They Came From Deep Space (ePub)

They Came From Deep Space is a collection of three science fiction novellas and two short stories. These gripping and thrilling literary works have a lot of suspense and unexpected twists. Three of them take place in South America.

"Julius Hoffmann lived in a small town near Leipzig, Germany. It was exactly one O'clock in the afternoon on May 20, 2030, when he first noticed it; that dark spot in his house backyard. It was unusually warm for that time of year. He had taken a break from his work as a welder in his home workshop and was eating lunch outside in the shade of a mulberry tree when he suddenly realized that there was something wrong with the early afternoon sunlight.

In the middle of the backyard, there was a strange, black circular blot where there had to be sunlight. At the beginning, he thought it might be a tiny passing cloud, casting its shadow down to earth. However, not only was it perfectly round, but it was much darker than ordinary shadow as it steadily floated on the lawn. Had it been projected by a low-flying passing cloud, it would have shifted and changed in shape. Not only did that black disk lie steadily on the ground but it also seemed to stir the air around it in a whirlwind-like fashion. The grass and flowers lying inside and immediately around it waved from side to side, while the rest of the garden plants and the mulberry tree branches were static...

Then he looked more intently at it and became aware that more than a round shade, it looked like a weird black mole. He also noticed how the rose...

Klaus sat on the low stool he brought along with him and began twirling a fat knob to adjust the azimuth and point the telescope barrel in the direction of the subject to be observed. Then he set his eye on the eyepiece as he turned the small, focusing wheel to zoom in on whatever object was up there in the sky projecting the round, unusually dark shadow onto the surface of the Earth...

'It's exactly at a point where you get off the pull of the Earth's gravity. It's weird, because it doesn't seem to move at all, neither from side to side nor up and down. It doesn't even tremble. It's just there, eerily steady, like a tiny dark disk, fixed in space, hovering on the edge of the gravity boundary,' Klaus said." Excerpt from They Came On Doomsday.