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Thomas S. Gardiner
A little-known science-fiction writer, Thomas S. Gardiner is remembered for “Cosmic Tragedy,” a tense tale of planetary panic, alien contact, and the dangerous power of human technology.
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Cosmic Tragedy
by Thomas S. Gardiner
About the author
Public sources offer little biographical information about Thomas S. Gardiner, but his work survives through modern digital archives and science-fiction collections.
His known story, Cosmic Tragedy, was published in the March 1941 issue of Comet. The story follows a mysterious plague called the “Whispering Death,” humanity’s struggle to survive the resulting chaos, and an alien civilization attempting to communicate with Earth.
Project Gutenberg lists Cosmic Tragedy as Gardiner’s work and preserves it as a public-domain science-fiction story. Beyond this publication, reliable biographical details about Gardiner remain scarce.