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    Cry from a Far Planet
    Cry from a Far Planet
    Cry from a Far Planet
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    Cry from a Far Planet

    By Martinez and Tom Godwin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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      Cry from a Far Planet - Martinez

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cry from a Far Planet, by Tom Godwin

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      Title: Cry from a Far Planet

      Author: Tom Godwin

      Illustrator: Martinez

      Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23799]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRY FROM A FAR PLANET ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

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

      Was the cat native to the planet, or to his imagination?

      CRY FROM A

      FAR PLANET

      By TOM GODWIN

      ILLUSTRATOR MARTINEZ

      The problem of separating the friends from the enemies was a major one in the conquest of space as many a dead spacer could have testified. A tough job when you could see an alien and judge appearances; far tougher when they were only whispers on the wind.

      A smile of friendship is a baring of the teeth. So is a snarl of menace. It can be fatal to mistake the latter for the former.

      Harm an alien being only under circumstances of self-defense.

      TRUST NO ALIEN BEING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

      —From Exploration Ship's Handbook.

      He listened in the silence of the Exploration ship's control room. He heard nothing but that was what bothered him; an ominous quiet when there should have been a multitude of sounds from the nearby village for the viewscreen's audio-pickups to transmit. And it was more than six hours past the time when the native, Throon, should have come to sit with him outside the ship as they resumed the laborious attempt to learn each other's language.

      The viewscreen was black in the light of the control room, even though it was high noon outside. The dull red sun was always invisible through the world's thick atmosphere and to human eyes full day was no more than a red-tinged darkness.

      He switched on the ship's outside floodlights and the viewscreen came to bright white life, showing the empty glades reaching away between groves of purple alien trees. He noticed, absently, that the trees seemed to have changed a little in color since his arrival.

      The

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