TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coppel,Alfred
AU  - Ross,Leslie
TI  - Blood lands
T2  - Produced from Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1.)
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Life on other planets -- Fiction
KW  - Space colonies -- Fiction
KW  - Space travelers -- Fiction
KW  - Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2026-05-22; Tom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; Holyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1952
N2  - Blood lands by Alfred Coppel is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. The story explores a repatriation mission to a forgotten colony whose people have forged a horrifying symbiosis with their world, confronting themes of colonization, alien intelligence, and the cost of survival.

A three-man team—Kenyon, Bothwell, and Grancor—lands on Kana to relocate its red-haired, ritual-bound inhabitants. Kenyon’s clandestine meetings with the native woman Elyra lead him into the plume-forests, where drums, trance, and a “father” deity reveal the truth: the islands themselves are a vast, sentient organism that feeds the people with blood through the soil and, in turn, devours them. Captured and forced to witness a man swallowed alive, Kenyon realizes the living land claims all who touch it. He escapes back to the ship, but the “father” closes upon the scorched landing ground and begins to ingest the vessel as the silent tribe watches, leaving the team trapped, sinking into the hungry, alien earth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/Dynamic_Science_Fiction_v01n01_1952-12_Gorgon776
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78726
ER  -