SOLVED. Science Fiction. Short story where a man travels to the moon and back in time. Meets a telepathic snake like creature who is chased by robot like creatures. [s]

[Iain]

I read this story 30 years ago - I suspect it was written in the 50's era. It was in a compilation novel of science fiction short stories. From what I remember the plot was a man who travelled in a spacecraft to the moon but he also went back in time. He landed and a floating gas filled creature captured him and lifted him up with a sticky tentacle. He was able to escape but fell into poisonous thorns and was fatally wounded . A telepathic snake like creature who was the last of her kind used its life force to save him and they were pursued by robot like creatures

[[deleted user]]

this kind of sounds like the Doctor Who episode "Kinda" that aired in the 80s

[Genesistrine]

The Moon Era by Jack Williamson. It's collected in these books: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

[Iain]

Genesistrine wrote: "The Moon Era by Jack Williamson. It's collected in these books: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg..."

WOW thank you! That's definitely it. I can't believe knew the story! Thanks again. Iain

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Iain. Do you recall which book you read that contained "The Moon Era"?

[Genesistrine]

Iain wrote: "WOW thank you! That's definitely it. I can't believe knew the story!"

I love old pulp, that's how!

[Iain]

Kris wrote: "Glad you found your book, Iain. Do you recall which book you read that contained "The Moon Era"?"

Kris it was a book called "A sense of wonder" which had three short stories.

“Exiles on Asperus” by John Wyndham (Wonder Stories Quarterly, Winter 1933)
“The Mole Pirate” by Murray Leinster (Astounding Stories, November 1934)
“The Moon Era” by Jack Williamson (Wonder Stories, February 1932)

[Iain]

You can read the story here:

https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=36282

[Kris]

Thanks. Here's the Goodreads link - A Sense of Wonder by John Wyndham et al. which contains the short story "The Moon Era" by Jack Williamson.