The Big Tomorrow by Richard S. Shaver -Vintage Science Fiction Short Story Sleepstory human voice

This story is set to the time right before they sent rockets out into space, all the way to the moon. It was published four years before Sputnik, and even reaching the moon still was 15 years off!
There are certain rare individuals in this world who seem bereft of all common sense. These are the people who set their eyes upon an objective and immediately all intelligence, logic, good advice, unsolvable problems, and insurmountable obstacles go completely by the boards. The characters we refer to are obviously just plain stupid. What they want to do, just can't be done. The objectives they have in mind are unachievable and anyone with an ounce of brains can tell them so and give them good reasons. They are usually pretty sad cases and often land in the funny house. But then again, some of them go out and discover new worlds.
Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907-1975) was a very controversial author of SF due to his claim of having secret knowledge from an ancient, prehistoric civilization, and (co-)writing many stories laying all this out. The controversy was not really about his hoax-like stories or his claims of truth to them per se, rather, it was that Mr Raymond A. Palmer, the then editor of Amazing Stories, promoted this stuff heavily in order to sell his magazine in the years of 1945-1947 together with Space Opera-like fare, thus alienating much of the existing fanbase who were into hard science fiction. This seemed to have caused or maybe it was the final straw? a schism in SF fandom that lasts to this day, where these stories seem to have melted into the haze of background conspiracy theorist radiation that permeates so much of whatever BS-du-jour the loonies want so very much to believe is the truth. You know, because the truth is out there, and Big Science doesn't want you to know about it...
If Mr. Shaver himself was an actual crackpot, a grifter or just a prankster making a living does not really matter. This story is not one of those.
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