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_The_ Heroes' March _was fitting for / most spacemen. Somehow, though, if just didn't / apply to a space-borne garbage man! _
LESTER DEL REY _says: "I've grown more and more unhappy about the / trend to stories laid a thousand years ahead and a megaparsec away. / So every once in a while, I like to sit down with an idea where I / can be pretty darned honest about probable facts and see if some of / the old, basic, simple ideas can't be twisted. " He has a good point / there, and we think you'll agree he has succeeded in his aim in_ / The Band Played On.