Hunter Out of Time

There were other worlds around us before we touched down on Earth again. A blue planet where a massive azure ball glowed, sending out white streamers into a midnight sky, puzzled us. The azure ball seemed to be alive....We saw a planet where only metal robots moved about. The world on which they lived was barren; perhaps the robots had made it that way....As a scientist, I grieved for the lack of opportunity to enter and explore these visions of infinity. They went on and on, swinging into view ...