Jim Barrett was one of the first political prisoners sent on a one-way journey to a world of rock and ocean in 2,000,000,000 BC; now a secretive new arrival threatens to upset the harsh world that he looks after.
One of his biggest problems here was keeping people from cracking up because there was too little privacy. Propinquity could be intolerable in a place like this.

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  1. “Hawksbill Station” by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxy, August 1967.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg