Project Gutenberg 2022-12-13 Public domain in the USA. 172 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Planet explorer The planet explorer $aUnited States :$bAvon Publications, Inc.,$c1956,copyright 1957. Originally published as: Colonial Survey Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Survey Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Solar constant -- Sand doom -- Combat team -- The swamp was upside down. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Planet Explorer" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story follows an outer-space service officer named Bordman, who embarks on an independent survey of the ice-planet Lani III, a challenging and unfamiliar environment. The opening suggests a narrative rich with themes of exploration, survival, and the unforeseen consequences of colonization as Bordman grapples with his responsibilities amid alarming meteorological shifts that threaten human survival on the planet. At the start of the story, Bordman awakens to frigid conditions on Lani III and confronts the unease of being in charge of a colony's establishment as a Senior Colonial Survey Officer. He learns of erratic communications from the parent planet and discovers that the solar constant, crucial for sustaining life, is rapidly declining. As he collaborates with his junior officer Herndon and Riki, Herndon's sister, they try to decode a message warning of dire changes that could make both Lani III and the home planet uninhabitable. The opening captures Bordman's rising tension as he must find ways to combat the chilling threat while also becoming more engaged with the human connections developing around him. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220616183805leinster 1956 US en Science fiction Space colonies -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 416639 416538 2025-02-27T12:29:36.836590 2023-09-29T13:14:11.445208 text/html text/html 415816 2022-12-13T17:40:47 text/html 490475 2025-02-27T12:29:43.284509 application/epub+zip 496374 2025-02-27T12:29:38.506581 application/epub+zip 327399 2025-02-27T12:29:37.533541 application/epub+zip 1062924 2025-02-27T12:29:47.028509 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1046744 2025-02-27T12:29:42.626664 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 398304 398283 2025-02-27T12:29:36.039628 2023-09-29T13:14:10.614216 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 397951 2022-12-13T17:40:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17528 2025-02-27T12:29:47.166510 application/rdf+xml 27417 2025-02-27T12:29:37.916552 image/jpeg 4734 2025-02-27T12:29:37.720549 image/jpeg 1821076 2025-02-27T12:29:36.891565 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