Amazing Stories: 20 Million Miles to Earth

About this issue

This issue of Amazing Stories presents "20 Million Miles to Earth," a science fiction novelization of Columbia Pictures' film, adapted by Henry Slesar. The novel follows Italian fishermen in Gerra, Sicily, who witness a silvery spacecraft plummeting from the sky and crashing into the Mediterranean. Fishermen Verrico and Mondello rescue two survivors from the vessel's interior—a pilot and another crew member—before the ship sinks. The narrative then shifts to the Pentagon, introducing Major General A.D. McIntosh and Dr. Judson Uhl as they confront the implications of Project XY, a civilian-military space initiative. The ten-chapter novel balances disaster sequences with institutional politics, building tension around the mysterious craft and its origins.