"His Head in the Clouds"
by Robert Silverberg
writing as Calvin M. Knox*
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 441
Publication history:
- 1957: Science Fiction Stories September 1957, Magazine
- 1969: The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories, Holt Rinehart Winston Hard cover book
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Being a spaceship captain is the most exciting job there is, but the qualifications are almost unattainable, and most men can only dream of aiming a sleek ship at the sky. For 14-year-old Peter Michael Willer, dreaming is not enough, so he studies every book on the subject until he knows them inside-out, and devises a plan to make sure he will achieve his goal. The problem is, it's not exactly legal...