The Planeteers Quotes

“Eventually Blake followed his winding footsteps back toward the ship, and about where his footsteps snowed he’d gathered his first samples, he stopped. There was a Japanese maple there. It stood some fifteen feet tall, and the bark was beautifully regular in appearance. The leaves were nearly a quarter of an inch thick, and arranged with a peculiar regularity, as were the branches. But it was very definitely a Japanese maple.”
― John W. Campbell Jr., The Planeteers

“They had some provocation, you must admit. Koelenberg should have been more careful. When a man takes off some three hundred square miles of territory spang in the center of Europe in an atomic explosion, you can’t blame the rest of the world for being a bit skittish about atomic power research.”
― John W. Campbell Jr., The Planeteers