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What is A Hitch in Space about?

A Hitch in Space (in Short Science Fiction Collection 056 ) My Space-partner was a goodreliable sidekick—but hispartner was something else! Once when I was doing a hitch with the Shaulan Space Guard out Scorpioway, my partner Jeff Bogart developed just about the most harmlesspsychosis you could imagine: he got himself an imaginary companion. And the imaginary companion turned out to be me. Well, I’m a pretty nice guy and so having two of me in the ship didn’tseem a particularly bad idea. At first. In fact there’d be advantages ofit, I thought. For instance, Jeff liked to talk a weary lot ... and theimaginary Joe Hansen could spell me listening to him, while I projecteda book or just harkened to the wheels going around in my own headagainst the faint patter of starlight on the hull. I met Jeff first at a space-rodeo, oddly enough, but now the two of uswere out on a servicing check of the orbital beacons and relays andrescue depots of the five planets of the Shaulan system. A completelyroutine job, its only drawback that it was lengthy. Our ship was anionic jeep that looked like a fancy fountain pen, but was very roomy forthree men—one of them imaginary. I caught on to Jeff’s little

Author

Fritz Leiber

Published

2016

Language

EN