The Last Ghost
This first appeared in PROTOSTARS, 1971.
I recommend a made-for-TV movie called “Sole Survivor,” starring Vince Edwards and Richard Basehart.I saw it for the first time just before going to bed, and the ending affected me so strongly that I lay in bed for an hour afterwards before saying, “I’ve got to write a story about this tomorrow.” After another half hour of sleeplessness, I said, “To hell with tomorrow, I’ll write it now.” Within an hour and a half, I’d gotten the basic story written.
“The Last Ghost” was a finalist on the Nebula Awards ballot that year, placing behind Robert Silverberg’s “Good News from the Vatican.”
Eternity is a terrible place to endure alone.
He is the last of his kind, if he is a “he.” (Gender is an arbitrary difference. All things are eventu
