SOLVED. SF novella about memory tourism/ an adventure on a colony planet being established. [s]

[Andrew]

I think it was a short novel, but it may have been a story in a collection. A colonized planet was being visited by a "professional tourist". These people made a total record of their visit that they would sell when they get back to earth. This colony had multiple stars, and periodic times of bright light caused by conjunction. I think called flare times, during which a completely different set of lifeforms emerged. These organisms, more energetic than the usual set were more energetic from the brighter light and devastated the usual biome Something happened to panic the woman, and she turned all her vehicle lights on, which attracted the flare lifeforms, and she fled towards the colony site. This was going to be a disaster for earthly food crops being grown. Since they couldn't raise her on radio, (don't remember why), they eventually set up a lot of lights in a spot to stop them. Then the guy responsible for the tourist was getting in trouble because the artist didn't have a good time (the memory record wouldn't draw interest)...

[Andrew]

I remembered that it was specified in the ending discussion about the tourist that the problem involved "and she didn't get laid"

[Juels]

The only thing that comes to mind regarding memory/tourism would be We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick. I've never read it but it inspired the movie Total Recall.

[Andrew]

No, not that. The professional tourists had some sort of tech that recorded everything they experienced. They went along a circuit of planets, then sold them at home.

[Ayshe]

"Flare Time" by Larry Niven from Medea: Harlan's World maybe?

[Andrew]

We have a winner! I missed it because I was skimming through the front of stories... I should have been skimming the endings, since I remembered that part.

[Andrew]

SOLVED "Flare Time" by Larry Niven, printed in "Limits" a collection of short fiction by Larry Niven

[Kris]

Andrew, glad you found your short story "Flare Time" in Limits by Larry Niven.

[Andrew]

Thanks to all