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    The Planet with No Nightmare
    The Planet with No Nightmare
    The Planet with No Nightmare
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    The Planet with No Nightmare

    By Wallace Wood and Jim Harmon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 2010
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      The Planet with No Nightmare - Wallace Wood

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Planet with No Nightmare, by Jim Harmon

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Planet with No Nightmare

      Author: Jim Harmon

      Illustrator: Wallace Wood

      Release Date: February 3, 2010 [EBook #31174]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PLANET WITH NO NIGHTMARE ***

      Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen Blundell and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Illustrated by Wood

      BY JIM HARMON

      The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers. The first puzzler about them was that they died so easily. The second was that they didn't die at all.

      I

      Tension eased away as the spaceship settled down on its metallic haunches and they savored a safe planetfall.

      Ekstrohm fingered loose the cinches of his deceleration couch. He sighed. An exploration camp would mean things would be simpler for him. He could hide his problem from the others more easily. Trying to keep secret what he did alone at night was very difficult under the close conditions on board a ship in space.

      Ryan hefted his bulk up and supported it on one elbow. He rubbed his eyes sleepily with one huge paw. Ekstrohm, Nogol, you guys okay?

      Nothing wrong with me that couldn't be cured, Nogol said. He didn't say what would cure him; he had been explaining all during the trip what he needed to make him feel like himself. His small black eyes darted inside the olive oval of his face.

      Ekstrohm? Ryan insisted.

      Okay.

      Well, let's take a ground-level look at the country around here.

      The facsiport rolled open on the landscape. A range of bluffs hugged the horizon, the color of decaying moss. Above them, the sky was the black of space, or the almost equal black of the winter sky above Minneapolis, seen against neon-lit snow. That cold, empty sky was full of fire and light. It seemed almost a magnification of the Galaxy itself, of the Milky Way, blown up by some master photographer.

      This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System. These planets were much bigger, nearly all capable of holding an atmosphere. But to the infuriation of scientists, for no known reason not all of them did. This would be the fifth mapping expedition to the planetoids of Yancy-6 in three generations. They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered—much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

      "How can a planet

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