A boy, stepping out from among the pines, dressed and equipped for the outdoors life, is accompanied by a six-legged animal, its fur the same bluish green as the leaves on the native plants. They peer, listen and smell: three senses.
The boy, Tom, opens his entire nervous system to the forest. He combines the sensitivity of the Sensitive Man in Anderson's Psychotechnic History with the ecological oneness of the Freeholders in Anderson's Technic History. He has been trained for this purpose so that the colonists will not repeat the environmental mistakes and disasters of their ancestors on Earth.
Just a five page story originally published in Boys' Life but a whole new approach to extra-solar colonization.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And we also see an older colonist struggling to adapt to a planet he was not used to in "The Faun." I think that should be kept in mind as well.
Sean
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