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Four-Day Planet

by Piper H. Beam

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Fenris, the planet, revolves on its axis so slowly, that one year counts only four days and nights.
Henry Beam Piper (1904 – 1964), an American science fiction author. Not numerous inhabitants, living in such tough conditions, occupy themselves with hunting for huge sea monsters, extracting their hypodermic oil.
The story is centered on strife of the sea hunters with their corrupt leaders, trying to gain equitable prices of the oil, the basis of Fenris’ prosperity. The narration is given by Walter Boyd, the reporter of the only newspaper on the planet. One of Piper's Terro-Human Future History examples is an exiting plot, much humor and captivating adventures.

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...filtered through thecloth, and he'd absorbed enough of it through his skin to make himseriously ill. The cop jabbered some more into the radio, and thelaborer with the lifter brought it and let it down, and Murell satdown on his luggage. Tom lit a cigarette and gave it to him, and toldhim to remain perfectly still. In a couple of minutes, an ambulancewas coming, its siren howling. The pilot and his helper were both jackleg medics, at least as far asfirst aid. They gave him a drink out of a flask, smeared a lot of gunkon the spots and slapped plasters over them, and helped him into theambulance, after I told him we'd take his things to the _Times_building. By this time, between the shot and the siren, quite a crowd hadgathered, and everybody was having a nice little recrimination party. The labor foreman was chewing the cop out. The warehousesuperintendent was chewing him out. And somebody from the generalsuperintendent's office was chewing out everybody indiscriminately, and at the...