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The Coldest Place
Larry Niven · 1964short story
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Two spacefarers land an experimental probe on the permanently dark, sunless face of Mercury — assumed to be the coldest spot in the solar system — to field-test equipment meant for deeper missions. What they find on the ground puts that very assumption in question.
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Placement
- Known Space
- contained in Hitting the Skids in Pixeltownanthology
- contained in Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Nivencollection
- contained in Three Books of Known Spaceomnibus
- contained in Yesterday's Tomorrowsanthology