He had been the first space-flier but his ship ahd missed the moon and gone on … to frift silent, frigid, and forgotten. Centuries later the derelict was found, its pilot defrosted and returned to life. He might have had a hero's welcome on Earth, if there had been room for a hero and for an extra man. But there was neither. The world was a watchwork realm with everything exactly in its place. A perfect thinking machine ran the perfect state. Ther could be no place for his kind of unpredictable daring. So he ad to be eliminated.
1958