ELEGY

By Charles Beaumont

[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


It was an impossible situation: an asteroid in space where no asteroid should have been—with a city that could only have existed back on Earth!

"Would you mind repeating that?"

"I said, sir, that Mr. Friden said, sir, that he sees a city."

"A city?"

"Yes sir."