1 The Stowaway

Now, step into the incredible, amazing future as we go exploring tomorrow. And now here is your guide to these adventures of the mind, the editor of a astounding science fiction magazine, John Campbell Jr. The essential character of any frontier you explore is that if you get into it and stick your neck out, you get it locked off and there's no help. The frontier is the place

where there isn't any reserve, where there isn't anyone to help you if you get into trouble. There is no support. Tonight's story is a story of a true frontier. Sometimes the frontier lies just the other side of a doorway. It doesn't seem very different. It can be the difference between life and sudden death. We are in a somewhat different position. We

We can summon support here. I can push my little push button here and summon our supporters. You know when we think of that glamorous future, we sometimes tend to forget that things cost money now and things will cost in the future. I suppose that there are ships and they are going out between the worlds. They carry emergency supplies for expeditions that may

They may be in trouble on some of the planets that are being explored, but they can't carry an extra lot of them. It costs too much. They carry parachutes, in effect, to drop them as they flash by the world that's in trouble.

Little parachutes for space, a plastic bubble with a tiny motor, just enough to lower it down to the planet without destruction. They probably use human pilots to do it too, because you know a human brain is the lightest of all computing devices.