Project Gutenberg 2020-05-27 Public domain in the USA. 120 Kubilius, Walter 1918 1993 Galactic Ghost Produced from Planet Stories Winter 1942 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Galactic Ghost" by Walter Kubilius is a science fiction novella published in the early 1940s, likely during the golden age of pulp fiction. The story revolves around themes of loneliness and existential despair in the vast emptiness of space, focusing on the legend of a ghost ship that haunts those who have been doomed to wander alone among the stars. The novella provides a poignant reflection on the human experience when faced with isolation and the ultimate fate of a long passage through the cosmos. The narrative centers on Willard, the sole survivor of the spaceship Mary Lou, who experiences profound loneliness after the death of his friend Dobbin. Over the years drifting in space, he is haunted by memories of Earth and encounters a mysterious ghost ship that appears to him amidst the stars. As time passes, the line between reality and illusion blurs, culminating in a confrontation with the distressing truth that even rescue may not lead him back to Earth but instead into the depths of eternal solitude as part of the ghostly fate that awaits him and others like him. Ultimately, the story serves as a meditation on humanity's connection to the physical world and the terror of becoming merely a ghost among the stars. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 48074 2025-07-24T14:26:34.235565 text/html 24404 2024-10-18T03:37:42 text/html 352725 2025-07-24T14:26:36.070558 application/epub+zip 351560 2025-07-24T14:26:34.607590 application/epub+zip 79247 2025-07-24T14:26:34.381558 application/epub+zip 385821 2025-07-24T14:26:37.275570 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 378706 2025-07-24T14:26:35.863540 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 106572 2022-09-28T04:41:05.669298 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 41700 2025-07-24T14:26:34.138563 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21987 2024-10-18T03:37:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16375 2025-07-24T14:26:37.400547 application/rdf+xml 34933 2025-07-24T14:26:34.476559 image/jpeg 5661 2025-07-24T14:26:34.423555 image/jpeg 490284 2025-07-24T14:26:34.248552 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