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409:, as well as travel around it" so that the instrument presents a view of Lithia in real time, bypassing the delay caused by the speed of light. Cleaver is on Lithia, setting up his reactors, but the physicist who invented the telescope technology believes he has found a fault in Cleaver's reasoning. There is a chance that the work will set off a
338:(pp. 572–3), which proposes a complex case of marital morals, ending with the question "Has he hegemony and shall she submit?" To the Church, neither "Yes" nor "No" is a morally satisfactory answer. Ruiz-Sanchez sees that it is two questions, despite the omission of a comma between the two, so that the answer can be "Yes and No".
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on the whole planet. The priest bows his head in shame that he has overlooked an obvious solution to his own case of conscience while he was absorbed in "a book which to all intents and purposes might have been dictated by the
Adversary himself ... 628 pages of compulsive demoniac chatter." The Pope
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When the team is reassembled, they compare their observations of the
Lithians. Soon they will have to officially pronounce their verdict. Michelis is open-minded and sympathetic to the Lithians. He has learned their language and some of their customs. Agronski is more insular in his outlook, but he
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As they watch on the screen, Ruiz-Sanchez pronounces an exorcism. The planet explodes, eliminating
Cleaver and Egtverchi, but also Chtexa and all the things Ruiz-Sanchez admired. It is left ambiguous whether the extinction of the Lithians is a result of Ruiz-Sanchez's prayer or Cleaver's error.
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While on a walking survey of the land, Cleaver, a physicist, is poisoned by a plant, despite a protective suit, and he suffers badly. Ruiz-Sanchez treats him and leaves to send a message to the others: Michelis, a chemist, and
Agronski, a geologist. He is helped by Chtexa, a Lithian whom he has
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Cleaver's intentions will probably prevail and Lithian society will be exterminated. Despite his conclusions about the planet, he has a deep affection for the Lithians.
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befriended, who then invites him to his house. This is an opportunity which Ruiz-Sanchez cannot decline; no member of the team has been invited into
Lithian living places before. The Lithians seem to have an ideal society, a
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1555:A Deepness in the Sky
1089:...And Call Me Conrad
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2157:Home Is the Hangman
2150:George R. R. Martin
2099:Ill Met in Lankhmar
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1965:Robert A. Heinlein
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