My Shipmate Columbus Stephen Marlowe 9781490536729 Books
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The laughter brought spots of color to his cheeks. He stood there for a while, taking it, and then decided he had had enough and would sit down. A whisper of amusement still stirred the room as he returned to his seat and the professor said, "But just a moment, Mr. Jones. Won't you tell the class what makes you think Columbus was not the 'bold skipper' the history books say he was. After all, Mr. Jones, this is a history class. If you know more or better history than the history books do, isn't it your duty to tell us?"
My Shipmate Columbus Stephen Marlowe 9781490536729 Books
"My Shipmate--Columbus" (3/5) is a novelette (about 8,900 words) published in 1956 in the October edition of Amazing Stories (actually, in the same issue as another if Lesser's work, "A Place in the Sun"). The author is cited as Stephen Wilder, yet another pseudonym for the prolific 50s shortstory writer Milton Lesser (birth name Stephen Marlow). Comprising twenty-five pages of the magazine, the story is a historical one rather than a space-faring one. According to Wikipedia, Milton Lesser used to write fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus (I guess everyone needs a hobby). While this isn't a fictional autobiographical account of Columbus's journeys, it does paint the man in an unorthodox manner.Danny Jones challenges historical fact in his history class, with the professor and other students giving him ever so slight banter for his devious historical opinions. He merely wanted to posit that maybe Christopher Columbus wasn't the spectacular he's been made out to be. That same day, as he leaves his history class at Whitney University in Virginia, he receives a letter announcing the death of his uncle in St. Augustine, Florida.
Danny wasn't particularly close to his Uncle Averill, but it seems the iconoclastic uncle has left him a machine, of sorts. The uncle had been known for his "secret machine and strange disappearances," (Section 4, para. 1) but you'd never suspect that he'd keep it locked within a bank vault in his basement! The lawyer handling the inheritance, Tartalion, gives Danny the key to the basement, in which Danny discovers, "A small case... the interior of the trunk was larger than he had expected. A man could probably curl up in there quite comfortably. But the case--the case looked exactly like it ought to house a tape-recorder" (Section 4, para. 7).
Along with the tape recorder and steamer trunk, his uncle has left little nuggets of knowledge for Danny to follow through his life: "They're teaching you too much at school, son. Too many wrong things, too many highfalutin' notions, too much just plain old hogwash" (Section 2, para. 13), "Too much so-called knowledge which isn't knowledge at all, but hearsay" (Section 3, para. 13), and "Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes. History is propaganda--from a winner's point of view" (Section 3, para. 14).
But what Danny doesn't expect is a highfalutin story of a time travel machine within that man-sized steamer trunk. Danny curses himself to become gullible to his uncle's tales and ensconces himself within the trunk, keeping in mind his uncles only instructions: "...you got to have the proper attitude. You've got to believe in yourself, and not in all the historical fictions they give you" (Section 6, para. 1).
When Danny find his faith in not having faith, he opens his eyes to find himself in another man's body... the body of Don Martin Pinzón, commander of the caravel Niña in Columbus's three-ship exploration fleet to challenge the notion that the world is flat and that "Here be dragons" doesn't apply to the westerly route across the Atlantic Ocean.
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My Shipmate Columbus Stephen Marlowe 9781490536729 Books Reviews
"My Shipmate--Columbus" (3/5) is a novelette (about 8,900 words) published in 1956 in the October edition of Amazing Stories (actually, in the same issue as another if Lesser's work, "A Place in the Sun"). The author is cited as Stephen Wilder, yet another pseudonym for the prolific 50s shortstory writer Milton Lesser (birth name Stephen Marlow). Comprising twenty-five pages of the magazine, the story is a historical one rather than a space-faring one. According to Wikipedia, Milton Lesser used to write fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus (I guess everyone needs a hobby). While this isn't a fictional autobiographical account of Columbus's journeys, it does paint the man in an unorthodox manner.
Danny Jones challenges historical fact in his history class, with the professor and other students giving him ever so slight banter for his devious historical opinions. He merely wanted to posit that maybe Christopher Columbus wasn't the spectacular he's been made out to be. That same day, as he leaves his history class at Whitney University in Virginia, he receives a letter announcing the death of his uncle in St. Augustine, Florida.
Danny wasn't particularly close to his Uncle Averill, but it seems the iconoclastic uncle has left him a machine, of sorts. The uncle had been known for his "secret machine and strange disappearances," (Section 4, para. 1) but you'd never suspect that he'd keep it locked within a bank vault in his basement! The lawyer handling the inheritance, Tartalion, gives Danny the key to the basement, in which Danny discovers, "A small case... the interior of the trunk was larger than he had expected. A man could probably curl up in there quite comfortably. But the case--the case looked exactly like it ought to house a tape-recorder" (Section 4, para. 7).
Along with the tape recorder and steamer trunk, his uncle has left little nuggets of knowledge for Danny to follow through his life "They're teaching you too much at school, son. Too many wrong things, too many highfalutin' notions, too much just plain old hogwash" (Section 2, para. 13), "Too much so-called knowledge which isn't knowledge at all, but hearsay" (Section 3, para. 13), and "Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes. History is propaganda--from a winner's point of view" (Section 3, para. 14).
But what Danny doesn't expect is a highfalutin story of a time travel machine within that man-sized steamer trunk. Danny curses himself to become gullible to his uncle's tales and ensconces himself within the trunk, keeping in mind his uncles only instructions "...you got to have the proper attitude. You've got to believe in yourself, and not in all the historical fictions they give you" (Section 6, para. 1).
When Danny find his faith in not having faith, he opens his eyes to find himself in another man's body... the body of Don Martin Pinzón, commander of the caravel Niña in Columbus's three-ship exploration fleet to challenge the notion that the world is flat and that "Here be dragons" doesn't apply to the westerly route across the Atlantic Ocean.
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