Summary: Main Fiction: "The Tree of Life" by C. L. Moore, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936. Today's podcast presents the second, concluding part of "The Tree of Life". Narrator: Jeff Lane. A queer, penetrating light shining upon his closed eyes roused Smith by degrees into wakefulness again. He lifted heavy lids and stared upward into the unwinking eye of Mars' racing nearer moon. He lay there blinking dazedly for a while before enough of memory returned to rouse him. Then he sat up painfully, for every fiber of him ached, and stared round on a scene of the wildest destruction.
