"Would you mind repeating that?" "I said, sir, that Mr. Friden said, sir, that he sees a city." "A city?" "Yes sir." Captain Webber rubbed the back of his hand along his cheek. "You realize, of course, that that is impossible?" He called for the astronomer who'd sighted the thing. Frieden wasn't joking. It was a city, and it was impossible: an asteroid in space where no asteroid should have been -- and there on it, plainly visible, was a city that could only have existed back on Earth!

Author Biography

Charles Beaumont (1929 - 1967) was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. Beaumont is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man," "Miniature," "Printer's Devil," and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You," but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. Novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, "Charles Beaumont was one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre."