T06:01:59.309392 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 155174 2022-09-12T05:13:26.423182 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37101 37000 2024-09-11T06:01:56.339418 2023-09-11T09:23:01.518739 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 36983 2021-01-03T16:44:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14219 2021-01-03T16:44:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19172 2024-09-11T06:02:01.656360 application/rdf+xml 14748 2024-09-11T06:01:57.346394 image/jpeg 3780 2024-09-11T06:01:57.175393 image/jpeg 97443 2024-09-11T06:01:56.560390 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 More titles under Jorgensen, Ivar