YASID moon weirdness, but not that one

[Charles Packer]

From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my
fifth-grade teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled
"Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the
1949 story of that title by Heinlein. The story I recall was just
about a solitary man on duty at a lunar outpost. He experiences
a frightening series of buffetings of his quarters by an unknown
force that have a sudden onset but then simply fade away.

[Don_from_AZ]

Post by Charles Packer
From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my
fifth-grade teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled
"Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the
1949 story of that title by Heinlein. The story I recall was just
about a solitary man on duty at a lunar outpost. He experiences
a frightening series of buffetings of his quarters by an unknown
force that have a sudden onset but then simply fade away.

"Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon" seems to be the Heinlein story, but
if you leave our the 'ever' you get "Nothing Happens On the Moon", which
seems to match the 'buffeting' part of your query, but they don't simply
fade away, there's more to it than that. Check out:

https://tthread.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/nothing-happens-on-the-moon-paul-ernst-1939/

-Don-

[Charles Packer]

Post by Don_from_AZ

From my 1955-56 childhood encounter with SF, courtesy of my fifth-grade
teacher, a story has come down in my memory titled "Nothing Ever
Happens On the Moon." However it wasn't the 1949 story of that title by
Heinlein. The story I recall was just about a solitary man on duty at a
lunar outpost. He experiences a frightening series of buffetings of his
quarters by an unknown force that have a sudden onset but then simply
fade away.

"Nothing Ever Happens On the Moon" seems to be the Heinlein story, but
if you leave our the 'ever' you get "Nothing Happens On the Moon", which
seems to match the 'buffeting' part of your query, but they don't simply
https://tthread.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/nothing-happens-on-the-moon-

paul-ernst-1939/

Post by Don_from_AZ
-Don-

Thanks. I found a link to it in the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v22n06_1939-02/page/n97/mode/1up
view=theater