No Place Like Earth

No Place Like Earth

First edition
Author	John Wyndham
Cover artist	Allen Koszowski
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Darkside Press
Publication date	2003
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print ()
ISBN	978-0-9740589-0-0

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

• "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

1. 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

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