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Incident is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for O'Hara, Thomas J..
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Incident by Thomas J. O'Hara is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It centers on a deep-space expedition turned disaster when a lethal, mysterious plague ravages the crew, culminating in the lone survivor’s moral decision as he nears a seemingly hospitable world. The story follows six astronauts on the first great galactic voyage as a fast, terrible illness fells them one by one: the captain dies suddenly, another never wakes, the engineer staggers into the reactor, and one man chooses suicide to avoid infection. Infected himself and approaching a life-bearing planet, the last survivor realizes landing would spread the plague to its inhabitants. He chooses sacrifice, setting the controls that will destroy the ship. The scene then shifts to a peaceful valley where a couple watches a “shooting star,” revealing the world below is Earth and that the hero’s act passes as a quiet, unnoticed incident.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Incident
- Author credits: O'Hara, Thomas J.
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Diseases -- Fiction
- Interstellar travel -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Short stories
- Space ships -- Fiction
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