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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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The
rushing
sound
was
in
that
moment
thunderous,
terrible,
and
as
winds
smashed
and
rocked
the
plane
like
giant
hands,
Hackett
glimpsed
another
sphere
that
was
not
the
sphere
of
Earth,
a
greenish
globe
that
expanded
with
lightning
speed
in
the
firmament
beside
their
spinning
plane!
The
winds
stilled;
the
green
globe
changed
abruptly
to
a
landscape
of
green
land
and
sea
toward
which
the
plane
was
falling!
Norman
was
fighting
the
controls--land
and
sea
were
gyrating
up
to
them
with
dizzy
speed--crash!
With
that
cracking
crash
the
plane
was
motionless.
Sunlight
poured
through
its
windows,
and
great
green
growths
were
all
around
it.
Hackett,
despite
Norman's
warning
cry,
forced
the
door
open
and
was
bursting
outside,
Norman
after
him.
They
staggered
and
fell,
with
curious
lightness
and
slowness,
on
the
ground
outside,
then
clutched
the
plane
for
support
and
gazed
stupefiedly
around
them.
The
plane
had
crashed
down
into
a
thicket
of
giant
green
reeds
that
rose
a
yard
over
their
heads,
its
pancake
landing
having
apparently
not
damaged
it.
The
ground
beneath
their
feet
was
soft
and
soggy,
the
air
warm
and
balmy,
and
the
giant
reeds
hid
all
the
surrounding
landscape
from
view.
In
the
sky
the
sun
burned
near
one
horizon
with
unusual
brilliance.
But
it
was
dwarfed,
in
size,
by
the
huge
gray
circle
that
filled
half
the
heavens
overhead.
A
giant
gray
sphere
it
was,
screened
here
and
there
by
floating
white
mists
and
clouds,
that
had
yet
plain
on
it
the
outlines
of
dark
continents
and
gleaming
seas.
A
quaking
realization
held
the
two
as
they
stared
up
at
it.
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