
Joshua Lake spends his mornings staring at a cloudless sky while his company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. With a dwindling payroll and invoices looming, his clerk Lucy Crane delivers the grim numbers, but Joshua refuses to let fear dictate his next move. Instead, he envisions a daring leap—a rocket that could reach the Moon and return, hoping to turn his modest metal‑casting shop into a launchpad for the future.
The plan sparks a fierce debate with his former partner, Lee Gorman, who dismisses the idea as reckless folly. Their clash pits hard‑headed pragmatism against boundless imagination, forcing Joshua to weigh personal pride against the survival of his business. As the deadline for funding draws near, the tension between what is possible and what is imagined sets the stage for a bold, uncertain venture into the “big tomorrow.
Language
en
Duration
~31 minutes (30K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-09-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1907–1975
Best known for the wildly popular and controversial “Shaver Mystery” stories, this American pulp writer and artist became one of the most talked-about figures in postwar science fiction magazines. His work mixed fantasy, paranoia, and underground civilizations in a way that still fascinates readers of strange fiction.
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