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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aBixby, Jerome,
_d1923-1998
245 1 4 _aThe Crowded Colony
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Planet Stories Fall 1950
500 _aRelease date is 2020-12-01
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Crowded Colony" by Jay B. Drexel is a science fiction story published in the early 1950s. The narrative unfolds on Mars, focusing on the interactions between a group of human colonizers, referred to as the Conquerors, and the indigenous Martians who inhabit the village of Kinkaaka. The story explores themes of imperialism, cultural misunderstanding, and the ethics of colonization, as the Conquerors grapple with their perceptions of the Martians and the consequences of their mission. The plot centers around Jack Burke, Barnes, and Randolph, three Conquerors who represent a blend of arrogance and naïveté towards the native Martians. While Burke and Barnes hold dismissive views towards the Martians, Randolph finds beauty in their culture and questions the moral implications of their colonization. Tensions escalate when they realize a group of Centaurians—a different alien species—has arrived, believing the human colonizers to be the remnants of Martian civilization. This misunderstanding sets the stage for a confrontation that unravels their expectations and challenges their predatory view of the Martians, revealing deeper themes of identity and perception between species. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aMars (Planet) -- Fiction
653 _aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction
700 1 _aMayan, Earl,
_d1916-2009
830 0 _aProduced from Planet Stories Fall 1950
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63930
999 _c104754
_d104754