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The golden apples of the sun5/18/2023 In order to survive the trip to the sun, the Copa de Oro/Prometheus/Icarus is cooled down to a temperature of one thousand degrees below zero. What could possibly go wrong with this plan, particularly given the name(s) of the spaceship? Icarus, whose mission it is to fly to the sun and retrieve some of its fire or rather fusion power in a giant cup held by a giant remote-controlled hand. The narrator of the story is the unnamed captain of a spaceship called the Copa de Oro a.k.a. Warning: There will be spoilers in the following! This review will also be crossposted to Retro Science Fiction Reviews. It would have been eligible for the 1954 Retro Hugos, awarded in 2004, but neither made the ballot nor the longlist. “The Golden Apples of the Sun” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, which appeared in the November 1953 issue of Planet Stories.
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