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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: YASID - A different deadly maze story
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 07:53:10 -0500
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On 01/05/2024 21.35, Lee Gleason wrote:
> On 5/1/2024 4:41 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> On 01/05/2024 14.14, Lee Gleason wrote:
>>>
>>>    The recent YASID about Rogue Moon made me recall another similar story. It was a short story I read in an anthology, probably in the late 70s. There was an alien planet with a deadly maze that had killed a lot of explorers who attempted to navigate it.
>>> the latest person attempting it. He did well - actually got to the end and realized the key to survival, but at the last minute, not thinking through what he had just realized, made a fatal mistake and was killed. Ring any bells?
>>
>> Probably <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?59019>, although I don't
>> recall it being set on an alien planet.
>>
> 
>    It's a good story - available on YouTube as spoken word - but not the one I'm trying to ID. The one I remember, the explorer was killed suddenly at the end,

I missed the part in your OP where you said "and was killed". Nope, it's
not the Spinrad.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.