The planet Maldonad is listed as "an A-one Earthtype planet," but when the members of the evaluation team arrive to assess the status of the colony founded there 200 years before, they find that things have not gone in any of the expected ways. The inhabitants are pleased to see them, but... Are they even still human? What could have happened to them?
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