Colonial Survey

Colonial Survey

Critical differenceMassy waked that morning when the only partly-opened port of his sleeping-cabin closed of itself and...
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Author: Leinster, Murray,1896-1975
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Language: English
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Colonial Survey

Colonial Survey

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Colonial Survey

CHF 12.23 CHF 6.11
Author: Leinster, Murray,1896-1975
Format: eBook
Language: English

Critical difference

Massy waked that morning when the only partly-opened port of his sleeping-cabin closed of itself and the room-warmer began to whir. He found himself burrowed deep under his covering, and when he got his head out of it the already-bright room was bitterly cold and his breath made a fog about him. He thought uneasily, It's colder than yesterday! But a Colonial Survey officer is not supposed to let himself seem disturbed, in public, and the only way to follow that rule is to follow it in private, too. So Massy composed his features, while gloom filled him. When one has just received senior service rating and is on one's very first independent survey of a new colonial installation, the unexpected can be appalling. The unexpected was definitely here, on Lani III. He'd been a Survey Candidate on Khali II and Taret and Arepo I, all of which were tropical, and a Junior Officer on Menes III and Thotmesone a semiarid planet and the other temperate-volcanicand he'd done an assistant job on Saril's solitary world, which was nine-tenths water. But this first independent survey on his own was another matter. Everything was wholly unfamiliar. An ice planet with a minus point one habitability rating was upsetting in its peculiarities. He knew what the books said about glacial-world conditions, but that was all. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68686
Author: Leinster, Murray
Release Date: Aug 5, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Publication Date: 1956
Publisher Country: United States

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Illustrator: Van Dongen, H. R., 1920-2010

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