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"Meteor" by John Wyndham (1941)
Monday 29 April 2024, by
An advanced civilization on a dying planet mobilizes all its resources to build and send out a hundred spaceships, each with a thousand volunteers on board, to find new worlds on which they could ensure the survival of their race. This is the tragic story of the one that landed on Earth.
This terrific golden-age sci-fi story by the English author John Wyndham was first published in the March 1941 issue of the American monthly magazine Amazing Stories as “Phoney Meteor” under the pen-name John Beynon [1].
(6,600 words)
With the original Amazing Stories artwork by Jay Jackson.
An e-book is available for downloading below.
Meteor (e-book)
[1] Beynon, like Wyndham, was another of John Wyndham’s middle names. His full name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris.