"Sail On! Sail On!" is an alternate history short story by American writer Philip José Farmer, first published in Startling Stories 1952. In an alternative 1492, Christopher Columbus sets out to find a shortened route to China and South-East Asia across the Atlantic, financed by Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain. However, in this timeline, the Earth is flat, though scientists and philosophers have doubts about its geological provenance, and an Angelo Angelli is mentioned as proving Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities.
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- contained in A Century of Science Fictionanthology
- contained in Decade: The 1950santhology
- contained in SF: Authors' Choiceanthology
- contained in The Best of Philip Jose Farmercollection
- contained in The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964collection
- contained in The Great SF Stories #14 (1952)anthology
- contained in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collectioncollection
- contained in Treasures of Fantasyanthology
- contained in Worlds of Maybeanthology