Author: Harry Harrison
Year: 1958
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9781463897482
1463897480 |
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Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn't be so bad - if I could shoot the trouble!
In The Repairman, Harrison recounts the travails of a lone skilled laborer who is charged with the frustrating task of making a crucial repair to malfunctioning equipment on a far-flung planet.
My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles.
"This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever -- or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, it is never an accident, and repairing the thing is never a matter of just plugging in a new part."
He was telling me -- the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office.
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