MURTHY@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (07/28/85)
From: Seshashayee Murthy <Sesh.Murthy@CMU-CS-C.ARPA> I recently read the first part of a story by Asimov. I cannot remember the name of the story or the magazine. Can anyone paraphrase the remaining portion of the story or tell me the name of the book. A young man comes to a planet as an apprentice. He is to help in obtaining energy from the planet's neutron star. He is however more interested in finding out about the hallucinations that people on the planet seem to suffer when they leave the dome. He leaves the dome one day and finds out that the hallucinations are merely attempts by the local life-form to communicate with humans. It is capable of communicating using telepathy. He has an extended conversation with it. He learns of the creatures despair at its planet being taken over by humans. When he returns he is summoned by the boss. I never found the later issues of the masgazine and now I do not remember the name. -------