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Watch for The big February issue

“We just don't know enough about this

planet..... People are going to die because ot

storms and earthąuakes and witd beasts, dksease and poison and every other way they can die, here on Nerthus and on a thousand otker worlds, too, until we get to know these worlds!"

Then the Earthlings met a strange creature— a being who had what was called

THE GREEN THUMB

Here is a Moving Novelet by Poul Anderson It leads off our next issue of

SCIENCE FICTION

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