The Test Colony
by Winston K. Marks
Publisher: If Worlds of Science Fiction 1954
Number of pages: 59
Description:
As official recorder, I was trying to think of words suitable to capture the magnificence, the sheer loveliness of the planet which would be our home for at least four years, perhaps forever. Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?
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