The Meteor Girl by Jack Williamson Episode #452

Jack Williamson | November 10, 2025

The Meteor Girl by Jack Williamson Episode #452
Jack Williamson

THE METEOR GIRL

Episode #452 · Written by Jack Williamson · Narrated by Scott Miller

A mysterious meteor unleashes a blue-glowing gateway that reveals a storm-torn world on the other side of space-time. Now Charlie King must risk everything—including the woman he loves—to cross the impossible divide and rescue the Meteor Girl before she’s lost forever.

The Meteor Girl is a thrilling early science-fiction tale that mixes romantic tension, scientific speculation, and pulse-pounding adventure. When a blazing meteor crashes onto a Florida landing field, young aircraft designer Charlie King is the first to recognize that the strange stone from space is far more than a chunk of cosmic metal. Surrounded by a cold blue haze and charged with unknown energy, the meteor defies every instrument he tests it with—until it suddenly becomes something impossible: a glowing window into another part of the world.

What begins as a scientific curiosity becomes a nightmare. The portal reveals a violent storm at sea, a wrecked passenger ship fighting to stay afloat—and aboard that ship is Virginia Randall, the woman Charlie loves and the fiancée who just broke off their engagement. She left him because she believed mathematics, Einstein, and “four-dimensional nonsense” would never build a real life. Now the only thing that can save her is the very science she rejected… and the man she thought had chosen equations over her.

To rescue Virginia before the ship sinks beneath monstrous waves, Charlie must decide whether to step through the space-time window himself—risking not only his life, but the possibility that he may never find his way back. Time is running out. The sea is rising. And the meteor’s strange force is unstable, fading, and possibly dangerous to anyone who gets too close. This is no longer just a scientific breakthrough. It’s a one-chance gamble with love, physics, and fate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack Williamson, often called “The Dean of Science Fiction,” was one of the genre’s earliest and longest-lasting voices. Beginning his writing career in the 1920s pulp magazines, Williamson bridged the eras of cosmic adventure, Golden Age futures, and the more thoughtful science fiction that emerged in the 1950s and beyond. Over more than seven decades, he explored ideas such as hyperspace travel, genetic alteration, artificial intelligence, and space colonization—long before they became familiar concepts in science fiction and real-world science.

His influence echoes through writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein, all of whom praised Williamson for blending imaginative speculation with grounded scientific thought. He received nearly every major award in the field, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Yet stories like The Meteor Girl show why readers have always loved him—not for the awards, but for the sense of wonder, danger, and discovery that crackles off the page.

If you love stories where impossible science becomes perilously real, where heroic leaps are made not with ray guns but with ideas, and where a man must use intellect and courage to save the woman he loves, then The Meteor Girl is essential vintage sci-fi storytelling at its finest.

LISTEN TO THE STORY

Listen to The Meteor Girl by Jack Williamson — a glowing meteor becomes a gateway to danger, love, and the unknown as Charlie King races to save Virginia before time—and reality—runs out. Classic vintage sci-fi.