Exploration Team
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novelette published in 1956. When a Colonial Survey officer arrives on the deadly planet Loren Two, he discovers an unauthorized settler living there with specially-bred Kodiak bears. Together, they must undertake a dangerous trek across hostile terrain to reach an official colony that has mysteriously gone silent. The story won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and has been praised as a model of intelligent adventure on an alien world.
- Science fiction
- Adventure stories
- Life on other planets
- Space colonies
- Bears
- Human-animal relationships
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #68730. Exploration Team on Wikipedia.
