Far Frontiers by Martin H. Greenberg

Author:Martin H. Greenberg [Greenberg, Martin H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780886779085
Google: ibXkWE6hO4AC
Amazon: 0886779081
Goodreads: 2282055
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In the meantime, every able-bodied person was to report for service in the fields. The crops had to be tended—ripe ones harvested before they spoiled. The Induction Center was to plan and coordinate the efforts of all. New Centers were being organized as quickly as possible to disseminate knowledge and tools. Demeter surged with optimism, determined to successfully overcome its first crisis.

Deighton leaned in the shadow of the gate, the sun-etched lines around his eyes and nose deeper than usual. The sleeping giants in the fields were being wrapped in protecfive sheeting by equally silent agtechs, but that was the only sign of peace. Behind him, the Center was a hive abuzz with tractors and trucks, combines lurching in unpredictable directions as the staff hurried to learn how to drive them in advance of their students’ return. Chickens wisely took to the back corners of stalls.

When the first load of recruits climbed out of their bus and stood blinking uncertainly, Deighton recognized his class of only yesterday. From the look of them, there’re been enough time for some serious beer sampling before the uncomfortable ride back.

He grinned, then cupped his big hands around his mouth and bellowed:

“Don’t just stand there—there’s work to be done! What do you think this is? Home?”

SET IN STONE

by Andre Norton

Andre Norton has written and collaborated on over 100 novels in her sixty years as a writer, working with such authors as Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey, and Julian May. Her best known creation is the Witch World, which has been the subject of several novels and anthologies. She has received the Nebula Grand Master Award, the Fritz

Leiber Award, and the Daedalus Award, and lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she oversees a writer’s library.

If some mad god had deliberately set out to create a planet utterly alien from all that was normal to the crew of First-tn Scout S-9, he or she could not have been more successful than with this one. A man had to force his offworld eyes to report matters that brain patterns found too grotesque to believe.

A dull throb was spreading down from Kannar’s temples, reaching out for room in neck and shoulders. This place was just wrong; yet, along the starways, one could never rightfully judge anything, no matter how it appeared— “Get scruffmg, you Gart!”

That sharp mind-beam smote like a blow, though it was a prodding he had come to expect during the past

three years. Yes, he was a Gait. Not many of them could be left by now, as Garthold had long since been wiped from the maps. As for his kind, they were the least blessed of all their kin.

Kannar no longer grasped at memory, which grew—mercifully—ever fainter with each recall.

Fifteen planet years ago… The young man plodded along through the dense gray sand, weighed down by his heavy pack but careful to avoid the thick pad-patches of yellow-green growth. Fifteen cycles past, he had been at Herber, a child selected by rigorous testing intended to prove his fitness for special service to Garthold’s need.

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