Mixedan all fell team of scientists land on an alien world... it ends up in a good place posing pretty tough moral questions with a lot of creepy atmosphere
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Eden (1968)
Others: Mixed A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human.
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- 9780156278065
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- 262 pages
Genres: science fiction
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