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Trajectory to Taurus, by Les Cole
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Why were Fred Kirr's shipmates calling the planet Gamma Tauri II, which they were surveying for evidence of intelligent life, a paradise, when it was in reality a desolate hell? Why was he the only one who could see the truth? Or was he the one going mad?
"Trajectory to Taurus" appeared in "Amazing Stories," September 1960, pages 39 to 56.
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Lester Hines Cole (14 July 1926 - September 2019) was an American writer of science and historical fiction.
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Music: "Mesmerizing Galaxy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.