Webber Martin - Sci Fi

https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ The proteus could change its shape to anything at all—and Herndon discovered it made a perfect red herring! The proteus now had the shape of an eight-limbed star, blue-green at its core, fiery red in each limb. Under the auctioneer's merciless prodding it began to change, slowly, as its molecules lost their hold on one another and sought a new conformation. A snake, a tree, a hooded deathworm. First published 1958 Ovi eBook Publsihing December 2023