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 Project Gutenberg 2007-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 141 Simak, Clifford D. 1904 1988 Simak, Clifford Donald Jacobi, Carl 1908 1997 Jacobi, Carl Richard The Street That Wasn't There Produced from Comet, July 1941. Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Street That Wasn't There" by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi is a speculative fiction novella written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around an eccentric recluse, Mr. Jonathon Chambers, who finds himself ensconced in a dramatically shifting reality—where familiar places and objects begin to inexplicably vanish. The narrative wrestles with themes of perception, reality, and the power of collective consciousness as it explores the boundaries of existence and the fragility of the human-made world. In the novella, Mr. Chambers adheres to a strict routine in his solitary life, walking the same streets every evening. However, his predictable existence is shattered when he discovers that parts of his familiar neighborhood, including the confectionery he frequents, have mysteriously disappeared. As he grapples with the implications of this phenomenon, he reflects on a book he had written decades earlier, positing that humanity's collective minds shape reality. As a plague decimates the population, the world around him begins to dissolve into a gray nothingness, forcing Mr. Chambers to confront the grim possibility that the threads holding his reality together are fraying. Ultimately, he finds himself in a race against time to retain his sense of self and the life he has known, facing the slowly encroaching void alone. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 60931 60941 2024-09-09T13:20:07.806743 2023-09-10T06:05:02.684603 text/html text/html 57500 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 101143 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 152504 2024-09-09T13:20:11.231692 application/epub+zip 151534 2024-09-09T13:20:09.035723 application/epub+zip 73202 2024-09-09T13:20:08.257717 application/epub+zip 242890 2024-09-09T13:20:12.842731 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 235659 2024-09-09T13:20:10.746755 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 158079 2022-09-10T12:02:05.040473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 54537 54434 2024-09-09T13:20:07.584694 2023-09-10T06:05:02.467508 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 54538 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20865 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19575 2024-09-09T13:20:12.984695 application/rdf+xml 13952 2024-09-09T13:20:08.615734 image/jpeg 3517 2024-09-09T13:20:08.438720 image/jpeg 155040 2024-09-09T13:20:07.816724 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia en.wikipedia