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100 1 _aCoppel, Alfred,
_d1921-2004
245 1 0 _aBlood lands
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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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490 1 _aProduced from Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1.).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-22
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHolyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1952
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aLife on other planets -- Fiction
653 _aSpace colonies -- Fiction
653 _aSpace travelers -- Fiction
653 _aRegression (Civilization) -- Fiction
700 1 _aRoss, Leslie
_q(A. Leslie),
_d1910-1989
830 0 _aProduced from Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 (Vol. 1, No. 1.).
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/Dynamic_Science_Fiction_v01n01_1952-12_Gorgon776
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78726
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