Project Gutenberg 2010-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 258 Beaumont, Charles 1929 1967 Beaumont, Chuck Nutt, Charles Leroy McNutt, Charles Elegy Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. 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://book.klll.cc/files/32819/32819-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 61483 2025-10-13T10:11:01.099397 text/html 58446 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/html 127843 2025-10-13T10:11:03.213450 application/epub+zip 126695 2025-10-13T10:11:01.645388 application/epub+zip 69259 2025-10-13T10:11:01.392450 application/epub+zip 167060 2025-10-13T10:11:04.521469 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159724 2025-10-13T10:11:02.960392 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102634 2022-09-15T06:28:28.207063 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52697 2025-10-13T10:11:00.934427 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 52565 2021-01-06T18:36:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18827 2025-10-13T10:11:04.646375 application/rdf+xml 25605 2025-10-13T10:11:01.456433 image/jpeg 4581 2025-10-13T10:11:01.425423 image/jpeg 120359 2021-01-06T18:36:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 20478 2021-01-06T18:36:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 120751 2025-10-13T10:11:01.109442 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia