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From: brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: none (story title requested)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 14:45:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  5 14:45:14 1984
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[for the space eater]

>>I'm trying to locate a science fiction story (it appeared in a 
>>collection of short stories) that had the following plot elements:
>>
>>	1) 	Took place in the future
>>	2)	The hero was sent out from earth in a single man
>>		"spaceship" on a mission of general discovery
>>		(The spaceship is in quotes because it was more than a 
>>		spaceship.. it was an extension of himself).
>>	...

I am certain that the story you describe is by Gordon Dickson, and I believe
that the title is "In the Bone."  I think it was written in the late '60s.
It should be available in one of the paperback collections of Dickson's
stories which is currently in print.

				Bruce Cohen
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