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  • YASID moon weirdness, but not that one

    From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 24 07:50:44 2024
    From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my
    fifth-grade teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled
    "Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the
    1949 story of that title by Heinlein. The story I recall was just
    about a solitary man on duty at a lunar outpost. He experiences
    a frightening series of buffetings of his quarters by an unknown
    force that have a sudden onset but then simply fade away.

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  • From Don_from_AZ@21:1/5 to Charles Packer on Mon Jun 24 07:45:06 2024
    Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> writes:

    From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my
    fifth-grade teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled
    "Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the
    1949 story of that title by Heinlein. The story I recall was just
    about a solitary man on duty at a lunar outpost. He experiences
    a frightening series of buffetings of his quarters by an unknown
    force that have a sudden onset but then simply fade away.

    "Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon" seems to be the Heinlein story, but
    if you leave our the 'ever' you get "Nothing Happens On the Moon", which
    seems to match the 'buffeting' part of your query, but they don't simply
    fade away, there's more to it than that. Check out:

    https://tthread.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/nothing-happens-on-the-moon-paul-ernst-1939/

    -Don-

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 25 07:52:56 2024
    On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:45:06 -0700, Don_from_AZ wrote:

    Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> writes:

    From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my fifth-grade
    teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled "Nothing Ever
    Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the 1949 story of that title by
    Heinlein. The story I recall was just about a solitary man on duty at a
    lunar outpost. He experiences a frightening series of buffetings of his
    quarters by an unknown force that have a sudden onset but then simply
    fade away.

    "Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon" seems to be the Heinlein story, but
    if you leave our the 'ever' you get "Nothing Happens On the Moon", which seems to match the 'buffeting' part of your query, but they don't simply
    fade away, there's more to it than that. Check out:

    https://tthread.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/nothing-happens-on-the-moon-
    paul-ernst-1939/

    -Don-

    Thanks. I found a link to it in the Internet Archive:

    https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v22n06_1939-02/page/n97/mode/1up view=theater

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