Project Gutenberg 2007-05-22 Public domain in the USA. 61 Teichner, Albert Teichner, Albert R. Sweet Their Blood and Sticky Produced from “Worlds of If” November 1961. Reading ease score: 76.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Tamise Totterdell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Sweet Their Blood and Sticky" by Albert R. Teichner is a science fiction short story written in the early 1960s. It explores themes of creation and existence through the lens of a distant future where a mysterious machine continues to operate long after human civilization has vanished. The narrative unfolds in a desolate world, focused on the interactions between sentient beings and an enigmatic contraption, delving into the nature of life that can arise from artificial origins. The story follows Creno and Harta, explorers from another dimension who encounter a vast taffy-producing machine in a barren landscape. As they observe peculiar creatures feasting on the pink substance it generates, they grapple with the notion that this machine may have birthed life itself. Creno, the more seasoned elder, attempts to guide Harta's understanding of the situation, while she becomes increasingly curious about the origins of the beings and the machine. Ultimately, Harta discovers a more ancient machine buried deep beneath the surface, revealing a cycle of creation and destruction, leaving both characters to ponder profound questions about existence and knowledge. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 37754 37755 2024-10-09T11:00:52.744669 2023-09-09T12:19:08.899637 text/html text/html 34684 2007-05-22T10:45:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 13064 2007-05-22T10:45:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 88537 2024-10-09T11:00:57.890626 application/epub+zip 87368 2024-10-09T11:00:55.711670 application/epub+zip 82471 2024-10-09T11:00:54.563650 application/epub+zip 200353 2024-10-09T11:00:59.458611 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 194062 2024-10-09T11:00:57.231638 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154697 2022-09-10T08:05:26.995872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 31941 31833 2024-10-09T11:00:52.493688 2023-09-09T12:19:08.746637 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 31765 2007-05-22T10:45:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12217 2007-05-22T10:45:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19677 2024-10-09T11:00:59.587623 application/rdf+xml 14662 2024-10-09T11:00:55.113672 image/jpeg 3496 2024-10-09T11:00:54.839637 image/jpeg 86101 2024-10-09T11:00:52.750661 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog