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_aJones, Willis Knapp, _d1895-1982 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aReturn to Earth |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-07 | ||
| 508 | _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. | ||
| 520 | _a"Return to Earth by Willis Knapp Jones" is a science fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a resurrected pilot who returns to his hometown with an alien guide, aiming to prove his interplanetary voyage, and probes the clash between advanced beings and a fear-driven, war-prone humanity. Told by the alien Usru, the tale recounts how Henry Sanborn comes back to the small town he left eighteen years earlier, expecting glory for his achievement. Instead, he meets scorn: a former sweetheart flees, his wealthy friend Todd Van Horne spits on him for deserting wartime duty, and a cobbler denounces him as a coward. Hoping for validation, Henry appeals to the local asylum’s physician, Dr. Bender, explaining his anti-gravity ship inspired by the patient Menkowitz and insisting that Usru and the invisible craft are nearby. Skeptics fail to see the G-ray-hidden ship, mockery mounts, and Usru briefly reveals superior powers to drive home the truth. Concluding that Earth’s emotions and violence make contact dangerous, Usru immobilizes the situation, retrieves the terrified Henry—whose life Urcanus science restored after his fatal crash—and departs, resolving that their world will not communicate with humanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 |
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aExtraterrestrial beings -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSpace travelers -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aEarth (Planet) -- Fiction | ||
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_aBrundage, Margaret, _d1900-1976 |
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_aFinlay, Virgil, _d1914-1971 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 | |
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