Adaptation, by Dallas McCord Reynolds

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Title: Adaptation

Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds

Illustrator: John Schoenherr

Release Date: March 4, 2008 [EBook #24749]

Language: English

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ADAPTATION

By MACK REYNOLDS

Illustrated by Schoenherr

When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom" ... and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorance" but "folly."

FORWARD

Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to fumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars.

And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy. Never in the history of the race had fervor reached such a peak and held so long. The question of why was seemingly ignored. Millions of Earth-type planets beckoned and with a lemming-like desperation humanity erupted into them.

But the obstacles were frightening in the

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