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    Problem on Balak
    Problem on Balak
    Problem on Balak
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    Problem on Balak

    By Roger D. Aycock

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Problem on Balak - Roger D. Aycock

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Problem on Balak, by Roger D. Aycock

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      Title: Problem on Balak

      Author: Roger D. Aycock

      Release Date: October 4, 2010 [EBook #33839]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROBLEM ON BALAK ***

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      PROBLEM ON BALAK

      By ROGER DEE

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from the September 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Sometimes you can solve your problem by running out on it!

      What I'm getting at is that you don't ever have to worry about being bored stiff in Solar Exploitations field work. It never gets dull—and in some pretty strange places, at that.

      Take the S.E.2100's discovery of Balak, which is a little planet circling 70 Ophiuchi some 20,000 light-years from Earth, for example. You'd never expect to run across the greatest race of surgeons in the Galaxy—structural, neural or what have you—on a little apple like that, any more than you'd expect a four man complement like ours to be handed the sort of life-and-death problem they put to us.

      And, if by some miracle of prophecy you anticipated both, it's a cinch you'd never expect that problem to be solved in the way ours was.

      Captain Corelli and Gibbons and I couldn't have gone more than a hundred yards from the S.E.2100 before we met our first Balakian native. Or, to be more accurate, before he met us.

      Corelli and I were filling our little sterilized bottles with samples of soil and vegetation and keeping a wary eye out for possible predators when it happened. Gibbons, our ecologist and the scientific mainspring of our crew, was watching a swarm of little twelve-legged bugs that were busily pollinating a dwarf shrub at the top and collecting payment in drops of white sap that oozed

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