which with refinement would become cheaper arid cheaper.
Once the colonists were planted, it required no investment at
all; the colonists were comfortable on their adopted world,
and could produce new colonists without outside help. Pan-
tropy, furthermore, was at its most expensive less than half -as
costly as the setting-up of the smallest and least difficult dome.
Compared to the cost of terraforming even so favorable a
planet as Mars, it cost nothing at all, from the Authority’s
point of view.
And there was no way to collect tolls against even the ini-
tial expense. It was too cheap to bother with.
WILL YOUR CHILD BE A MONSTER?
If a number of influential scientists have their way,
some child or grandchild of yours may eke out his life in
the frozen wastes of Pluto, where even the sun is only a
spark in the skyand will be unable to return to Earth
until after he dies, if then!
Yes, even now there are plans afoot to change inno-
cent unborn children into alien creatures who would die
terribly the moment that they set foot upon the green
planet of their ancestors. Impatient with the slow but
steady pace of man’s conquest of Mars, prominent ivory-.
tower thinkers are working out ways to produce all kinds
of travesties upon the human formtfavesties which will
be able to survive, somehow, in the bitterest and most
untamed of planetary infernos.
The process which may produce these pitiful freaks
at enormous expenseis called “pantropy.” It is al-
ready in imperfect and dangerous existence. Chief among
its prophets is white-haired, dreamy-eyed Dr. Jacob