Take a Match
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Take a Match is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in an anthology New Dimentions II in 1972 and later appeared in the collection Buy Jupiter
A spaceship is stranded between the stars but out of distance of the interstellar gases that it requires as fuel. The Fusionist, a highly sensitive and eccentric individual who is in charge of the ship's power, is unwilling to try any alternative methods of gathering fuel. A school teacher travelling as a passanger suspects what the trouble is and realises, from his experience of teaching children, that there is an alternative; that of utilising 'primitive' technology. He manages to convey his ideas to the ship's crew and the Fusionist reluctantly tries them. They work.
| Buy Jupiter and Other Stories |
| Darwinian Pool Room | Day of the Hunters | Shah Guido G. | Button, Button | The Monkey's Finger | Everest | The Pause | Let's Not | Each an Explorer | Blank! | Does a Bee Care? | Silly Asses | Buy Jupiter | A Statue for Father | Rain, Rain, Go Away | Founding Father | Exile to Hell | Key Item | The Proper Study | 2430 A.D. | The Greatest Asset | Take a Match | Thiotimoline to the Stars | Light Verse |
