In the fall of 1941, with war raging in Europe and Russia, science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a short story set in a far-distant future. The year is 2015, the location, Mercury. There, a couple of interplanetary miners named Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan ar…
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