Project Gutenberg 2022-12-13 Public domain in the USA. 132 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Planet explorer The planet explorer $aUnited States :$bAvon Publications, Inc.,$c1956,copyright 1957. Originally published as: Colonial Survey Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Survey Solar constant -- Sand doom -- Combat team -- The swamp was upside down. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Planet Explorer" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story follows an outer-space service officer named Bordman, who embarks on an independent survey of the ice-planet Lani III, a challenging and unfamiliar environment. The opening suggests a narrative rich with themes of exploration, survival, and the unforeseen consequences of colonization as Bordman grapples with his responsibilities amid alarming meteorological shifts that threaten human survival on the planet. At the start of the story, Bordman awakens to frigid conditions on Lani III and confronts the unease of being in charge of a colony's establishment as a Senior Colonial Survey Officer. He learns of erratic communications from the parent planet and discovers that the solar constant, crucial for sustaining life, is rapidly declining. As he collaborates with his junior officer Herndon and Riki, Herndon's sister, they try to decode a message warning of dire changes that could make both Lani III and the home planet uninhabitable. The opening captures Bordman's rising tension as he must find ways to combat the chilling threat while also becoming more engaged with the human connections developing around him. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220616183805leinster 1956 US Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Space colonies -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 416639 2025-06-27T11:29:41.777300 text/html 392101 2024-10-19T02:40:20 text/html 490482 2025-06-27T11:29:47.557304 application/epub+zip 496369 2025-06-27T11:29:43.288297 application/epub+zip 327394 2025-06-27T11:29:42.379320 application/epub+zip 1062943 2025-06-27T11:29:50.827264 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1046744 2025-06-27T11:29:46.958342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 398304 2025-06-27T11:29:41.066319 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 378458 2024-10-19T02:40:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16419 2025-06-27T11:29:50.959263 application/rdf+xml 27417 2025-06-27T11:29:42.751297 image/jpeg 4734 2025-06-27T11:29:42.563309 image/jpeg 1821075 2025-06-27T11:29:41.825338 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