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Milty's Mag, June 1941

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Milty's Mag                                    Page five
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dark here, and it feels cold, but that shouldn't be so. There is heat in there to melt this planet, and there is light ready to come gushing out, but the sun is too heavy and too small, and its pull keeps the light and heat hold in there so that it is hot there to the ultimate of possibility. 

   "So I didn't see it when I came out here past Procyon, where there is no star on the charts. but there it was, and there I was, caught in the gravity pull that light itself could not conquer. I found this planet to land on, but it would have been better to have fallen directly into the sun and smash completely, not smash only a little bit like the ship did.

   "Something is wrong and I don't know exactly what it is. Things seem to be and yet are not. The planet feels alive, and perhaps it is tying to kill me. The ship landed without more than a dented plate, but I was out of the ship for only two seconds when a mountain fell upon it. And then the ground opened beneath me. Somehow I saved myself, for I am still walking on the surface, but I have no right to be sure of anything, for things are not the way they seem here.

   "Things seem to change. I hadn't been walking for more than five minutes, and I couldn't have gone far, but I could not find my ship anymore, what there was left of it. I climbed to the top of a rock. about a hundred feet of it, and suddenly I wasn't on the top of a rock anymore, but it was a deep hole in the ground that kept getting deeper. I tried to climb up, but the side fell in, and I was in a tunnel. I had to run somewhere, so I ran. The tunnels branched without end. I think they were tunnels. Sometimes they were huge caverns whose sides I could not see in the distance, but as soon as I entered them, they collapsed, and I was in a narrow tunnel I tried to go up. I wanted to reach the surface. Whenever I entered an upward sloping passage I felt myself going down.

   "On and on. Endlessly and meaninglessly. Like a dream of running, flying, breathlessly, fearfully, with a tension that builds up unbearably. Then I stopped running and sat down; the sky and that dark sun was over me, I don't know. Did I happen to stop just as I found the opening to the surface .. or was it that because I stopped .... I shouldn't think about that.
   "What did I imagine, and what was real? There were mountains that disappeared in an instant, and hollows in the ground which suddenly filled to overflowing, and became huge, towering rocks. There was a turmoil, and a movement, and a shifting that made the horizon flow.

   "Did I just imagine that the planet was trying to kill me? Or did this just happen, and I was there, and I got caught, and. That rock there. A moment ago there was nothing, and then a little thing far away came up, and suddenly it was right there, before me, though it had not moved. The hyperspatial transition -- and what it means! This planetquake between two planets that exist simultaneously across hyperspace -- portions of each planet

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Milty's Mag Page five __________________________________________ dark here, and it feels cold, but that shouldn't be so. There is heat in there to melt this planet, and there is light ready to come gushing out, but the sun is too heavy and too small, and its pull keeps the light and heat hold in there so that it is hot there to the ultimate of possibility. "So I didn't see it when I came out here past Procyon, where there is no star on the charts. but there it was, and there I was, caught in the gravity pull that light itself could not conquer. I found this planet to land on, but it would have been better to have fallen directly into the sun and smash completely, not smash only a little bit like the ship did. "Something is wrong and I don't know exactly what it is. Things seem to be and yet are not. The planet feels alive, and perhaps it is tying to kill me. The ship landed without more than a dented plate, but I was out of the ship for only two seconds when a mountain fell upon it. And then the ground opened beneath me. Somehow I saved myself, for I am still walking on the surface, but I have no right to be sure of anything, for things are not the way they seem here. "Things seem to change. I hadn't been walking for more than five minutes, and I couldn't have gone far, but I could not find my ship anymore, what there was left of it. I climbed to the top of a rock. about a hundred feet of it, and suddenly I wasn't on the top of a rock anymore, but it was a deep hole in the ground that kept getting deeper. I tried to climb up, but the side fell in, and I was in a tunnel. I had to run somewhere, so I ran. The tunnels branched without end. I think they were tunnels. Sometimes they were huge caverns whose sides I could not see in the distance, but as soon as I entered them, they collapsed, and I was in a narrow tunnel I tried to go up. I wanted to reach the surface. Whenever I entered an upward sloping passage I felt myself going down. "On and on. Endlessly and meaninglessly. Like a dream of running, flying, breathlessly, fearfully, with a tension that builds up unbearably. Then I stopped running and sat down; the sky and that dark sun was over me, I don't know. Did I happen to stop just as I found the opening to the surface .. or was it that because I stopped .... I shouldn't think about that. "What did I imagine, and what was real? There were mountains that disappeared in an instant, and hollows in the ground which suddenly filled to overflowing, and became huge, towering rocks. There was a turmoil, and a movement, and a shifting that made the horizon flow. "Did I just imagine that the planet was trying to kill me? Or did this just happen, and I was there, and I got caught, and. That rock there. A moment ago there was nothing, and then a little thing far away came up, and suddenly it was right there, before me, though it had not moved. The hyperspatial transition -- and what it means! This planetquake between two planets that exist simultaneously across hyperspace -- portions of each planet