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PLANET STORY by Kate Wilhelm THERE IS NOTHING to fear on this planet. The planet is represented in our records by a series of numbers and letters, each conveying information: distance from its sun, mass, period of rotation, presence or absence of a moon, or moons. The seedling colony that will arrive some day will name the planet. We are twenty-seven men and women planet-side, and three more who remain on the orbiting ship -- minimum age twenty-five, maximum age fifty. This is the fourth Earth year of a seven-year contract. There were twenty-eight of us planet-side but Ito went mad and committed suicide twenty days ago, on the seventh day here. There is abundant life here, a full spectrum from viruses to high order mammals. The animals do |
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