Project Gutenberg 2020-02-06 Public domain in the USA. 167 Simak, Clifford D. 1904 1988 Simak, Clifford Donald Jackson The Shipshape Miracle Produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1963 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Shipshape Miracle" by Clifford D. Simak is a science fiction novella written during the early 1960s. The story centers around Cheviot Sherwood, a castaway stranded on an uninhabited planet, contemplating his fate while unknowingly harboring a wealth of diamonds. The book explores themes of identity, humanity, and the merging of man and machine through its foundational premise of a sentient spaceship. In the narrative, Sherwood finds himself in a precarious situation after his spaceship breaks down, rendering him marooned. While grappling with his isolation, he unexpectedly encounters a mysterious black ship that reveals itself to be alive and capable of thought. The ship, which has merged with the consciousness of its human creator, offers Sherwood a way out. However, it soon becomes clear that Sherwood himself might become a part of the ship's existence, as the entity has been searching for someone like him—one who would not be missed in the world. The story culminates in a tension-filled realization of what it means to lose one's humanity in the pursuit of survival and a deeper exploration of the idea that not all miracles are beneficial. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Diamond mines and mining -- Fiction Space ships -- Fiction Life on other planets -- Fiction Castaways -- Fiction Cyborgs -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 48146 2025-06-24T10:24:15.952066 text/html 24117 2024-10-17T16:12:40 text/html 218754 2025-06-24T10:24:17.617112 application/epub+zip 217576 2025-06-24T10:24:16.335106 application/epub+zip 77212 2025-06-24T10:24:16.112070 application/epub+zip 254161 2025-06-24T10:24:18.741085 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 247015 2025-06-24T10:24:17.412073 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 106841 2022-09-27T17:37:08.039884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 41348 2023-09-26T08:43:42.501505 text/plain 21421 2024-10-17T16:12:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17446 2025-06-24T10:24:18.868050 application/rdf+xml 30880 2025-06-24T10:24:16.196101 image/jpeg 4865 2025-06-24T10:24:16.156118 image/jpeg 692671 2025-06-24T10:24:15.967163 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia