The skit-trees grew in neat rows as far as the eye could see. There were dams and irrigation systems, graded and terraced ground, and large clearings where, it was supposed, the cities in which lived those who planted the skit-trees would have been. But where were they? What had happened to them? Not one artifact, not one shaped rock or piece of metal remained. And why did the radio keep picking up static on a supposedly uninhabited planet?
Wentworth and Haynes, part of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition team, were about to find out...
"Skit-tree Planet" appeared in "Thrilling Wonder Stories," April 1947, pages 41 - 49.
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
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