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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Gunga
gave
a
guttural
cry
of
despair.
"It
knows,
Boss;
look!"
Through
one
of
the
round,
heavily
framed
ports
it
could
be
seen,
the
lower
part
of
its
large,
shapeless
body
half-floating
in
the
lashing
water
that
covered
their
rocky
shelf
to
a
depth
of
several
feet,
the
upper
part
spectral
and
gray.
It
was
a
giant
amoeba,
fully
six
feet
in
diameter
in
its
present
spheroid
form,
but
capable
of
assuming
any
shape
that
would
be
useful.
It
had
an
envelope
of
tough,
transparent
matter,
and
was
filled
with
a
fluid
that
was
now
cloudy
and
then
clear.
Near
the
center
there
was
a
mass
of
darker
matter,
and
this
was
undoubtedly
the
seat
of
its
intelligence.
The
Earth
man
recoiled
in
horror!
A
single
cell
with
a
brain!
It
was
unthinkable.
It
was
a
biological
nightmare.
Never
before
had
he
seen
one--had,
in
fact,
dismissed
the
stories
of
the
Inranian
natives
as
a
bit
of
primitive
superstition,
had
laughed
at
these
gentle,
stupid
amphibians
with
whom
he
traded
when
they,
in
their
imperfect
language,
tried
to
tell
him
of
it.
They
had
called
it
the
Ul-lul.
Well,
let
it
be
so.
It
was
an
amoeba,
and
it
was
watching
him.
It
floated
in
the
downpour
and
watched
him.
With
what?
It
had
no
eyes.
No
matter,
it
was
watching
him.
And
then
it
suddenly
flowed
outward
until
it
became
a
disc
rocking
on
the
waves.
Again
its
fluid
form
changed,
and
by
a
series
of
elongations
and
contractions
it
flowed
through
the
water
at
an
incredible
speed.
It
came
straight
for
the
window,
struck
the
thick,
unbreakable
glass
with
a
shock
that
could
be
felt
by
the
men
inside.
It
flowed
over
the
glass
and
over
the
building.
It
was
trying
to
eat
them,
building
and
all!
The
part
of
its
body
over
the
port
became
so
thin
that
it
was
almost
invisible.
At
last,
its
absolute
limit
reached,
it
dropped
away,
baffled,
vanishing
amid
the
glare
of
the
lightning
and
the
frothing
waters
like
the
shadows
of
a
nightmare.
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