Cry from a Far Planet

By Tom Godwin

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ozymandias Press
• Release date: Jul 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781531289096

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CRY FROM A FAR PLANET

Tom Godwin

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Copyright © 2016 by Tom Godwin

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ISBN: 9781531289096

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CRY FROM A FAR PLANET

CRY FROM A

FAR PLANET

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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