Project Gutenberg 2010-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 95 Beaumont, Charles 1929 1967 Beaumont, Chuck Nutt, Charles Leroy Elegy Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont is a science fiction short story written in the early 1950s. The narrative unfolds aboard a space vessel, where Captain Webber and his crew, after running out of fuel and drifting aimlessly in space, discover what seems to be a city on an asteroid. The story explores themes of reality and illusion as the crew confronts their situation, wondering about the implications of finding a familiar yet impossible environment far from Earth. As they make a harrowing landing on the asteroid, the crew encounters a peculiar little man named Mr. Greypoole, who reveals that they are in a place called Happy Glades, a cemetery designed to replicate the conditions of life for the deceased. Each household and setting they observe is a mere imitation meant for the long-lost guests who have passed away, trapped in a façade of normalcy. The narrative delves into existential questions as the crew grapples with the realization that this so-called paradise is nothing more than a complex machine designed to keep the dead in a state of unchanging bliss. In a climactic turn, the story culminates in the captain's tragic understanding of their situation, leading to an exploration of the themes of life, death, and the consequences of desire for escape from reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32819/32819-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 61355 61365 2024-09-14T04:42:09.618769 2023-09-14T09:35:43.798611 text/html text/html 58446 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 120359 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 127627 2024-09-14T04:42:11.780763 application/epub+zip 126715 2024-09-14T04:42:10.126746 application/epub+zip 69268 2024-09-14T04:42:09.865801 application/epub+zip 167040 2024-09-14T04:42:13.165729 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159724 2024-09-14T04:42:11.520767 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102634 2022-09-15T06:28:28.207063 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52697 52601 2024-09-14T04:42:09.424814 2023-09-14T09:35:43.623600 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 52565 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20478 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18669 2024-09-14T04:42:13.292774 application/rdf+xml 25605 2024-09-14T04:42:09.931761 image/jpeg 4581 2024-09-14T04:42:09.898769 image/jpeg 120740 2024-09-14T04:42:09.629761 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 en.wikipedia