A wrong button pressed in a computer sends Calhoun of the Interstellar Medical Service, with his small furry companion, to the wrong planet. There he finds a struggling colony on a bitterly cold world, warmed only by heated ground, and a deadly problem that is as much about human folly and mistaken thinking as about medicine.
A compact, clever entry in Leinster’s Med Ship series of problem-solving space stories. Download the free EPUB.