Project Gutenberg 2008-12-23 Public domain in the USA. 97 Clifton, Mark 1906 1963 Clifton, Mark Irvin 60009470 Eight Keys to Eden Produced by Greg Weeks, Geoffrey Kidd, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Eight Keys to Eden" by Mark Clifton is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story intricately weaves the experiences of several fictional characters, including a communications supervisor, a pilot, and a Junior Extrapolator, as they grapple with a critical situation concerning a delayed report from a colonization mission on the newly settled planet, Eden. The narrative revolves around themes of scientific inquiry, human nature, and the repercussions of failed communication in an isolated environment. The opening of the novel sets the stage for escalating tension as a communications operator realizes that Eden's scheduled report is overdue, alerting his supervisor and prompting a series of frantic measures to establish contact. As characters express skepticism about the colonists' accountability and the mysterious silence from the planet, a palpable sense of dread grows in E.H.Q. Furthermore, the narrative introduces a spectrum of characters—from the cynical supervisor to the determined pilot—each contributing to the unfolding drama surrounding the potential disaster. This introduction establishes an overarching mystery about the fate of the colonists, propelling the story into uncharted territories of both space and human behavior. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Life on other planets -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 351078 351087 2024-09-12T04:19:44.460790 2023-09-12T08:02:01.474034 text/html text/html 353435 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 181472 2024-09-12T04:19:50.599781 application/epub+zip 184903 2024-09-12T04:19:45.895800 application/epub+zip 184904 2024-09-12T04:19:45.029840 application/epub+zip 349659 2024-09-12T04:19:54.403740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314689 2024-09-12T04:19:49.945810 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314679 2022-09-12T16:10:52.613775 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 327873 2024-09-12T04:19:43.673849 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 327577 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 327680 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 123660 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 327673 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 123645 2021-01-04T13:41:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19862 2024-09-12T04:19:54.540722 application/rdf+xml 11968 2024-09-12T04:19:45.379760 image/jpeg 3265 2024-09-12T04:19:45.203823 image/jpeg 173159 2024-09-12T04:19:44.490792 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