Credit: Owen Smith

Fiction

The Distant Sound of Engines

  • November/December 2008
  • By Algis Budrys

In a rural hospital, Lenny hears a message of staggering importance from the man in the next bed. Will he get it?

   

[Editor's note: Science fiction author Algis Budrys died on June 9, 2008; a review of his eventful career begins on page 80. The following story originally appeared in the March 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.]

"Len? Lenny?" The unearthly man in the next bed was trying to wake me up.

 

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