Galactic Ghost

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Galactic Ghost

by Walter Kubilius

EN·~21 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

21:41

Description

In the cold silence of deep space, a solitary pilot tends a crippled freighter and mourns his dying companion, whose final breath awakens an old legend: the spectral “Ghost Ship” that appears when a spacefarer passes. As the crew member’s mind slips into delirium, he claims to see the phantom drifting among the stars, sparking a clash between superstition and the harsh logic of a lone engineer who refuses to admit the truth.

Weeks turn into months, and the ship drifts on, its systems barely holding together while the void presses in. Then, out of the endless night, a series of stars flicker in a precise, unsettling pattern, hinting that the ghostly omen may be more than a myth. The mystery deepens, leaving the listener to wonder whether the haunted warning is a cosmic signal, a trick of perception, or something far stranger awaiting discovery.

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Language

en

Duration

~21 minutes (20K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2020-05-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Walter Kubilius

1918–1993

A member of the famous Futurians circle, this American writer turned out brisk, imaginative science-fiction short stories in the 1940s and early 1950s. His work captures a lively moment in pulp SF, when fandom, magazines, and big speculative ideas all fed each other.

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