Dreams of the Rocket Man — C. Stuart Hardwick

A boy finds his own dreams in helping fulfill those of a retired aerospace engineer. Jim Baen Memorial Award finalist Tangent Online Starred Recommendation Analog Science Fiction & Fact Analab reader poll finalist. "Hugo Worthy" - SFRevu "It's not often that I'm moved to tears by a story about rocket science." - Reader "This story really reached me. It lives in the zone somewhere between Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, Hickam's Rocket Boys, and Heinlein's Requiem... I felt myself pulled through time as a story that could have been set back in the 50s or 60s slowly moved forward... The effect was like the world expanding, and also growing brighter and less sepia..."