It was alien but was it dead, this towering, sinister city of metal that glittered malignantly before the cautious advance of three awed space-scouters. Dust Unto Dust by Lyman D. Hinckley, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

We’ve discovered another vintage sci-fi author that we know almost nothing about. We don’t know when or where Lyman D. Hinckley was born, the only thing we do know about him is that he wrote today’s story and another 4 years later under the name L. D. Hinckley.

Our story can be found in the Summer 1955 issue of Planet Stories Magazine, turn to page 44 for Dust Unto Dust by Lyman D. Hinckley…