Project Gutenberg 2020-10-16 Public domain in the USA. 107 Hinckley, Lyman D. Hinckley, L. D. Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly Dust Unto Dust Produced from Planet Stories Summer 1955 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Dust Unto Dust" by Lyman D. Hinckley is a science fiction story written in the mid-20th century, likely during the 1950s. The narrative follows a group of space explorers who come across a mysterious and seemingly abandoned city on a barren planet. The book delves into themes of alien architecture, the remnants of a lost civilization, and the existential dread faced by the characters as they encounter the city and the secrets it might hold. The plot centers around three space-scouters—Martin, Wass, and Rodney—who land on a desolate world during their eleventh expedition. As they explore the eerie, geometric buildings of the city, they find themselves trapped by a mysterious barrier. Efforts to communicate with their ship yield no success, leading to increasing tension among the men. They discover a bank of alien seeds and a functional control panel, but the real horror unfolds when one of them becomes trapped and meets a grim fate. Ultimately, Martin and Rodney manage to escape through a hidden pipe, revealing the city's dark secrets while grappling with the loss of their companion and the overwhelming alienness of their discovery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 86.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Extinct cities -- Fiction Outer space -- Exploration -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 56519 2025-07-25T08:05:52.644235 text/html 33100 2024-10-18T07:15:11 text/html 395583 2025-07-25T08:05:54.581215 application/epub+zip 394424 2025-07-25T08:05:53.093235 application/epub+zip 86694 2025-07-25T08:05:52.838222 application/epub+zip 432732 2025-07-25T08:05:55.866235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 425899 2025-07-25T08:05:54.355248 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 118435 2022-09-28T16:20:45.489529 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 49455 2025-07-25T08:05:52.513238 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 29710 2024-10-18T07:15:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16900 2025-07-25T08:05:56.011160 application/rdf+xml 25769 2025-07-25T08:05:52.944171 image/jpeg 4536 2025-07-25T08:05:52.891171 image/jpeg 449316 2025-07-25T08:05:52.658244 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