Ships to the Stars
Something had thrown Earth's scientists into an uproar - or rather, nothing had. Because suddenly there was absolutely nothing where something very definitely should have been. Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars. had disappeared.
And that was just the start of it. Before long, more of the solar system's moons were gone... people on Earth were sinking out of sight into the ground... and Earth's telepaths kept having strange dreams, full of foreboding....
A collection of 6 short stories by Fritz Leiber:
- Dr. Kometevsky's Day - (1952) - shortstory
- The Big Trek - (1957) - shortstory
- The Enchanted Forest - (1950) - novelette
- Deadly Moon - (1960) - novelette
- The Snowbank Orbit - (1962) - shortstory
- The Ship Sails at Midnight - (1950) - shortstory
The Million Year Hunt
...He heard a shout, distant and ringing, "No, Carson! Not that door!"
Something green writhed in through that door. Something gaseous, billowing, filling the chamber faster and faster, something that caught at his throat and gagged him, made him wretch, brought streaming tears to his eyes.
Before his eyes stretched a nightmarish growth of vine and tree, of mushroom-headed stalks, of gyrating tentacles swaying from every branch and limb. He heard a shrill, triumphant chittering.
He turned to spring back. A vice closed over his foot and tripped him. He fell, sprawling, his mouth and nostrils filling with stinking mud.
He did not remember anything more for a very long time.