Murray Leinster 1 hr 16 min read

The Med Ship Esclipus Twenty and its crew, Calhoun and the little tormal Murgatroyd, near a world with a weird problem, the kind that always turns on a factor nobody ever thought of.

Murray Leinster's 1963 story is a clever colonization and social-SF tale, a Med Service story. Sharp, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a first-rate entry in Leinster's beloved series, a baffling medical-social plague on a colony world, solved by Calhoun's reason and Murgatroyd's peculiar gifts, in idea-rich, humane golden-age problem-solving SF.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 16 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr