People of the Comet is a science fiction novel by Austin Hall

Austin Hall (writer)

Austin Hall was an American short story writer and novelist. He began writing when, while working as a cowboy, he was asked to write a story. He wrote westerns, science fiction and fantasy for pulp magazines.-Works by Austin Hall:...

. It was first published in book form in 1948

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

 by Griffin Publishing Company in an edition of 900 copies. The novel was originally serialized in two parts in the magazine Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

beginning in September, 1923. The author's own title for the novel was Hop O' My Thumb.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns super-beings who reveal that our solar system is an atom in a larger universe.

Publication history

• 1923, USA, Weird Tales
  Weird Tales
  Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
  
  , Pub date September 1923, magazine serialization in 2 parts
• 1948, USA, Griffin Publishing Company , Pub date 1948, Hardback, first book publication
• 1950, Belgium, comics magazine Bravo, Pub date 23 November 1950, magazine, as La comète rouge. Serial. Digest in french of the original text.