Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: YASID moon weirdness, but not that one Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:52:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <87sex2ieml.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:52:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2a44582536a8803f10e02806ffb6aeed"; logging-data="1530683"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+f7E7zOdJu0skaAd2PhsDQ" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1kQFOagomeiJfEagOrxT3H9l+3g= Bytes: 2143 On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:45:06 -0700, Don_from_AZ wrote: > Charles Packer 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