Student Body by F. L. Wallace
"Student Body" by F. L. Wallace is a science fiction short story published in 1953. When colonists land on the seemingly ideal planet Glade, they begin preparing to establish humanity's newest settlement. But biologist Dano Marin soon discovers something disturbing about the native lifeforms. The creatures possess an extraordinary ability to adapt and mutate at incredible speed, transforming in response to every threat the colonists introduce. As each countermeasure fails, Marin realizes
the mutations are following a terrifying pattern toward an inevitable conclusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.), 1915-2004 |
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| Illustrator | Ashman, William |
| Title | Student Body |
| Series Title | Produced from the March 1953 issue of Galaxy. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Body_(short_story) |
| Credits |
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Robert Cicconetti, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Human-alien encounters -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 31815 |
| Release Date | Mar 29, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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