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The Sentimentalists

Murray Leinster

First published April 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

Two aliens in love stop to an outer planer of a solar system. In an inner planet is a human colony, where a man is slaving to keep his farm. The company which owns the planet is scheming to take over his farm and to force him to be a day laborer at a cut rate wage. The female observes this and starts to pity him. The male alien starts to feed the man's mind with some nice inventions.

Publications (4)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1953 Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1953 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 118
June 1954 Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 Frederick Fell Anthology 224
1955 The Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: Second Series Grayson & Grayson Anthology
February 2016 The Sentimentalists Project Gutenberg Chapbook