Confessions of a Space Librarian

Confessions of a Space Librarian is a short story that appeared in 'Confessions of a Space Librarian and Other Stories'.
It follows the misadventures of William H. McGonagall on the planet of Pseudo-Earth.
Plot
The Hallion, a long range space research vessel, is destroyed by The Anomoly and its lifepods land on Pseudo-Earth. The crew communicate with each other from across the entire planet using Long Range Communicators.
The crew cannot determin of they are on the real Earth or not. All other humans on the planet are behaving like animals, cats, dogs and birds etc.
Captain Phillips and Doctor Winter, the cheif scientist, instruct Bill and his companions to seek out Doctor Blenk. They must travel 65 miles to Ludgershall.
Doctor Blenk tells William McGonagall that he developed a nano-virus. This may have been true but it was not present on Pseudo-Earth as says.
Doctor Blenk convinces them to go to his lab to use their DNA to help make a cure for the humans on Earth.
There is an armed confrontation in the lab and in the confusion William McGonagall shoots Doctor Blenk and kills him. His wife then explains that this is not in fact Earth and that the Blenk family had been prisoners of this strange planet for the last five years.
The planet changes itself to suit the new arrivals and as young Janet had been told that all other humans were 'animals' the planet had made the inhabitants acts as exactly that. The planet can communicate through Janet.
William talks to the planet via Janet and comes up with a deal to free everyone in return for a selection of his favourite poems. Janet reveals that the planet is not a prison, as the Blenks had beleived, but a library.
They all escape, even Janet, taking the Blenk's space yacht and meeting up with Captain Phillips. They all then return to Crysto’s Star where William is arrested and makes his confession.
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