Drop Dead
Broadcast: 22nd August 1957
Added: Mar 08 2007
Normally when a space ship lands on an unknown planet it takes about a week for any life form to show up but only one hour and twenty minutes after they’d sent the survey ship out there they were, the critters. They were almost sized but not as graceful as cows and their hides were patchworks of pastel colors and they had fruit and vegetables growing on their head. Then just as the animal came up to them it simply dropped, dropped dead…
Author: Clifford D. Simak