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Right-Handed Wilderness

✍ Scribed by Robert Wells

Book ID
100654727
Publisher
Ballentine Books; Ballantine Books
Year
1973
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
126 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0345033558

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✦ Synopsis

AHT 233 - Autoheterotroph 233 - a life-form so highly adaptive that it can feed on literally anything. Starting as a chemical, it can develop into a plant, and end up as a plant-animal. Under control, it is an infinitely useful, indeed vital, source of high-grade protein. And of course, extremely valuable. Given mobility, such as, for instance, a human carrier, it is infinitely dangerous. In fact; it presents the ultimate threat. This was the problem Shroud, a doctor of some 200-odd years, was called upon to solve.

✦ Subjects

Life on other planets -- Fiction

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