Meteor and Other Stories

Download or read book Meteor and Other Stories written by John Wyndham and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.