Inconstant Moon

Publication date: 
1971-06
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
All the Myriad Ways
Opus No.: 
55
Setting: 
Stand Alone
Characters: 
Stan & Leslie
Awards: 
Hugo winner
Summary: 

This story raises the question: How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the Moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova and they only have a few hours until the Earth rotates into the deadly sunshine. This story won a Hugo Award and was made into an episode of The Outer Limits.

Notes: 

Made into an episode of "Outer Limits," mid 1990s

Reprints: 

Reprints Characters Awards Notes Anthology, Best Science Fiction for 1972, edited by Frederik Pohl; The Hugo Winners, Volume 3 edited by Isaac Asimov; anthology, The Best of All Possible Worlds, edited by Spider Robinson; paper, anthology, Heyne Science Fiction, Jahresband 1982, as "Weschelhafter Mond," by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, München; The World Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. David G. Hartwell, Little Brown 1989; anthology, Armageddons, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 1999; anthology, Masterpieces, Orson Scott Card, editor, Ace, 2001; Inconstant Moon; N-Space; Best of Larry Niven, The