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The Altar at Midnight
Author: Cyril M. Kornbluth
Published: 1952
Source: Project Gutenberg

Doing something for humanity may be fine--for humanity--but rough on the individual!

Two men in a bar. One is a spacer with a face full of red lines from compression and decompression. The other is a man known as Doc. It turns out he is responsible for space travel.

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