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Author Index A	Poul Anderson
Title Index S	Satan's World


Year	1968
Publisher	Corgi (Victor Gollancz)
ISBN	0552091847

Synopsis	There were three of them - Adzel who measured four and a half meters and resembled a dragon, Chee Lan who was furry, catlike, and female, and David Falkayn, a daredevil rakehell from space ... When they learned of a rogue planet two hundred and four light-years from Sol, they were interested ... interested because the planet, a nightmare of ice and darkness, was rich in minerals. And the planet was about to melt - to move close to a sun and release the vast wealth entombed in its depths. And Falkayn, Chhe Lan, and Adzel were prepared to risk the horrors of an erupting, melting world if they could only salvage the riches that would shortly boil from the planet's core ...

Review	Vital part of Poul Anderson's future history (early on, before the empire that Dominic Flandry defended even existed), when Nick van Rijn's traders discovered a rogue world that was approaching a sun close enough to get warmed up. The notion of brown bodies was new in the 1960's when this was written, and the human battles over this freak of nature was as good as anything Anderson has ever written. His description of what was going on as the planet warmed up were great as well.

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	Credit: NASA
An 'Eyeful' of Saturn Saturn and its rings completely fill the field of view of Cassini's narrow angle camera in this natural color image taken on March 27, 2004. This is the last single "eyeful" of Saturn and its rings achievable with the narrow angle camera on approach to the planet.
NASA Image of the day archive

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