Sci Fi short story or novella read in Omni in 1980s. Explorers on a planet started moving more and more slowly. Turns out the rocks on the planet also moved.

[Cathy]

This was a short story or novella I read in Omni in the 1980s. Explorers on a planet started moving more and more slowly. Turns out the rocks on the planet also moved. I am a librarian, and I have not been able to track this story down.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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[Kris]

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Would you say the rocks moving is a spoiler (which we would remove from the topic header)?

[Andy]

That sounds a little familiar, but I can't think of the title at the moment.

Here's a link to tables of contents for Omni magazine. There's not much short fiction in Omni so you might be able to find the story just by going through the TOCs and noting the few fiction pieces there http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?2...

[Andy]

I'm going to suggest "The Rocks that Moved" by John Keefauver, in the July 1979 issue of Omni http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

[Andy]

Was "The Rocks That Moved" right?

[Andy]

Bump.

[Andy]

Moving rock bump