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.
DEBUT
“Hawksbill Station,” in Galaxy,August 1967.
VARIANTS
Debut. “Hawksbill Station,” in Galaxy,August 1967.