THE BUILDERS (1936)

SOURCES: "Labyrinth" (Amazing Stories, April 1936)

DESCRIPTION: “...Through the fringe of canopy in the woodland copse they caught occasional glimpses of yellow surfaced domes and walls. Suddenly they burst into the open before the high wall surrounding the mysterious old piles.” (“Labyrinth” by Neil R. Jones)

NOTES: The mysterious builders once lived in cities on the planet of the Queegs. Oneof the Zoromes postulates that the Queegs may be degenerate ofspring of the builders but others disagree. Their cities are built of yellow sparkling stone blocks cemented together with yellow mortar. The builders have long since died out before the Zoromes come to explore their planet.

HISTORY: "Labyrinth" is mostly about metal-eating enemies trapping the Zoromes in a bottle-neck but I would have liked for them to have found some clue to the Builders' identities while they were running through all those tunnels!