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A Gleeb for Earth

Charles Schafhauser

First published April 1954
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A bunch of letters is found in a hotel room beside an empty set of clothes - underwear in their proper place inside trousers and so, as if the man inside had disappeared into thin air. The letters tell a story about visitors from a parallel world which try to find a way to stop the influence our world has to it. They have several misunderstandings. Finally the visitors have found a way to destroy humans, it will only take a gleeb to take effect. But how much is a gleeb?

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1954 Cover Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 64
1955 Cover Galaxy Science Fiction Omnibus Grayson & Grayson Anthology