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A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. Forty miles below, the atmosphere is sixty times as thick as Earth's, and hot enough to melt lead.
The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs. And from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them all alive...
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A Gift from Earth (Tales of Known Space)
December 31, 1981, Orbit
Paperback
- New Ed edition
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A Gift from Earth
1978, Futura Publications Limited
Paperback
in English
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A Gift from Earth
December 12, 1977, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Seventh U.S. Printing
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"A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat."
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No Place for Bleeding Hearts
The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans—it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life only existed on the one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers surved somehow under a ruthless dictatorship.
Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof.
Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about.
At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
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