Project Gutenberg 2016-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 86 Harmon, Jim 1933 2010 Harmon, James Judson West How to Make Friends Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "How to Make Friends" by Jim Harmon is a science fiction short story written in the early 1960s. The narrative centers on William Manet, an overseer on Mars who grapples with profound loneliness in his isolated job at an Atmosphere Seeder Station. The story explores themes of companionship, desire, and the underlying absurdity of human connections in the face of existential solitude. As the plot unfolds, Manet's solitude drives him into a psychological struggle, and he eventually encounters a character named Trader Tom who offers him a "Socialization Kit" designed to create friends. Inside the kit, Manet finds various components and a manual titled "The Making of Friends and Others." In his humorous yet tragic attempts to create meaningful relationships, he constructs Ronald, a mundane companion, and Veronica, a less-than-astute female figure. However, when he tries to build Victor, who becomes his adversary, the story culminates in a poignant realization about companionship and the nature of friendship. Ultimately, Manet finds that challenges and conflicts can be more engaging than the shallow, vacuous connections he initially sought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Mars (Planet) -- Fiction Loneliness -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 58433 58439 2024-09-21T09:32:10.771907 2023-09-22T06:49:25.619861 text/html text/html 54799 2016-01-01T14:09:42 text/html; charset=us-ascii 324112 2016-01-01T14:09:44 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 365601 2024-09-21T09:32:12.785961 application/epub+zip 364513 2024-09-21T09:32:11.208899 application/epub+zip 82676 2024-09-21T09:32:10.967923 application/epub+zip 402272 2024-09-21T09:32:14.134854 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 395314 2024-09-21T09:32:12.557874 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 114017 2022-09-23T06:10:31.382031 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 50980 50885 2024-09-21T09:32:10.597870 2023-09-22T06:49:25.312860 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 50885 2016-01-01T14:09:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20075 2016-01-01T14:09:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19242 2024-09-21T09:32:14.260885 application/rdf+xml 31361 2024-09-21T09:32:11.038898 image/jpeg 4816 2024-09-21T09:32:11.003879 image/jpeg 327390 2024-09-21T09:32:10.788922 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