Iceworld
Hal Clement
Mottled with sinister
colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken
could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have
produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of
some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,
smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives of that
Iceworld for a new and virulent narcotic...the most dangerous drug ever
to come into their universe.
Now Sallman Ken wondered what
manner of creature could exist on a planet so cold that sulfur was a
solid, not a gas, and water actually existed as a liquid. But he
wouldn't wonder for long, for Ken had to find a way onto the surface of
that planet so he could locate the source of that deadly drug.
colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken
could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have
produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of
some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,
smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives of that
Iceworld for a new and virulent narcotic...the most dangerous drug ever
to come into their universe.
Now Sallman Ken wondered what
manner of creature could exist on a planet so cold that sulfur was a
solid, not a gas, and water actually existed as a liquid. But he
wouldn't wonder for long, for Ken had to find a way onto the surface of
that planet so he could locate the source of that deadly drug.
類別:
年:
1977
版本:
Paperback
出版商:
Del Rey
語言:
english
頁數:
212
ISBN 10:
0345258053
ISBN 13:
9780345258052
文件:
EPUB, 219 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1977