Decision at Doona

Synopsis

From back cover Del Ray paperback June 1979: After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed mass suicide. So the Terran government made a law -- no further contact would be allowed with sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy. Therefore Doona could be colonized only if an official survey established that the planet was both habitable and uninhabited. But Spacedep had made a mistake -- Doona was inhabited.

Ideas Explored

• Bureaucratic Management of Incomprehensible Phenomena
• First Contact Protocols
• Space Colonization Governance

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Fiction in EnglishAmerican Science fictionScience fictionFiction, science fiction, generalDoona (imaginary place), fictionSpace coloniesFictionHuman-alien encounters

isfdb_id: 5527

openlibrary_id: OL274429W

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