Could you rebuild civilization without tools, books, or even the fillings in your teeth? In Jerry Sohl’s Costigan’s Needle, a neighborhood of 400 people are thrust naked into a different Earth, one without people. We finish by discussing Jerry Sohl’s scriptwriting career.
Links:
Jerry Sohl, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sohl_jerry
Star Trek: The Corbomite Maneuver – Memory Alpha:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corbomite_Maneuver_(episode)
Star Trek: This Side of Paradise – Memory Alpha:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise_(episode)
Star Trek: Whom the Gods Destroy – Memory Alpha:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Whom_Gods_Destroy_(episode)
Outer Limits: The Invisible Enemy episode:
https://archive.org/details/the-outer-limits-tv-1964-s02e07-the-invisible-enemy
The Sand Kings by George R. R. Martin:
https://archive.org/details/bestscienceficti0000unse_f7x2/mode/1up
Frankenstein vs. Baragon (a.k.a. Frankenstein Conquors the World) [1965]:
https://archive.org/details/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld
Tunnel in the Sky by Robery Heinlein [1955]:
https://archive.org/details/tunnelinsky00robe_0
