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Title: The Year When Stardust Fell

Author: Raymond F. Jones

Release Date: September 7, 2010 [EBook #33660]

Language: English

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The Year When Stardust Fell

_A Science Fiction Novel_

By Raymond F. Jones

[Transcriber note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

Jacket Design by James Heugh
Endpaper Design by Alex Schomburg

_Cecile Matschat, Editor
Carl Carmer, Consulting Editor_

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
Philadelphia, Toronto

Copyright, 1958
By Raymond F. Jones

FIRST EDITION

_Made in the United States of America_

_To Laura Lee_

Contents

_Of Men of Science_

1. _The Comet_

2. _Breakdown_

3. _Power Failure_

4. _Disaster Spreads_

5. _Thief_

6. _The Scientist_

7. _Dust from the Stars_

8. _Attack_

9. _Judgment_

10. _Victory of the Dust_

11. _The Animals Are Sick_

12. _Decontamination_

13. _Stay Out of Town!_

14. _Mobilization_

15. _Battle_

16. _Black Victory_

17. _Balance of Nature_

18. _Witchcraft_

19. _Conquest of the Comet_

20. _Reconstruction_

_About the Author_

_Of Men of Science_

The story of man is the story--endlessly repeated--of a struggle:
between light and darkness, between knowledge and ignorance, between
good and evil, between men who would build and men who would destroy. It
is no more complicated than this.

That light, knowledge, good, and constructive men have had a small edge
in this struggle is attested to by our slow rise over the long millennia
of time. In taking stock of our successes, however, it is easy to assume
the victory has been won. Nothing could be further from the truth. This
is a contest that is never ended, nor can it be, as long as men are upon
the Earth.

While man has