Project Gutenberg 2020-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 119 Bixby, Jerome 1923 1998 Bixby, Jay Lewis Bixby, Jerry Bixby, Drexel Jerome Lewis Neal, Harry Drexel, Jay B. Lewis, D. B. Lewis, D.B. Mayan, Earl 1916 2009 Mayan, Earl Eugene The Crowded Colony Produced from Planet Stories Fall 1950 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Crowded Colony" by Jay B. Drexel is a science fiction story published in the early 1950s. The narrative unfolds on Mars, focusing on the interactions between a group of human colonizers, referred to as the Conquerors, and the indigenous Martians who inhabit the village of Kinkaaka. The story explores themes of imperialism, cultural misunderstanding, and the ethics of colonization, as the Conquerors grapple with their perceptions of the Martians and the consequences of their mission. The plot centers around Jack Burke, Barnes, and Randolph, three Conquerors who represent a blend of arrogance and naïveté towards the native Martians. While Burke and Barnes hold dismissive views towards the Martians, Randolph finds beauty in their culture and questions the moral implications of their colonization. Tensions escalate when they realize a group of Centaurians—a different alien species—has arrived, believing the human colonizers to be the remnants of Martian civilization. This misunderstanding sets the stage for a confrontation that unravels their expectations and challenges their predatory view of the Martians, revealing deeper themes of identity and perception between species. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Mars (Planet) -- Fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 43666 2025-06-25T09:02:25.638605 text/html 19787 2024-10-18T08:46:14 text/html 702225 2025-06-25T09:02:27.509640 application/epub+zip 701025 2025-06-25T09:02:26.127595 application/epub+zip 71934 2025-06-25T09:02:25.866637 application/epub+zip 735606 2025-06-25T09:02:28.741620 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 727959 2025-06-25T09:02:27.291594 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 99120 2022-09-28T19:54:02.559433 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37111 2023-09-27T09:21:11.303380 text/plain 17276 2024-10-18T08:46:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17481 2025-06-25T09:02:28.869594 application/rdf+xml 29774 2025-06-25T09:02:25.986613 image/jpeg 5048 2025-06-25T09:02:25.932602 image/jpeg 579930 2025-06-25T09:02:25.655591 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia