Project Gutenberg 2008-01-14 Public domain in the USA. 92 Wannamaker, Jim Krenkel, Roy G. 1918 1983 Krenkel, Roy Gerald Attrition Produced from Analog November 1961. Reading ease score: 74.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Attrition" by Jim Wannamaker is a science fiction novel likely written in the early 1960s during the rise of the space age. The story revolves around a mission to investigate the disappearance of a crew from a starship that has been exploring a new planet, Epsilon-Terra. As the narrative unfolds, it explores themes of survival, danger in the unknowns of space, and the challenges of human adaptability in extraterrestrial environments. The protagonist, Ivor Vincent Callum, a special agent for the Interstellar Security, is thrust into a mission when his leave is abruptly recalled due to the distressing news of the missing GSS 231. The novel follows Callum as he travels to Epsilon-Terra to uncover the fate of the crew, eventually leading him to discover grim remains and a mysterious, deadly plant species that has evolved in response to human activity. Through meticulous investigation, he pieces together the tragic events that led to the crew's demise and confronts the inherent risks of exploration while reflecting on the human tendency towards arrogance and the unforeseen consequences of our actions in unfamiliar worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 87775 87791 2024-10-10T11:56:31.039331 2023-09-11T04:22:28.192637 text/html text/html 84779 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 201062 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 261281 2024-10-10T11:56:36.044330 application/epub+zip 260665 2024-10-10T11:56:33.061313 application/epub+zip 97128 2024-10-10T11:56:31.693343 application/epub+zip 509988 2024-10-10T11:56:38.095314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 501648 2024-10-10T11:56:35.119312 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 145330 2022-09-11T09:15:36.247590 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 78916 78815 2024-10-10T11:56:30.669315 2023-09-11T04:22:27.918625 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 78791 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 32306 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 78783 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32286 2021-01-03T06:43:51 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21827 2024-10-10T11:56:38.228279 application/rdf+xml 10873 2024-10-10T11:56:32.223315 image/jpeg 2918 2024-10-10T11:56:31.956314 image/jpeg 261711 2024-10-10T11:56:31.058323 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia