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These are stories of the future.

Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe world.

The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine presents

X-X minus minus minus one

The Night's Story Soldier Boy by Michael Shera.

There is a Scandinavian legend.

In the Northland deep in a great cave by an ever-burning fire, the warrior sleep.

For this is the resting time, the time of peace.

And so shall it be for a thousand years.

And yet we shall summon him again, my children,

when we are sore in need.

And out of the north he will come,

and again and again, each time we call,

out of the dark and the cold,

with the fire in his hand,

he will come.

The... fire in his hands, he will come. I was off duty when the call came to report.

I was off duty and out of uniform.

As a matter of fact, I was in a bar, drunk.

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