Galactic Ghost by Walter Kubilius
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"Galactic Ghost" by Walter Kubilius is a science fiction novella published in the early 1940s, likely during the golden age of pulp fiction. The story revolves around themes of loneliness and existential despair in the vast emptiness of space, focusing on the legend of a ghost ship that haunts those who have been doomed to wander alone among the stars. The novella provides a poignant reflection on the human experience when faced
with isolation and the ultimate fate of a long passage through the cosmos. The narrative centers on Willard, the sole survivor of the spaceship Mary Lou, who experiences profound loneliness after the death of his friend Dobbin. Over the years drifting in space, he is haunted by memories of Earth and encounters a mysterious ghost ship that appears to him amidst the stars. As time passes, the line between reality and illusion blurs, culminating in a confrontation with the distressing truth that even rescue may not lead him back to Earth but instead into the depths of eternal solitude as part of the ghostly fate that awaits him and others like him. Ultimately, the story serves as a meditation on humanity's connection to the physical world and the terror of becoming merely a ghost among the stars. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Kubilius, Walter, 1918-1993 |
|---|---|
| Title | Galactic Ghost |
| Series Title | Produced from Planet Stories Winter 1942 |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Space ships -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 62244 |
| Release Date | May 27, 2020 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 304 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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