Project Gutenberg 2007-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 246 Simak, Clifford D. 1904 1988 Simak, Clifford Donald Jacobi, Carl 1908 1997 Jacobi, Carl Richard The Street That Wasn't There Produced from Comet, July 1941. Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Street That Wasn't There" by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi is a speculative fiction novella written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around an eccentric recluse, Mr. Jonathon Chambers, who finds himself ensconced in a dramatically shifting reality—where familiar places and objects begin to inexplicably vanish. The narrative wrestles with themes of perception, reality, and the power of collective consciousness as it explores the boundaries of existence and the fragility of the human-made world. In the novella, Mr. Chambers adheres to a strict routine in his solitary life, walking the same streets every evening. However, his predictable existence is shattered when he discovers that parts of his familiar neighborhood, including the confectionery he frequents, have mysteriously disappeared. As he grapples with the implications of this phenomenon, he reflects on a book he had written decades earlier, positing that humanity's collective minds shape reality. As a plague decimates the population, the world around him begins to dissolve into a gray nothingness, forcing Mr. Chambers to confront the grim possibility that the threads holding his reality together are fraying. Ultimately, he finds himself in a race against time to retain his sense of self and the life he has known, facing the slowly encroaching void alone. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 61064 2025-06-09T10:23:53.107358 text/html 57500 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 101143 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 174938 2025-06-09T10:23:58.666347 application/epub+zip 173734 2025-06-09T10:23:56.089351 application/epub+zip 82622 2025-06-09T10:23:54.920362 application/epub+zip 283255 2025-06-09T10:24:00.515316 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275990 2025-06-09T10:23:57.967369 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 158079 2022-09-10T12:02:05.040473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 54537 2025-06-09T10:23:52.809420 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54538 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20865 2007-08-02T08:18:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20016 2025-06-09T10:24:00.662324 application/rdf+xml 13846 2025-06-09T10:23:55.481347 image/jpeg 3500 2025-06-09T10:23:55.198368 image/jpeg 175318 2025-06-09T10:23:53.118360 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia