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...trend. The first story is simply for laughs, almost a parody of previous space operas: Otho, first ambassador from Philistia, reaches Washington in a rocket ship easily enough, then gets into trouble with the girls because of his X-ray eyes. In Blind Alley, rich and nostalgic Mr. Feathersmith hires the devil to restore the home town of his boyhood, but soon realizes that life in good old Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend...
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