world-face

Updated: May 22, 2025

And somewhere under the blind wall of the flitter a rock-hard world-face reeling and rushing, leaping to meet them The flitter slowed. It seemed to hang motionless, quivering faintly. Then it dropped. Express elevator in the world's tallest building, top to bottom only the elevator is a bubble and the wind is tossing it from side to side as it drops and there is no bottom.

Edmond Hamilton - The Stars, My Brothers