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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The planet was perfect for colonization, with a pristine beauty and a thriving ecology. It didn't occur to any of them to wonder how it stayed that way--or what the consequences to the new colony might be. And by the time they discovered the planet's deadly secret, it was far too late for all of them...

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 1996
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [164 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [72 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [80 KB], hiebook (KML) [80 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [38 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [38 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [17 KB]
Words: 2828
Reading time: 8-11 min.
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The old man sat toying idly with his toenail, picking at a piece of the gnarled horny matter hanging longer than the rest. He paused for a moment to squint upward at the sun, as he wiped the seams of his brow with the back of one leathery hand. It wasn't really the Sun, his sun, but he thought of it as such anyway. It gave him a sense of closeness to something in this strange, but all too familiar place.

He allowed his gaze to roam along the line of neatly tended hedges to the rude cottage on the hill. The image shimmered slightly in the heat as if the ghosts of his memory walked in front of what he saw. His vision passed onwards and up, seeing through and beyond the modest dwelling, back to the field behind, where She lay. A simple marker told the spot, just a small sign, nothing obtrusive. He knew that She was there; that was what mattered.