Summary from Best Science Fiction: Barton is the pilot of an EDS, a small spacecraft carrying emergency medical supplies to a survey crew on the planet Woden. His small ship was dispatched from the cruiser Stardust with exactly the right amount of fuel to land him on the surface. All seems to be planned out to perfection, except for that pesky gauge that indicates the presence of someone else on the EDS! Barton knows what he has to do, but when he learns who is hiding on his ship the decision becomes much, MUCH more difficult.

In 1917, the United States had not yet joined the war in Europe, but 18-year old Earnest Hemingway joined the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver in an attempt to participate in the action. However, just a few weeks after arriving in Italy, he was severely wounded by a mortar explosion. After a long convalescence, he returned home and before long began writing fiction based on his experiences, some of the greatest war prose ever written. The following story, "Soldier's Home," written in 1925, tells of a soldier who returns to his family in the Midwest only to feel shame and isolation because they persists in seeing only the romantic side of war.