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Day’s Work by Noel Loomis

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A young god wagers billions of years on a daring experiment that every elder around him expects to fail. If he can prove that intelligence and compassion can grow together, an entirely new species may change the future of the galaxy—or confirm its darkest doubts. Day’s Work by Noel Loomis. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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Noel Loomis wrote more than 30 sci-fi short stories that were published from 1946 to 1970. Today’s story was published in the third and last issue of Rocket Stories, published at the height of the science fiction magazine boom, and in this case bust. The date on the cover of this magazine, September 1953, and we will find our story on page 128, Day’s Work by Noel Loomis…

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