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Dang vines! Beats all how some plants have no manners -- but what do you expect, when they used to be men!
All things considered -- the obscure star, the undetermined damage to the stellar drive and the way the small planet's murky atmosphere defied precision scanners -- the pilot made a reasonably good landing. Despite sour feelings for the space service of Haurtoz, steward Peter Kolin had to admit that casualties might have been far worse.