Ubbo-Sathla (The Book of Hyperborea #5)

Clark Ashton Smith


Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50 · 2 ratings · Published: 1942

Ubbo-Sathla by Clark Ashton Smith
Completed February 1932. First published in Weird Tales, July 1933.

"There, in the grey beginning of Earth, the formless mass that was Ubbo-Sathla reposed amid the slime and the vapors. Headless, without organs or members, it sloughed from its oozy sides, in a slow, ceaseless wave, the amoebic forms that were the archetypes of earthly life. Horrible it was, if there had been aught to apprehend the horror; and loathsome, if there had been any to feel loathing. About it, prone or tilted in the mire, there lay the mighty tablets of star-quarried stone that were writ with the inconceivable wisdom of the pre-mundane gods"

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