# Identifying a s-f short story.

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**Created:** [December 20, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-s-f-short-story/46463 "2000-12-20T03:26:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-s-f-short-story/46463/1 "2000-12-20T03:26:01Z")

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Maybe you folks out there can help me. I once read a sci-fi short story that I can no longer recall the title or author of. In it, a guy, some sort of missionary, discovers that Heaven is a different place(planet?) for everybody. Quite simply, Heaven for each person is the situation which you would think is the best possible way to spend eternity. I can’t remember if there was a corresponding situation for those going to Hell. The story is told in the first person, and I remember he finds the adventurer Livingstone on a planet? that is like an African veldt, filled with game and no people, or very few.  
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I’d like to read it again.