No Place Like Earth

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

• "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

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

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

External links

• NO PLACE LIKE EARTH - John Wyndham at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 May 2006)
• No Place Like Earth 2003 publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• John Wyndham at IMDb

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