The Puzzle Planet
Robert A.W. Lowndes
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Once on Carolus, Roy met the weird creatures called the Vaec and was immediately intrigued by their mirth-loving nature and their patient devotion to practical jokes.
But was it one of their practical jokes that almost exploded alongside Dr. James' skull? Or was it a made-on-Earth murder gimmick?
Suddenly, Roy Auckland realized that behind their "native simplicity" the Vaec were dangerously and subtly deceptive. And he also realized that somehow he had to break through their mask to understand them - or Dr. James would be only the first of the Earthmen to die.
About the Author: Robert W. Lowndes was known best as the editor of Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly, among many other crime-fiction, western, sports-fiction, and other pulp and digest sized magazines for Columbia Publications, but he was also a respected writer, mostly of short stories. Lowndes was a principal member of the Futurians (the membership of which included future science fiction luminaries like Isaac Asimov, Cyril Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl) and in 1991 he received the First Fandom Hall of Fame award.