Project Gutenberg 2009-09-14 Public domain in the USA. 73 Lanier, Sterling E. 1927 2007 Lanier, Sterling Edmund Douglas Join Our Gang? Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Join Our Gang?" by Sterling E. Lanier is a science fiction narrative written in the early 1960s. The book follows Commander William Powers of the Survey Group Sirian Combine as he navigates complex interstellar diplomacy with the aquatic civilization of Mureess, illustrating themes of colonization and the ethics of intervention in alien societies. In the story, Commander Powers and his counterpart, Captain Mazechazz, encounter the proud and isolationist Falsethsa, inhabitants of Mureess, during their efforts to integrate the planet into the Sirian Combine. As they attempt to persuade the Mureess government to accept help in trade, technology, and defense, they meet firm resistance due to the natives' belief in their self-sufficiency and disdain for outside influence. The tension escalates after it becomes evident that the inhabitants face a looming crisis from predatory species, prompting the council to reconsider their stance on outside assistance. The narrative reflects the delicate balance of power and the consequences of contact between vastly different cultures, posing challenging questions about the motivations behind colonization and the moral implications of imposing external control. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 50963 50519 2024-10-12T18:13:53.546876 2023-09-13T08:35:45.696072 text/html text/html 46017 2009-09-14T06:24:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 57630 2009-09-14T06:24:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 136300 2024-10-12T18:13:58.089845 application/epub+zip 135107 2024-10-12T18:13:55.567849 application/epub+zip 86858 2024-10-12T18:13:54.295878 application/epub+zip 218512 2024-10-12T18:13:59.866836 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 211722 2024-10-12T18:13:57.288844 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 136377 2022-08-14T03:49:13.095230 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 42106 42024 2024-10-12T18:13:53.186869 2023-09-13T08:35:45.489055 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 42024 2009-09-14T06:24:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16735 2009-09-14T06:24:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20280 2024-10-12T18:14:00.160821 application/rdf+xml 12100 2024-10-12T18:13:54.863837 image/jpeg 3425 2024-10-12T18:13:54.567845 image/jpeg 125124 2024-10-12T18:13:53.557893 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