Relic of the Empire, A
Author:
Publication date:
1966-12
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Worlds of If, Dec 1966
Opus No.:
15
Setting:
Known Space
I.U.C.:
K.S. 23 (2645)
Summary:
Dr. Richard Harvey Schulz-Mann, a Xenobiologist investigating the remnants of the Slaver Empire in the Mira Ceti system, is set upon by a gang of Jinxian space pirates. Things don't look too good for Mann until the pirates start using the immature stage trees as firewood... A classic Known Space short story.
Notes:
First story that ties the world of Luke Garner to the world of Beowulf Shaeffer.
Reprints:
anthology-textbook, The Great Science Fiction Series, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Harper & Row, hardcover with commentary; in Galactica, Hungarian; Neutron Star; Playgrounds of the Mind; World of Ptavvs/A Gift from Earth/Neutron Star