Project Gutenberg 2010-03-11 Public domain in the USA. 74 Wolf, Mari 1927 An Empty Bottle Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "An Empty Bottle" by Mari Wolf is a science fiction novel written during the early 1950s. The story revolves around a group of space explorers who, after fifty-three years of searching for life in the galaxy, attempt to return to Earth, hoping to find a world filled with people and life. As they approach their home planet, they discover startling evidence suggesting that far more time has elapsed outside their ship than they experienced, leading to existential questions about the fate of humanity. The narrative follows Hugh McCann, one of the crew members, as he grapples with the realization that Earth may no longer be the vibrant world they left behind. Upon landing, the explorers find a desolate, lifeless planet where familiar landscapes are unrecognizable. Amidst the panic and despair among the crew, Hugh remains pragmatic, and he eventually proposes a radical idea. He pours bacteria from the ship into the ocean, suggesting that they may have the power to initiate life anew. In this twist of fate, the explorers ponder their role in the cycle of life, leaving readers to reflect on the larger themes of existence, time, and the possibility that they may be the architects of life's return to Earth. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31601/31601-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 63245 63254 2024-09-13T11:04:38.302236 2023-09-14T05:25:01.506559 text/html text/html 59637 2010-03-11T09:59:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 157436 2010-03-11T09:59:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 156294 2024-09-13T11:04:40.252233 application/epub+zip 155364 2024-09-13T11:04:38.696197 application/epub+zip 64275 2024-09-13T11:04:38.467196 application/epub+zip 196274 2024-09-13T11:04:41.667206 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 188601 2024-09-13T11:04:40.059231 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 98025 2022-09-14T13:54:29.745163 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 55701 55598 2024-09-13T11:04:38.064259 2023-09-14T05:25:01.276552 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 55602 2010-03-11T09:59:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20726 2010-03-11T09:59:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18483 2024-09-13T11:04:41.798183 application/rdf+xml 26629 2024-09-13T11:04:38.535201 image/jpeg 4326 2024-09-13T11:04:38.500238 image/jpeg 161956 2024-09-13T11:04:38.319210 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog