The Wailing Asteroid

The Wailing Asteroid
Cover of first edition, 1960
AuthorMurray Leinster
Cover artistRichard M. Powers
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience-fiction novel
Published1960 (Avon)
Publication placeUSA
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages143 (Paperback edition)
OCLC7358691

The Wailing Asteroid is a science-fiction novel written by Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) and first published in 1960 by Avon Books. It presents the theme of the lone inventor who saves Earth from cosmic danger and introduces Humanity to an unknown civilization. The novel was adapted for film by John Brunner as The Terrornauts in 1967.[1]