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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aLeinster, Murray,
_d1896-1975
245 1 0 _aPlanet explorer
246 1 _aThe planet explorer
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aOriginally published as: Colonial Survey
500 _aWikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Survey
500 _aRelease date is 2022-12-13
505 0 _aSolar constant -- Sand doom -- Combat team -- The swamp was upside down.
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Planet Explorer" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story follows an outer-space service officer named Bordman, who embarks on an independent survey of the ice-planet Lani III, a challenging and unfamiliar environment. The opening suggests a narrative rich with themes of exploration, survival, and the unforeseen consequences of colonization as Bordman grapples with his responsibilities amid alarming meteorological shifts that threaten human survival on the planet. At the start of the story, Bordman awakens to frigid conditions on Lani III and confronts the unease of being in charge of a colony's establishment as a Senior Colonial Survey Officer. He learns of erratic communications from the parent planet and discovers that the solar constant, crucial for sustaining life, is rapidly declining. As he collaborates with his junior officer Herndon and Riki, Herndon's sister, they try to decode a message warning of dire changes that could make both Lani III and the home planet uninhabitable. The opening captures Bordman's rising tension as he must find ways to combat the chilling threat while also becoming more engaged with the human connections developing around him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Avon Publications, Inc., 1956
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aSpace colonies -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69535
999 _c110318
_d110318