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    The Hoofer
    The Hoofer
    The Hoofer
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    The Hoofer

    By Walter M. Miller

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Hoofer - Walter M. Miller

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      Title: The Hoofer

      Author: Walter M. Miller

      Release Date: June 19, 2009 [EBook #29170]

      Language: English

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      A wayfarer's return from a far country to his wife and family may be a shining experience, a kind of second honeymoon. Or it may be so shadowed by Time's relentless tyranny that the changes which have occurred in his absence can lead only to tragedy and despair. This rarely discerning, warmly human story by a brilliant newcomer to the science fantasy field is told with no pulling of punches, and its adroit unfolding will astound you.

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      by ... Walter M. Miller, Jr.

      A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do—if his heart cries out for a home?

      They all knew he was a spacer because of the white goggle marks on his sun-scorched face, and so they tolerated him and helped him. They even made allowances for him when he staggered and fell in the aisle of the bus while pursuing the harassed little housewife from seat to seat and cajoling her to sit and talk with him.

      Having fallen, he decided to sleep in the aisle. Two men helped him to the back of the bus, dumped him on the rear seat, and tucked his gin bottle safely out of sight. After all, he had not seen Earth for nine months, and judging by the crusted matter about his eyelids, he couldn't have seen it too well now, even if he had been sober. Glare-blindness, gravity-legs, and agoraphobia were excuses for a lot of things, when a man was just back

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