Plague at Redhook
by Stephen Euin Cobb
Category: Fiction

Exploration of the planet Redhook stalls when--for sixteen days--sleeping explorers refuse to wake, angry ones never calm down, and one lust-filled woman attempts to seduce everyone. Pressuming disease, U.N. military places the planet under strict quarantine and, fearing it will spread, consider destroying the plague by annihilating the entire biosphere, along with all forty-seven infected explorers.