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    Elegy
    Elegy
    Elegy
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    Elegy

    By Charles Beaumont

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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    • 4/5
      Surviving crew of a spaceship, fleeing from an Earth about to destroy itself, find themselves on a strange asteroid that is amazingly Earth-like. Quite memorable--as is usually the case with Beaumont, who had enough imagination for several writers. This would make a good Twilight Zone episode--and in fact it was.

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    Elegy - Charles Beaumont

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Elegy, by Charles Beaumont

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    Title: Elegy

    Author: Charles Beaumont

    Release Date: June 14, 2010 [EBook #32819]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELEGY ***

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    ELEGY

    By Charles Beaumont

    [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

    It was an impossible situation: an asteroid in space where no asteroid should have been—with a city that could only have existed back on Earth!

    Would you mind repeating that?

    I said, sir, that Mr. Friden said, sir, that he sees a city.

    A city?

    Yes sir.

    Captain Webber rubbed the back of his hand along his cheek.

    You realize, of course, that that is impossible?

    Yes sir.

    Send Mr. Friden in to see me, at once.

    The young man saluted and rushed out of the room. He returned with a somewhat older man who wore spectacles and frowned.

    Now then, said Captain Webber, what's all this Lieutenant Peterson tells me about a city? Are you enjoying a private little joke, Friden?

    Mr. Friden shook his head emphatically. No sir.

    Then perhaps you'd like to explain.

    Well, sir, you see, I was getting bored and just for something to do, I thought I'd look through the screen—not that I dreamed of seeing anything. The instruments weren't adjusted, either; but there was something funny, something I couldn't make out exactly.

    Go on, said Captain Webber, patiently.

    So I fixed up the instruments and took another look, and there it was, sir, plain as could be!

    "There what was?"

    The city, sir. Oh, I couldn't tell much about it, but there were houses, all right, a lot of them.

    Houses, you say?

    Yes sir, on an asteroid.

    Captain Webber looked for a long moment at Mr. Friden and began to pace nervously.

    I take it you know what this might mean?

    Yes sir, I do. That's why I wanted Lieutenant Peterson to tell you about it.

    "I believe, Friden, that before

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