02666cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000280011324500330014126400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032449000590036050000310041950801210045052015420057153400450211365300200215865300180217870000300219683000590222685600430228531174UtSlPG20260610133718.0mcr n260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHarmon, Jim,d1933-201014aThe Planet with No Nightmare 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2010  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from If: Worlds of Science Fiction July 1961.  aRelease date is 2010-02-03  aProduced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen Blundell and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net  a"The Planet with No Nightmare" by Jim Harmon is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s, at a time when space exploration was gaining significant public interest. The narrative focuses on an exploration team that arrives on a mysterious planet, Yancy-6, where they encounter bizarre life forms and grapple with the implications of their existence, particularly in relation to mortality and the nature of life itself. The themes of isolation, suspicion, and existential inquiry weave through the story as the crew members confront the planet's strange phenomena.  In "The Planet with No Nightmare," the story follows a surveyor named Ekstrohm and his two companions, Ryan and Nogol, as they land on the unfamiliar planet Yancy-6. Upon arrival, they initially encounter dead animals, which mysteriously disappear, leading to rising tensions within the crew as suspicions about Ekstrohm's sanity surface. The narrative intensifies as Ekstrohm discovers that the creatures on the planet can seemingly feign death as a defense mechanism. As the exploration team investigates, they learn about the planet's odd ecological dynamics, including a connection to enigmatic flying whales. Ultimately, the exploration leads to revelations about the possibility of immortality among the planet's residents and the implications for human colonization, culminating in Ekstrohm's decision to leave his companions behind and report back to civilization, emphasizing the loneliness of his condition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction  aShort stories1 aWood, Wallace,d1927-1981 0aProduced from If: Worlds of Science Fiction July 1961.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31174