TO SAVE EARTH
BY EDWARD W. LUDWIG
ILLUSTRATED BY VAN DOGEN
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of Tomorrow October 1963
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
The life of everyone on Earth depended on
their sanity ... which they had long ago lost!
For more than six years the silver rocket was like a tomb buried at the Earth's center. It wore the blackness of interstellar space for a shroud, and ten thousand gleaming stars were as the eyes of hungry, waiting worms.
Five of the inhabitants of the rocket moved like zombies, stone-faced and dull-eyed, numb even to their loneliness.