Cover for The Impossible Planet
Short Story

The Impossible Planet

1953

About this story

An elderly woman offers a spacecraft captain a fortune to take her to Earth before she dies. Since the planet is regarded as legendary, the request puts profit, compassion, and belief into uneasy conflict.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Feb 11, 1953

    Composition: no later than Feb 11, 1953

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Feb 11, 1953

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Feb 11, 1953

  3. Oct 1953

    First published Oct 1953

    Imagination