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Ultima Thule by Dallas McCord Reynolds
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Title: Ultima Thule
Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds
Release Date: October 25, 2009 [Ebook #30334]
Language: English
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Ultima Thule
by
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Illustrated by John Schoenherr.
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
March 1961
[Transcriber's Note: This text was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction March 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
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At least he'd got far enough to wind up with a personal interview. It's one thing doing up an application and seeing it go onto an endless tape and be fed into the maw of a machine and then to receive, in a matter of moments, a neatly printed rejection. It's another thing to receive an appointment to be interviewed by a placement officer in the Commissariat of Interplanetary Affairs, Department of Personnel. Ronny Bronston was under no illusions. Nine out of ten men of his age annually made the same application. Almost all were annually rejected. Statistically speaking practically nobody ever got an interplanetary position. But he'd made step one along the path of a lifetime ambiti