Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Brian W Aldiss

Author:Brian W Aldiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Published: 1979-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Now the entire column of lemmings had embarked into the still water. They swam smoothly and silently, their communal wake soon dissolving into the grandly gentle motion of the sea. Gradually the column attenuated as the stronger animals drew farther ahead and the weaker ones dropped behind. One by one, inevitably, these weaker animals drowned; yet, until their sleek heads finally disappeared below the surface, they still pressed forward with bulging eyes fixed upon the far and empty horizon.

No human spectator, however devoid of anthropomorphic feeling, could have failed to ask himself what might be the nature of the goal that prompted such a sacrifice.

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