Eons from now, Man will hurtle through the void in gravity-defying ships across light years of distance to far-flung planets . . . And more staggering yet, he will colonize these islands in the unimaginably vast ocean of space. There will be worlds, and worlds, such as:
LANI III -- a glacier-land warmed by man
XOSA II-- a shining desert made green by man
LOREN II -- an inferno of beasts, tamed by man
The fascinating, heroic story of a trail-blazer to the unknown -- outer-space service officer Bordman, who uses incredible knowledge and skill to make the star-flung outposts of civilization ready to receive new, vast surges of humanity!
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Originally published as 4 separate unrelated novelettes, which were rewritten for book publication, including merging the four protagonists in one man, Bordman of "Sand Doom". Two chapter titles in the resulting novel correspond to the original story titles ("Sand Doom" and "The Swamp Was Upside Down") while "Critical Difference" appears as "Solar Constant" and the Hugo award winning "Exploration Team" appears as "Combat Team".
- Autor: Murray Leinster
- Kategoria: fantastyka, fantasy, science fiction
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 000-00-0000-00-0
- Data wydania: 1957-01-01
- Liczba stron: 171
- Ocena: 0,0
