epub | 8.42 MB | English| | Author: Hal Clement, Sam Merwin Jr. | Year: 2015

Quote:A Conservation Agent detects poachers in the act of stripping a nearby planet of its metals. As the Agent moves to intercept, the poachers make their escape, but not before setting robotic probes to burrow into the core of the planet. Thinking the planet uninhabited, the Agent lands to assess the damage, only to encounter an indigenous population, who he must try to convince of the danger they are in without any understanding of their language.