** Eric Frank Russell's "Tieline" (as by Duncan H Munro) (short story, science fiction)

Sole man on an entire planet that serves as a space lighthouse is very lonely.

See also.

1. Tom Godwin's "The Nothing Equation": Another man-alone-in-space loneliness story.

Collected in.

1. "Major Ingredients" (ed Rick Katze).

Fact sheet.

First published: Astounding, July 1955.
Rating: B
Related: All stories of Eric Frank Russell.
Listed among the stories from John Campbell's Astounding/Analog.

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