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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: YASID moon weirdness, but not that one
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:52:56 -0000 (UTC)
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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