← Back

Junkyard

Clifford D. Simak

First published May 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

A spaceship finds some strange artifacts from an unremarkable planet. It seems like some unknown time ago an alien ship landed on the planet, and its' crew disassembled ship's engines, and used another, older alien ships' engines to replace them. And when the earth ship tries to leave, the crew discovers that all members the crew have forgotten how to fly the ship.

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1953 Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1953 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 124
September 1953 Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 3 No. 7 Strato Publications MAGAZINE 101
April 1954 Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 130
1955 Galaxy Science Fiction Omnibus Grayson & Grayson Anthology
August 1988 Off-Planet Methuen Collection 73
September 1989 Off-Planet Methuen / Mandarin Collection 73
October 2015 The Big Front Yard and Other Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |5
August 2016 The Big Front Yard and Other Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection 115
December 2018 The Works of Clifford D. Simak Volume Four Open Road Integrated Media Omnibus
April 2020 The Big Front Yard and Other Stories Audible Studios Collection |5