02570cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500160014426400510016030000470021133600260025833700260028433800360031049000750034650000310042150801030045252010910055553400770164665300200172365300180174365300370176165300300179865300310182865300410185970000420190083000750194285600810201785600430209899900190214178726UtSlPG20260610134827.0mcr n260607r20261952utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCoppel, Alfred,d1921-200410aBlood lands 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1.).  aRelease date is 2026-05-22  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aBlood 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.)  pOriginally published:cHolyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1952  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aLife on other planets -- Fiction  aSpace colonies -- Fiction  aSpace travelers -- Fiction  aRegression (Civilization) -- Fiction1 aRoss, Leslieq(A. Leslie),d1910-1989 0aProduced from Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/Dynamic_Science_Fiction_v01n01_1952-12_Gorgon77640uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78726  c119444d119444