![]() One is similar to Italy during the time of feudalism. It seems that two inhabited worlds orbit the star Rigel. The author is clearly more interested in setting up a thought experiment than in ensuring plausibility.) (If this sounds like a really lousy way to populate the galaxy, I agree. Then each slowly made their way back up to a particular level of technological sophistication. Over several generations, the colonies degenerated from scientifically advanced to primitive, due to the lack of support from the home world. ![]() Long before the story begins, Earth colonized a large number of planets with about one hundred people per world. Let’s see if it’s any better, like fine wine, after seven years. The Noble Editor thought it was so-so at the time. (That’s during the brief period when both titles appeared on the cover of the magazine. ![]() This is an expansion of the novella Adaptation, which appeared in the August 1960 issue of Astounding/Analog. (Sounds like last month’s Galactoscope, doesn’t it?) Let’s start with the latest Ace Double, containing two short novels (or long novellas) set in interstellar space. A trio of new works, two of them inside the same book, take readers from the far reaches of the galaxy to the depths of the ocean. ![]()
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