After losing a leg fighting the Pan-Asians, Captain Michael Dane returns home to his
brilliant physicist girlfriend, his father, and a college professor/general who wants his
help in swiping technology from the future. But when they grab a future fighter plane, his
father is seemingly sucked into the future and his girlfriend may be a spy.
The government was convinced enough to finance Project Swipe, so it can’t be too crazy.
We’re actually reaching into the future. Look, we’re losing the war—we know that.
Pan-Asia is matching our technology and beating our manpower. But somewhere ahead,
they’ve got things that Pan-Asia can’t have—and we're going to get some of that.
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“Unto Him That Hath,” in Space Science Fiction,November 1952.
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Debut. “Unto Him That Hath,” in Space Science Fiction,November 1952.
The government was convinced enough to finance Project Swipe, so it can’t be too crazy.
We’re actually reaching into the future. Look, we’re losing the war—we know that.
Pan-Asia is matching our technology and beating our manpower. But somewhere ahead,
they’ve got things that Pan-Asia can’t have—and we're going to get some of that.
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