Huyghens is technically a felon, living illegally on Loren Two, a world of savage predators, with trained Kodiak bears and an eagle as his partners. When an official survey team crashes nearby, it must rely on him to survive, while the robot colony the planners preferred fails.
Leinster’s Hugo-winning novelette on whether people and animals, or machines, are better partners on a hostile world. Download the free EPUB.