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Nocturne
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When explorers land on a seemingly unpopulated planet, they discover a sugarcane-like substance growing in seemingly cultivated fields, and the canes ring like a pipe organ at night. They need organic matter for their replicators and plants for their hydroponics, so they harvest some of it. Big mistake!
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Wallace West
Wallace West is a world explorer spending most of his time on the US East Coast (the rest wherever strikes his fancy). He once foolishly pet a wild alligator and considers a tinned-fish picnic in Norway the best meal he's ever had. By day he writes and illustrates, by night he wonders if he should get a pet snake.
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