No Place Like Earth

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No Place Like Earth
First edition
AuthorJohn Wyndham
Cover artistAllen Koszowski
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDarkside Press
Publication date
2003
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint ()
ISBN978-0-9740589-0-0

No Place Like Earth (ISBN 978-0-9740589-0-0) is a collection of science fiction stories (ten short stories and six novelettes) by British writer John Wyndham, published in July 2003 by Darkside Press.

Contents

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  • "Derelict of Space" (1939), novelette, as by John Beynon, also published in Wanderers of Time
  • "Time to Rest" (1949), Bert #1 series,[1] also published in The Seeds of Time
  • "No Place Like Earth" (1951), novelette, as by John Beynon, Bert #2 series,[1] also published in Exiles on Asperus
  • "In Outer Space There Shone a Star" (1965)
  • "But a Kind of Ghost" (1957)
  • "The Cathedral Crypt" (1935), as by John Beynon Harris
  • "A Life Postponed" (1968), novelette[2]
  • "Technical Slip" (1949), as by John Beynon Harris, also published in Jizzle
  • "Una", novelette, variant of "The Perfect Creature" (1937), also published in Jizzle
  • "It's a Wise Child" (1962)
  • "Pillar to Post" (1951), novelette, also published in The Seeds of Time
  • "The Stare" (1932)
  • "Time Stops Today" (1953), novelette, variant of "Time Out", also published in The Infinite Moment
  • "The Meddler" (1958)
  • "Blackmoil"
  • "A Long Spoon" (1960), also first published in Consider Her Ways and Others

Adaptations

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Based on short story "Time to Rest" and novelette "No Place on Earth":

  • "No Place Like Earth" (1965), episode of the series Out of the Unknown, directed by Peter Potter

Based on short story "A Long Spoon":

  • Ördögi szerencse (1978), TV movie directed by Vilmos Dobai
  • "The Long Spoon" (1961), episode of the series Storyboard, directed by James MacTaggart

See also

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There is a compilation of short science fiction stories published under the same title: John Carnell's No Place like Earth: A Science Fiction Anthology (1954). It contains two stories by John Wyndham: "No Place like Earth" (as by John Beynon) and "Survival".

References

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  1. ^ a b Bould, Mark (18 January 2015). "Out of the Unknown: 'No Place Like Earth' (BBC2 4 October 1965)". Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  2. ^ A Life Postponed at the Internet Archive
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