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    The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
    The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
    The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
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    The Odyssey of Sam Meecham

    By Charles E. Fritch

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Odyssey of Sam Meecham - Charles E. Fritch

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      Title: The Odyssey of Sam Meecham

      Author: Charles E. Fritch

      Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29355]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ODYSSEY OF SAM MEECHAM ***

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      This story may, in a sense, be tongue-in-cheek. But the underlying struggle, if you look into the characters' hearts, is terrifyingly real and human—the kind of struggle so many of us go through. But Sam Meecham was lucky. He not only got what he wanted, but something he hadn't realized he wanted.

      the

      odyssey

      of

      sam

      meecham

      by ... Charles E. Fritch

      Sam Meecham did not realize that his chance discovery of unlimited power would bring back that which he had lost eight long years ago.

      To look at Sam Meecham you'd never have dreamed he was a man of decision and potential explorer of the unknown. In fact, there were times when Sam wouldn't either. He was a pink, frail-looking person with a weak chin and shoulders used to stooping, and stereotyped thinking immediately relegated him to the ranks of the meek and mannerly. These, oddly enough, happened to be his characteristics—but that was before he discovered the hyperdrive.

      In his capacity as an atomic engine inspector, his work was most uncreative. He was a small cog in a large cog-laden machine. A government worker helping to produce engines that would send supplies and immigrants and tourists to the U.S. Sector of the Moon Colony.

      Day after day, week after week, freshly made engines would come sliding down the conveyor belt. And mechanically Sam Meecham would

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