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  Re: On a Mission To Find an Old Science Fiction Short Story adam.holland@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 12:37 -0700
    Re: On a Mission To Find an Old Science Fiction Short Story goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-08-22 07:11 +0000

#420716 — Re: On a Mission To Find an Old Science Fiction Short Story

On Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 5:05:00 PM UTC-4, Bob Bridger wrote:
> My mission is a tough one since I remember neither the Title nor the
> author; the story concerns a middle aged man hearing of a way to get
> to "paradise": (I believe a requirement was that he had to give-up all
> his assets)... in the end, he, with a number of others "seeking
> paradise",  are taken to a place to await transport (I seem to
> remember it was like a barn). After waiting for hours, he decides that
> he's been a total fool and exits; just as he closes the door, he sees
> a bright light under the door (and maybe feels vibrations and hears
> noise)... he tries, but can't open the door, (breaking his finger
> nails clawing at the door). Subsequently, he gets in to find an empty
> room. A likely title might contain the word "faith" or "paradise" ...
> 
> Anyone read this cute story??
> 
> Thanks!!
> Bob

I've definitely read that story.  I had it in an anthology  in paperback, which also included Robert Silverberg's "Birds of a Feather"
ISFDB is not helping me find the anthology or the title you want, sorry.

--AH

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In article <acf14931-3133-4017-b4fd-b05c10c1fd8c@googlegroups.com>,
 <adam.holland@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 5:05:00 PM UTC-4, Bob Bridger wrote:
>> My mission is a tough one since I remember neither the Title nor the
>> author; the story concerns a middle aged man hearing of a way to get
>> to "paradise": (I believe a requirement was that he had to give-up all
>> his assets)... in the end, he, with a number of others "seeking
>> paradise",  are taken to a place to await transport (I seem to
>> remember it was like a barn). After waiting for hours, he decides that
>> he's been a total fool and exits; just as he closes the door, he sees
>> a bright light under the door (and maybe feels vibrations and hears
>> noise)... he tries, but can't open the door, (breaking his finger
>> nails clawing at the door). Subsequently, he gets in to find an empty
>> room. A likely title might contain the word "faith" or "paradise" ...
>> 
>> Anyone read this cute story??
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Bob
>
>I've definitely read that story.  I had it in an anthology  in
>paperback, which also included Robert Silverberg's "Birds of a Feather"
>ISFDB is not helping me find the anthology or the title you want, sorry.

...Er, you do realize that you're responding to an article that's more
than 13 years old?  Have a look at the date in the attribution line above.

Anyway, I too have read the story:  it is "Of Missing Persons", by
Jack Finney.

Further, I've read that anthology: _Tales of Time and Space_, edited by
Ross R. Olney for Whitman Books.  It was a Christmas present from my
family's housekeeper when I was not yet five years old, and I'm pretty
sure it was the first science fiction book I ever read.  I still have it.
It was a curious mixture:  some excellent, adult stories like Fredric
Brown's "Puppet Show", and some awful pulpy junk like Larry Sternig's
"Clutch of Morpheus".

-- 
   David Goldfarb          |"Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature.
goldfarbdj@gmail.com       | It wastes your time and annoys the pedant."
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  |             -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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