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Answer by Corporate Refugee for 1950's SF story: Farm boy discovers door at...

I believe the story is The Star Seekers, by Milton Lesser. I read it approximately 60 years ago. Great story. I have forgotten some of the details, but whenever I see dinner trays with dirty dishes on...

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Answer by Mike Scott for 1950's SF story: Farm boy discovers door at the end...

Are you sure about the date? Other than that, it sounds like Phoenix Without Ashes by Harlan Ellison and Edward Bryant, the basis for the ill-fated TV show The Starlost. But it was published in 1975....

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Answer by Zeiss Ikon for 1950's SF story: Farm boy discovers door at the end...

This plot has some similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky -- set in a generation ship that suffered a mutiny and, as a result, lost its collective memory of mission and destination....

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1950's SF story: Farm boy discovers door at the end of the world; discovers...

The story line: a young boy raised in a farming community finds a door in a wall that he thought was the physical limit of his world. His community puts food on a conveyor belt that goes thorough the...

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