An equipment failure sets an Earth-Mars cargo ship adrift with little fuel. The three-man crew can think of no way to return to Earth, and the one suggestion they get from Mars doesn't seem much better.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| June 1956 |
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Galaxy Science Fiction, June 1956 | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | MAGAZINE | 38 |
| September 1956 |
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Galaxie, Septembre 1956 | Éditions Nuit et Jour | MAGAZINE | 3 |
| March 1960 |
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Galaxy, #22 | Casa Editrice La Tribuna | MAGAZINE | 83 |
| August 1966 |
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Galaxy 6 | Heyne | Anthology | 7 |
| August 2009 | Death Wish | Project Gutenberg | Chapbook | ||
| August 2010 | X Minus One Project | LibriVox | Anthology | ||
| December 2010 |
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Robert Sheckley Resurrected: The Early Works of Robert Sheckley | Resurrected Press | Collection | 195 |
| August 2011 |
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The Second Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Tales by Masters | Wildside Press | Anthology | |4 |