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Coles And the Gods Laughed: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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On a cramped asteroid-mining ship, the men kill long shifts by swapping wild stories, until Hank begins one about a first landing on Ganymede that turns from frontier adventure into nightmare. The crew had gone expecting a strange but manageable moon, with breathable air, low gravity, and bizarre animal life; instead, they found a civilized native tribe whose gold earrings seemed to carry an almost ceremonial importance. Hank's account follows a small scientific expedition led by the sharp-eyed biologist Lecky, whose gift for languages wins the trust of the natives and opens the door to unsettling discoveries about their mathematics, atomic theory, and customs. But the friendly welcome conceals something far worse: the earrings are not ornaments, but life-preserving links to telepathic parasitic beings that can occupy bodies, share a hive mind, and keep a host moving even after catastrophic injury. As Hank realizes that his companions may already be taken over, the story races toward a desperate struggle in the freezing Ganymede night, where the invaders plan to use stolen bodies and stolen knowledge to reach Earth. Darkly witty, tense, and grotesquely inventive, this science-fiction tale twists first contact into a chilling invasion of identity itself. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
On a cramped asteroid-mining ship, the men kill long shifts by swapping wild stories, until Hank begins one about a first landing on Ganymede that turns from frontier adventure into nightmare. The crew had gone expecting a strange but manageable moon, with breathable air, low gravity, and bizarre animal life; instead, they found a civilized native tribe whose gold earrings seemed to carry an almost ceremonial importance. Hank's account follows a small scientific expedition led by the sharp-eyed biologist Lecky, whose gift for languages wins the trust of the natives and opens the door to unsettling discoveries about their mathematics, atomic theory, and customs. But the friendly welcome conceals something far worse: the earrings are not ornaments, but life-preserving links to telepathic parasitic beings that can occupy bodies, share a hive mind, and keep a host moving even after catastrophic injury. As Hank realizes that his companions may already be taken over, the story races toward a desperate struggle in the freezing Ganymede night, where the invaders plan to use stolen bodies and stolen knowledge to reach Earth. Darkly witty, tense, and grotesquely inventive, this science-fiction tale twists first contact into a chilling invasion of identity itself. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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