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    Desire No More
    Desire No More
    Desire No More
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    Desire No More

    By Algis Budrys

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Desire No More
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    Algis Budrys

    Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, where his father served in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps. The family came to the United States when Budrys was five years old. A Renaissance man, he wrote stories and novels, and was an editor, critic, and reviewer, a teacher of aspiring writers, and a publisher. In the 1960s Budrys worked in public relations, advertising products such as pickles, tuna fish, and four-wheel-drive vehicles. His science fiction novels include Rogue Moon, Hard Landing, Falling Torch, and many others. His Cold War science fiction thriller Who? was adapted for the screen, and he received many award nominations for his work. Budrys was married to his wife, Edna, for almost fifty-four years.  

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      Desire No More - Algis Budrys

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Desire No More, by Algirdas Jonas Budrys

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      Title: Desire No More

      Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys

      Release Date: October 7, 2012 [EBook #40968]

      Language: English

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      He had but one ambition, one desire: to pilot the first manned rocket to

      the moon. And he was prepared as no man had ever prepared himself

      before....

      DESIRE NO MORE

      by Algis Budrys

      (illustrated by Milton Luros)

      Desire no more than to thy lot may fall....

      —Chaucer

      THE SMALL young man looked at his father, and shook his head.

      "But you've got to learn a trade, his father said, exasperated. I can't afford to send you to college; you know that."

      I've got a trade, he answered.

      His father smiled thinly. What? he asked patronizingly.

      I'm a rocket pilot, the boy said, his thin jaw stretching the skin of his cheeks.

      His father laughed in the way the boy had learned to anticipate and hate. Yeah, he said. He leaned back in his chair and laughed so hard that the Sunday paper slipped off his wide lap and fell to the floor with an unnoticed stiff rustle.

      "A rocket pilot! His father's derision hooted through the quiet parlor. A ro—oh, no!—a rocket pilot!"

      The boy stared silently at the convulsed figure in the chair. His lips fell into a set white bar, and the corners of his jaws bulged with the tension in their muscles. Suddenly, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the parlor, through the hall, out the front door, to the porch. He stopped there, hesitating a little.

      "Marty!" His father's shout followed him out of the parlor. It seemed to act like a hand between the shoulder-blades, because the boy almost ran as he got down the porch stairs.

      What is it, Howard? Marty's mother asked in a worried voice as she came in from the kitchen, her damp hands rubbing themselves dry against

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