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Nahum Gardner

Nahum Gardner is the farmer whose home, family and land are destroyed after a meteorite falls beside his well in The Colour out of Space. His decline gives the cosmic event its domestic scale: a prosperous household becomes isolated, exhausted and unable to escape the process transforming its surroundings.

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Ammi approaches the failing Gardner farm through an unnaturally changed orchard.
Literature

The Colour out of Space

A meteorite falls beside a New England farmhouse, and the land begins producing abundant but poisonous growth. As the Gardner family and its surroundings deteriorate, the neighboring farmer Ammi Pierce witnesses a form of life that can be recognized through its effects but never comfortably described in human terms.

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