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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938

Page 12

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12. Science Adventure Stories *********************************************************** seemed slow, as the wave front advanced in a billowing roar that nothing could withstand. Armies marched and countermarched over territories that were blasted out of recognition. Land battleships rumbled across land that was seared and bleak. Airplanes droned their way entirely around the globe, leaving in their trail craters and furrows that did not heal. Man wnt mad with destruction, fighting, burning, killing the other person because he was afraid the other person would kill him. Armies melted into disorganized groups, blindly wielding the weapons they did not understand., making of the surface of the world a place on which nothing could live. One night, amidst the roar and tumult of the ever-present battle, a light appeared momentarily in an obscure hiding place in the depths of the mountains. The light gushed forth in a glare that made shadows of the exploding bombs and burning rays. The light rushed upward, carrying on its crest a cylinder of metal, which roared on with ever increasing speed, until it vanished as a tiny point among the stars. The war continued aimlessly, by its own momentum. With millions dying constantly, no one noticed that Adman and a few others were missing. Soon there was no one left with sanity enough to notice. For radioactivity had been at work; a by product of one of the many weapons produced with material energy. Deadly radiations ate away at the### mind and body, and the few millions that remained died horribly with flesh disentegrating from their bones. Presently there was no one left to view the wonderful sunsets that filtered through
 
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