Graveyard of Dreams by H. Beam Piper -Vintage science fiction short story sleepstory human voice

This is a well thought out and relatable tale of a young man coming home to his poor, backwater down-in-the-dumps planet system after spending five years at the university on Earth. He sees the dusty, run-down town for the destitute graveyard of dreams that it is and dreads having to tell his family and neighbors exactly what he found out about the thing the whole town pitched in to send him to Earth to find out under the guise of getting an education, something that they hoped would cure all their problems! This is absolutely not an action story in any sense of the word, but the world building is so thorough and vivid and the people are so authenticly portrayed the story is engaging nonetheless. This story takes place in Piper's Terro-Human History setting, no previous knowledge of the setting is needed. This story was later expanded into novel form as «The Cosmic Computer». The original blurb: Despite Mr. Shakespeare, wealth and name are both dross compared with the theft of hope-- and Maxwell had to rob a whole planet of it! Henry Beam Piper (1904-1964) was a prolific author mainly known for his Science Fiction, who had success in his time, but met with difficulties on several levels toward the end, leading to his unfortunate demise by his own hand in 1964. He is celebrated for his two settings where many of his novels took place, «Terro-Human History» a sort of alternative future history and «Paratime» that concerns a timeline-police. He is perhaps most well known for his Hugo-finalist novel «Little Fuzzy». - Stories of Futures Past presents a vintage science fiction short story, narrated by myself, Tom Trussel. An actual, real living human being, warts and all. Any and all voices and effects are produced live during reading with my actual voice. No obnoxious after effects, synthetic voices or filters used. English is not my first language, inaccurate accents and the occasional strange pronunciation will happen. No mockery is intended. These stories are good for English learners / ESL. The full text is right there on the screen in a big and easy to read font. Read along with me. It's great practice! Or, let me read you your bedtime story! If you need some ASMR sleep stories this channel is brimming with compilations, playlists, and podcast playlists. A note about channel donations: At this point in my life I do not need nor ask for your money. I do this for the love of the short story and to help promote the enjoyment of science fiction and fantasy literature. The stories are all free to enjoy and will stay so. Now, if you still want to throw a dollar or two at your humble storyteller, feel free to use https://ko-fi.com/tomtrussel for a one off, or join the channel to become a member for early access to the stories and help influence which stories that I narrate. I would also suggest to pay it forward to a good cause. Please consider donating to https://www.gutenberg.org/donate. Project Gutenberg is an organization dedicated to promoting the free distribution of written works in electronic formats. I make no secret that I find the majority of the public domain stories I read here on their website https://gutenberg.org. I am not affiliated with Project Gutenberg in any way other than that I use their website, and I have of late joined the volunteer Distributed Proofreaders at https://www.pgdp.net/c/ who help create some of the ebooks. -- Copyright notice: The written text of this story is in the public domain, as determined by the researchers and transcribers at Project Gutenberg, my own research, or it has passed the 95-years-since-publication mark. The story is and should be free for anyone to enjoy. Use of the audio is subject to license. Boilerplate license wording off the Gutenberg website: “This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.”