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100 1 _aO'Hara, Thomas J.
245 1 0 _aIncident
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-22
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aIncident by Thomas J. O'Hara is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It centers on a deep-space expedition turned disaster when a lethal, mysterious plague ravages the crew, culminating in the lone survivor’s moral decision as he nears a seemingly hospitable world. The story follows six astronauts on the first great galactic voyage as a fast, terrible illness fells them one by one: the captain dies suddenly, another never wakes, the engineer staggers into the reactor, and one man chooses suicide to avoid infection. Infected himself and approaching a life-bearing planet, the last survivor realizes landing would spread the plague to its inhabitants. He chooses sacrifice, setting the controls that will destroy the ship. The scene then shifts to a peaceful valley where a couple watches a “shooting star,” revealing the world below is Earth and that the hero’s act passes as a quiet, unnoticed incident. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aDiseases -- Fiction
653 _aSpace ships -- Fiction
653 _aInterstellar travel -- Fiction
700 1 _aHunter, Mel,
_d1927-2004
830 0 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78725
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