Weird Tales of the Future #4
"Day of Doom!" delivers a striking early sci-fi tale from 1952, where inventor Arthur Bergholm receives a revolutionary Interstellar Drive from a time traveler named Ranu, sent from the year 5070. With art by Eugene E. Hughes and inks by the same, the story follows Bergholm’s test flight to a distant planet—only to return and find Earth destroyed after 400 years. The cover, a dynamic collaboration by Basil Wolverton and Ed Robbins, captures the cosmic scale of the journey.
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In 2733, a being from the year 5070 named Ranu gives Arthur Bergholm the Interstellar Drive he was planning to build before he would have been killed so man can travel faster than the speed of light and traverse to other worlds. While testing this drive out, Bergholm and his crew reach a planet 400 light years away in just four days. When they get back to Earth, they realize 400 years have passed and Earth has been destroyed. Ranu explains this had to happen in order for his people to be born. Bergholm and the others then decide to rebuild society on Alpha Centuari to begin life anew.
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