Project Gutenberg 2016-01-08 Public domain in the USA. 77 Del Rey, Lester 1915 1993 Rey, Lester del Knapp, Leonard Earthbound Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Earthbound" by Lester Del Rey is a science fiction short story published in the early 1960s. The narrative centers around the yearning for space exploration and addresses the themes of dreams, solitude, and human limitation. The story reflects Del Rey's imagination of a future filled with space travel and the impact it has on individuals who aspire to leave Earth behind for the stars. In the story, Clifton, a once-celebrated space hero, finds himself reluctantly back on Earth, surrounded by celebratory crowds. Feeling trapped and discontent, he encounters an old man named Ahasuerus, who has devoted his life to making space boots yet has never traveled beyond Earth. Their exchange reveals the deep longing Ahasuerus harbors for the cosmos, contrasting with Clifton's own frustration and disappointment toward his return. Moved by Ahasuerus's dream of going to space, Clifton offers him a place on his upcoming journey to Rigel. However, Ahasuerus feels bound by a destiny that keeps him on Earth, symbolizing the constraints that life can impose, despite one's aspirations to explore the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Wandering Jew -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 29880 29883 2024-10-21T09:51:38.722167 2023-09-22T07:05:02.514675 text/html text/html 25965 2016-01-08T16:02:40 text/html; charset=us-ascii 109976 2016-01-08T16:02:40 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 124250 2024-10-21T09:51:40.280168 application/epub+zip 123176 2024-10-21T09:51:39.081159 application/epub+zip 69843 2024-10-21T09:51:38.891167 application/epub+zip 154168 2024-10-21T09:51:41.410155 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 147337 2024-10-21T09:51:40.089172 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 94159 2022-09-23T06:41:38.424576 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 23922 23827 2024-10-21T09:51:38.641168 2023-09-22T07:05:02.340610 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 23847 2016-01-08T16:02:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 9002 2016-01-08T16:02:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20483 2024-10-21T09:51:41.540143 application/rdf+xml 27459 2024-10-21T09:51:38.956156 image/jpeg 4707 2024-10-21T09:51:38.923170 image/jpeg 111029 2024-10-21T09:51:38.729174 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 McCann, Edson