Re: YASID - Astronauts Return To Depopulated Earth

After various goings-on, they discover that they are the cause of the disaster - on take-off they disrupted "Millington's Boundary", a kind of super-ionosphere at the top of earths
atmosphere, and let in cosmic rays which destroy living tissue.

Hm...can't give you the title of this one..but it's interesting in that
it sounds like the plot of Time Fuse...by a well known sci fi author
whose name I'm blanking on at the moment...Randall Garrett?

Anyway, a starship takes off with a new, experimental drive. They get
to the star they're journeying to ...and the star goes nova because of
the way they traveled. They head back towards earth using sublight
speed so that they don't destroy the sun by reappearing in the same
way, only to discover that the event also happened on take off...so
they had destroyed their own sun, and of course, now had nowhere to go.




Barbara
The Thunder Child Science Fiction Web Magazine
http://thethunderchild.com

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