Earth was dying. Possibly the only human beings left
in the Universe were those on the Moon. On this last
outpost of humanity, the age-old controversy between
ideologies continued to tear the human race apart,
as each group prepared to unleash the deadly ...
Tongues of the Moon
By PHILIP JOSE FARMER
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Amazing Stories September 1961.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Fireflies on the dark meadow of Earth....
The men and women looking up through the dome in the center of the crater of Eratosthenes were too stunned to cry out, and some did not understand all at once the meaning of those pin-points on the shadowy face of the new Earth, the lights blossoming outwards, then dying. So bright they could be seen through the cloudmasses covering a large part of Europe. So bright they could be located as London, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Leningrad, Rome, Reykjavik, Athens, Cairo....