Work

Of Missing Persons

Jack Finney · 1955short story

Genre
- science fiction
Theme
- space colonization
- second chance
Place
- north america
- other star systems
Time
- mid 20th century
Audience
- adult

Also present

Themealiens space exploration
Tonereflective

"Of Missing Persons" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Jack Finney, which describes a burned-out bank teller named Charley Ewell living in 1955 New York City who receives a chance to emigrate from Earth to Verna, a lush, earth-like planet light-years away.

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Placement

contained in About Timecollection
contained in S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasyanthology
contained in The Third Levelcollection