num_pages: 159
description: FROM THE HUGO WINNING NOVELIST Not long after the colonists landed on the uninhabited planet every human made artifact - ship communicators tools--disappeared! Even their clothes! Here is an enthralling science alien planet puzzle from the man writer critic and Nebula award winner Barry Maltzberg calls One of the twelve most influential science fiction writers. When Eden--the Earth colony eleven light years goes silent and fails to answer any communications from the mother planet Earth's government goes into a panic. Has something tragic happened on a world already proven to have no intelligent dangerous lifeforms? Or are the colonists purposely disregarding the messages for some reason of their own? What could be the real explanation for the mysterious silence of a disciplined scientific colony? To learn the answer Earth's leaders turn to the Extrapolators- the honored group of men and women with an almost superhuman ability to see to the core of any problem. Soon the Es assign a probationary Extrapolator Calvin Gray to the hazardous journey to Eden where he will win full admission into the ranks to the Extrapolators if he solves whatever problems he finds there. But even with his special Extrapolator training Grey is not prepared for the extent ort nature of the disaster that has struck the colony Eden--thrown back to an almost subhuman state of existence without houses tools equipment or clothing. Here is a suspenseful science fiction from Mark Clifton who with his collaborator Frank Riley won the 1955 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year for They'd Rather Be Right. Galaxy magazine's editors called Clifton's work: Full of excitement. Richly rewarding. Genuinely mature philosophy tinged with gentle irony.
language: English
title: Eight Keys to Eden
publisher: Donning Co